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Sunderland, UK. August 28, 2012 — Tenders are being invited for a contract to supply assistive technologies, a contact centre software system and associated services to support telehealth and telecare provisions for a city council in northern England.

Bodmin, Cornwall, UK. August 27, 2012 — UK-based CORMAC Solutions Ltd is looking to appoint a “suitably skilled” supplier to deliver a vehicle tracking solution for its fleet of over 500 vehicles. The solution should be capable of providing detailed information to the business to allow it to maximise the use of its vehicle, staff

Nairobi, Kenya and Petersfield, UK. August 21, 2012 — Kenya’s integrated communications service provider (CSP) Safaricom is partnering with a UK-based firm, Neural Technologies to implement a fraud control solution that will further safeguard its mobile network and M-PESA platform.

UK. July 17, 2012 — A serious failure in the O2 UK mobile network last week is being ascribed to a failure of a Home Location Register (HLR) software system. As reported on our sister site, VanillaPlus.com, the wholly-owned Telefonica subsidiary, which trades in the UK under the O2 brand, lost service to a large

Brussels, Belgium – Cullen International has launched a new smart energy monitoring service. The service was unveiled at the ‘Smart Regulation for Smart Grids: An EU Overview’ event,

Thalwil, Switzerland. June 28, 2012 – u-blox, a Switzerland-based producer of positioning and wireless semiconductors, is to acquire UK-based Cognovo Ltd. for US$16.5 million. Cognovo specialises in software-defined modem (SDM) chip development technology.

Newbury, Berkshire, UK. June 15, 2012 — Vodafone Global Enterprise, the business within Vodafone which manages the communications needs of its largest multinational customers, has become the first non-US mobile network service provider to be granted US Government supplier status under GSA Schedule 70.

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London, UK. May 14, 2012 — With growth across key European countries a major strategic objective for Wireless Logic, the UK-based M2M managed services specialist has made a number of senior appointments. Country managers now head up new subsidiaries in France, Germany and Spain

Lisbon, Portugal / London, UK / Washington DC, USA. May 1, 2012 – WeDo Technologies, a specialist provider of revenue and business assurance solutions, today announced the acquisition of US-based Connectiv Solutions, which provides management of telecommunications network usage expenses.

OnStream, a UK based National Grid company, has announced their selection of Telenor Connexion to link up their new, mobile communications-based gas and electricity meters.

The UK’s healthcare system is already stretched and faces a considerable challenge of achieving £20bn worth of efficiency savings by 2014-15. Government-driven reforms will add to this pressure,

Ofcom, the UK’s independent communications regulator, has progressed plans for the introduction of White Space technology in the UK – the first country in Europe to do so.

The government of the United Kingdom has announced up to €5.22 billion in seven to nine year contracts, to build a wide area network and data services, to support smart meters.

Wipro Technologies has built a private cloud for Onstream Utility Metering Services, which provides gas and electricity metering in the UK, ready for the UK’s smart meter roll out.