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UK wholesale broadband uncompetitive - regulators
News After conducting a thorough review of the market, the incoming communications regulator and the outgoing telecoms watchdog have agreed that BT has significant market power (SMP), and is likely to maintain this power for at least the next 18 months.
[December 16, 2003, 12:25]
Ofcom must keep firm grip on BT
News Given this, Ofcom -- which will replace five existing regulators in 2003 or 2004 -- must be vigilant in preventing these companies from abusing their market power and in ensuring competition at both the wholesale and retail level, the Strategy...
[December 3, 2002, 16:40]
Ofcom deregulates two-thirds of UK broadband
News However, Ofcom pointed out in a statement that there are still many areas in the UK where one broadband provider has what it calls "significant market power", because it has no effective competition. Where there is less competition and where a...
[May 23, 2008, 13:23]
UK regulators 'relaxed' on net neutrality
News Scott also said it would not be wrong for an ISP to approach an application provider offering to guarantee service quality for a fee — unless that ISP had significant market power, in which case Ofcom could weigh in on the grounds of anti...
[March 20, 2007, 16:42]
TI: Consumer electronics is a key sector
News DSPs play a significant role in converting analogue data into compressed digital information and can also help improve power management in digital devices. This, he said, might even lead to the day when a person's body heat would be enough to power...
[January 13, 2003, 10:38]
Intel details dual-core notebook chip
News By 2008, Intel's goal is to reduce power consumption in notebooks overall to the point where machines can run for eight hours on a single battery charge. Partly because of reduced power consumption, the footprint on Yonah notebooks will be up to 31...
[June 3, 2005, 9:20]
AMD seeks Wi-Fi Alchemy with new chips
News The chipset is aimed at system builders who want to embed Wi-Fi into laptops, handheld computers or other mobile devices that require low power consumption. It uses the Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) manufacturing process, which is...
[November 4, 2002, 15:34]
Uptake of solar-charged mobile devices 'limited'
News To meet "a significant portion" of the power requirements of full-feature modern mobile devices, the solar panels would have to be larger than the devices, which makes portability more problematic. Photovoltaic cells, he said, currently have a low...
[August 18, 2009, 8:39]
3G delays will help ARM - chief executive
News ARM-based chips power all Pocket PC devices and this year Palm will switch its PDAs to ARM chips. Due to the balance of power between suppliers and customers, the semiconductor companies got squeezed on price.
[April 16, 2002, 15:02]
IBM readies Power6 blades for next year
News That will expand the choices of lower-end Power systems, a significant change given that today's Power5-based models are used more widely at the higher end of the market. Beginning with its Power6 dual-core chip, IBM will build its high-end Power...
[December 7, 2006, 11:17]
Ballard Power Systems, Inc. Streamlines Product Management to Accelerate Time-to-Market
White Papers Ballard Power Systems, Inc.wanted to remain on the leading edge of the fuel cell industry and foster market adoption. Ballard Power Systems implemented Oracle's Agile product management applications to create one central repository for product data...
[October 11, 2008, 1:01]
Choosing the Right Hardware for Server Virtualization
White Papers The ability to virtualize servers and reclaim, up until now, excess capacity has caught the interest of datacenter managers who are facing difficult power and cooling problems, the need to add more IT capacity to react to market changes, or a lack...
[October 7, 2009, 14:43]
A Low-Power Monolithic CMOS Transceiver for 802.11b Wireless LANs
White Papers With more handheld devices such as PDA and IP phones integrated with the WLAN function, the low power design of the wire-less transceiver chip is becoming critically important in order to increase battery life.
[April 2, 2009, 1:22]
BT rivals angered by Ofcom's broadband plans
News To combat BT's significant market power (SMP), it will still be subject to eight regulatory restraints to prevent abuse. The Broadband Industry Group (BIG) claimed this week that Ofcom, the new communications regulator, and telecoms watchdog Oftel...
[December 18, 2003, 13:50]
Broadband critics hit out at Communications Bill
News Nick Harvey, Liberal Democrat MP for North Devon, urged Ofcom to keep companies with significant market power on a tight rein, and to work towards making broadband a universal service -- as basic telephony is today.
[December 4, 2002, 16:52]
ISPs wary of BT's network upgrade plans
News Where competition is not effective the regulator will carry out a market review, and if it is found that significant market power is held a remedy will be defined. A body representing many of the UK's ISPs has warned that BT should be prevented...
[April 13, 2005, 18:20]
Intel searching for next big thing
News Later in the week, other Intel executives are expected to highlight the company's growing interest in low-power mobile and consumer electronics devices that could help Intel cope with a rapidly maturing PC market.
[September 17, 2007, 17:19]
Intel reveals second-gen dual-core details
News That's significant, given the company's manufacturing power and market share. The dual-core design philosophy is the chip industry's answer to the question of how to make chips more useful without making them consume too much power and throw off...
[May 6, 2005, 9:05]
Intel sees mature markets embracing low-cost PCs
News ARM's low-power chips are currently dominant in the mobile-devices market. Navin Shenoy, vice president and general manager at Intel Asia-Pacific, told ZDNet Asia that the chipmaker is targeting its new line of low-power processors designed for low...
[March 10, 2008, 8:44]
Display start-up projects new image
News The device could boost screen brightness to three times that of market-leading liquid-crystal displays (LCDs), while consuming less power in portable devices, according to the company. However, the possibility that iMoD-based screens would consume...
[November 1, 2002, 11:33]
