David Meyer

Recent Articles by David Meyer

August 7, 2009

Business PC Sales Fall 25% in Britain

UK sales of professional desktop and mobile PCs fell in the second quarter by more than 25 per cent compared with the same period last year, according to analysts at ...

August 5, 2009

U.K. Wants Faster Mobile Number Switching

Ofcom has published new proposals for speeding up number-porting times—the time it takes a mobile-phone user to transfer their phone number from one operator to ...

August 3, 2009

Skype Scrambles to Swap Disputed Code

Skype is trying to develop new peer-to-peer technology to replace the code it currently uses, due to an ongoing legal battle with the founders of the popular internet ...

July 29, 2009

Europe Opens More Spectrum for 3G Mobile

Europe has approved the use of 3G services over spectrum currently reserved for 2G. The move should let operators use spectrum they already own to run mobile broadband...

July 21, 2009

Accenture Buys Symbian Services Unit

The consulting firm Accenture (ACN) is to buy the professional services wing of Symbian, the Nokia-owned mobile operating system company. Symbian Professional Services...

July 20, 2009

E-Mail Is Biggest Mobile Resource Hog

E-mail puts a much heavier load on 3G networks than Web surfing or peer-to-peer applications, according to Alcatel-Lucent (ALU)'s research wing, Bell Laboratories. ...

July 13, 2009

U.K. Teen Piracy Down as Streaming Soars

Illegal file-sharing in the UK has fallen dramatically, according to media and technology researchers at Music Ally. The analyst firm published a study on Monday that ...

July 10, 2009

Europe Needs Its Own Digital Clouds

European clouds should be set up within the next five years to encourage small business take-up of on-demand IT services, the European commissioner for telecoms and ...

July 8, 2009

O2 Snags U.K. Palm Pre Exclusive

O2 will be the exclusive carrier of the Palm (PALM) Pre in the UK, it announced on Tuesday. The operator already has UK exclusivity for the Apple (AAPL) iPhone. It is ...

June 22, 2009

BT Moves into the Cloud

BT (BT) is about to formally launch a virtualised infrastructure service called BT Virtual Data Centre, which will form the basis of its cloud-computing strategy. VDC ...