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A new smartphone and mobile operating system is due to be launched at the end of 2013, which has been developed by a team of former Nokia employees. The ‘Jolla’, will run a custom operating system known as Sailfish , which is a leftover of MeeGo, an abandoned project of Nokia’s which the company ... 

Video conferencing is becoming increasingly popular with enterprises at the moment, as internet speeds get faster and technology enables a better experience than ever before. However, over the course of the past year numerous reports have sprung up questioning the security of video conferencing. ... 

The popular Blackberry Messenger (BBM) app will be offered as a download to run on devices running iOS and Android in the summer. It’s thought that initially, the app will offer texts, MMS and group sharing, with further services such as voice and video calling to be rolled out at a later date. T ... 

Samsung has announced that it has "has successfully developed the world’s first adaptive array transceiver technology operating in the millimeter-wave Ka bands for cellular communications,” which is at the "core” of 5G technology. The technology, said to potentially offer speeds of up to "several ... 

Business video devices will spike in 2013, as more businesses of all sizes are warming to the idea that video conferencing can be used as a communications tool in the enterprise, both effectively and efficiently. According to ITProPortal, a recent Canalys UC Market report, this has to some extent ... 

A UN Agency has predicted that by the end of 2014, there will be more mobile subscriptions in the world than people. According to the International Telecoms Union , subscriptions will exceed seven billion by the end of next year and it was also found that more than a third of the worldwide popula ... 

In a recent interview with CNBC, Microsoft founder Bill Gates is reported to have said that iPad users are frustrated by the lack of Microsoft Office and the ability to type, even if they don’t know it. This means that it’s only a matter of time before Surface and hybrids take the tablet market. ... 

The latest data from IDC shows that worldwide tablet sales continue to boom, growing 142.4% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2013. According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker , tablet shipments totalled 49.2m units in the first quarter of the year, more than doubling the amount sold ... 

Approximately half of the world’s companies will require employees to participate in a BYOD scheme by 2017, with businesses no longer supplying devices to workers, analysts at Gartner have predicted. A global survey of CIOs by Gartner’s Executive Programs found that by 2016, 38% of companies said ... 

A special report from analyst house Gartner predicts that by 2016, 40% of mobile app development projects will leverage backend cloud services. This could cause development leaders to "lose control of the pace and path of cloud adoption within their enterprises,” Gartner say. Cloud back-end serv ... 

The telecommunications trade association representing former state owned operators have said that an overhaul of the regulatory environment for the industry in the EU must move quicker. The trade association, known as ETNO, said on Thursday that an overhaul of current regulations should take pla ... 

Telecom regulators Ofcom has announced today that the UK broadband market has reached a new milestone in the level of competition, with ‘unbundled’ lines using BT’s copper network reaching 9 million. Superfast broadband, which uses fibre optic cables to the cabinet is also beginning to see compet ... 

Microsoft Lync is a high priority target requirement for CIOs this year, according to David Maloney of Ovum research. According to the Ovum report , 45% of enterprises say that they are planning to extend deployment of Lync services in 2013. Whilst results are said to have been mixed so far, this ... 

Whilst new research from Cisco indicates that video accounted for more than half of mobile traffic last year, according to a report from TechCrunch, people are still missing out on "tremendous opportunities to make money”. This is because, at the moment, "the mobile landscape is too fragmented an ... 

Following the decision of Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer in February that remote workers should relocate to offices or leave, a debate has been raging about the issue and if she is right in saying that telecommuting cuts into worker’s productivity. A large part of the problem seems to be that, whilst ... 

Microsoft has made a start on integrating Lync 2013 with Skype, according to multiple user reports doing the rounds on social networks and The Next Web news site. The company announced in February that it was to link the two services sometime before June 2013 so it would seem that Microsoft are ... 

According to the latest research from analysts at research firm Gartner, hybrid apps will be used in over 50% of mobile devices by 2016. This is due to the growing use of HTML5-based web apps which unlike native apps, do not have to use multiple versions of an app for different devices. However, ... 

Analysts have expressed doubt over whether BlackBerry will be able to regain a foothold in the smartphone market, following a drop of 7.8% in the company’s shares on Thursday. Whilst the stock reached a 52-week high in January, it’s since lost around a quarter of its overall value. BlackBerry's lat ... 

Worldwide PC sales have declined at the steepest rate in one quarter ever, with sales figures 13.9% down on this time last year and worse than the expected decline forecast of -7.7%. The first quarter of 2013 saw a total figure of 73.6m units shipped according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly PC Trac ... 

The uptake of unified communications and collaboration (UCC) is on the increase, as IT decision makers in large organisations take up the technology as part of a strategic business opportunity. However, whilst it’s thought that spending will increase to US$ 53m within the next two years, this coul ... 

Forrester Research’s CEO and chairman of the board has speculated in his blog that the next iPhone from Apple could be a foldable device. George Colony says that Apple are bound to be racing to make something special when it comes to the iPhone 6, which isn’t due out for another 15 months, if the ... 

The latest forecast from Gartner predicts that sales of worldwide devices are set to grow by 9% this year, although this will include a significant change in the mix of devices as PC sales continue to decline. 2013 will see 2.4 billion units being shipped and this expected to continue growing thr ... 

According to Atix, global leaders in mobileRAN analytics and optimisation, just 30% of smartphone data sessions are actually started by users, with most failed data sessions happening without the user’s knowledge. This, Atix say, is creating a strain on networks as the demand for an always on con ... 

The latest complaints data on broadband and Pay TV has been released by regulators Ofcom today for the period between October and December last year. According to Ofcom, complaints continued to fall in that period, for the sixth consecutive quarter. However, whilst complaints regarding landline t ... 

A recent survey from CommScope has found that the increase in the take up of mobile devices and cloud services are the top "game changers” in IT at the moment, with many IT managers struggling to keep pace with demand. According to the CommScope  study, almost three-fourths of those asked sa ... 

Whilst larger phones, or ‘phablets’ are rising in popularity with companies such as Samsung and HTC both recently launching devices with 5-inch or bigger screens, an analyst at research firm Gartner has said that phablets are "unlikely to woo [the] majority of global consumers.” CK Lu, the senior ... 

The Samsung Galaxy S4 launched in New York late last week to show off a host of new features such as eye tracking, but analysts say that the "marketing drive” is "more potent than the device itself,” Total Telecoms reports. The S4 has been hotly anticipated by the industry and consumers alike and h ... 

The consumerisation of IT continues to grow as the latest study from analysts at Gartner has proved. The research has found that household adoption of technology products, which are favouring gadgets and mobile services and those that offer networking capabilities, is shifting faster than expected ... 

New research from telecommunications regulator Ofcom has found that broadband speeds in the UK have more than trebled over the last four years, with average speeds across the country now hitting 12 Mbps. The study tested 643m connections in November of last year, on more than 2000 homes and looked ... 

A recent report from analysts at Forrester Research has predicted that tablet ownership in Western Europe will quadruple in the next five years. The percentage of consumers who access the internet and own a tablet will rise from the 2012 figure of 14% to 55% by 2017, the report found. The paper is ... 

Telecommunications regulator Ofcom has today released a report for the government on how the UK’s fixed broadband coverage, take-up, usage and price compares to the rest of Europe. The report concentrates its findings on the EU’s five leading economies: France, Germany, Italy and Spain and the UK, ... 

A report from Total Telecoms has welcomed the introduction of Mozilla’s new Firefox mobile operating system, saying that it will help the mobile market to break the stranglehold that just a few companies have on the sector. Mozilla unveiled its new OS on Sunday at this year’s Mobile World Congress ... 

Following the successful launch of a smartphone chip and pin reader in the US, online payments firm Paypal have decided to take the technology into Europe next. Whilst the company haven’t as yet confirmed which parts of Europe will be the first to get the new device, designed to make taking payment ... 

A new report from The Insight Research Corporation notes that whilst the telecoms industry was "not immune” to economic forces last year, the market will continue to show growth at a rate of 3.8%, on average, until 2018. New market analysis report The 2013 Telecommunications Industry Review: An Ant ... 

The 4th annual Housing Technology conference and executive forum began today with a keynote speech given by World Cup winner and Team GB's Director of Sport for the London Olympics, Sir Clive Woodward OBE. Sir Clive was expected to demonstrate how social housing providers can learn from the world o ... 

A report from Total Telecom says that the lucrative SMB market is essential for mobile growth, which has seen a global decline in voice calls and SMS messages. According to Sigma Systems, which provisions converged network solutions, "mobile operators must adjust their stance towards the increasin ... 

Research analysts at Gartner have predicted that the evolution from personal computer to cloud will drive "invisible, sensor-enabled devices driven by applications and services”. The changes to consumer’s digital lives have already seen a huge transition from PC to personal cloud and it’s this, Gar ... 

Mobile phone sales declined by 1.7% in 2012, for the first time since 2009, according to analysts at Gartner. However, the sale of smartphones increased by 38.3% in the fourth quarter of 2012, compared to the same period in 2011, totalling 207.7 million units overall. Smartphones continue to drive ... 

Mobile network Three has said that it does not intend to charge customers extra to upgrade from 3G to 4G when it gets access to the new Spectrum later on this year. The move comes as a surprise to many and is said to fly in the face of the current pricing strategy being considered by all of the oth ... 

BT has announced that it is to make all but its cheapest products truly unlimited with no restrictions on speeds to be made even at peak times. The move is intended to allow customers better streaming, gaming and using "other bandwidth-eating applications” without going over their download limits o ... 

The 4G spectrum auction has begun accepting bids from seven interested networks competing to acquire the new airwaves necessary to provide the new, superfast mobile broadband technology. Ofcom has announced that bidders include: EE Ltd, HKT (UK), 3G UK, MLL Telecom Ltd, Niche Spectrum Ventures Ltd ... 

The latest analysis from IDC has revealed that worldwide PC shipments even lower than expected in the final quarter of 2012, down by 6.4% on the previous year. In total, 89.8 million units were shipped worldwide in the final quarter, which is worse than the forecast decline, which was 4.4%. Sales ... 

Apple announced yesterday that their customers have now downloaded more than 40 billion apps from its store, including re-downloads and updates, and had a record-breaking December, with customers downloading over 2bn apps in that month alone. Indeed, at the App Store , the firm had a great 2012, wi ... 

Gartner has revised its forecast for worldwide IT spending in 2013 due to "projected gains in the value of foreign currencies versus the dollar”. Overall, IT spending is projected to reach a total of around $3.7tn this year, which represents a 4.2% growth rate on spending in 2012, which reached $3. ... 

Microsoft has said that Google continue to carry out bad business practice, despite the scrutiny of "antitrust investigations”, as they are refusing Windows Phone owners the opportunity to use YouTube as an app on the Microsoft Platform. According to Dave Heiner , Vice President and Deputy General ... 

The digital sales market surpassed one billion pounds in the UK last year for the first time and is expected to grow further this year as physical sales of film, music and games will continue to fall, according to analysts. The Entertainment Retailer’s Association (ERA), the trade association for ... 

Ofcom has announced the companies who will be allowed to put in bids for 4G services in the upcoming 4G spectrum auction. The auction, which is the largest sale of mobile airwaves ever in the UK, will allow the following companies to bid for a part of the spectrum: EE (UK); HKT (UK) Limited; 3G; ML ... 

Ofcom’s latest telecoms and TV report on complaints data has revealed that Orange has been the most complained about provider between July and September 2012. Ofcom’s seventh quarterly report, publishes the latest data concerning the most and least complained about major telecoms and pay TV compani ... 

Internet name regulator Icann is to decide today which order it will use to organise applications for new suffixes today; in a raffle for new top-level domains (gTLDs). The raffle will take place later on today and is expected to last around 6 hours. 1,930 applications  have been received by ... 

Consumers in the UK are ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to online shopping, an Ofcom survey has revealed. This has been driven in part by the smartphone and tablet explosion which sees consumers shopping wherever they are. The report also showed that the UK is embracing connected TV de ... 

Ofcom has confirmed that applications have been opened for mobile operators to put in bids for the 4G auction, the largest ever sell-off of the mobile spectrum in the UK. The bidding process only had a short window into which to submit their applications, between 10:00am and 16:00pm yesterday, pote ... 

A meeting held on Wednesday afternoon to discuss the future of the internet was interrupted by hackers, who managed to knock some of the ITU’s websites offline. The UN's World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) meeting, currently ongoing in Dubai, is discussing the possibility of ... 

Despite the growing popularity of flexible working, only 60% of UK businesses offer flexible working arrangements to their staff, despite one in four office workers wanting the chance to work around family commitments and from home. However, according to an independent study commissioned recently ... 

New research from IDC, commissioned by the EU, has found that creating policies that take away barriers to cloud adoption would increase spending in the public cloud to around €77.7bn by 2020, currently worth around €35.2bn. At the moment, IDC found that obstacles to cloud adoption incl ... 

Whilst web-based conferencing is nothing new, a trend we’re likely to see in 2013 is the rise in video collaboration in the workplace. Telecommuting is increasing in popularity and not suprisingly web/cloud-based web meetings are increasingly being adopted as costs lower a ... 

The UK remains one of the top countries in Europe for selling online, according to recent reports. Sales online accounted for 19% of the Annual Business Survey for (ABS) in 2011, up 1% the previous year, according to the office for statistics. ONS's report on E-commerce and ICT activity in 2011 sai ... 

New technologies announced by Polycom and Cisco could push the videoconferencing market out of its current stagnation, reports suggest. The former made an announcement in October which Polycom’s CEO Andy Miller called the "most important day in Polycom history". Cisco also announced improvements ... 

Microsoft have revealed that they are to release their Windows Pro version of the Surface tablet in January at a price of £560 for the basic Intel-based version of the tablet. Unlike the Windows RT tablet, users will be able to use third-party software on the device such as Photoshop. The che ... 

Nobody could have failed to notice the explosion in tablet devices this year, whilst Apple’s iPad remains the market leader at the moment, Kindle Fire, Surface and Nexus are all snapping at Apple’s heels attempting to knock them off their perch. According to new research from Forrester , since t ... 

Windows 8 has finally reached 20,000 apps in its store, the majority of them free; however, reports suggest that the new OS from Microsoft is struggling to make the same impact than previous versions of Windows, especially W7. A survey of UK internet users has found that only 39% are intending to u ... 

Competition in the Video-as-as-a-Service (VaaS) market has increased as vendors have realised that not all enterprises can afford their top-end videoconferencing solutions and so have introduced desktop and mobile solutions – Video-as-a-Service – on a pay monthly basis. "I wouldn't say it's about ... 

Ofcom has announced that it has moved "a step closer” towards the launch of consumer ‘white space’ devices to allow the technology to be used in the UK. White space devices use gaps in the radio spectrum, aptly named ‘white space’ "which exist in between frequency bands that have been reserved for ... 

Whilst videoconferencing is set to be the next big thing as faster connections and more collaboration takes place, market leaders Cisco, who in Q2 last year held a 49.3% market share, have reported a loss in revenue, despite increasing interest from enterprises. This is due, it has been reported, t ... 

The EU has approved the UK’s plans to roll out broadband to rural areas as part of a state-aided project. This means that councils can start to lay cable that will bring superfast speeds, although many are yet to choose a provider for the service. Whilst the EU have been dragging their feet on the ... 

Cisco yesterday announced their intention to expand existing cloud to solutions by acquiring Meraki Inc., a San Francisco-based leading cloud provider. Meraki has offices in New York, London and Mexico and "offers midmarket customers easy-to-deploy on-premise networking solutions that can be centra ... 

Ofcom has released plans to ensure that the growing use of mobile doesn’t reach "capacity crunch” to protect the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) spectrum. The plans include enabling the release of new airwaves for future generations to help keep up with demand. As well as publishing their tact ... 

Leading chip makers Intel and telecommunications firm Qualcomm are carrying out talks to invest in ailing Japanese electronics firm, Sharp Corp. Whilst details of the discussions have not yet been released, it’s thought that the two firms may jointly invest around 30bn yen ($378mn). Sharp produces ... 

Ofcom has published a final timetable for selling off the 4G mobile spectrum in an auction set to take place on the 11 December. The rules and regulations, which have been put in place ahead of the auction, set out in detail the application process (for network providers), through to bidding and th ... 

Amazon Web Services are to be integrated into the G-Cloud government cloud framework as a supplier for use by civil servants. Whilst the online retailer almost missed the second cut-off date for inclusion into the catalogue, this was due to timing, according to G-Cloud programme director Denise McD ... 

Scientists at Bangor University in North Wales are working on a three-year project dubbed ‘Ocean’ in order to see if they can create broadband speeds of up to 2000 times faster than those today, using existing fibre optic cables. So far the researchers have managed to cram 20GB of data per second d ... 

The launch of Microsoft’s low-end tablet, ARM-based Surface RT has raised concerns as its inability to allow users to install third-party software from anywhere but the RT app store (which is relatively sparse right now) makes it "lack in functionality”. Taiwanese manufacturer Acer has delayed the ... 

EE’s 4G launched today in ten cities across the UK and has received mixed reviews from those testing it, most due to reach, rather than speed, which appears to be as impressive in some parts as promised. However, a poll carried out by The Telegraph suggests that many people won’t bother switching u ... 

Microsoft has launched their newest version of the Windows Phone operating system, with handsets going on sale in Europe over the weekend. The phones will be available to the rest of the world during November, in time for the festive season rush. Consumers and businesses alike will have a huge amou ... 

EE has announced its pricing and plans for its new 4G service, which is due to launch on Tuesday 30th October. The firm has also announced plans for its new superfast fibre broadband service and claim that speeds will be "typically ten times faster than today’s standard broadband plans”. EE are the ... 

New research has found that cloud computing bills could be cut as much as 30%, depending on what kind of chip is used in data centre servers. Researchers in Germany and Finland found that some server clusters are 40% faster than others depending on what kind of processor the servers run on. The ana ... 

AOL are to offer a new, cloud-based email service, which was offered on a limited preview yesterday, that automatically sorts inbox content in order to "help combat inbox fatigue”. The new service doesn’t force users to get a new email address as they can use existing accounts. Alto is available by ... 

The 4G row has now been settled and last week we reported that we could see the new mobile broadband service rolling out to some cities at the end of this month, thanks to the existing spectrum owned by EE, who will begin offering the service before the Ofcom auction at the end of the year. Now, Su ... 

A new study from Insight UK has found that opinion is still fiercely divided when it comes to BYOD schemes, with many suggesting that such schemes cause more problems in the workplace than they solve. Insight polled over 200 IT managers and directors in the UK with an average annual tech spend of b ... 

Following yesterday’s meeting with network providers and Maria Miller, Ofcom has announced that the rollout of 4G will come to many UK cities five months earlier than expected. The auction to sell off the spectrum band previously used by terrestrial television will be brought forward to the end of ... 

UK telecoms regulator Ofcom is to meet with mobile operators and Culture Secretary Maria Miller later today, to discuss bringing forward the rollout of 4G services, as well as the possibility of bringing the spectrum auction forward. It’s thought that discussions will include possible plans to have ... 

The Country, Land and Business Association (CLA) has said that it’s unlikely that the UK will have the best superfast broadband network in Europe by its target date of 2015, as around 15-20% of people living in rural areas are still unable to receive speeds of 2Mbps. The CLA has been lobbying for b ... 

The government has announced which UK cities are to get cash for superfast broadband first, with the biggest chunk of the £114m pot going to London, which will receive £25m. The fund, intended to help cities create networks for superfast broadband, has been split and allocated to ten UK ... 

Microsoft has announced that it has opened the doors to developers for app submission ahead of the official release of Windows 8 on October 26th 2012. The company has also added 82 app submission markets so that devs from 120 markets can now make Windows Store apps. The move "more than doubles” the ... 

Telecoms regulator Ofcom has approved new measures to help consumers when they put in a complaint about a company when they are having problems with landline, mobile phone and broadband. Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) schemes act as a "middleman” in the event that no resolution to a complaint ... 

Ofcom has approved mobile operator Everything Everywhere, owned by Orange and T-Mobile, to use the existing 1800MHz spectrum to allow them to offer 4G services. The telecoms regulator carried out a consultation to determine whether "varying EE’s 1800 MHz licences now will deliver significant benef ... 

Concerns that the introduction of 4G will affect short-range devices, such as hearing aids and alarm clocks, have been allayed in a new study by Ofcom which found LTE handsets won’t be powerful enough to produce enough interference. The auction for the 4G spectrum is to begin later on this year, al ... 

New research carried out by telecoms regulatory body Ofcom has revealed that the government initiative to get superfast broadband to every area by 2015 has already resulted in faster speeds for consumers, due to network upgrades that have been carried out across the UK. On average, consumers are no ... 

BBC Sports hit a record high of 55 million visitors during the Olympic Games, accessed from devices all over the world, with a fair majority from the UK at 37 million. During the Games, there were also 106 million requests for online video, compared to 32 million during the Beijing games. BBC Olymp ... 

A new open source operating system, "Webinos”, downloaded by more than 5000 developers, has been designed to provide an alternative to Apple, Microsoft, Google and Mozilla and will have the ability to connect a range of devices, such as car stereos, TVs, mobiles and even heart monitors, so that the ... 

The US is to submit initial proposals to the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) today ahead of the event which is to be held in Dubai in December this year. The conference is being held in order to review and possibly revise the International Telecommunications Regulations ... 

Microsoft has announced that it is to drop popular email service Hotmail for a web-based version of Outlook, in what it calls "a mission to reimagine personal email. Hotmail was first introduced in 1996 and Gmail 8 years following that; Microsoft say that for personal email, not much has changed si ... 

Government plans to roll-out superfast broadband has been criticised by a Lords Peer Committee as focusing too much on speed and not enough on reach. The UK government wants the country to have the best superfast broadband services in Europe by the end of 2015. Currently, the UK does not "have a pl ... 

Leading ISPs have refused to sign Ofcom’s new ‘net neutrality’ code of conduct which is designed to prevent ISPs from blocking or restricting consumer access to content "unless there was a reason to deploy reasonable traffic management practices.” Virgin Media and Vodafone both refused to sign the ... 

Ofcom has finally announced the long-awaited auction of spectrum service which is expected to lay the path for 4G networks to be rolled out sometime next year. The actual auctions will be held towards the end of this year. 4G is the fourth generation mobile technology which it is hoped will allow m ... 

Ahead of the launch of Windows 8 and the Surface tablet, which the new OS was designed for, Microsoft has also announced the introduction of the latest version of Office, which is to include apps such as SkyDrive enabling cloud services. It’s also been announced that the latest version of Windows ... 

The outage experienced by O2 is continuing into its second day, despite the telecoms company insisting that the problem has been fixed in many areas. The problem, which affected hundreds of thousands of users across the UK, has meant that O2 users have been unable to make calls and send texts, a se ... 

As the 2012 Olympic Games swiftly approach, BT has detailed some of the challenges that they and others involved in the technology side of the Games have faced over the past four years. The communications company will be providing telephone and data connections to Olympic venues, as well as the at ... 

Computer manufacturer Dell has announced that it has bought the US software firm Quest for $2.4bn (£1.53). Dell outbid rivals Insight Venture Partners for the deal which values Quest's shares at $28 each. The deal is still subject to shareholder approval, but is expected to be closed by the ... 

The UK’s Tech City initiative, launched in 2010 to support technology companies, has been criticised in a new report out this week from Centre for London, an independent, non-profit organisation "think tank focused on the big policy challenges facing London”. The report suggests that tech start-u ... 

Google has announced that its latest innovation, a device known as Project Glass, will be made available to developers and programmers from early next year. The move, announced at its three-day Google I/O conference this week, is intended to allow developers to create applications and suggest impro ...