Streamlined SpeedCast announces new natural resources operations base in Perth as part of Australian and global expansionPerth, Australia, February 18, 2014 – SpeedCast, one of the world’s major international satellite telecommunications service providers, today announced the opening of its new facilities in Perth, Australia. The company also plans to unveil at Australasian Oil and Gas Exhibition and Conference (February 19-21) its new streamlined global operations to serve the Natural Resources sector, with the consolidation of SpeedCast, Australian Satellite Communications, Pactel International and Elektrikom Satellite Services under one global brand, SpeedCast.Launching the new office in Perth is the company’s next step…
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Newcastle upon Tyne, England – February 2014 – Business Consulting and Information Technology experts Forfusion are proud to announce another year of growth, job creation, and recent accolades such as Cisco Preferred Supplier and Microsoft Gold Partner. Specialists in designing, deploying and supporting secure communication solutions, Forfusion has grown from strength to strength and made a real impact, particularly in the North East.The diverse team is all too familiar with delivering country-wide technical solutions, but they have also raised the bar by taking advantage of Social Media and associated Sales and Marketing initiatives. CEO Steven Forrest is confident that decisions…
Specific Media expands creative offering by partnering with Eyeview, the leading online personalised video solutions provider, to offer custom advertising based on client-specific parametersLondon, 17 February 2014: Specific Media has partnered with New York-based ad tech firm Eyeview, to provide personalised creative offerings to brands across all screens throughout its European network, with KFC launching the first client campaign.The partnership allows brands across Europe to work with Specific Media to create multiple real-time, dynamic iterations of their creative, and provide a personal, relevant message to every customer, according to who they are and where they are. Offering elements such as…
Influential and experienced communications industry experts join Gigaclear to help drive business expansion to meet demand for Ultrafast broadband in underserved rural communitiesOxfordshire, 17 February 2014… Gigaclear, provider of ultrafast pure fibre broadband to the UK’s rural communities, has appointed an advisory group to help build on the company’s growth and success, bringing world class broadband to more rural communities. The group, and a newly appointed non-executive director, comprise key players in the UK’s communications industry who bring their influence and experience to Gigaclear’s fibre-to-the-premises broadband offering. Eddie Minshull joins Gigaclear as a non-Executive Director as well as an advisor.…
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina and ATLANTA, USA – 17 February, 2014 – Movistar Argentina’s “Mi Número Extra” service, based on the Movius Interactive Corporation solution myIdentities, has completed its first full year of service achieving sustained growth. The solution has been allowing subscribers to have multiple and separately billed voice and SMS personas on their mobile phone without the need for a second SIM card. For the operator this has been a value added service helping to drive additional revenue and providing a strong quality of experience differentiator for customers. “We have more than 6.9 million contract customers in Argentina, the…
ON DISPLAY ITS FLEXTUBE® TECHNOLOGY PROVIDING FLEXIBILITY AND DURABILITY FOR FTTH NETWORKS Milan, February 17th, 2014 – Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cables and systems industry, is to play a major role as Gold Sponsor at this week’s FTTH Council Europe Conference, the world’s largest Fibre to the Home event (Stockholmsmässan in Stockholm, 18-20 February). Created by the merger of Prysmian and Draka, Prysmian Group has a wealth of experience across the entire Telecoms sector and will showcase its wide range of products for the Fibre to the Home market. The FTTH Conference is once again…
Devon, UK, and Madrid, Spain – February, 17 2014 – Sub10 Systems, a specialist in the development of millimetre wave wireless links, has signed a distribution agreement with Madrid-based Diode Spain, which will make Sub10’s entire pioneering wireless broadband portfolio available for deployment throughout the country.Sub10 Systems has already successfully trialled its technology with major players such as Vodafone and Virgin and this latest expansion of its international market comes on the eve of the company’s major presence in Barcelona, where it will be exhibiting its range at the industry’s showcase Mobile World Congress.Diode has nearly 40 years’ experience in…
London, UK – 17 February 2014: Flexiant, a leading international provider of cloud orchestration software, today announced IT service provider, Skyliance Networks Limited (Skyliance) has selected Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator to transition its managed infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to the cloud. Already an established service provider in Hong Kong, Skyliance selected Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator to help it develop new revenue opportunities via the cloud and deliver cloud services quickly and at scale. The appointment marks Flexiant’s first customer in Hong Kong.Wilson Lo, managing director, Skyliance commented: “Opting to deploy a new technology like cloud orchestration has been a big strategic…
VAS providers could be key for carriers to take full advantage with Movius’ myIdentities solution, which leads the market to convert potential to actual revenueATLANTA – February 14, 2014 – Research published by Frost & Sullivan today, providing in-depth analysis of the evolving VAS industry, has estimated a Total Addressable Market for Identity as a Service solutions exceeding $20bn and reaching more than 1.1 billion subscribers worldwide.The analysis suggests that VAS will give carriers a timely boost against a backdrop of squeezed revenues especially with the disconnect between exponential traffic increase and slower revenue growth becoming more exacerbated. Increased OTT…
INAUGURATION CEREMONY FOR THE INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN PHU QUOC ISLAND AND THE MAINLAND POWER GRID IN HA TIEN.Milan, 14 February 2014 Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cables and systems industry, has completed operations for the construction and execution of the submarine power cable link to connect Phu Quoc Island to the national power grid in Vietnam. The turnkey project refers to a contract awarded in May 2012 by the Vietnamese utility EVNSPC (Southern Power Corporation under Vietnam Electricity) worth a total of Euro 67 million for the design, supply, installation, and commissioning of the submarine interconnection.Situated 45…
Interoute achieves top level security accreditations for industry best practiceLondon, 14 February, 2014 – Interoute, owner operator of Europe’s largest cloud services platform, has completed ISO 20000 certification across its Prague Operations Centre and Amsterdam, Berlin and Geneva Data Centre operations. The comprehensive scope of the ISO 20000 certification aligns to ITIL service management industry best practices applied to Interoute’s Unified Computing. The certification represents a significant milestone in Interoute’s continued efforts to provide quality and secure outsourced business technology solutions to the world’s leading organisations. Conor Ward, Executive Vice President, Enterprise Product & Solutions for Interoute, said: “Interoute has…
– Two-thirds of small business employees take their work home – Less than half believe they can spot obvious scams and threats onlineFebruary 14th, London, UK – The shifting boundaries between work and home life mean staff at many small businesses are unwittingly putting their employers at risk of cyber-attack. 82 per cent of small business employees use work time for personal matters, over a third of them for more than two hours a day, according to a survey carried out by TalkTalk Business.TalkTalk Business surveyed 1,000 small business employees, of whom over 70 per cent admit taking work home…
Zurich, 13 February 2014: SandSIV AG is a Swiss-based Customer Intelligence company that helps enterprises understand their customers through next-generation Big Data analytics. The company recently announced the creation of four new consulting packages that significantly enhance Customer Intelligence usability, rapid deployment and accelerate clients’ return on investment. SandSIV’s core product offering encompasses an end-to-end suite of Customer Intelligence technologies, both in Customer Experience Management (“CXM”) and Voice of the Customer (“VoC”). The combination of cutting-edge software applications and expert consulting provides clients with a jump-start in customer-centric initiatives.SandSIV has developed an experienced team of senior consultants, analysts and researchers…
40% of 25-34 year olds have read their card details out loud in a public placeSurrey, 13 February 2014 – – New research commissioned by Semafone has revealed that many of us are putting ourselves at risk of fraud by reading credit and debit numbers out loud in public places. The age group revealed to be taking the largest risk was 25-34 year-olds, of whom 30% admitted to reading their card details out loud in the street and 22% in an open plan office. Older shoppers were shown to be the most cautious group, with 91% of over 55s stating…
The latest apps that could turn you into a spammer London and Dallas, February 13th, 2014 – AdaptiveMobile, the world leader in mobile security, today called out a growing, aggressive form of viral marketing, used by many of the latest app developers, that is starting to pose an increasing concern for many subscribers, with complaint figures on the rise. This form of growth hacking, as it is known, is where a user-installed app will request to notify or invite the user’s contact list of the new game or service by SMS. Well-known examples of current apps using this technique include…
The new console chooses WorldPay for global payment servicesLondon, 13 February, 2014 – Video game console OUYA has selected WorldPay, a global leader in payment processing, risk management and alternative payments, as its provider of global payment services.OUYA, the highly anticipated new entrant into the games console market, launched in the USA in June 2013. The company offers more than 600 games available to play on the TV screen and free to play. OUYA also provides localisation of services in Canada and the UK. OUYA is based on an open-source Android format, making it possible for anyone to develop and…
Leading IT solutions provider behind innovation platform, CODE_n offers a sneak peek at the UK big data finalistsLondon, 13th February 2014 – GFT UK, one of the world’s leading providers of IT solutions for the financial sector, today announced an exclusive preview next week of CODE_n and the UK big data startup finalists three weeks ahead of the official program at CeBIT next month. Now in its third year, CODE_n is internationally esteemed as a global innovation platform, fostering innovation by combining the agility and fresh spirit of young entrepreneurs with the network and experience from leading companies. In its…
Leading Vendors, Solution and Service Providers to meet in London in September 2014[London, 13 February 2014] IT Europa and Angel Business Communications announced today that they will jointly be staging the fourth annual UK Managed Services & Hosting Summit on 25 September 2014. The event will bring together leading hardware and software vendors, hosting providers, telecommunications companies, mobile operators and web services providers involved in managed services and hosting with resellers, integrators and service providers migrating to, or developing their own managed services portfolio and sales of hosted solutions.All indicators are pointing to rapid growth of managed services, but many…
London and Edinburgh, UK – Flexiant, a global leader in cloud orchestration software, today announced the completion of the 4CaaSt consortium after three years of collaboration with some of Europe’s largest Telcos. The 4Caast project aimed and succeeded at creating an advanced PaaS cloud platform to support the optimized and elastic hosting of Internet-scale multi-tier applications. Speaking at the conclusion of the project 4CaaSt project technical coordinator Sergio García Gómez, of Telefónica, said, “4CaaSt embedded all the necessary features, easing programming of rich applications and enabling the creation of a true business ecosystem where applications coming from different providers can…
Kroll Ontrack’s “decryption-on-the-fly” technology speeds up data recovery time by taking a targeted approach to recovering encrypted hard drive data London – Feb 12, 2014 – Software engineers at data recovery leader Kroll Ontrack have developed a new technology that can drastically reduce the amount of time it takes to recover encrypted hard drives with a logical or physical failure – a key development in light of the growing number of cyber threats that are driving the adoption of encrypted drives. The company’s new automated decryption technology allows engineers to target only areas of the hard drive that have been…