Ofcom proposes wireless cameras to use 2.6GHz band for the London Olympics

Filed Under (Euro Tech News) by Admin on 23-08-2010

Ofcom the super regulator is holding a consultation on utilising the 2.6GHz band for use by wireless cameras for the 2012 London Olympics. The full consultation may be seen here.

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It’s all go for 2.6GHz spectrum auctions (next year)

Filed Under (Euro Tech News) by Admin on 29-07-2010

At least the UK Government and Ofcom have made up their minds (and fought of legal battles) and announced that the 2.6GHz chunk of spectrum (all 190MHz of it) will be auctioned at the end of 2011.

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New 116 Numbers go live in the UK

Filed Under (Euro Tech News) by Admin on 29-07-2010

Ofcom has announced that it is making two numbers in the 116 range live which are pan-European numbers.

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Don’t try and recycle that stolen phone anymore!

Filed Under (Euro Tech News) by Admin on 27-07-2010

In the UK each of the mobile operators maintain a list of stolen phones and that’s shared between all the operators and is disseminated within 48 hours of the phone being reported stolen.

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BT rejects GPRS for meter reading

Filed Under (Euro Tech News) by Admin on 22-07-2010

BT has plans to build a system that will allow companies to wirelessly read meters in tune with government recommendations.

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The night of 1000 flowers

Filed Under (Euro Tech News) by Admin on 14-07-2010

Last night was the inaugural Flowery Tweetup organised by Stewart Townsend and Stuart Witts and kindly sponsored by Blaqua (a fine purveyor of floral attire). Music came from the Bikini Beach Band who provided various musical numbers ranging from The Beach Boys to Madness and back through New Order.

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Google makes developing Android apps easy-as-pie

Filed Under (Euro Tech News) by Admin on 13-07-2010

Google has made available App Inventor for Android that allows anyone to develop an Android application with minimal programming (if any) knowledge.

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New Storage service to compete with Amazon S3?

Filed Under (Euro Tech News) by Admin on 12-07-2010

A new service has been announced called S4 or Super Simple Storage Service which promises to undercut Amazon S3 and other storage services by magnitudes. It’s not clear what back-end S4 are using, but they are providing various interfaces to their system including direct web upload, http get and put methods and a SOAP and REST API for write-only access.

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Apple still leading the smartphone market

Filed Under (Euro Tech News) by Admin on 01-07-2010

Apple managed to get 1.7m iPhone 4’s out the door on launch, that’s pretty impressive for any phone let alone one that costs 499 or 599 for the 16GB or 32GB versions respectively (admittedly unlocked versions). It’s even more impressive considering it took them 3 days to sell 1m 3GS phones in 2009, while the original iPhone took 72 days to sell 1m units.

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Freedom4 gets sold to UK BroadbandFreedom4 was one of the two operators in the UK with licensed spectrum that were trying to operate a WiMAX network who were sold to the second operator UK Broadband (a subsidiary of PCCW which is owned by Hong Kong Telecom) for £12.5m. The sale came about as Freedom4 was involved in a reverse takeover of Vialtus which later became part of Daisy Telecom, but WiMAX was not part of Daisy’s core business.

Filed Under (Euro Tech News) by Admin on 19-06-2010

Freedom4 was one of the two operators in the UK with licensed spectrum that were trying to operate a WiMAX network who were sold to the second operator UK Broadband (a subsidiary of PCCW which is owned by Hong Kong Telecom) for 12.5m. The sale came about as Freedom4 was involved in a reverse takeover of Vialtus which later became part of Daisy Telecom, but WiMAX was not part of Daisy’s core business.

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