http://www.silicon.com Results for comms en-us http://www.silicon.com/i/s/feeds/simple_logo.gif http://www.silicon.com 124 50 News feed from silicon.com http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/unified-communications/beware-the-turf-wars-when-merging-comms-39671618.htm Enterprise take-up of unified communications - the merging of IP telephony, conferencing and collaboration, messaging and communications tools - is on a "steeply rising curve", according to analysts. Spending on UC among businesses worldwide is... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:24:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/unified-communications/how-the-cloud-is-swallowing-your-comms-39668400.htm Unified communications is migrating to the cloud, new research has found. According to a report by analysts In-Stat, tech vendors are now working closely with providers of hosted VoIP services, leading to several flavours of unified communications... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:52:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/unified-communications/unified-comms-what-it-needs-to-succeed-39653038.htm Unified comms holds plenty of promise but businesses hoping to use it must first consider why uptake has been so slow, says Jim Mortleman. As a concept, of course, unified comms has a lot going for it. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:24:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39640947,00.htm But Twitter is more than just staccato monologue - at its best it's a comms tool that lets strangers converse. As the hype around microblogging builds, should your business join the tweet-fest or keep schtum? editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:18:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39629411,00.htm The UI has a zeitgeisty social networking bias - with different forms of comms, from Facebook and Twitter to SMS and email, integrated together. It's two years since Google announced it was building an open mobile OS platform - and the number of... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:27:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39623466,00.htm The Home Office has announced a £39m deal to help emergency services comms cope during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The contract will also help support public order policing activities involving several thousand officers within confined locations... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:14:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/retailandleisure/0,3800011842,39597173,00.htm Staff will get access to Google Mail within the next four months and in future Vincent is.interested in rolling out further apps within the Google Apps suite, such as the word-processing software Google Docs and possibly the collaborative comms... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:45:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39586415,00.htm The Airwave Tetra network was designed for voice comms, and while the radios can be used for sending basic data - such as two-digit codes - complex data tasks such as checks of the Police National Computer can't be done without additional assistance. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:31:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/retailandleisure/0,3800011842,39546158,00.htm Despite the OnAir rollout, British Airways CEO Willie Walsh recently said the airline will not extend in-flight mobile comms to any of its aircraft already in service. Air travellers flying between London and New York won't have to go mobile cold... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:31:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/broadband/0,39024661,39532789,00.htm The fibre levy was included in the government's Digital Britain report, unveiled in June by then Comms Minister Lord Stephen Carter. The proposed fibre tax to pay for next-gen broadband in the UK could be law before the next general election. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:32:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39489516,00.htm One of the world's largest collections of Enigma cipher machines - famous for being used by the Nazis to protect communications during the Second World War - is to go on display at Bletchley Park. The Enigma electro mechanical rotor machines were... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:17:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39482183,00.htm Half a million requests to see citizens comms data have been made by the government (Photo credit: charbel.akhras under the following Creative Commons licence) What are the chances the government wants to monitor you? editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:07:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39453081,00.htm The £24.4m write-off on the Scope programme - a secure electronic comms network aimed at improving information sharing across 10 government departments and security and intelligence agencies - was approved by the Treasury after phase two of the... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:28:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/telecoms/0,39024659,39453074,00.htm BT on Thursday announced a five-year, £99m contract with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to manage voice and data networks across 197 military bases. The deal broadens the Defence Fixed Telecommunications Service (DFTS) agreement, under which BT is... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:30:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://services.silicon.com/offshoring/0,3800004877,39452615,00.htm In separate news, BT announced it has been awarded a Ministry of Defence contract worth £99m over five years for managed voice and data networks in more than a quarter of a million MoD assets, including buildings, comms rooms and underground cable... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:55:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39448352,00.htm The Ministry of Defence has awarded two comms contracts worth a total of £231m to General Dynamics UK. The deals cover upgrading the UK Armed Forces' Bowman digital radios comms system and improving interoperability with other UK and Allied systems. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:34:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/retailandleisure/0,3800011842,39447399,00.htm British Airways CEO Willie Walsh has said the airline will not extend in-flight mobile comms to any of its aircraft already in service. BA CIO Paul Coby predicted "exciting" new developments in in-flight passenger comms on new aircraft but warned... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:53:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/lans/0,39024663,39444427,00.htm Businesses have been slow to adopt unified communications, but Freeform Dynamics's Josie Sephton says its popularity could soon improve. The evangelists are calling for businesses to implement unified communications (UC), citing a whole raft of... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:00:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/broadband/0,39024661,39443976,00.htm But back to the infrastructure question - it's not as if Carter doesn't realise business comms needs are critical to tomorrow's digital world. Paul Lawton, MD of B2B mobile comms company Opal, gives a fairly stock response: "The report has become a... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:51:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39442840,00.htm The emergency services have a Tetra comms network on the Underground, supplied by Airwave. Carter's Digital Britain report also flags up other transport comms gaps which he believes need plugging - noting there has been a failure to provide... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:25:02 +0000