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- BT Broadband Desktop Help (Windows)
- BT Broadband Desktop Help helps you get back on line if you are disconnected, set up your email account and fix issues if it stops working, work in the background, fixing the problems it finds, help you set up your home network so you can share folders and printers, and...
- Tags: Desktop, British Telecommunications, Printers, E-mail, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Peripherals, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-09
- Services Provider Boosts Business Efficiency With Unified Communications Applications
- BT Global Services, a networked IT services provider, wanted to increase its own business efficiency while creating innovative products for customers. Using core technologies in Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, BT designed a suite of small applications that help people communicate more efficiently by merging common tools such as...
- Tags: Unified Communications, British Telecommunications, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Instant Messaging, Collaboration, Online Communications, Internet
- Case studies 2009-10-01
- BT Retail Boosts Upselling and Productivity and Cuts Churn in Price-And Service-Driven Market
- A major force in the U.K. communications market, BT Retail offers a mix of innovative propositions, integrated offerings, and bespoke solutions that have won it 17 million business and residential customers. BT Retail has increased agility, improved customer service, and cut costs by consolidating enterprisewide performance management on Oracle's business...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., British Telecommunications, BT Retail, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- Balance of power: Windows 7 walks fine line between saving battery life and alienating users
- Balance of power: Windows 7 walks fine line between saving battery life and alienating usersSensationalist headlines don't help you make your point... they may help you increase your hits by inviting the ABM crowd to descend like a hoard of locusts, but headlines like this do little to boost your...
- Tags: Engineering, Wi-Fi, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, battery
- Discussion threads 2009-07-21
- BT gives Phorm the boot
- BT gives Phorm the bootDown with Phorm!Kudos to Sir Tim Berners-Lee for opposing this cyberspy nonsense! I also do not want my online data tracked by strangers and used for anything. I do not care for Webwise Discover. Right now, it says it "works by understanding your...
- Tags: Channel management, Phorm, British Telecommunications, Right Now IT
- Discussion threads 2009-07-06
- BT gives Phorm the boot
- After running consumer trials of Phorm's Webwise user-tracking system - and facing strident objections from consumers and the European Union - British Telecom has opted to give Phorm the boot, the Guardian reports. Allegedly the decision is financial. BT is going to put its resources into building...
- Tags: British Telecommunications, Web Site, Phorm, Web Site Development, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Web Technology, Video On Demand (VoD), Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Having forced one Irish ISP to adopt three strikes rules, labels sue to force others to match policy
- The RIAA recording industry is determined to rip Internet access away from illegal downloaders and it continued its campaign with legal action in Ireland. Check this one out, it's really jaw-dropping. The Irish Times reports reports that the Big Four are suing telco BT Ireland and cable company UPC Ireland...
- Tags: RIAA, British Telecommunications, Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Major Online Lender Uses Infrastructure Optimization to Help Manage Growth, Profits
- Quicken Loans, the top online mortgage lender, needed to know if its core technology infrastructure was optimized to support its business and its rapid growth. To do so, it turned to BT, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, for a Core Infrastructure Optimization IO assessment based on the Microsoft IO maturity...
- Tags: Optimization, Quicken, British Telecommunications, Microsoft Corp., Quicken Loans, It Services, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- BT Group Plc Enables Seamless Employee Collaboration Across Technology Boundaries
- How does one glue all the disparate services staff need into one personal IT experience and let them work faster, smarter, and more effectively? That was the challenge facing BT Group plc, a world leader in communications. The answer was 'my.bt.com' - an innovative enterprise portal, collaborative community, and composite...
- Tags: Collaboration, Oracle Corp., British Telecommunications, BT Group Plc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Dial-up diary: erotically fast broadband
- Nearly one year has passed since I first organised the broadband and phone line into my now previous house. After moving in to my brand new house today, I am astounded as to how different the experience has been. Last year it took 29 days to successfully...
- Tags: Phone, Router, Broadband, Phone Line, British Telecommunications, Socket, Network Technology, Broadband Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- Why the London Olympics is closed source
- Why the London Olympics is closed sourceHeaven ForbidFrom the article quoted:[i]BT will be responsible for providing all communications services including those for the workforce, venues, athletes, national Olympic committees and the media. It will also manage voice and data networks.[/i]Amazing, they have awarded the telecoms contract to a telco. Whatever...
- Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, OPEN SOURCE, Telecom & Utilities, British Telecommunications, London Olympics, voice
- Discussion threads 2009-05-07
- Why the London Olympics is closed source
- This is about the fact that BT won the IT contract last year, plus its marketing rights. BT is a phone company. Phone companies are among the last hold-outs against open source. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Phone, Telephone Company, British Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- Cobra BT 200 Heavy Duty Handset with Bluetooth Wireless Technology
- The Cobra BT 200 is a heavy-duty Bluetooth handset that features a fairly limited list of features. It makes calls, and that's about it. During our time with the BT 200, we encountered a few inconveniences, such no automatic contact-list importing and an unintuitive interface for advanced features like inputting...
- Tags: Cellular phones, handset, Bluetooth, BT 200, British Telecommunications, PTT
- Product reviews 2009-05-01
- BT Engage IT Accelerates Service Management Optimization Engagements
- BT Engage IT, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, combines expertise in both network and desktop infrastructure to provide public sector and business clients the best overall solution. They needed resources that could scale up or down according to the size of the engagement, usually between 200 and 4,000 license seats....
- Tags: Service Management, Information Technology, British Telecommunications, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, It Services, Management
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- Australian Firm Gains Performance and Scalability With Migration to SQL Server
- Having a successful product can place lots of pressure on IT. That's what BT Financial Group BT found after the company's Wrap application for managing investment portfolios proved so popular that the influx of new customers threatened to outpace the capacity of its application infrastructure, based upon a 32-bit Database...
- Tags: Performance, Microsoft SQL Server, Scalability, British Telecommunications, Server, Migration, Microsoft Corp., 64-Bit, Databases, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- My list of iPhone grievances 3.0
- My list of iPhone grievances 3.0Mine is a short list1. Camera improvements, especially increasing mp.2. Allow 3rd party apps to auto sync. for example, I use Bento for some medical records, but have to download changes via MobileMe using CSV touch. I also keep track of books,...
- Tags: Bento, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2009-03-17
- Telecommunications Firm Reduces Energy Costs With New Operating System
- Operating in more than 170 countries, British Telecom plc BT is a leading provider of communications services, including, networked IT services; telecommunications services; and Internet products and services. During its hardware refresh cycle, the company wanted to upgrade its operating system to one that would save costs, improve user productivity,...
- Tags: Operating System, British Telecommunications, Telecommunications, Carbon Emission, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies 2009-03-01
- BT Vision Builds Cutting-Edge Storage Solution to Deliver Video-on-Demand Over an IP Network, Gains More Than £7 Million in Benefits With HP StorageWorks
- BT Vision, based in the United Kingdom, is a next-generation television service that delivers pay-per-view and subscription video-on-demand services, digital TV channels, communications, and interactive services over an IP network to audiences throughout the UK. BT Vision wanted to improve its ability to deliver video-on-demand over an IP-based network to...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., VoD, Network, HP StorageWorks, Benefit, British Telecommunications, IP, Vision, SVOD, U.K., IP Network, BT Vision, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Utility Computing, Strategy, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Management
- Case studies 2009-02-01
- HP BladeSystem Powers BT Vision, Tripling Data Center Capacity
- BT Vision (www.btvision.bt.com) offers on-demand television programs, film and sports over the Internet to broadband customers of BT British Telecom. The company wanted to triple data center capacity to one million viewers without adding to power and space requirements. BT Vision replaced rackmounted servers, including Sun Fire V210 servers, with...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., British Telecommunications, Vision, Data Centers, Strategy, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- British Telecom and Unisys Improve Efficiency, Capacity Planning and Customer Responsiveness With New Data Warehouse and Open Source Business Intelligence
- Operating in over 170 countries with over 110,000 employees, British Telecommunications plc BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions and services. The company's activities include networked IT services, local, national and international telecommunications services, and higher-value broadband and Internet products and services. A service provider might...
- Tags: JasperSoft, Data Warehouse, Open Source, Unisys Corp., British Telecommunications, Business Intelligence, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Telecommunications, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management
- Case studies 2009-01-01
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