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Cisco Systems Case Study: Vodafone UK

With proportionate group turnover of over $79.5 billion in the year to 31st March 2005, Vodafone is one of the world's largest companies. Vodafone UK's legacy infrastructure - consisting of multiple heterogeneous networks - was costly and hindered the company's competitiveness. The 'One Vodafone' programme provided the impetus for innovation,...

Tags: Vodafone Group Plc., Cisco Systems Inc., Vodafone UK

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Vodafone Makes Mobile Micro-Payments Easy Using PaymentsPlus by Valista

Vodafone UK's m-pay bill online payments solution enables mobile phone users to buy low-cost items online WAP or Internet and have them charged to their mobile phone accounts as part of the Vodafone live! service. For Vodafone UK - the UK's largest mobile operator with over 13 million customers -...

Tags: Vodafone Group Plc., Mobile, Vodafone UK, Valista PaymentsPlus, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

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1,500 ships to fight climate change?

According to UK and U.S. researchers, it should be possible to fight the global warming effects associated with an increase of dioxide levels by using autonomous cloud-seeding ships to spray salt water into the air. This project would require the deployment of a worldwide fleet of 1,500 unmanned ships to...

Tags: Droplet, Vessel, Cloud, Ship, Wiki, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-09-07

What's up, what's down on our warming planet?

Glaciers are down, the ocean is up. Here are some details: Europe is losing its Alpine snowmass. Glaciers in Europe have lost 25% of their snowmass since 1980. It's more than agony for skiers. Huge sections of rock and rubble are leaving...

Tags: Meter, Glacier, Business Ethics, Government, Leadership, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-06

LHC scientists get death threats

LHC scientists get death threatsIgnorance produces fear...And issuing death threats is not the christian thing to do. And $10.00 to a donut will get you that a religiously motivated faction is behind the threats. Something to research further.RE: LHC scientists get death threats - is it because Roger Federer lost...

Tags: Anti-Matter, LHC, death threat

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?

Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?Microsoft is also airing the Mojave experiment ads. nt.RE: Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?That add is really stupid . . . but, if you're totally incapable of building a quality operating system, why not try comedy?Best marketing for...

Tags: Operating systems, Branding, Microsoft Windows, advertisement, Windows Gurus, Windows brand, Microsoft Corp., brand, Seinfeld

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Should political postings stay or go? A survey.

Should political postings stay or go? A survey.Please Speak FreelyAdmittedly, the subject matter was off-topic but adding the occasional non-relevant opinion is a very human thing to do, certainly not to be chastised, regardless of idealogical objection.Kevin, G-Portal UKhttp://cms.da.gpRE: Should political postings stay or go? A survey.Mitch you have at...

Tags: Blogging, political posting, blogger, survey

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

End of an era: Dell may dump its factories

Dell is reportedly trying to dump its manufacturing facilities across the globe in a turnabout that indicates it has no discernable edge in making PCs anymore. According to the Wall Street Journal: Dell has approached contract computer manufacturers with offers to sell the plants. One person...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Manufacturing, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-05

News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list Dancho Danchev:Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack Mary Jo Foley:...

Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Corp., Office 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Microsoft Student Technology Day UK

Note Wednesday 1st October 2008, a little over 3 weeks away from today in your diary. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft and a whole load of influential partners and companies will be in London for the Microsoft Student Technology Day. It's a day about and for students,...

Tags: Entrepreneurial, Microsoft Corp., Entrepreneurship, Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-04

IE8's "best" feature broken: stick with Firefox

The plug-ins, the add-ons, the "download and use with" programs. So many people have been on about the "porn mode" InPrivate feature, the coloured tabs and the accelerator features, but what seems to be missing from the blogosphere is the entire gallery of additional software for the product. ...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, IE8, Internet Explorer 8, Web Browsers, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Dell's Mini packs Ubuntu, XP; Vodafone to sell it

Update: Dell's Inspiron Mini 9 now available and Dell is pushing the netbook is available on its site. Meanwhile Vodafone is going to sell the Mini in Europe. While Dell's move Techmeme could be viewed as playing catchup to other rivals such as Asus the Vodafone deal...

Tags: Ubuntu, Dell Computer Corp., Vodafone Group Plc., Microsoft Windows XP, Notebooks, 3G, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-04

(Photos: The brains behind Google Chrome)

(Photos: The brains behind Google Chrome)It's absurd to refer to 'The Brains Behind Chrome'Google Chrome, at this point in time, adds very little to the WebKit rendering engine. It's clearly a very early release, and currently does nothing clever. It will be interesting to watch it develop.Kevin, G-Portal UKhttp://cms.da.gp

Tags: Google Chrome, Google Inc., photograph

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Who wins with Google Chrome

Who wins with Google ChromeChrome adds a lot. By about any measure, Chrome will be way ahead of IE8.If there was nothing new here, there would be no excitement.Chrome Adds Nothing NewAt this point in time, Chrome adds effectively nothing new. It's little more than a late attempt to...

Tags: Web browsers, WebKit, FF 3.1, Chrome, Google Inc., Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Class action bait on iPhone problems

Class action bait on iPhone problemsoverload the network?How is that an APPLE problem. This is an AT&T issue where their networks are not up to snuff. Try suing thw correct party, dummiesRE: Class action bait on iPhone problemsIt overloads the network because of a flaw in the iphone software. ...

Tags: 3G, Cellular phones, Apple Inc., iPhone problem, Apple iPhone, class action, network

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Five reasons Chrome will take over the world

Five reasons Chrome will take over the worldFive reasons Chrome will take over the worldYou know what ZDNet needs? More articles about Chrome! 12 over the last 24 hours just isn't enough so why not add to that number.Chrome isn't taking over anything because its terribly broken. It doesn't render...

Tags: Development tools, Web browsers, chrome, Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Windows 7: Can Microsoft get boot time to under 15 seconds?

Windows 7: Can Microsoft get boot time to under 15 seconds?Where has this been?Oh, hello, MS, is that you? Did you remember that little OS side-project that you've had going on for a couple decades now? I'm so glad to see a renewed interest, please stick around to...

Tags: Operating systems, Boot-time, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Google Chrome: The five best new features

Google Chrome: The five best new featuresThe biggest crap is IE, which STILL ships with ActiveX, is slower thanmolasses in January, STILL includes old obsolete proprietary rendering, and is years behind in standards.More Google crap. Use at your own risk!http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/chrome_privacy_is_full_of_dents.htmlGoogle is wanting your material.http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/google_chrome_eula_sucks/So far impressedI am quite impressed by...

Tags: Web browsers, VERY SELDOM, HEARSAY, Google Inc., Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

iPhone's remote deletions may help crooks cover tracks

Certain features of increasingly widespread enterprise smartphones may aid criminals in hiding incriminating evidence, says the UK's Serious Fraud Office. Criminals can remotely destroy incriminating evidence by exploiting security features on the Apple iPhone, a leading digital-forensics expert has warned. The head of the UK's Serious...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Team, Mobile, Unit, Encryption, Keith Foggon, PC Architecture, Team Management, Smart Phones, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Nick Heath silicon.com, fraud, iPhone, security, Apple

News items 2008-09-03

(Images: How Google's Chrome browser shines)

(Images: How Google's Chrome browser shines)You can't have used it yet!Admittedly, what Chrome does, it does well. The point is that it doesn't do much at all! In fact, it looks like an alpha product rather than a beta. Seems desperate to me, given that the bones of the product...

Tags: Web browsers, Google Chrome, Google Chrome browser shine, browser shine, Web browser, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-03