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Recording phone calls: what you need to know

From March next year, UK financial institutions will have to record phone calls relating to client orders. Technology in Business / Friday, 26th September 2008

Vodafone extends Australian coverage

A UK mobile phone giant has expanded its operations in Australia after buying part of a local retailer. Vodafone now holds a stake in Crazy John’s, following a distribution agreement that the two companies formed last year. Mergers & Acquisitions / Thursday, 4th September 2008

Unified communications

If you liked VoIP, you'll like this. Technology in Business / Thursday, 28th August 2008

Smiths heads Down Under

A London-based technology group has expanded its expertise in the wireless communications market after buying an Australian electronics firm. Smiths Group, which employs more than 20,000 people in 50 countries, has bought Brisbane-based components manufacturer Triasx. Mergers & Acquisitions / Tuesday, 1st July 2008

The new Jawbone headset

Making calls on your mobile from construction sites or in noisy pubs has just got easier, according to Aliph, manufacturer of the newly relaunched Jawbone Bluetooth headset. The new Jawbone is half the size of the old model and promises to eliminate as much as 90 per cent of the unwanted background noise when you’re making a call. Wealth Management / Thursday, 5th June 2008

Investment rings changes at NESSCO

Management at an Aberdeen-based telecom company is to expand its operations internationally after securing some £15 million from a syndicate of investors. NESSCO, which provides its services to the oil and gas industry, received £4 million from Aberdeen Asset Managers Growth Capital and the Scottish Venture Fund. Fundraising Deals / Wednesday, 4th June 2008

VoIP via your mobile

Technology moves quickly and voice over internet protocol (VoIP) is no longer tied to the desktop PC. It’s now possible to make VoIP calls on a handheld device such as a mobile, which saves lugging a laptop around as well as cutting the cost of international calls. Technology in Business / Thursday, 22nd May 2008

Christina Domecq: seriously connected

With a total of £100 million of VC investment, Christina Domecq is out to make her third company, Spinvox, a global technology business. We meet the ambitious 31-year-old. Business Leaders / Friday, 9th May 2008

Imagine acquires Irish Broadband

Irish telecoms group Imagine Communications has acquired internet service provider Irish Broadband for €47 million (£37 million) in a debt-free deal. The merged business will have revenues of over €100 million. Mergers & Acquisitions / Friday, 2nd May 2008

Vodafone’s 7.2 USB Stick

If you're looking to reduce downtime when travelling between meetings but haven’t got your fingers around using a Blackberry keyboard yet, this could be the answer. Technology in Business / Friday, 11th April 2008

MD leads Axial buy-out

The managing director of networking specialist Axial Systems has led a buy-out at the company. Ash Hussain was joined by finance director Graham Linney in buying Axial, which supplies networking systems to the financial services, telecom and public sectors, for an undisclosed sum. Mergers & Acquisitions / Friday, 11th April 2008

Optilan acquired in NVM-backed MBO

NVM Private Equity has backed the management buy-out (MBO) of Coventry-based telecoms network provider Optilan. The firm has invested more than £5 million in the MBO, which is led by Optilan’s CEO and co-founder Richard Buckland. Mergers & Acquisitions / Friday, 4th April 2008

How WAN optimisation works

It’s not uncommon for a corporate litigator in the New York office of a law firm to be working on the same case as colleagues in New York or Brussels – sometimes over many years. The only problem is that the case notes the different groups are reviewing and updating over their wide area network (WAN) can amount to 100MB or more. Technology in Business / Friday, 14th March 2008

The Blackberry Pearl 8110

While the new Blackberry Pearl 8110 Smartphone doesn’t boast WiFi like the similar 8120 Pearl, it does have built-in GPS with Blackberry Maps software, so you can happily wander the city and not get lost in the process. Technology in Business / Friday, 14th March 2008

Artilium buys Trisent Communications for £1.7 million

Telecom software specialist Artilium has acquired Trisent Communications, which helps mobile network operators tailor services based on the geographic location of their clients’ mobile phones, for £1.7 million. The consideration was satisfied in £460,000 cash with the balance paid in some 1.24 million shares. Mergers & Acquisitions / Monday, 11th February 2008

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