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NHS 111 helpline ‘failing to meet targets’
Non-emergency telephone service is struggling to answer calls promptly in some areas and giving patients poor advice The new NHS non-emergency 111 telephone service in England is in a fragile state and still struggling to meet key targets including promptly answering calls, according to an internal report. There have been claims of calls going unanswered [...]
VMware sells WaveMaker to Pramati
That didn’t last long VMware has got rid of WaveMaker, an open source tool that helps casual developers build Java apps, after spending two years trying to develop the technology…
EFF report identifies which internet firms ‘have your back’ on data
Twitter is tops, but big-name fails from Verizon, Apple, and others The annual Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) report on data protection among online firms has shown lax privacy standards among some of the biggest names in the business when the government comes knocking at the door.…
Facebook U-turn over beheading clips
Facebook changes its earlier stance on videos of people being decapitated which had been spread on its site, now saying it will remove them.
Ukraine ‘worst abuser of patents’
The US names Ukraine as the country with the worst record on protecting intellectual property and calls on its government to reverse the situation.
Sony senior management give up bonuses worth £6.6bn
Forty executives face pay cuts of up to 40% to atone financially for the firm’s poor performance in consumer electronics sector Dozens of executives at Sony have agreed to forgo bonuses worth an estimated ¥1bn (£6.6m) after failing to return the firm’s ailing consumer electronics division to profit. The decision means the 40 executives will [...]
VMTurbo trousers $7.5m to bring Adam Smith’s hand to more clouds
Gearing up engineering and sales for a future hybrid world Adam Smith-loving cloud biz VMTurbo has secured $7.5m in C-round funding from venture capitalists Globespan Capital Partners.…
Analysing the evolving connected TV landscape
The use of connected TVs to access web-delivered TV content is taking time to catch on, with fragmentation of user experience being one of the biggest barriers to adoption While online video consumption via personal computers and portable ‘smart’ devices has become an increasingly mainstream activity, the use of connected TV sets for accessing web-delivered [...]
Former mobile-biz lobbyist Wheeler to become top US frequency cop
FCC boss needs to be auctioneer and priest, too President Obama has nominated former CTIA boss Tom Wheeler to take over the FCC, putting the man who spent 12 years lobbying on behalf of network operators in charge of their regulation.…
BT to be investigated over fibre-optic charges to other ISPs
If TalkTalk’s complaint is successful consumers may benefit from cheaper superfast internet connections BT is to be investigated for alleged “abuse of a dominant position” in the price it charges other internet service providers to use its fibre-optic network, telecoms watchdog Ofcom has announced. TalkTalk has made a complaint to Ofcom, saying it wants cheaper [...]
