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Handhelds with built-in phones review
Reviews But those who spend as much time accessing mobile data on the move as they do making voice calls may find a converged device more convenient. Smartphones may be today’s 'hot' mobile technology category, but convergence devices have been around for...
[October 28, 2002, 9:46]
O2 slashes European roaming rates
News The UK's largest mobile phone operator is introducing a new roaming scheme for voice calls in Europe, whereby incoming calls — currently costing 35p per minute — will be free in exchange for a monthly supplement.
[October 19, 2006, 10:35]
Belkin Bluetooth USB Adapter review
Reviews It's also conceivable that the cordless telephony profile could have been supported in the Bluetooth USB, as long as a suitable voice modem was installed in the PC. Unplugging the adapter and plugging it in again solved this, and we never lost a...
[January 30, 2003, 16:27]
US government mulls an Internet of its own
News The new network dubbed GOVNET, is the brainchild of Richard Clarke, the newly appointed presidential adviser for Cyberspace Security, and will carry data, voice-over-IP and, possibly, video. In addition, the proposal requires that all data on the...
[October 11, 2001, 11:19]
Alliance promotes networked digital home
News The purpose of the alliance is to develop standards and promote the use of coaxial cable to send high-quality video, voice and data between a variety of household devices, such as TVs, digital video recorders and PCs.
[January 6, 2004, 12:05]
Sun claims major chip breakthrough
News Later today, Sun, based in Palo Alto, California, will disclose its plans for a microprocessor with a radical new architecture designed to handle complex graphics, voice and video, challenging Intel Corp.and other chip makers in the fast-growing...
[August 2, 1999, 13:41]
Autonomy gets blue chip boost
News Autonomy, which is based in Cambridge, develops and sells software that can help companies search within the "unstructured data" that is spread across their IT systems, including text, email, voice and video files.
[January 25, 2007, 12:34]
Oracle takes on Microsoft on the desktop
News The new "collaboration" software will allow businesses to manage email, voice mail, schedules, as well as hold Web-based meetings, and will allow employees to sync their information to wireless handheld devices.
[July 11, 2002, 9:45]
BT: No danger of mass internet outage in UK
News We had a couple of private circuits affected, but we have a disaster recovery plan for our Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), voice and data platforms for corporations. BT also operates so-called leased-lines for global corporations, and buys...
[January 31, 2008, 16:18]
Yahoo highlights VoIP with IM beta
News The move comes shortly after America Online, which boasts the number one IM service, began testing software that integrates voice, data, mobile and video communication. Despite the bevy of updates, Yahoo said it focused particularly on VoIP...
[May 18, 2005, 10:10]
Getting back to basics
News The ability to automatically search through thousands of text documents, voice files, and video as well as other kinds of unstructured data has also seen the US Department of Homeland Security become a recent customer as it seemingly battles to...
[October 8, 2003, 16:55]
Orange launches 3G handsets
News Nigel Hall, Orange 3G launch director, said launch tariffs of £70, £50 and -- until the end of January -- "an aggressive early-adopter" £30 per month good value, including at least 60 minutes of video calls, 50MB of data usage, voice and texts.
[December 6, 2004, 14:30]
Encryption device offers phone privacy
News The device will encode voice communications with a 168-bit triple DES (Data Encryption Exchange) algorithm and use a 2,048-bit Diffie-Hellman key exchange technique. The phone device, as yet unnamed, will plug into a land-line phone and offer...
[September 20, 2000, 10:53]
Stream Computing - not just a load of babble
Blog The technology proposition here is that spiraling amounts of unstructured data such as emails, blogs, video, voice and other web generated content requires a huge amount of processing. Breaking off chunks of this data to process in batches (in the...
[May 26, 2009, 8:18]
ntl:Telewest plans next-generation services
News Many large telecoms companies are currently working on next-generation networks (NGN), which will use Internet technologies rather than the traditional public switched telephone network (PSTN) to deliver voice, data and video.
[July 10, 2006, 18:00]
CeBIT 98: Internet telephony gets the nod from Deutsche Telekom
News At home, British Telecom (BT) is sticking to its claim that voice over Internet is not good enough for a commercial service due to a fundamental lack of quality, although its Martlesham Heath laboratories are testing a set of services based around...
[March 18, 1998, 16:01]
Oracle gives Fusion the Web 2.0 treatment
News It also will support wikis, voice over Internet Protocol services and RSS feeds. It also is designed to connect to third-party data sources and systems through "hot-pluggable" support, the company said.
[October 26, 2006, 10:00]
Managed VoIP Services: Go for the best
Blog The providers of these services ensure that the networks are managed well; this is done to avoid network congestion and ensure a free flow of voice, data, and other forms of traffic over the network paths.
[April 28, 2008, 12:03]
World's largest quantum-encrypted network unveiled
News Voice over IP and videoconferencing data is being transmitted over the network which uses existing optical fibre connections owned by tech giant Siemens. Packages of data are sent down fibre-optic cables in the form of particles of light — or...
[October 13, 2008, 9:42]
TechXNY: Trying out the Tablet PC
News Computer manufacturers for years have tried to popularise new data transfer techniques such as handwriting recognition, voice command and fingerprint authentication. The pens can read 133 samples of data per second, as opposed to the 40 samples of...
[June 26, 2002, 14:16]
