UK mobile phone operator, Vodafone, which has lucrative mobile communication contracts with British Gas and Eastern Electricity, was unable to comment on the new technology. The service aims to attract customers who need to get information quickly...
Severn Trent claims to be the first UK utility to offer a complete services package of water, gas, electricity and telephony. It has been suggested that residential customers could save up to 25 per cent on their telephone bills.
IBM's concept of autonomy consists of many different components, such as the pervasive computing model which sees high-speed access anywhere at anytime and grid computing, which aims to treat computing power like an electrical utility network and...
Multi protocol label switching, sexily tagged MPLS, is the juvenile standard being developed to give service providers better control over networks. There are three main functions of MPLS, quality of service, traffic engineering - which includes a...
In a survey of 34 corporations, IDC found IBM and Hewlett-Packard were among the top choices for providing utility computing, a budding approach to hardware and software needs that treats IT as a service much like electricity or water.
She said: "In developing markets such as China, India, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand…broadband services remain too expensive for the majority of internet users, and often are simply not available outside major residential cities and towns.