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Plans to roll out wireless Lan hotspots to up to 30,000 UK pub and club locations have been announced by fruit machine company Inspired Broadcast, writes Antony Adshead. If successful, […]

In the first of a series of articles looking at the strengths and weaknesses of network technologies, Bob Walder, director of testing company NSS, looks at gigabit intrusion detection systems […]

After the prolonged furore of 3's launch, what does it really have to offer business users? With the launch of Hutchison's 3, the UK finally has a third generation mobile […]

Antony Adshead IT investment processes are inefficient, largely governed by personal gain and do not meet business requirements, according to the results of a survey published last week by the […]

Antony Adshead Construction company Amey is continuing with an enterprise resource planning implementation that has run up costs of pound sterling25m - more than three times the initial predicted cost. […]

Antony Adshead POWER-over-Ethernet technology, unveiled at the CeBIT show in Hanover last week, could simplify the design and implementation of networks in most businesses, according to industry experts. The technology, […]

Antony Adshead Optical components manufacturer Bookham Technology is set to save pound sterling500,000 a year by 'insourcing' IT helpdesk staff from an Indian company. Bookham expects to make the savings […]

Antony Adshead Business users and analysts were cautious about the launch of Hutchison's '3' third-generation mobile phone services this week. The launch - the first 3G offering in the UK […]

Network equipment suppliers have cut prices substantially for 10 Gigabit Ethernet and wireless Lan equipment over the past month, writes Antony Adshead. Analysts said the price cuts reflect the state […]

Antony Adshead ICI will write off a total of pound sterling23m as a result of a failed SAP supply chain software implementation last year in its Quest flavours and fragrances […]

Antony Adshead UK broadband adoption could stall unless research is carried out into the content people want, an academic unit said this week. Jyoti Choudrie of the department of information […]

Antony Adshead IT directors rely on users more than on monitoring systems to find out about problems on their networks, a survey of 100 IT chiefs has found. The survey, […]

Five years after deregulation electricity market IT still lacks common data standards Antony Adshead About 50,000 British Gas customers have waited up to a year for electricity bills because supply […]

Antony Adshead Gas turbine maker Alstom has predicted it will achieve a 200% return on its ERP investment after it recently completed the first phase of a SAP R/3 roll-out. […]

Antony Adshead Surrey County Council is to embark on a pound sterling1m standardisation on Novell infrastructure which will see it save pound sterling1.6m a year. John Edwards, head of technical […]

Now the Wi-fi Alliance has ratified the first tranche of 802.11a wireless products, analysts have said it may be time for businesses to look more seriously at this technology, writes […]

Antony Adshead In addition to savings from a new Novell infrastructure, Surrey Council expects to save up to pound sterling2m a year by encouraging users to resolve queries and fill […]

Support for 'Son of Star Wars' radar upgrades The House of Commons defence committee has backed the upgrade of computers and software at the Fylingdales and Menwith Hill early warning […]

Antony Adshead Despite continued economic gloom in the UK's manufacturing sector, IT professionals in the industry have warned against dramatic cuts in IT budgets to reduce business overheads. In the […]

Welcome to Computer Weekly's new monthly round-up of networking news. In this section we aim to do three things. Firstly, we will provide a round-up of all the month's most […]

Antony Adshead McDonald's has publicly admitted the widely-leaked abandonment of a billion-dollar worldwide revamp of its networks and ERP systems. In the company's fourth quarter results, published last week, which […]

Antony Adshead Tarek Meliti, technical director of the TDM Group, which runs a managed hosting service was skiing down a red run at Zermatt, Switzerland, when he received a call […]

Nick Huber Companies need to be prepared to restructure their organisation and improve staff training, to get a significant return on IT investment, Bill Thomas, managing director for EDS in […]

Network cuts prescription processing time and gives remote access to records, writes Antony Adshead Sandwell General Hospital has successfully completed the first stage in a roll-out of wireless Lan equipment […]

As revitalised router suppliers begin to emerge, Cisco will find its monopoly is eroded BYLINE: jim slaby opinion Giga has been inundated by requests from its clients desperate to find […]

Transmeta plans to launch a processor with embedded security features later this year, writes Antony Adshead. The TM5800 chip will incorporate features such as passwords and keys to lock encrypted […]

British Airways' regional airlines division, CitiExpress, has announced savings of pound sterling600,000 after implementing Novell Groupwise messaging software. The company also expects to achieve seven-figure savings by linking complex infrastructure […]

Antony Adshead Gillette is to trial Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags in US and UK stores in the biggest test so far for the electronic tracking technology. The personal hygiene […]

With 12 months to go until four of the six SAP R/3 versions become unsupported, analysts have warned that users of the popular enterprise resource planning software will be forced […]

Antony Adshead AT&T is trialling laser optical networking which could give 100mbps bandwidth at a fraction of the cost of fixed optical networking. The technology - known as free space […]

Antony Adshead MG-Rover has projected 40% savings in IT costs as a result of rationalising its legacy systems following its departure from the BMW Group. The savings are expected to […]

Antony Adshead SAP has announced its next- generation integration and application platform, SAP Netweaver, which is inter-operable with Microsoft's .net and IBM's Websphere environments. The announcement, which was accompanied by […]

The article offers information that French scientific research institute had its budgets cut and to meet the new cost constraints, it settled on Swarm software-defined object storage from DataCore. It mentions that challenge faced by the Institute of Plant Molecular Biology (IBMP) in using DataCore's Swarm S3 software-defined object storage architecture on commodity hardware.

UK company Imhotek has launched a system for compressing mobile transmissions which it claims can save up to 85% on call costs, writes Antony Adshead. Offered as software or a […]

Antony Adshead Shell has completed the first phase in its overhaul of its global supply chain - a project which could save the oil industry millions of pounds, according to […]

C&W denies reports of axing 65% of staff in Europe Cable & Wireless moved to quash reports this week that 65% of its staff were to be axed in Europe, […]

Peoplesoft has launched what it calls the most significant release of its customer relationship management (CRM) software since the debut of its Web-based software last year, writes Antony Adshead. The […]

Antony Adshead It has been an annus horribilis for networks and telecoms providers, and their financial difficulties have presented both problems and opportunities for users. The financial woes of network […]

Antony Adshead Tesco has rolled out a common system monitoring tool across portions of its IT infrastructure to allow it to track its business processes in preparation for the deployment […]

Antony Adshead Cable & Wireless customers have been advised to look for alternative telecoms providers following news that the company has used up its cash reserves. The UK telecoms giant's […]

Antony Adshead the Association of Train Operating Companies (Atoc) has struck a pound sterling31m deal with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young to develop a single travel reservation system. The ambitious […]

Antony Adshead Logistics company TNT has gone live with a global roll-out of Paragon routing software which will provide it with a common operating platform across its 60-country international presence. […]

Antony Adshead Volvo IT has signed a pound sterling2.2m deal with BT for 'wires-only' networking provision, which will allow the company to gain double the bandwidth for the same or […]

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software has looked in grave danger of gaining a reputation as a dinosaur in recent few years. High-profile implementation glitches hit the headlines of the IT […]

Satellite communications provider Inmarsat is to release a portable device which will give access to GPRS-speed communications in large parts of the world not covered by a mobile network cell, […]

J .D. Edwards has teamed up with Webmethods and Hewlett-Packard to bring business process monitoring to the existing business process management capability in its Extended Process Integration (XPI) framework, writes […]

Bluetooth could be dealt a serious blow as a connector of peripheral devices to PCs when a wireless Universal Serial Bus (USB) chip ships early next year from Cypress Semiconductor, […]

While Bluetooth is being assailed by rivals such as Wireless USB and 802.11, TDK Systems Europe has launched Bluetooth modules aimed at doing away with cables on the factory floor, […]

Antony Adshead GSM mobile telephone networks have a flawed security algorithm and can be cracked using a PC connected to a mobile phone, security consultancy ISS has warned. ISS is […]

Antony Adshead Spam levels are set to increase dramatically according to figures released by Messagelabs which showed such communications accounted for one in eight e-mails in November. Analysts urged IT […]