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Truphone: BlackBerry users can save 50 percent
The proposition is extremely compelling, particularly in this economic climate, said Truphone's chief executive Geraldine Wilson. Companies are keen to cut costs but find that an increasingly mobile and global workforce need to make international calls from mobile devices as a part of day-to-day business. [...] International calls made over Wi-Fi offer companies a way to cut costs. [...] Companies only pay for the local rate call to Truphone and the international leg of the call, at fixed line rates, said Truphone. [...]
EC Slams ‘Ridiculous’ European Roaming
Roaming has been a target of the EC's wrath for several years, as telecoms companies are charging extra, when providing international calls does not cost them significantly more than national ones. In June last year, EC introduced rules on roaming designed to cut call costs cut by up to 60 percent. [...] The EC commissioner said she is working hard to address the issue of mobile roaming, and hopes to have made some progress on the issue in 2011. As you know I am working on that issue very seriously and am confident that a structural solution will be presented next year, said Kroes. [...] The next step in creating a more comprehensive market for digital services in Europe is the publication of a study next year on the cost of a non-European telecoms market, which will be Kroes will combine an ICT-competitiveness report. [...]
Microsoft Office Coming To iPhone And The Web?
With the recession, he said, Microsoft is taking a lot of heat from financial market analysts, who say the company should boost profitability in part by slashing research and development costs. He noted that Microsoft spent about $9 billion in research and development and is resisting the calls for cutbacks. [...] You are here. Home News Mobile & Wireless Microsoft Office Coming To iPhone And The Web. [...] Categories. Mobile & Wireless, Solutions & Apps. [...]
Tech Companies Offer Aid To Haiti
Help Organisations Mobile / Users Country People / Tech Companies Support st. [...] Tech Companies Offer Aid To Haiti. [...] Tech Companies Offer Aid To Haiti. eWEEK Europe UK. [...]
Report Points To Growing Importance Of Virtual Desktops
VMware and Citrix Systems have been Nos. 1 and 2 in the VDI market for the past several years, according to IT research companies Gartner, IDC, The 451 Group and Forrester. [...] NComputing offers a performance-based, hardwired VDI that it says is ideal for classrooms of up to 30 users. [...] New companies such as Kaviza, NComputing and Parallels offer lower-cost VDI alternatives for small and midsize businesses, while market leaders Hewlett-Packard, VMware and Citrix aim for larger enterprises. Kaviza provides built-in high availability, does not require shared storage and is a turnkey deployment. [...]
Skype To Offer iPhone Users VoIP Calls Via 3G
We want to give you as much feedback as possible about what's actually going on with your call, David Ponsford, who leads the Skype for iPhone team, said in a video on the company's site. [...] Skype, for its part, says it's waiting until it can offer the very best audio quality we can. When our 3G-capable Skype for iPhone app is released, it'll let you make calls in wideband audio, giving you greater clarity and fidelity. [...] The same day, iCall, a privately held VoIP company, which declined to confirm to eWEEK whether or not it is owned by Apple, announced the release of an iCall app that allows VoIP calls over cellular networks. [...]
Microsoft Takes Teachers To Brazil
Amid calls from local authorities to use open source software and cut costs, Microsoft is holding a teachers' conference in Brazil. [...] Open source advocates claim Microsoft's offerings add to the financial woes of struggling economies which spend millions on licences when cheaper alternative exist. [...]
Sun Shows Off Cloud Platform
Networking Products Offer / Companies Windows Applications / Internet Legal Companies st. [...] The Sun Cloud displayed other functionality, much of it now integrated with existing Sun applications. For example, Sun OpenOffice will offer the ability, via the File menu, to Save To Cloud and Open From Cloud. [...]
Microsoft Releases Linux Device Driver Code
Sam Ramji, senior director of Platform Strategy in Microsoft's Server and Tools organization, said part of Microsoft's motivation behind this move is to help companies cope with the current economic climate, which calls for increased heterogeneity. [...] This was often misunderstood&mdash.we were criticized for it&mdash.but both companies stuck to our guns because the customer need was the overarching consideration. . [...]
Neon Complains To EC About IBM’s Business Practices
The complaint would add to the growing list of allegations leveled by companies such as Neon that offer products they say will help IBM mainframe users save millions of dollars. [...] The 10-year-old French company has between 5,000 and 10,000 users, according to TurboHercules officials. [...]
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