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iZettle to bring mobile payments to UK
16 May 2012European counterpart to Square will ship 3,000 iOS-compatible Chip and signature card readers to UK for invitation-only trial
- O2 outsources core network management to Huawei 14 May 2012
- O2's data growth fails to counteract voice decline
11 May 2012 - Cisco warns of cautious enterprise IT spending
10 May 2012
IT Case Studies
Skype calls on the community for customer support
16 April 2012
Internet telephony company taps its online community to provide customer support and product feedback
- US insurer Chubb's marketing-driven app play 27 March 2012
- BT preps customer-facing app with in-house deployment 26 March 2012
- Carrentals.co.uk builds experimental app to test mobile waters
23 March 2012
Perspectives & Trends
Android extends smartphone market-share lead over iOS
17 May 2012
Google's mobile operating system accounted for 56% of the smartphone market in the first quarter of this year, Gartner finds, more than double Apple's 23% share
- Android's tablet market share in decline
3 May 2012 - Consumerisation to create £2bn opportunity for UK IT sector
19 April 2012 - RIM's smartphone market share drops below 10% 17 February 2012
Features
Are the days of credit cards numbered?
18 April 2012
Mobile payment technologies are in development that could replace not only cash but plastic cards too
- Five mobile app development success stories
27 March 2012 - Connected business
14 February 2012 - Handling mobility 17 January 2012
Company Analysis
Fusion-io promises to end the mainframe era of storage
19 April 2012Flash memory server device maker says decoupling storage performance from storage capacity with end the era of proprietary systems
- Brocade claims headstart in Ethernet fabric "goldrush" 13 April 2012
- IBM, Cisco and the business of smart cities 23 February 2012
- Pachube opens the Internet of things to end users 9 December 2011
| Company | Period | Revenue ($m) | Rev Change (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colt Telecom Group Ltd | 4Q08 | $572.9 | 1% |
| Juniper Networks Inc | 4Q08 | $923.5 | 14% |
| Nortel Networks Corp | 4Q08 | $2,722.0 | -15% |
| Sycamore Networks Inc | 1Q09 | $15.4 | -59% |
| Riverbed Technology Inc | 3Q08 | $86.5 | 37% |
| Riverbed Technology Inc | 4Q08 | $92.2 | 21% |
* Figures converted to US dollars
More Financial Results in Comms & Networking| Acquirer | Target | Price ($m) |
|---|---|---|
| Ixia | Catapult Communications | $105m |
| Carphone Warehouse | Tiscali's UK ops | n/a |
| Cisco Systems | Tidal Software | $105m |
| Cisco Systems | Pure Digital | $ 590m |
| Radware | Nortel's Appln Delivery div | n/a |
| i3 Group | Fibre Associates | n/a |
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