Government backtrack on broadband promise and “create imbalance”

August 19th, 2010

Before its preference, the Conservative Party promised to reform the taxation of high-prosper fibre-optic networks in the UK. However, Ed Vaizey, minister notwithstanding culture, communications and creative industries admitted last week that no of the like kind review would take place. "The decision not to conduct the retrospect creates an imbalance," said Hugo Harber, director [...]

Top tips for IT migrations and consolidations

August 16th, 2010

For IT departments, computing systems obtained from merger partners or acquired companies have power to induce massive business risk when they need migrating to the fresh IT infrastructure or consolidating on to existing platforms. Computing asked Peter Mehta, prime executive of datacentre consolidation firm SANpulse, what his top tips are ~ the sake of a [...]

Tesco launches cheapest SIM-only phone deal

August 14th, 2010

Tesco Mobile has unveiled a novel tariff that provides users with unlimited texts and 100 minutes of hospitable talk time for £6 per month, believed to be the cheapest SIM-merely deal in the industry. Some experts believe this could see the rise of a price war, with operators reducing fees to retain the traditionally junior [...]

Virgin Media upgrades business fibre network offerings

August 14th, 2010

Virgin Media’s transaction arm has upgraded its High Capacity Services offerings from 1Gbit/s to 10Gbit/s. It has too upgraded its Ethernet offering. Virgin Media Business product manager David Green uttered: "This will help businesses to use dedicated high-speed lines to entrance mission-critical data, link to a datacentre running applications, or trip their own [private] cloud [...]

Tesco launches cheapest SIM-only phone deal

August 13th, 2010

Tesco Mobile has unveiled a novel tariff that provides users with unlimited texts and 100 minutes of hospitable talk time for £6 per month, believed to be the cheapest SIM-merely deal in the industry. Some experts believe this could see the rise of a price war, with operators reducing fees to retain the traditionally junior [...]

Virgin Media upgrades business fibre network offerings

August 13th, 2010

Virgin Media’s transaction arm has upgraded its High Capacity Services offerings from 1Gbit/s to 10Gbit/s. It has too upgraded its Ethernet offering. Virgin Media Business product manager David Green uttered: "This will help businesses to use dedicated high-speed lines to entrance mission-critical data, link to a datacentre running applications, or trip their own [private] cloud [...]

Cisco shares fall eight per cent despite strong growth

August 12th, 2010

Network hercules Cisco’s full-year results show revenue up 11 per cent to $40bn (&comminute;25.6bn) and profits up 27 per cent to $7.8bn. However, shares fell sharply – by eight per cent – with analysts saying they were disappointed by results that were short of Wall Street forecasts. Revenue for the region had been forecast at [...]

Honda boosts profits through virtual Facebook game

August 12th, 2010

Car Town, launched yesterday forward social media site Facebook, is a social game centred around, unsurprisingly, cars. The valorous allows users to perform tasks such as washing cars, joining a house and delivering pizza in order to earn virtual currency, which be able to be exchanged for cars, accessories or upgrades to your garage. But [...]

Tesco mobile strategy focuses on Nokia, not iPhone

August 9th, 2010

Tesco has admitted that the iPhone does not take excellent position in its mobile strategy, claiming that more Tesco shoppers are Nokia users. Nick Lansley, put a ~ on of research and development at Tesco.com, admits the company is reasonable finishing user-acceptance testing of the iPhone version, but opted to slide from the stocks the [...]

Technology cuts increase RBS profits

August 6th, 2010

Publicly owned lender Royal Bank of Scotland has announced a gain of £9m for the first half of 2010, up from a damage of £1.04bn in the first half of 2009. The profits are in some degree due to reduced costs, as its announcement explains. Group costs declined through seven per cent to £4.1m, which [...]