David Willetts: UK could be 'world leader' in 5G
Universities and Science Minister David Willetts has suggested that the UK could regain its lead in mobile telephony with the development of new 5G technologies.
Universities and Science Minister David Willetts has suggested that the UK could regain its lead in mobile telephony with the development of new 5G technologies.
The National Audit Office (NAO) is to investigate the government's rural broadband programme, after the procurement arrangements were criticised for providing BT with a cash cow.
Samsung has built several different Galaxy S4 smartphones, including a U.S. version running a Snapdragon processor that requires an extra image processor to enable heavily promoted user functions such as eye-movement recognition.
Hampshire County Council is the latest body to award BT a government cash-sponsored rural broadband deal, this time seeing £10 million going into BT's coffers.
After winning every single government-funded rural broadband deal so far, BT now has an open field to win the rest after Fujitsu pulled out of future bidding.
Fujitsu, Datacom and Gen-i have been appointed to a panel to provide IT managed services for government agencies and the first to take up a contract under the arrangement is the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).
A major problem on the Post Office's Horizon IT system - built by Fujitsu - floored transactions for two 30 minute periods yesterday, as tens of thousands of customers queued in branches to send their Christmas parcels.
Fujitsu has added data encryption to its <a href="http://news.techworld.com/mobile-wireless/3262036/fujitsu-will-soon-launch-windows-7-business-tablet/">Stylistic Q550 slate PC</a>, creating what the company believes is the first tablet computer suitable for secure use for government and public sector use.
Fujitsu has announced a free trial programme for its cloud offering, aimed at Australian and New Zealand independent software vendors and small to medium enterprises.
Jo Healey has been appointed managing director of Fujitsu New Zealand, following five years with the company, most recently as sales general manager.
Fujitsu is preparing to take the Department of Health (DH) to court over a £700 million dispute related to the NHS's controversial £12 billion National Programme for IT (NPfIT).
There is a potential "digital disconnect" between local authorities and older people as authorities race to provide council services online, according to a <a href="http://www.fujitsu.com/downloads/EU/uk/pdf/research/age-report-exec-summary.pdf">report</a>.
A new supercomputer from Japan whose performance passed the 8 petaflop milestone ended China's brief period atop the list of the world's fastest supercomputers.
Oracle logged a small milestone in its Sun acquisition during the first quarter, expanding sales of Sun's server hardware for the first time in three-and-a-half years, IDC reported Tuesday.
President Obama has insisted the US government will invest aggressively in rolling out broadband, in spite of major spending cuts in other areas aimed at cutting $4 trillion from the country's deficit over 12 years.