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Microsoft's Live software push threatens smaller firms
News AOL has also announced plans for paid VoIP services, as has EarthLink.eBay spokesman Hani Durzy said executives from Skype, based in London, had not had a chance to see the specific Microsoft product and that eBay typically doesn't comment on...
[November 2, 2005, 15:10]
Vodafone cuts mobile-broadband rates
News Vodafone said its UK network has a top downlink speed of 7.2Mbps — in London and major airports — and a maximum of 1.44Mbps uplink. On-the-go data lovers can expect better value for money from Big Red from 4 February when the new offerings go live.
[February 4, 2008, 7:52]
Computers to get a make-over in art exhibition
News Artists at the Royal College of Art in London plan to turn technology into art at an exhibition to be held this summer. We live with computers all around us without necessarily thinking about what is inside them.
[July 5, 2000, 11:45]
Banks seeking to gag crypto research
News Diners Club on Friday went to the High Court in London to try to get an order gagging public disclosure of cryptographic vulnerabilities in the technology used to protect withdrawals from ATMs. The Singhs say they did not withdraw the money, and...
[February 21, 2003, 16:34]
The Cloud signs airport Wi-Fi deal
News The Cloud has also recently won a contract to build a Wi-Fi network across the City of London and in nine UK cities. Stanstead airport was the first to go live earlier this week and will be followed this month by five other airports: Heathrow...
[March 14, 2006, 16:35]
ASP99: Microsoft to offer Office suite to rent over the Net
News ASP99 began Thursday morning in London's Park Lane hotel with many a pre-conference coffee chat turning to Microsoft's groundbreaking announcement that they will offer the Office suite to rent over the Internet.
[September 30, 1999, 11:54]
Swim through Web data or sink, warns VRML guru
News Pesce made the claim at a keynote address on the final day of Object Expo Europe at the QEII Conference Centre in London. Not surprisingly, Pesce pointed to VRML, with its '4D' - 3D plus live updating - as the way to allow users to "swim through...
[July 3, 1997, 14:56]
Vodafone, roaming and the €60 beer
Blog Then, if you complain, being told that this is a brand new and very competitive rate, and in any case the pubs in London charged fifty quid per pint to any visiting Parisian. They're like a pub that changes the cost of the beer depending on where...
[June 30, 2009, 16:38]
Hotmail hodgepodge
Blog All this despite the fact that the home page knows I am in the UK and gives me the correct weather for London, England. Am I the only one frustrated by the new ‘enhancements’ to Hotmail under Windows Live?
[November 11, 2007, 14:55]
BBC launches iPlayer 2.0 beta
News Speaking in London on Wednesday, BBC group controller for future media and technology Erik Huggers said: "We've learned quite a bit over the last 12 months about what our audience likes… and we've continued to innovate quite substantially.
[June 26, 2008, 8:49]
Chinese translation service stutters into life
News Tests by ZDNet.co.uk in London showed it unavailable before 15:00 GMT on 7 August, but working an hour later. The problem came when we converted the system from the test environment to the live environment, in routing calls through from our network...
[August 7, 2008, 17:24]
Burglar alarm catches hackers on the Net
News Defcom showed off its flagship European "alarm centre" in Stockholm Monday -- from which a company's network security can remotely monitored -- and said that similar centres are currently being tested in London and Berlin, and will be operational...
[May 31, 2000, 10:15]
Roundup: Internet World goes mobile
News Wireless is everywhere at this year's Internet World in London. Wearable computers arrive at Internet World MIT spin-off shows how humans can live in harmony with future technologies. M-commerce" is revolutionising the way companies think about the...
[May 23, 2000, 14:25]
Sydney 2000: The day they banned the Net down under
News It's not an anti-Internet campaign, it's a commercial decision," says Caroline Towney, managing director at London-based Active Rights Management, one of the three partners running NetResult. The Internet would put those companies at a serious...
[September 12, 2000, 15:11]
ID card plan 'worryingly vague'
News The government's ID cards plan and cost estimates remain "worryingly vague", according to academics at the London School of Economics (LSE). Just this week the Home Office also admitted the ID cards project will go live without all the technology...
[October 24, 2006, 13:30]
Oracle signals 'no change' in CRM strategy
News At a conference for users and press in London on Tuesday, the company said it could offer few concrete details on future plans for the four existing CRM businesses, other than to insist that they would continue as they are under the same financial...
[June 14, 2006, 10:20]
I-mode success drives NTT DoCoMo towards early 3G
News I-mode's success will lead us to a smooth 3G launch," Ohtsuka told delegates at the Mobile Commerce World Europe show, held in London. Ohtsuka guaranteed that the world's first commercial 3G network will go live in Tokyo in December this year...
[September 26, 2001, 11:10]
France battles on for data privacy
News Speaking at the e-Security Conference 2002 in London, France explained that her new role allowed her to take action on behalf of customers who have been wronged by a telco, for example, by their personal data being published online or their bill...
[October 24, 2002, 15:53]
MmO2 to roll out Wi-Fi across UK
News Wi-Fi is) probably one of the most hyped technologies I've ever known," said Dave Williams, mmO2 chief technology officer at a London news conference. MmO2, Europe's fifth-largest wireless network, also gave its first update on Active, launched on...
[July 2, 2003, 8:53]
BT's superfast broadband set for November launch
News The telco began trialling a wholesale 8Mbps ADSL service in parts of London and Strathclyde in April, and on Monday a BT spokeswoman confirmed that this trial is being expanded to cover more local exchanges in these areas.
[June 6, 2005, 17:50]
