Two wireless technology companies have signed a reselling agreement to supply Canada's oil and gas industry with wireless data services. The partners have already signed up with an unnamed Canadian oil and gas producer for a trial installation of...
The company is now banking on its recent £18bn purchase of gas pipeline company Lattice to boost its revenue and fund further expansion plans. The National Grid has posted a second half loss after writing down its investments in telecoms companies...
So one could be really fooled by the level of pipeline activity going on. There seems to be a lot of proof of concept stuff going on, lots of excitement about the new products but nobody is writing the cheques.
Other developments that Pride says are in the pipeline, or at least in her thoughts, include the use of digital television technologies as well as the VoIP handsets to deliver information more effectively to customers, such as room service menus...
At one time, I worked on a project that provided real time monitoring for an overland pipeline carrying natural gas liquids. The result was a short term boost to profits and a long term decline in the quality of the rail network.
However, he said that terrorists were unlikely to hack through five firewalls when putting explosives on a gas pipeline would "get the point made" more effectively. Art Wong, senior vice president of managed security services for Symantec, said he...