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Mediasurface float a success
News Ovum analyst Sarah Kittmer said the future is now looking brighter for Mediasurface and other providers of Web content management systems (CMS). Web content management provider Mediasurface has floated on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of...
[August 27, 2004, 16:45]
News Burst: ADSL will not be cost-effective, says analyst
News Ovum analyst Yum Petkovic disputes this, claiming ADSL will only be viable for BT. As controversy mounts over unbundling the local loop and the rollout of ADSL, one analyst group claims the technology will be too costly for operators other than BT.
[September 27, 2000, 10:29]
BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting
Talkback Third, Ovum's spokesman claims that there is nothing wrong with using proprietary software and OSS together. First, Linus' response to Tridge's actions was uncalled for and over the top. He accused Tridge of "tearing down" Larry's work, which it...
[April 21, 2005, 18:10]
Orange cuts mobile-broadband rates for SMEs
News The announcement is an attempt to kickstart business adoption of mobile broadband, which has been slower than the industry expected, Ovum analyst Pauline Trotter told ZDNet UK. Orange has cut its rates for its business mobile broadband package...
[May 7, 2009, 15:06]
BT offers fixed-mobile convergence to small firms
News This will no doubt increase the pressure on other UK mobile operators, and perhaps UK fixed suppliers too, to prepare their own fixed-mobile bundles for business customers," Ovum analyst Jeremy Green predicted.
[March 20, 2006, 10:55]
X-Series pricing tests mobile broadband market
News Ovum's John Delaney told ZDNet UK on Friday that 3's pricing was "aggressive", but suggested that it may still be difficult to reach the mass market through a contract add-on. The low pricing of operator 3's mobile internet package makes it a...
[December 1, 2006, 10:59]
Vodafone seeks to integrate enterprise applications
News Ovum analyst Jeremy Green noted on Tuesday that Vodafone had been "working on this for some time", ever since the Aspective acquisition. Vodafone has moved further into the field of systems integration for enterprise mobile devices with the launch...
[March 27, 2007, 15:09]
Timms handed IT role
News Prior to his career in government, he worked for 15 years in the computing and telecommunications industry, with Logica and, later, Ovum. As the new minister of state for e-commerce, communications and information industries, Stephen Timms MP, the...
[July 12, 2007, 12:20]
Ntl trials cheaper broadband
News Ovum analyst Tim Johnson likens the current broadband market to that of unmetered access. Ntl is to trial cheaper broadband services it says Tuesday, sparking speculation that a price war is about to begin.
[October 18, 2000, 11:35]
Union fears IBM job cuts could hit UK first
News Ian Wesley, Ovum research director, believes that the bulk of the job losses will occur in France, Germany and Sweden, and pointed out that the IBM's recent financial results for the UK were "fine". Britain's second-largest trade union fears that...
[May 5, 2005, 13:50]
Nokia and Vodafone team up on web services
News Ovum analyst John Delaney said the Vodafone deal will come as a significant boon to the platform. Nokia and Vodafone have announced a deal that will see the handset maker's mobile internet services platform cropping up on Vodafone handsets in Europe.
[November 8, 2007, 9:17]
WiMax spectrum row heats up
News The story is that initially it was decided to allocate these bands all across Europe in 2008," Ovum analyst Vincent Poulbere told ZDNet UK on Monday. Supporters of WiMax technology are up in arms after a mobile industry body called for key bands of...
[July 18, 2006, 16:50]
Juniper revs Ethernet to 100Gbps
News Juniper's method of coming up with a 100Gbps Ethernet connection involves aggregating ten 10Gbps streams into one 100Gbps pipe, Ovum principal analyst John Mazur told ZDNet UK. Juniper Networks has announced the industry's first 100Gbps Ethernet...
[June 9, 2009, 12:41]
Vodafone pushes its convergence capabilities
News It has remained fairly sceptical about some of the prospects for technology-based convergence, even as its integrated operator competitors, with France Telecom/Orange leading the pack, are making much of their own abilities to meet all of the...
[July 12, 2006, 17:30]
Mobile Linux gains momentum
News Tony Cripps, Ovum analyst, believes that the Greenphone probably is the first open Linux phone released to developers. Linux is picking up more support in the mobile industry as a challenger to established players such as Symbian and Microsoft.
[August 16, 2006, 16:20]
RIM unveils first super-3G BlackBerry
News Ovum analyst Nathan Burley wrote on his company's website on Monday that RIM's move away from slower Edge connectivity could help the BlackBerry Bold become a "worldwide hit". RIM has launched the first of its BlackBerry smartphones to include high...
[May 12, 2008, 13:30]
Mobile Linux group plans enterprise push
News Ovum analyst Adam Leach expressed surprise at the news when he spoke to ZDNet.co.uk on Tuesday, saying the largest opportunity for the mobile Linux initiative was generally seen as being in the consumer space.
[May 14, 2008, 13:43]
BT apologises for poor ADSL rollout
News Ovum analyst Tim Johnson is not surprised by the amount of complaints and believes there is a multitude of problems BT has to overcome in order to smooth out the glitches in its ADSL rollout. BTopenworld issued an apology Wednesday to all the...
[November 22, 2000, 15:21]
Google to enter VoIP arena?
News Ovum chief analyst Julian Hewett believes that Internet telephony could be another such lucrative extension to the Google business model. Could Google be about to launch its very own voice-over-IP service?
[January 24, 2005, 13:50]
3 ditches all roaming charges
News I think it's a pretty bold move," Ovum analyst John Delaney told ZDNet UK, describing the pricing strategy as "clearly intended to cause waves". Mobile operator 3 has removed the surcharge for roaming across its international networks, also...
[January 16, 2007, 9:54]
