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News Burst: Key Services At Risk From Hackers
News The Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG) -- a group within GCHQ responsible for safeguarding official IT and Communications -- conducted tests on the utilities' networks and warned that the risks from hackers can only get worse.
[February 23, 1999, 13:59]
Good News For Cellular Users: Peaceful Coexistence Between GSM And UMTS Networks Promises A Wider Choice Of Services
White Papers And they will find it more efficient and cost-effective to provide these two services over a single network infrastructure. 2G/2.5G and 3G networks will most likely coexist for quite some time. Like with any new technology, it will take a while for...
[July 21, 2003, 0:00]
News Burst: Orange WAP Services Are Here...
News The services, including news, sports, listings, travel and entertainment are ready to go live as soon as the first WAP enabled phones hit the market in October. It also announced its own WAP enabled phone, due by the end of October for around £150.
[September 23, 1999, 16:40]
Beleaguered EDS Signs Belgian Deal
News Electronic Data Systems, a computer services company battered by bad news in recent months, announced on Friday it and a Belgian partner have signed a $500m (£302.92m) deal with the Flemish government.
[June 30, 2003, 9:12]
CES: TiVo Broadens Its Programming
News TiVo announced on Tuesday a second-generation set-top box and alliances with services companies -- news that should give it a lift against competitors at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. We continue to focus on entertainment services...
[January 9, 2002, 10:07]
BBC Accused Of Anti-competitive Practice Online
News Troubled news organisation ITN has accused the BBC of being anti-competitive in its practice of giving online news services to mobile phone operators and Internet portals free of charge. After a £3 rise in TV licenses in February to fund the BBC's...
[July 18, 2000, 9:58]
I-mode Delay Spells Bad News For Euro Mobile Users
News NTT DoCoMo's decision to delay the European launch of its i-mode services is bad news for mobile users, according to experts who were looking to the Japanese giant for innovation. It blamed the slow rollout of GPRS services, and claimed that local...
[July 18, 2001, 16:53]
IT Will Spend On Security, But Not Services
News While IT spending on security and virtual private networks (VPNs) is expected to increase substantially this year, it's bad news for the services sector with many technology decision-makers planning cut-backs in IT outsourcing and consultancy.
[January 10, 2003, 11:43]
Industry Focus: Insurance
White Papers When a major European insurance provider wanted to gauge reaction to some negative news coverage about its services, it turned to the Internet. With the help of Sentiment Monitoring Services from Accenture Technology Labs, the company learned that...
[May 15, 2004, 1:03]
AltaVista To Add Free E-mail
News AltaVista has traditionally disdained extras such as news and weather in favor of focusing on its search technology, but lately it has added such services as Web-page language translations. Many of the heavily trafficked Web sites offer free e-mail...
[February 11, 1998, 9:49]
Akamai Pulls Al-Jazeera Web Support
News Akamai Technologies, which provided Web server services to the Arabic news network, has abruptly cancelled its contract after working only briefly with the organisation. We ultimately decided not to continue a customer relationship with Al-Jazeera...
[April 4, 2003, 15:49]
BT's Unmetered Promise Under Attack
News The UK's top two ISPs remain unimpressed by BT's reincarnated Surftime as the telco tells ZDNet that unmetered services will fail. Despite agreeing to offer UK surfers unmetered access however, BT does not predict a happy future for such services.
[March 9, 2000, 12:32]
Yahoo! Breaks In Live Stock Quotes
News has gained enormous popularity among Web users because it offers free information and services, such as news, stock quotes and email. said Monday that it will offer a real-time stock quote and financial services for $9.95 (£6.99) a month.
[April 3, 2001, 10:08]
BT Rival Welcomes Broadband Price Cuts
News Tele2, which sells wireless broadband services in several of Britain's urban areas, has welcomed the news that BT is planning to substantially cut the price of its wholesale broadband products -- even though the move would help its competitors.
[February 11, 2002, 14:12]
News Roundup: NEW Unmetered Access - Updated
News ZDNet brings you the latest news and an updated guide to all the services on offer. Oftel's decision to open up BT's network and allow other operators to offer unmetered services will change the Internet access landscape irrevocably according to...
[June 12, 2000, 14:44]
Government Launches Investigation Into BBC
News BBC Online does not rely on advertising but competes with many commercial Web news and information services for readers. Culture secretary Chris Smith announced that the enquiry would investigate whether the BBC has been using licence-fee money to...
[February 12, 2001, 8:41]
Pocket Express For Treo 600/650/700p
Downloads Check out more than fourteen Pocket Express subscription services free for two weeks, including: movie showtimes, 411 directory search, street level maps, and turn-by-turn driving directions. For two years Handmark Pocket Express has featured a...
[May 8, 2006, 22:31]
BT Plans Trial For Broadband Fixed Wireless Bid
News BT is seriously considering bidding for a number of 28GHz broadband fixed wireless licences as a way of launching broadband services in rural areas. If this test is successful, BT is likely to bid for licences allowing it to offer commercial...
[November 7, 2001, 14:28]
Instant Messaging Alliance May Be Close
News Microsoft and Yahoo are close to a pact that would allow users of their respective instant messaging (IM) services to exchange messages with one another, a source told CNET News.com on Tuesday. However, consumers have had to manage multiple...
[October 12, 2005, 9:50]
Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) Case Study: Boerderij
White Papers Emexus developed several tailor made SMS information services based on the available online content. Since the launch mid 2005 almost 30% of Boerderij's reader base is subscribed to one or more SMS information services.
[May 12, 2006, 0:00]
