Ofcom needs you... to carve up 37GHz of spectrum
Ofcom has launched a public consultation on the management of 37GHz of radio spectrum, looking for better ways to manage licensing of fixed wireless links. The 37GHz runs though 19 blocks from 1.4GHz up to 86GHz, and is currently licensed though a mix of Ofcom management, light licensing (where licensees have to sort out conflicts), exempt bands which are free to use, and privately held bands which were auctioned off. Ofcom reckons that mix is getting increasingly inefficient, and wants feedback on how things might be improved.
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RIM welcomes Office 365 users into the fold with BlackBerry Business Cloud Services
For wary Office 365 enterprises who've been reluctant to dip their toes into the beta pond, today will certainly be memorable in the IT room: Research in Motion has gone ahead and blessed BlackBerry Business Cloud Services as ready for prime time.
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Gov.uk launches official single Government website beta
The new project - at www.gov.uk - updates the work carried out for the ‘Alpha Gov’ website which was introduced last year. The aim is to combine all the Government’s websites onto one single site. The project could save the public £50 million a year by building a platform to make web publishing simpler for government and delivering more services online.
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French consumers prefer fingerprints to NFC
A survey has found that French consumers are more interested in the idea of using their fingerprint to identify themselves when making a payment than in using a mobile phone for the purpose. 69 per cent of the 1,008 people surveyed by Ifop for Wincor-Nixdorf said they were either very or quite in favour of replacing PIN codes with fingerprint biometrics at the point-of-sale, and only 36 per cent were either very or quite in favour of using an NFC phone to make a purchase. 39 per cent were quite opposed to the idea and 25 per cent were very opposed.
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Over 60 per cent of Mobile Users in America Call from Bathroom
A significant portion of the cellphone users in the US have the habit of making phone calls while using the washroom revealed a new study. The study, which saw participation from 1000 individuals from all over the US, was carried out by the research firm 11mark, and according to its findings, at least 63 per cent of cellphone users in the country make phone calls from their bathrooms. 11mark further stated that, if other cellphone related activities such as texting, web browsing, using apps or online shopping etc. are taken in to account, the figure goes all the way to 75 per cent.
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LSE: Cloud computing to fuel economic growth
Cloud computing is not just the future for IT but the power house that will drive a host of new jobs. So claims research by the London School of Economics (LSE), which looked at the projected impact of cloud computing on the aerospace and smartphone industries. The LSE report 'Modelling the Cloud' states that investment in cloud computing has a direct and an indirect effect on job creation in both industries, firstly through the construction and staffing of the datacentres required for hosting the cloud services and, secondly, by freeing IT staff and other skilled employees to concentrate on other areas of work.
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Samsung dealt blow in patents battle
Touch to pay could prevent them going online instead. While retail therapy can sound pleasant in theory, the practical side in stores can sometimes be anything but therapeutic with queues, poor staffing and payment methods all among consumer gripes. Researcher YouGov says NFC mobile wallet payment tech could be the solution to prevent retailers
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40,000 Apple fanbois demand ethical iPhone 5
The rush to cash in on the next wave of high-growth internet start-ups has enabled Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm with ties to Facebook, to raise $1.5bn in one of Silicon Valley’s biggest recent fund-raisings. Coming in the wake of a sharp fall in the overall amount of money going into venture capital, the development highlights a growing concentration that has left a handful of big firms with even greater sway over the fortunes of US technology start-ups.
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Live Gamer Selects PaymentOne
Live Gamer, which claims to be the world’s first combined digital commerce and advertising platform for the interactive entertainment industry, has added PaymentOne’s white-label mobile payment service to its platform, in order to expand its mobile payment options.
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Whitehall hopes to shave 'conservative' £100m off PC bill
The government expects to cut at least £100m off its annual personal computing bill under an HMRC led standardisation program. The savings are expected in procurement, services and management, as departments eliminate waste, duplication and overspend, HM Revenue and Customs' Nigel Green told the Government ICT Conference in London on Tuesday.
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