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Catching some air: What UK businesses can learn from the Olympics
08 August 2012 | By Allan Swann
CBR asks what UK Plc can learn from the London 2012 Olympics in three hot areas: mobile and wireless, security and social media.
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Olympic Countdown: Game on
18 July 2012 | By Jason Stamper
BT is the official communications services partner of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Jason Stamper talks to Emer Timmons, president of BT Global Services in the UK, about what organisations need to do to prepare for the Games and what BT itself has learned from the project.
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Olympic Countdown: Game theory
18 July 2012 | By Jason Stamper
BT is the official communications services partner of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Jason Stamper talks to Howard Dickel - who is leading BT's technical delivery programme - about the people, process and technology that will be called on to help make the Games a success
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Good to talk?
11 July 2011 | By Steve Evans
Microsoft's recent acquisition of Skype has thrown communication in the enterprise back into the headlines. Steve Evans takes a look at that deal as well as the current UC market
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Web 2.0: Tweet for your life
26 November 2010 | By Gary Flood
Businesses need to start taking Web 2.0 seriously if they are to join the bigger 'conversation', writes Gary Flood
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Networking: Convergence of the fittest
04 August 2010 | By Jason Stamper
Exploding data volumes are putting corporate networks and data centres under immense strain: so can they cope? Jason Stamper investigates.
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Q&A with Phil Smith, vice president and CEO, Cisco UK & Ireland
23 July 2010 | By Gary Flood
CBR talks to Cisco's UK boss about the economy and the drive for sustainability
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London 2012 IT: No Second Chances
27 May 2009 | By Jason Stamper
15,000 athletes, 22,000 journalists, 70,000 volunteers and 94 Olympic venues. 3,500 technology specialists, 8,000 computers, a fixed deadline and the world watching. What could possibly go wrong? Jason Stamper reports.
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FSA could extend voice recording requirements to mobile calls
08 April 2009 | By CBR Staff Writer
Adding to its existing requirement that companies under its jurisdiction record wireline voice calls made by their employees, the UK Financial Services Authority is to consider the possibility of extending its condition to include mobile calls. Datamonitor believes that this will prompt vendors to come to market with technology for this purpose, adding to Obsidian/Open-Tec's existing offering.
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TomTom: tracking fuel prices
05 December 2008 | By CBR Staff Writer
TomTom has released a new sat nav system that tracks petrol and diesel prices in 12,000 fuel stations across the UK and allows users to compare fuel prices in their current location. The new technology is likely to increase competition between neighboring fuel retailers, but will also offer up a number of marketing opportunities that fuel retailers should not ignore.
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Enterprise content management helps communications sector to survive lean IT budgets
21 November 2008 | By CBR Staff Writer
Although communications service providers are faced with shrinking or flat IT budgets, their core product is becoming a commodity. They have responded with new business strategies, products and partnerships. However, many providers have implemented on an ad hoc basis, rather than establish a comprehensive enterprise content management strategy, thus crippling their cost effectiveness.
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BlackBerry Storm touch-screen phone to boost RIM's SME market share
23 October 2008 | By CBR Staff Writer
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has announced its first touch-screen smartphone: a 3G device called Storm, which will launch in November 2008 across the US and Europe. The phone is aimed at the consumer sector, but Datamonitor believes that it holds particular appeal for the small and medium enterprise market and will boost Research in Motion's market share in this area.
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Digital TV penetration in Western Europe and the US to surge by 2012
10 October 2008 | By CBR Staff Writer
Digital television adoption in Western Europe and North America will show strong growth over the next two years as consumers demand enhanced features, greater breadth of content and bundled communications offerings. A further key driver of the transition to digital TV will be the switch-off of analog transmission in these regions.
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Nuance unveils voicemail-to-text service
28 August 2008 | By CBR Staff Writer
Nuance has announced a new voicemail-to-text service, which utilizes speech recognition technology alongside a team of in-house transcriptionists. PhoneTag and SpinVox already offer similar services and have gained large subscriber bases. Despite increasing competition, however, the market is in its infancy and pricing will help to differentiate vendors.
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