Almost half of people surveyed experience problems at least once a day9 April 2014 Nearly 50 per cent of people experience problems with their Internet at least once a day, new research has revealed. The figure paints a worrying picture of the UK’s rural broadband provision. In total, the Government has already invested £530million in to fibre broadband and former Culture Secretary Maria Miller has been reported as wanting the UK’s Internet to be among the best in the world.According to the research which asked 142 people about their broadband the most common problems include slow Internet and a dropped…
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Businesses can now offer customers more than 200 alternative payment methods through mobile e-commerce purchasing platformLondon, 9th April 2014 – WorldPay, a global leader in payment processing, risk and alternative payments, and ZNAP™, the mobile business platform, have agreed a global partnership which will enable multi-channel commerce for new and existing businesses. The joint offering has already been deployed by the Rugby Football Union (RFU) at Twickenham Stadium.ZNAP is a mobile app that allows customers to shop, pay, and receive special offers and loyalty rewards through their smart device. Businesses can deliver a new sales channel to potential customers and…
Mobile phones, PCs, Tablets rely on Bluetooth for wireless connectivity, set the stage for in-home automation hubsSan Jose, California – April 8, 2014 – From Bluetooth World 2014, the flagship connectivity conference from the Bluetooth SIG, IHS released details of its latest forecasts for the IHS Technology Connectivity in Consumer, Mobile and IT Market Tracker. The report puts Bluetooth penetration at 90 percent in 2014 for all mobile phones (not just smartphones), growing to 96 percent by 2018. Mobile phones serve as the hub for the Internet of My Things – the connectivity of the devices all around you -…
Enlogic launches EnPowered PDU to deliver scalability and convergence 8 April 2014 – Worcester, UK – In a world first, BT IT Systems is future-proofing its data centre assets with the industry’s first upgradeable PDU, the Enlogic EnPowered PDU. Recognising the current market split between the need for either intelligent or basic PDUs, alongside the barriers to technology procurement, Enlogic has developed and delivered the EnPowered PDU to give customers the best of both worlds – a highly engineered basic PDU with multiple benefits, which also allows customers to purchase a network management card (NMC) at a later date, to…
Luxembourg, 8th April 2014 – SES Broadband Services today announced it has signed an agreement with German Internet Service Provider ORBITCOM to market its Astra Connect service. Provided via Ka-band capacity on the recently launched SES’s satellite ASTRA 2E, Astra Connect delivers high-speed broadband across Europe. ORBITCOM will provide the service to households in under-served areas in Germany where current broadband speeds are 2Mbit/s or less. Six different options of Astra Connect service packages will be available to ORBITCOM customers, with prices depending on data volume. The additional night option allows browsing without limit and without volume billing and is…
London, 8 April 2014 – PageOne Communications, a leading provider of critical messaging solutions to the public and private sectors, today announced that Dorset Fire and Rescue Service (DFRS) has selected its Trio lone worker device to help ensure the safety and security of their field-based staff. Implementing the Trio device is helping DFRS protect staff working alone who may potentially be at risk, whilst also adhering to vital health and safety requirements.”We have approximately 14,500 fire hydrants spread throughout the county and it is the responsibility of our lone worker Fire Hydrant Technicians to carry out inspections, test and…
The Cloud is unquestionably the future for energy and commodities trade and risk management (E/CTRM) solutions. The pace with which it is getting there is accelerating. And even very large trading firms are now embracing the Cloud as earlier concerns over security are allayed. These are the headline findings from a new industry round table conducted by analyst and research firm Commodity Technology Advisory (ComTech) and revealed today by vendor Aspect Enterprise Solutions. The round table results reinforce those of a major research project and report by ComTech which concluded that the Cloud was increasingly replacing the on-premises software model…
Egham, 8th April 2014 – OKI Europe Ltd has enhanced the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) functionality across its range of multifunction printers with Recognition Server from leading document capture company ABBYY available as a low cost add-on.OCR is powerful functionality that enables SMBs and workgroups to streamline their end-to-end document workflows and drive operational cost efficiencies through the conversion of paper documents or document images that organisations deal with on a daily basis.Recognition Server from ABBYY offers enterprise-scale OCR and document conversion providing highly accurate conversion of images into MS Office formats (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) or searchable PDF and PDF/A…
Industry-Leading Storage Providers Partner to Address Need for High Performance, Scalable Storage SolutionsCHICAGO and PITTSBURGH, Apr 8, 2014 – Cleversafe, Inc., the industry leading object-based storage provider, and Avere Systems, a leading provider of enterprise storage for cloud enabled data centers, today announced they have entered into a strategic partnership, enabling the delivery of data storage solutions with scalable performance. The combined solution is designed to accelerate access to data and applications in cloud environments for enterprise customers in industries ranging from oil and gas to media and entertainment. The volume, variety and velocity of information that exists today is…
Industry experts lead the charge for a frontline view of customer and employee experience London, UK and Oslo, Norway and New York, NY: 8 April 2014: The most successful organisations know that positive change is driven by the front-line customer experience, employee experience and Market Research experts. At Confirmit Community Conference (CCC) 2014 on May 8-9 in Orlando at the Ritz-Carlton, Grande Lakes, industry experts who lead these endeavours will join forces to discuss the challenges they face every day. This year’s theme – Be a Hero – will focus on the heroic achievements earned on the road to success.…
Overall Data Centre Company of the Year and Data Centre Design/Build of the Year nominations mark out the company’s expertise in large-scale data centre projects07 April 2014 – WhiteSpider, a leading specialist in enterprise architectures for IT, has added two further nominations to the growing roll-call of awards the company is winning this year as a leading provider of data centre professional services. The company has been recognised by DCS awards as a finalist in two categories – Data Centre Design/Build of the Year and the prestigious Data Centre Company of the Year. Voting for both awards opened last week…
Public Cloud Storage Results Rival Traditional NAS with Avere FlashCloud PITTSBURGH- April 7, 2014- Avere Systems, a leading provider of enterprise storage for cloud enabled data centers, today announced that it has posted the first ever SPECsfs2008 NFS.v.3 results using a public cloud storage service as persistent storage. The results prove that with an edge-core storage architecture, the cloud can replace traditional storage arrays as the repository for corporate data.Avere Systems FXT Edge filers with FlashCloud™ for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) from Amazon Web Services (AWS) provided Cloud NAS storage that enabled the performance scalability via familiar NAS…
More than 130 VFX, compositing, motion graphics and grading plugins now available for the first time Norwich, 7 April 2014 – FXHOME has today announced that many of its VFX, compositing, motion graphics and grading effects will soon be available for the first time for After Effects, Vegas Pro, Final Cut Pro X, Premiere Pro and Motion. The versatile plugins collection from the software developer’s popular HitFilm video editing programme will be launched at the 2014 NAB Show on 7-10 April in Las Vegas.The plugins package takes the many effects present in HitFilm 2 Ultimate into multiple platforms, and ranges…
US household name is one of three recent ‘big-client’ winsBelfast, 7th April, 2014 – Leader in mobile and voice customer service, SpeechStorm (www.speechstorm.com), has signed a contract with its first US customer, a nationwide service provider and household name, which has selected SpeechStorm’s Secure Payments solution to capture customer credit card payments securely and efficiently in its contact centres. The value of the deal cannot be disclosed.SpeechStorm’s ‘Payment Application – Data Security Standard’ (PA-DSS) validated application was identified by the service provider as the most cost effective way for it to comply with strict Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards on…
Belfast, 7th April, 2014 – Leader in mobile and voice customer service, SpeechStorm (www.speechstorm.com), today announces three major contract wins in the European mobile communications and global logistics sectors, and with a major US service provider for its personalized call-handling, self-service and secure payment customer service solutions. The value of the deals cannot be disclosed.In the first contract win, SpeechStorm’s Personalized Interactive Voice Response (IVR) solution will be used by a leading global mobile telecoms brand to provide improved self-service and call handling to its UK & Ireland customers. SpeechStorm Personalized IVR will enable the mobile operator to provide a…
Smaller footprint, faster to deploy, quicker to boot and easier to manage, says IT managerReading, UK. 7 April 2014 – Cwm Taf University Health Board has deployed 2,500 IGEL thin clients across its hospitals, clinics, GP surgeries and administration offices radically saving management time and cutting energy costs.”We had oscillated between buying new and second hand PCs to use as Citrix terminals but had never been entirely satisfied with this solution,” said John Probert, senior server manager. “In places like the hospital theatres, the PCs were just too bulky and we required a more integrated solution to match the flat…
Innovative solution enables rapid deployment for oil and gas companies across the regionPerth, Australia, April 7, 2014 – SpeedCast, one of the world’s major international satellite telecommunications service providers, will host the first product demo of its latest development – the ReadyCONNECT™TA12 solution at this year’s APPEA Conference and Exhibition. The demonstration will give IT professionals in the oil & gas industry a chance to learn about the benefits of using the market’s latest mobile satellite communications system, and discuss their specific connectivity challenges. ReadyCONNECT™TA12 is a mobile VSAT solution that combines portability and rapid deployment equipment, providing instant access…
SAN JOSE, CA – April 4, 2014 – Smartlogic’s co-founder and senior vice president, Toby Conrad will be a keynote speaker at MarkLogic World’s kickoff event in San Francisco on April 7. Conrad’s presentation will focus on how Semaphore, Smartlogic’s content intelligence software platform, adds a semantic layer to MarkLogic implementations. “Semaphore’s semantic capabilities lets users really leverage their content across platforms and applications,” Conrad said. “Rich metadata adds the ability to dig into text and find business insights buried within it.”Smartlogic is a platinum sponsor of MarkLogic World Tour 2014 and will have representatives at each event to talk…
Luxembourg, 4 April 2014 – Intelsat S.A. (NYSE: I), the world’s leading provider of satellite services, along with partners BT Group Plc (NYSE: BT), Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC), Sony (NYSE: SNY) and Newtec, will demonstrate the next iteration of a true 4K Ultra High Definition Television (4K UHDTV), end-to-end video transmission over satellite to the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada during the 2014 NAB Show. The demos will take place at Intelsat’s booth located in the South Upper Hall, Booth SU 3110 and Ericsson’s Booth located at SU 721.At NAB, Intelsat and its partners will demonstrate ecosystem readiness…
Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to ExecuteLondon, UK – April 4, 2014 – xMatters, inc., a global leader in enabling business processes with communications, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Leaders” quadrant of the 2014 “U.S. Emergency/Mass Notification Services” report.[1] Recognizing vendors focused on the activation and management of crisis communications and notifications, this report assesses a vendor’s completeness of vision and the ability to execute that vision. This is the first time xMatters has been included in this prestigious evaluation with its debut in the leaders quadrant.The Magic Quadrant for U.S.…