New Homes To Be Primed For Broadband
News Builders could be forced to make all new homes broadband-friendly by installing cable ducts and chambers into the fabric of the building if government proposals published earlier this month become law.
[March 24, 2003, 16:47]
Nearly Half Of UK Homes Now Online
News Forty-five percent of British homes are connected to the Internet -- a 15 percent increase on the number of online households at the same time last year. Twenty-eight percent of these 11 million connected homes have also opted for an unmetered...
[January 29, 2002, 17:06]
Four In 10 Homes Have No Web Access
News New government statistics show the UK is failing to close its digital divide with four in 10 homes now without web access. The South East remained the most connected region with only 33 percent of homes web-less.
[August 25, 2006, 10:00]
IBM Case Study: Beazer Homes USA
White Papers Beazer Homes USA is a national homebuilder headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, that operates as a family of local homebuilders. Today's business-to-business and business-to-consumer companies selling complex, multi-attribute products are finding...
[September 13, 2004, 0:00]
Four In 10 Homes Have No Web Access
Talkback 4 in 10 homes probably don't even have a computer. If they did, how could they upgrade the OS?
[August 29, 2006, 17:05]
Korean Homes To Gain Smart Makeover
News The South Korean government has announced that will start laying the groundwork for 10 million digitally networked homes, in what is expected to be the largest such project in the world. According to a report in the Korea Times, the project run by...
[October 22, 2003, 10:55]
Chipset Brings Fibre Closer To Homes
News Freescale Semiconductor, a spinoff of Motorola, has developed an integrated chipset that it says will make it easier and less expensive for carriers to bring fibre access to homes and small businesses.
[June 22, 2004, 9:15]
News Burst: Kids Appeal For New Homes Via Net
News Six children, ranging from two to ten years old, made a direct appeal for new homes from the pages of Derbyshire County Council's Web site. The council hopes this move will prompt more people who are thinking about adoption to get in touch.
[October 14, 1999, 11:01]
Government May Back Fibre Rollout To Homes
News Although the UK's broadband infrastructure is based on a fibre backbone, the "last mile" connections between homes and telephone exchanges are almost entirely copper-based. The UK government may intervene to promote the deployment of fibre...
[September 19, 2007, 8:00]
CityWest Homes Housing Officers Use Secure Mobile E-mail To Improve Efficiency
White Papers CityWest Homes (CWH) manages over 22,000 properties for Westminster City Council, through its 6 providers and 14 tenant management organisations. The company wants to improve customer service and increase staff efficiency by giving housing officers...
[September 20, 2006, 0:00]
Morrison Homes: MySAP Enterprise Portal Improves Communications For Builders, Salespeople, And Trade Partners
White Papers Morrison Homes, a leading U.S.homebuilder, recognized that to effectively compete in today's homebuilding market, it needed to improve communications and make critical information readily accessible companywide.
[June 17, 2004, 0:00]
Software As A Service Provider Lets Shoppers Furnish Homes In An Online 3D World
White Papers As the company prepared to launch its Edgenet Vision product that enables users to create a 3-Dimensional (3D) representation of their homes and populate rooms with 3D images of appliances and furniture from the Big Hammer data pools, it needed an...
[March 23, 2008, 23:00]
Wi-Fi Rules In Homes, Not Offices
News More people are using wireless networking technology in their homes than in offices or public places, according to research firm IDC. In a survey of 2,500 users of mobile devices, IDC found that 34 percent of those who use Wi-Fi technology connect...
[September 15, 2003, 12:50]
Oracle Case Study: Pulte Homes
White Papers Pulte Homes operates in an industry in which customers seldom make purchasing decisions based on brand recognition. Seeking to differentiate itself from other home-builders, Pulte Homes needed ways to present itself as an innovative, progressive...
[March 2, 2006, 23:00]
Homes Shelter More Mobile Devices
News Mobile services and applications designed primarily for business environments are spilling into homes, according to a new IDC study. The study, released on Tuesday, found that the spillover is increasing the use of mobile technology, as companies...
[December 17, 2003, 10:00]
Windows Embedded Device Brings Real-Time Healthcare Monitoring To Homes And Hospitals
White Papers Zoe Medical knows that designing good medical monitoring and measurement devices for use in homes and hospitals is not a simple task. High among the key considerations are ease of use, cost, accuracy, and reliability.
[November 21, 2006, 23:00]
Cisco Wireless Solution From Coleman Technologies Accelerates Construction Of New Homes
White Papers More than 1000 homes are under construction at any given time. The Villages, located in Olcala, Florida, is a rapidly growing active retirement community offering sun, warm weather, and upscale amenities to its community.
[May 10, 2006, 0:00]
Apple Gives Break To Multi-Mac Homes
News Aiming to reward those households with more than one Mac, Apple will introduce a family plan for licensing OS X. Under the plan, which will coincide with next week's release of Mac OS X version 10.2 (also known as Jaguar), consumers can buy a $199...
[August 16, 2002, 7:53]
Hollywood Homes In On Student Swappers
Talkback I dont think that the universities have a chance of catching people downloading films and music from the classrooms When I was at university last year, most of my friends would download the material from the halls of accomodation as there was no...
[April 20, 2004, 11:41]
Microsoft Wants To Wire Homes
News Microsoft is one of eight new companies joining a group dedicated to promoting the connected home. Microsoft said it will announce its membership in the Internet Home Alliance (IHA) on 22 July. The IHA brings together companies from a wide variety...
[July 9, 2003, 10:50]

