U.K. Police Sign $4B Digital Radio Deal with BT
Police officers across the U.K. are to be linked by a single nationwide wireless digital voice and data network, which will replace a patchwork of aging analog systems in use by local police forces.
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Cisco, Devoteam work European ASP market together
Cisco Systems has struck a deal with French consulting firm Devoteam to support its equipment in the European carrier and application service provider market.
Boutons les Anglais hors de France!
Boutons les Anglais hors de France! (Boot the English out of France!)
Production Costs Bite Into Bluetooth Viability
Bluetooth, originally conceived as a cheap, wireless way to link mobile phones to laptops, is finding new applications.
France Télécom Reports Rising Earnings
France's incumbent telecommunications provider today reported a net income of 2.77 billion euros (US$2.67 billion) for 1999, up 20.4 percent on the previous year.
Alcatel Personalizes Vibrating Phone Alerts
Users of Alcatel SA's mobile phones will soon be able to get more intimate with their GSM (global system for mobile communications) handsets thanks to a personalized vibrating alarm device, announced by the French telecommunications company here yesterday.
Alcatel Believes WAP Is for Everyone
Alcatel SA is putting its bets on predictive text input and "WAP (wireless application protocol) for all" to give it an edge in Europe's red-hot mobile phone market.
HiperLAN2 Wireless Networking Gathers Support
Network interface manufacturer Xircom Inc. has added its support to a wireless LAN technology designed to provide high-speed connectivity for next generation wireless communications.
StorageTek Tape Goes Native in Fibre Channel
Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek) stuck firmly to its new strategic direction with a batch of product launches today, but would not give any indication of the future for its older products.
Germany, U.K., China to Buy Lucent 10G-bit Kit
Lucent Technologies Inc. is to supply a 10G-bps (gigabits per second) nationwide fiber-optic backbone network to German carrier Deutsche Telekom AG in a three year contract that the company said will be worth several hundred million marks, or at least US$100 million.
Symbian Communicator Phones Could Ship This Year
Symbian Ltd. today demonstrated Web-browser, e-mail and contact management software for next-generation mobile phones -- and predicted that products based on the software could be on the market before the end of this year.
Nokia Adds Avenue, Private Road to Digital Highway
Mobile phone users and VPN (virtual private network) users are two of the groups to which Nokia Corp. hopes to offer cheaper, safer access to the Internet with a variety of new IP (internet protocol) networking products launched here at the CeBIT exhibition in Hanover today.
France Télécom to Bid for Turkish Mobile License
France Télécom SA will be one of the bidders for a license to operate a new mobile phone network in Turkey, the company announced today.
Bull to Bundle Red Hat Linux, Services
It's not a red cape, but Red Hat, which has prompted Groupe Bull SA to charge headlong into the Linux server arena. From next week, Bull will offer its Express5800 servers preconfigured with either Microsoft's Windows NT or Red Hat Linux 6.1.
Bull Shares Rise, Despite Posting Loss for '99
Despite announcing late yesterday a net loss of 288 million euros (US$284 million) in 1999, French information systems company Groupe Bull SA saw its share price rise quickly to the upper trading limit on the Paris Bourse today as the company promised a return to profitability soon.