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C&W CEO quits after profits warning
News C&W shocked analysts on Tuesday when it said its profits for the next year would be much lower than previously expected. Shares in C&W dropped by 15 percent following the news. C&W, which bought Energis last year, sells fixed-line and mobile...
[February 2, 2006, 10:10]
C&W announces massive UK staff cull
News Cable & Wireless (C&W) is to cut its UK headcount by half over the next four to five years as part of a massive cost-cutting programme. The official announcement follows a leaked memo from C&W UK chairman John Pluthero to staff, which warned "this...
[February 28, 2006, 12:20]
C&W captures Energis, promises job cuts
News Cable & Wireless (C&W) has overcome a last-minute intervention from rival telecoms firm Thus and won control of Energis. C&W announced on Tuesday morning that its offer of £674m for Energis had been accepted by Chelys, the parent firm of Energis.
[August 16, 2005, 9:45]
C&W claims big VoIP savings
News Unlike consumer voice over IP (VoIP) services such as Skype, which run across the public Internet, C&W's IP Voice product uses the telco's own network. This should mean higher service quality -- if C&W can achieve sufficiently low latency and keep...
[July 5, 2004, 16:50]
C&W to fight Fusion with landline-mobile service
News C&W announced it has successfully bid for an FMC licence, which will allow users to make both mobile and landline calls from a single phone. Trials of the technology are already ongoing with C&W customers.
[May 5, 2006, 9:40]
CeBIT: C Tech Pen is Bluetooth wonder
News The C Pen is no exception. The C Pen offers a range of PDA-like features, according to Magnus Manhem, vice president for sales and marketing at Swedish manufacturer C Tech. The C Pen has a built-in infra-red port for communicating with other...
[March 19, 1999, 13:09]
Public Accounts Committee attacks C-Nomis project
News C-Nomis was originally designed as a single database for end-to-end offender management across the Prison Service and the National Probation Service. Edward Leigh MP, chair of the PAC, said: "This committee has become inured to the dismal...
[November 3, 2009, 7:49]
BT poaches C&W exec to drive openreach
News This is something of a coup for BT, as C&W has been one of its fiercest critics in recent years and has repeatedly called for the incumbent telco to be broken up. BT has lured a senior executive from rival Cable & Wireless to help run openreach...
[September 27, 2005, 16:25]
No merit in C&W's mega bonuses
Leader The proposed deal enjoys the support of C&W chairman Richard Lapthorne, who says it will inject a much-needed private equity drive into the company. Top directors should be rewarded for great performance, and C&W's senior executives would have to...
[May 16, 2006, 17:20]
IBM and C&W in £1.8bn deal
News Under the agreement IBM will support C&W in an effort to improve efficiency and service to C&W customers.new jobs will be created. Full story to follow
[September 2, 1998, 11:27]
Redesi worm reformats C: drives
News A worm disguising itself as a security patch for Microsoft products will in fact reformat the victim's C: drive. This comment attempts to format the C: drive if the machine is booted up on 11 November.
[October 18, 2001, 17:27]
Unions attack C&W bonus plan
News The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has reacted angrily to an announcement this week that senior managers at struggling telco Cable & Wireless (C&W) could be in line for multi-million-pound bonuses.
[May 15, 2006, 17:15]
Help & HowTo: Sobig.C
News Sobig.C is loose on the Internet and has spread to over 80 countries since its release on 31 May, 2003. Sobig.C (w32.sobig.c@mm) is a variant of the Sobig worm and arrives by email with an attached file; it also spreads using shared network files.
[June 2, 2003, 16:13]
Mimail.c worm: Prevention and cure
News Mimail.c w32.mimail.c@mm) is the third variant of the Mimail virus family, and so far the fastest spreading. Because Mimail.c spreads via email and may launch a denial of service attack, this worm rates a 6/10 on the ZDNet Virus Meter.
[November 3, 2003, 8:35]
Thus and BT eye C&W's spurned customers
News The thousands of small firms who are being abandoned by Cable & Wireless (C&W) shouldn't struggle to find alternative telecoms suppliers, with both Thus and BT eager to sign them up. C&W announced a change of strategy on Tuesday, in which it will...
[March 2, 2006, 16:20]
Sober.C plans to spoil party
News Antivirus companies are warning of a virulent new worm, Sober.C, which spreads by mailing itself to its victim's contacts. The first copy of the virus appears to have been sent from Germany, and Sober.C appears to be most active in that region at...
[December 23, 2003, 8:05]
US Report: C-Cube shows set-top chip
News Consumer device makers Pioneer and Pace have already adopted C-Cube's new AviA@tv platform, the company said on Monday. Called the AViA@tv, the new product includes MPEG-2 decoding, robust graphics, two way networking and a processor on a single...
[December 1, 1998, 5:04]
IPO Update: OnDisplay soars, C-Bridge and eGreetings also debut
News C-Bridge Internet Solutions closed up 24 1/16, or 150 percent, to 40 1/16 after it priced shares at $16 each, above their upwardly revised range of $12 to $14 a share. The company is likely to do well based on the success of similar services...
[December 20, 1999, 15:33]
C&W multi-merger to spawn UK comms giant
News Cable and Wireless (C&W) today ended speculation and announced plans to create a new cable and communications company called Cable and Wireless Communications. The new group will blend the UK subsidiaries of Bell Cablemedia, Videotron, Nynex...
[October 22, 1996, 15:49]
COLT and C&W firm up VoIP plans
News C&W is now offering a range of different VoIP products, which it says reflect the fact that different businesses will have different needs. Baker was also bullish about C&W's VoIP ambitions. UK businesses considering a move to voice-over-IP (VoIP...
[April 15, 2005, 17:50]
