March 31, 2008
Dublin-based ChangingWorlds has won the Innovation Award at the Irish American Technology Leadership Group's (ITLG) inaugural award ceremony in San Francisco, USA. ChangingWorlds provides mobile data personalisation and Mobile Internet products to major operators around the world, including Vodafone and O2. It's ClixSmart(tm) Intelligent Portal platform uses advanced artificial intelligence technology to provide a personalised content discovery solution that enhances ...
ChangingWorlds wins innovation award
by Jan HarrisDublin-based ChangingWorlds has won the Innovation Award at the Irish American Technology Leadership Group's (ITLG) inaugural award ceremony in San Francisco, USA. ChangingWorlds provides mobile data personalisation and Mobile Internet products to major operators around the world, including Vodafone and O2. It's ClixSmart(tm) Intelligent Portal platform uses advanced artificial intelligence technology to provide a personalised content discovery solution that enhances ...
March 30, 2008
The Broadband Reach Project in Scotland is ongoing with the Scottish Parliament due to award a £3.5 million contract to a company who will then labor to fill in the gaps broadband coverage. Computer Weekly has discovered that the Enterprise minister Jim Mather believes that businesses might be offered high speed broadband more rapidly if a comparable scheme to the Scottish ...
Suggestion that whole of the UK should follow Scottish broadband lead
by Dave NixonThe Broadband Reach Project in Scotland is ongoing with the Scottish Parliament due to award a £3.5 million contract to a company who will then labor to fill in the gaps broadband coverage. Computer Weekly has discovered that the Enterprise minister Jim Mather believes that businesses might be offered high speed broadband more rapidly if a comparable scheme to the Scottish ...
British Airway lounges get free Wi-Fi
by Dave NixonBritish Airways from 1st April 2008 is offering free access to Openzone hot spots in its 25 UK lounges, the agreement with Openzone is for a three year period according to Silicon.com. Certainly not all us have access to the different lounges which are usually set aside for business class ticket holders or those on the upper tiers of frequent flyer ...
Voipfone launch £45 limitless broadband package
by Dave NixonThose who have used VoIP (Voice over IP) on their broadband lines will be conscious of the irritation that can arise if a large web page causes a spike in latency or swamps the connection causing the voice to stutter. Voipfone are attempting to address this in two ways with their new £45 (ex. VAT) per month broadband product. The product ...
Firmware upgrade for Netgear DG834v3 routers
by Dave NixonThe AR7 chipset problem hit the headlines last year and Netgear has now issued a firmware update for its DG834 version 3 hardware that might improve effects for some people. The firmware is version 4.01.37 and should only be used on version 3 of the DG834 and DG834G routers. Note: Do not use this firmware on North American models. The firmware fixes ...
BT Yahoo mail troubles
by Dave NixonIt appears the BT Yahoo mail service which is offered as a subscription service or is bundled with BT Total broadband packages has been experiencing service problems. Vnunet.com has some comments from BT, signifying that the service issues are in the process of being fixed and that people have been experiencing issues since March 11th. Unnoficial BT Total forums have numerous ...
Karoo users redirected to Ask.com for unsuccessful DNS lookups
by Dave NixonThe Register has brought to light the most recent advertising revenue scheme to be deployed by a broadband provider. K-Com who operate Karoo, the broadband provider in the Hull area, has started a partnership with Ask.com where the provider will get a cut of advertising revenue for directing users to Ask.com. The redirection will take place when a user types a ...
March 29, 2008
A patented software tool for searching and visualising unstructured information has been released by Comintell. The tool can be used for creating competitor comparisons, SWOT analysis, competitive intelligence reports, media analysis, and trend spotting. Matrix Analyzer 3 automatically categorises incoming content feeds and displays this information in a dynamic matrix format. The new version, introduced by Comintell, a Sweden-based provider of ...
Matrix Analyzer 3 launched by Comintell
by Lin FreestoneA patented software tool for searching and visualising unstructured information has been released by Comintell. The tool can be used for creating competitor comparisons, SWOT analysis, competitive intelligence reports, media analysis, and trend spotting. Matrix Analyzer 3 automatically categorises incoming content feeds and displays this information in a dynamic matrix format. The new version, introduced by Comintell, a Sweden-based provider of ...
fonYou plans to launch MVN in Spain
by Lin FreestoneA new mobile operator will launch its services in Spain by the end of 2008. fonYou is a mobile virtual network operator that combines mobile communications services with the delivery of extensive web-based services. The start-up mobile operator is planning to offer its independent mobile services in Spain through an agreement with Spanish telecom Telefónica. Following this agreement, fonYou has opened ...
March 28, 2008
Phone service provider, NTT DoCoMo of Japan, has successfully demonstrated download speeds of 250Mbps with 'Super 3G' cellular technology. The trial, which builds on NTT DoCoMo's demonstration of 100Mbps mobile downloads in November, last year, was carried out in an actual wireless environment near the company's R&D labs in Yokosuka, near Tokyo. 250Mbps is at least 12 times faster than the ...
NTT DoCoMo demos 250mbps Super 3G connection
by Jan HarrisPhone service provider, NTT DoCoMo of Japan, has successfully demonstrated download speeds of 250Mbps with 'Super 3G' cellular technology. The trial, which builds on NTT DoCoMo's demonstration of 100Mbps mobile downloads in November, last year, was carried out in an actual wireless environment near the company's R&D labs in Yokosuka, near Tokyo. 250Mbps is at least 12 times faster than the ...
$14m funding to develop BubbleTALK platform
by Lin FreestoneBubble Motion, the pioneer and global leader for 'voice SMS', has secured additional funding of $14m for product development. The funding, from existing and new investors, will allow the company to further develop and expand the award-winning BubbleTALK platform, and will enable it to focus on securing additional operator partnerships around the world. More than 135 million consumers currently use the BubbleTALK ...
MTI decline to comment on record March
by David MastersMicroelectronics Technology (MTI), a Taiwan-based manufacturer of telecoms equipment, is projecting an increase in revenues for the second quarter. MTI is projecting second quarter revenues to exceed both first quarter revenues, and to exceed the second quarter revenues for 2007. The company is projecting an on-year growth in revenues of 15-20% for the second quarter. Analysts have predicted ...
Silitech profits reach record high
by David MastersSilitech Technology, Taiwan-based manufacturer of handset keypads, has reported its results for 2007. After tax profits were up 23% compared to 2006, reaching a record NT$1.29 billion (US$43 million). This is equivalent to NT$8.56 per share. Gross margin for the year also increased, from 26.7% in 2006 to 27.0%. This was achieved in spite of higher-priced raw materials ...
Many China-based handset firms are likely to go bust this year
by David MastersCompetition between handset vendors in China is hotting up, meaning that many handset-design firms in the country are likely to go bust this year. Profit margins on handsets have been in rapid decline over recent years. In 2006 gross margins stood at 15%, which had fallen to 5% by the end of 2007, and is expected to fall to 3% ...
China to force liberalisation upon its handset market
by David MastersChina will soon be enforcing a set of licensing rules that will liberalise the manufacture and sale of mobile phone handsets in the country. In October last year the Chinese State decided to remove its licensing control of the industry. However, due to lack of enforcement, the market has yet to become more liberalised. It was decided by the Chinese ...
March 27, 2008
Doubletakestudios, a photo shoot specialist with studios in London, Manchester and Southampton has installed a Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network from NetworkFlow, which has revolutionised its way of working. The MPLS IP Virtual Private Network (IP VPN) has reduced network complexity, as well as saving costs, improving turnaround time for orders and leading to a substantial increase in business. ...
NetworkFlow MPLS network boosts business for Doubletakestudios
by Jan HarrisDoubletakestudios, a photo shoot specialist with studios in London, Manchester and Southampton has installed a Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network from NetworkFlow, which has revolutionised its way of working. The MPLS IP Virtual Private Network (IP VPN) has reduced network complexity, as well as saving costs, improving turnaround time for orders and leading to a substantial increase in business. ...
Nokia slow to incorporate new chips into production
by David MastersNokia announced last year that it was planning to start buying chips from a wider range of chip makers. However, as of yet, Nokia have been slow in purchasing new chips, leaving the industry wondering whether or not Nokia will release a mobile phone this year with a chip from a new supplier. It is now believed that ...
March 26, 2008
In an effort to tighten up its anti-spam policies BT has caused problems for its broadband customers who don't use an @btinternet.com address. A routine security upgrade has led to customers using a desktop SMTP program, such as Outlook or Thunderbird, with their own domain name, receiving an error message when they try to send mail. SMTP error 553 is ...
BT security upgrade causes email errors
by Jan HarrisIn an effort to tighten up its anti-spam policies BT has caused problems for its broadband customers who don't use an @btinternet.com address. A routine security upgrade has led to customers using a desktop SMTP program, such as Outlook or Thunderbird, with their own domain name, receiving an error message when they try to send mail. SMTP error 553 is ...
Inventec post record 2007 profits, but lose out on iPod orders
by David MastersTaiwan-based manufacturer of electronic products, Inventec Appliances, has reported its 2007 results, with record profits of NT$3.25 billion (US$107.6 million). This represents a 58% on year increase in profits, and is equivalent to NT$7.04 per share, compared to NT$4.46 in 2006. Gross margin also improved, up from 7.3% in 2006 to 10.3%. This improvement was attributed to increased operating ...
China’s mobile phone user numbers still on the increase
by David MastersIn February the number of subscribers to mobile telecoms services in China rose 1.7% compared to the previous month, and by 19.3% on year. According to China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII), the total number of subscribers has now topped 565.23 million This number, accurate on 29th February, accounts for 41.6% of China's population. On the same day, the ...
