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Changing the barrels

Pub and restaurant operator Mitchells & Butlers recently switched its data centre and network outsourcing supplier to achieve more scalable, outcome-based IT services

Speechly Bircham extends network to support global growth

How the UK law firm extended its network infrastructure to support new offices in Switzerland and Luxembourg

Rebooting Psion

The UK handset-maker has implemented a social community website to support its partner-focused reinvention

Perform Group uses multiple CDNs to keep sport online

How the world's largest provider of streaming sport video uses a multi-CDN strategy to guarantee content delivery

Groupon's call centre in the cloud

The fast-growing group discount company uses a hosted IP telephony service to prioritise customer calls according to urgency

Comms in conflict

Afghanistan’s largest telco says its mobile services are laying the foundation for a prosperous future

Putting the iPad to work 

How one furniture retailer has found a business use case for Apple's tablet device

Thomson Reuters builds peer-to-peer network for traders

Financial data provider has developed a distributed networking fabric to reduce latency and promote information sharing

Video plus collaboration boosts Tesco's world domination

How a combination of video conferencing and online collaboration is helping Tesco conquer the world

College overcomes mobile blackspot with voice-over-WLAN

When an architectural oversight blocked all mobile communications at Hertford Regional College’s new facilities, it decided to route mobile calls over its wireless LAN 

A fledgling WAN

Ethernet-based wide area networks are gaining acceptance, trading on a promise of simplicity, lower cost and ultra-low latency. Early adopter, law firm Bird & Bird, put the nascent technology on trial

Law in the home

NetworkLaw uses remote desktop technology to cut the cost of doing business

RBS launches mobile payment trial

The mobile payment trial will last through to the end of December, leading into a public trial in 2008.

Scottish Power’s network make-over

IP communications speeds engineers to troublespots.

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