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Kate and Wills have caused a right royal rumpus
As remote tribesyet to make contact with western society can hardly fail to be aware, next year will see the Royal Wedding of Prince William and long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton. So let's get this out of the way now, shall we? It's pretty much a g... Opinion
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Resellers needn't sleepwalk into the converged world
In the latest of a series of industry guest blogs on Network Noise, Ian Kilpatrick, chairman of infrastructure security and convergence solutions VAD Wick Hill Group, responds to our recent blog on the problems surrounding the unified comms sale. Opinion
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Will it be a happy new year for Cisco?
As the excitement of the quarterly results season dies away, one of the last big industry hitters, networking sector bellwether Cisco, will be unveiling its first quarter results later on this evening, and all eyes in the industry are turning to just... Opinion
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Daisy is under pressure to turn a profit
As you will hopefully by now have read, M&A marvel Daisy Group has bought acquisitive Mitel partner SpiriTel for £27.3m. I love a good M&A story as much as the next journalist; it's this sort of thing that keeps us in notepads, but in D... Opinion
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It's time for Avaya to put the cap back on
Nobody doescap-in-hand quite like Avaya... Ayear on from its conference in Prague, the networking and convergence vendor that turned up for its 2010 Barcelona partner party is visibly more confident, and yet at the same time remains visibly apologeti... Opinion
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Blessed are the Cisco partners
Will an audience with Pope Benedict XVI in Romebe on the cards for some key Cisco partners next week? A well-placed mole tells us that alongside the delights of the Eternal City, a trip to the Vatican has been scheduled for attendees at the upcoming ... Opinion
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Baggs watch! Dispatches from the boardroom
There was a true moment of despair at the start of last night's Apprentice as comms entrepreneur and imminent Brand Stuart Baggs waxed lyrical on the fashion industry. Apparently, the Brand doesn't understandthe point oftaking a £2 bit of cotto... Opinion
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Get in quick to bag your perfect domain name
On 1 December, an online gold rush will take placeas nearly 3,000 previously unavailable .uk Internet domains are released for sale by the UK Internet registry Nominet. Up until now these domains, which include single and two character domains were n... Opinion
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Ofcom's sanctions don't go far enough
Ofcom has rapped ISPs TalkTalk and Tiscali UK on the knuckles after they continued to bill end-users for cancelled services. The pair were hit with a General Condition - a legally-binding notification - and must get their houses in order by 2 Decembe... Opinion
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Perhaps we can learn something from the 1950s
A few weeks ago, some of you may have noticed a bunch of faux-vintage print advertisements for modern-day social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Skype. The posters were created by a Brazilian agency and hark back to 1950s-era America. The 50s... Opinion