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Orange's attempt at fighting call cards
Blog News just in from France Telecom's local subsidiary: it's introducing a "simple and low cost" way to call abroad. Is it lowering its international call rates? No! Don't be silly. It's putting out the Call Abroad pay-as-you-go SIM, which offers "the...
[May 10, 2007, 12:34 in News Blog by David Meyer]
Bonus day for O2 staff
Blog Things must be going well at the British subsidiary of Telefonica - "each eligible O2 employee" (i.e.full-time workers, although part-timers get something too though) has just received a thousand squids bonus for adding an additional million...
[January 26, 2007, 15:19 in by David Meyer]
Tagattitude signs East African Mobile Payment deal
Blog Tagattitude Nigeria, a subsidiary of the Global award winning mobile authentication solutions and payment provider, Tagattitude of France, has signed a deal with MobiPay of Kenya. Under the terms of the agreement, Mobipay will immediately purchase...
[April 1, 2009, 16:57 in Nigeria Mobile Marketing by Nigeriatelecoms]
Americans shrug off copyright concerns
Talkback In a ever widening response to the latest outrage against civil liberties by RIAA and its subsidiary the US Congress, we have ceased buying the CD's they accuse us of not buying (we refuse to "FEED THE SHARK") we are also noting the brand name...
About: Americans shrug off copyright concerns
[August 15, 2003, 21:45]
SCO cancels Sequent's Unix licence
Talkback There isn't any "IBM subsidiary Sequent". IBM bought them and they're integrated into the company. The web site www.sequent.com redirects to www.ibm.com. This would explain why you weren't able to contact Sequent representatives for comment.
About: SCO cancels Sequent's Unix licence
[August 13, 2003, 23:19]
Freeserve's broadband complaint bites the dust
Talkback Freeserve is owned by Wanadoo, as subsidiary of France Telecom. What is the situation re broadband pricing to its competitors in its own country?
About: Freeserve's broadband complaint bites the dust
[December 22, 2003, 13:17]
Worrying
Talkback The fact that the copyright for Unix is owned by a subsidiary of Microsoft is somewhat concerning.
About: Novell defeats SCO in Unix copyright case
[August 13, 2007, 10:06 by 1000193068]
DATA PROTECTION
Talkback Why Is The Goverment & Its Subsidiary Departments Are not accountable For The Misuse Of Data Its Already Proved They Are The Worst Offenders Lost This Data, Lost That Data, Its About Time They Got the House In Order, AND Be Accountable, & not be...
About: Watchdog calls for 'reckless data-breach' offence
[January 31, 2008, 12:43 by GeorgeTiddy]
Ballmer defends Microsoft's security record
Talkback Early in this October, Japanese subsidiary of Microsoft stopped delivering its security newsletter to subscribers who are not members of Microsoft Passport. This may be related to Mr Ballmer's policy, but I don't agree with.
About: Ballmer defends Microsoft's security record
[October 22, 2003, 15:34]
That's what we figured
Talkback I fully appreciate that Apple may well have to protect themselves; God knows we have enough SoX nonsense to deal with just as a subsidiary of a US company (screams of auditors auditing auditors auditing auditors often echo around the corridors).
About: Apple users must pay for faster Wi-Fi
[January 19, 2007, 10:03 by Matt Loney]
Computers to Africa Diary: Day one
Blog First day (Sunday) in Nairobi - arrived off the day flight from London last night to an airport festooned with adverts for Safaricom - Vodafone's Kenyan subsidiary. Last week was the twentieth birthday of GSM but although mobile networks have been...
[September 9, 2007, 12:34 in News Blog by Andrew Donoghue]
So Much for Microsoft "Making Nice" with the FOSS Community
Blog He describes a job advertisement from Microsoft for a Linux and Open Office Compete Lead, US Subsidiary (CSI Lead). I just came across a very interesting blog posting by Glyn Moody. The part I found most enlightening is the mention of "engaging...
[December 30, 2009, 7:37 in Jamie's Random Musings by J.A. Watson]
Techno grandad
Talkback Among the sub contractors were a Microsoft subsidiary and a large service company. T-mobile not only had their data sold by their staff, but also lost customer data when sub-contractors updated kit without a backup!
About: Just how safe is storage in the cloud?
[November 23, 2009, 8:42 by 305151]
Super-3G breaks records - and the bank
Talkback Manx Telecom (the O2 subsidiary) has it's own mobile operation called "Pronto". Article makes the point nicely. The vaunted 3G system was the first in the UK, but it was a demo. It was all promoted with lots of PR, but the poor Manx punter never...
About: Super-3G breaks records - and the bank
[October 22, 2005, 12:07]
T-Mobile exec praises Android, attacks Windows
Blog Reinhard Clemens, chief executive of Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems, is quoted in Fierce Wireless as saying Android is "the first OS that enables the development of cellphone software without the need to change the code to support specific...
[March 9, 2009, 16:24 in On The Road by David Meyer]
Qt pushes for wider cross-platform interest
Blog Since that time the Nokia subsidiary has attempted to raise its game with various enhancements to its cross platform (wait for it) ‘write once - run anywhere’ offerings. Munich last autumn saw me miss the Oktoberfest by just a few days as I came in...
[March 3, 2009, 10:45 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
SCO files for Chapter 11...
Blog SCO's subsidiary, SCO Operations, Inc.has also filed a petition for reorganization. From the press release: LINDON, Utah, Sept. PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. SCO") (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), a leading provider of UNIX® software...
[September 14, 2007, 20:57 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
Vista - not suitable for mission critical work?
Blog I am a manager at a subsidiary company of the Malaysian Sapura group, focused on government and defence sector. I emailed someone who had been complaining about Vista online, asking why he said that "Vista activation and validation is a nightmare...
[November 28, 2006, 9:11 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
Microsoft bundles security with MSN broadband
Talkback The client then is faced with additional charges, payable to a Microsoft subsidiary, that are related to gaining protection for a faulty product. "Customers of the MSN Plus and MSN dial-up services will have to pay separately for the security...
About: Microsoft bundles security with MSN broadband
[October 20, 2003, 9:50]
Tuesday
Blog To which another exasperated engineer replied, "I worked for a period at a Philips subsidiary as a subcontractor: I could not believe how mind-bogglingly inefficient and bureaucratic the place was, or that nobody seemed to care provided the...
[August 16, 2002, 17:03 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
