BT Shares Hit By Moody's 3G Gloom
News Investors are concerned about the extent of BT's borrowing, which includes £4bn paid for a 3G licence in the UK. BT Wireless is already trying to encourage other network operators to share the cost of 3G rollout in the UK, which is expected to cost...
[April 12, 2001, 15:03]
Bank Software Firm Disputes Hacking Claims
News Banking software firm Fiserv has denied claims by the Observer newspaper that data accessed through one of its Web sites gave a UK security expert access to thousands of genuine bank accounts. Dressel, a UK software engineer with the Royal Skandia...
[September 25, 2000, 16:20]
Italian Telcos Raided By Police
News Previous 3G auctions in the UK and Germany raised £22.5bn and £28bn respectively. According to reports, the Italian competition authority launched raids Monday on 20 offices belonging to companies that took part in the Italian 3G auction.
[October 30, 2000, 15:38]
BT To Roll Out Fibre To 10m UK Homes
News BT is to roll out fibre connectivity to millions of UK homes, the communications and IT giant announced on Tuesday. The move ends the long-running debate over who would be first to make a major investment in 'next-generation access' (NGA) in the UK.
[July 15, 2008, 11:09]
EU Telecoms Ministers Meet To Save 3G
News EU telecoms ministers including UK e-minister Patricia Hewitt met today to discuss methods of helping those companies that paid large sums of money for third-generation (3G) network licences. G auctions held by Germany and the UK both raised large...
[April 4, 2001, 16:24]
"LanShield" Filter Prevents MP3 File Exchange
News Take me to ZDNet UK's CeBIT 2001 special report home page Go to AnchorDesk UK for the news comment. A new system aimed at preventing the distribution of copyright-protected MP3 files over the Internet is being promoted at CeBIT by the German...
[March 27, 2001, 11:41]
Lost HMRC Data 'worth £1.5bn To Criminals'
News The two lost HM Revenue & Customs CDs containing the personal and financial details of 25 million people could be worth £1.5bn to criminals. Liberal Democrat acting leader Vince Cable, speaking in the House of Commons, said a single stolen identity...
[November 29, 2007, 14:52]
Prices Set For Belgium's 3G Licence Auction
News With a third-generation(3G) auction scheduled for December the Belgian government has set a reserve price of over £90m per licence. The licences allow companies to develop high-speed UMTS networks, capable of delivering Internet and multimedia...
[September 18, 2000, 11:36]
PC Business Drags Down Dell's Earnings
News Dell's nightmare of a fiscal year is over, but it didn't exactly go out in style. The company reported revenue of $14.4bn (£7.3bn), sharply below Wall Street's already reduced estimates of $14.9bn, for its fourth fiscal quarter ending on 2 February.
[March 2, 2007, 8:21]
Microsoft Must Pay $1.5bn In MP3 Patent Case
News A federal jury in San Diego has ordered Microsoft to pay $1.5bn to Alcatel-Lucent in a patent dispute over MP3 audio technology used in Windows. In its verdict, the jury assessed damages based on each Windows PC sold since May 2003.
[February 23, 2007, 7:52]
Tandem Returns To Its HP Roots
News More enterprise IT news in ZDNet UK's Tech Update Channel. More than two dozen years later, the company he started has returned to those HP roots. Tandem -- whose high-reliability servers can be found running the New York Stock Exchange's...
[June 15, 2002, 7:32]
Exclusive: S3 Expands Into Sexy Consumer Markets
News Traditionally a graphics card company that has dabbled in other silicon markets, S3 is shifting focus to embrace MP3, DSL and other sexy new technologies. Kenneth Potashner, chairman, CEO and president of S3, is at the ECTS show in London promising...
[September 6, 1999, 16:50]
A Year Ago: Exclusive: S3 Expands Into Sexy Consumer Markets
News S3 is making wide forays outside its core expertise. Traditionally a graphics card company that has dabbled in other silicon markets, S3 is shifting focus to embrace MP3, DSL and other sexy new technologies.
[September 6, 2000, 7:01]
The Day Ahead: Mulling Amazon's Sales, VerticalNet Questions
News Commentary: When is a positive preannouncement really a sales miss? That's what a lot of folks will be asking as they dissect Amazon.com's sales forecast today. After the bell Monday, Amazon.com said its fourth quarter sales would be in line with...
[January 9, 2001, 13:27]
Oracle Tops Estimates In Second Quarter
News Oracle reported better-than-expected second-quarter results, Thursday, on the strength of database and business software sales. The database giant earned a second-quarter profit of $623m, or 11 cents a share, compared to last year's second-quarter...
[December 15, 2000, 11:14]
EMusic Offers Subscription Service
News EMusic.com is launching a subscription service Monday that will allow consumers to download an unlimited number of songs from the Internet for a monthly fee. In a release, EMusic said the new subscription service offered a "legitimate alternative...
[July 24, 2000, 13:58]
Dell Claims To Be Carbon-neutral
News Dell has claimed it is now officially a carbon-neutral company — five months ahead of its own projected schedule. The target was apparently met through improved energy efficiency at Dell's own facilities, combined with 'green' electricity purchases...
[August 7, 2008, 8:32]
Schmidt: Making Ads Work Is Google's Duty
News Media companies should see Google not as an enemy but as an ally trying to make advertising work on the internet, chief executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday. Google has a financial incentive to make sure advertising can support companies that...
[June 12, 2008, 8:38]
Government Department Loses £1.5bn Through IT
Talkback Looks to me that they went ahead without actually knowing what they had, where it was, how it worked, what is important, how to fall-back to the last known good situation or even how to determine what is and isn't good for them before implementing...
[October 14, 2005, 22:13]
ID Card Bill Could Reach £15bn
Talkback Of course, these figures assume that the rollout is within a 12 month period, and does not include back handers/ scams/ inflated prices/ greediness. Like all the government funded schemes, the fatal flaw in this is the timescales involved.
[June 30, 2005, 12:37]
