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Marketing chiefs: Are you spamming your customers?
Tighten up your email policy - or risk being blacklisted

CIOs' advice on the perks and perils of unified communications
Part 1: IT chiefs talk about the unexpected benefits and biggest challenges of UC deployments...

Westminster computing put on size-zero diet
Whitehall's green IT champion doesn't like pies with his chips

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Europe: Brace yourself for a telecoms overhaul
News in brief: European Parliament agrees to reform package

BT offers free fibre to Glasgow businesses
FTTC trial offers downloads of up to 40Mbps

£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
Airwave beefed up in time for 2012 Games...

BlackBerry Storm2: RIM's second touchscreen - this time with wi-fi
Update to Storm and BlackBerry OS gives smartphone a welcome spit and polish...

Telecoms worker? You're in demand. Techie? Not so much
Job market research reveals spike in telecoms vacancies

Home Office inks £430m deals with Atos Origin, Fujitsu
£100m shaved off tech costs

iPhone coming to Orange as Apple ends its mobile monogamy
O2 loses exclusive rights to device

One in five of world's households now wired to the web
South Korea leads the way

BT to rollout 24Mbps broadband to three-quarters of the UK
Telco thinking bigger about faster fat pipe expansion plan...

Skype founders vs Skype: 'You've violated our patents'
Joltid files copyright suit against VoIP company

Skype hangs up on developer plug-ins
VoIP company pulls the plug on Extras programme

Google says sorry for Gmail's two-hour outage: Blames 'miscalculation'
Work designed to improve availability takes down service

eBay sells most of Skype in $2bn deal
Auction giant thinks VoIP company will do better alone

eBay set to hang up on Skype?
Private investors to buy VoIP company

One in 78: The chances your comms are being monitored
Grim Ripa stats revealed

Cisco CEO: Green shoots of recovery spotted at last
The purse strings begin to loosen in the US, but the UK remains cautious

'Completely unworkable': The plans to track your web habits
Interception Modernisation Programme slammed over protocol problems

Electronic driving instructors puts thousands of bus drivers through their paces
How's my driving? The system will let you know...

Businesses set to show fixed mobile convergence some love - finally
Dual mode and femtocells lead the way towards FMC adoption

Skype fighting to dodge shutdown with new tech
Jolt-id into action by legal battle

Ericsson snaps up Nortel's wireless tech for $1.13bn
"We did not enter this process with a win-at-any-cost mindset"

BT gets into bed with Microsoft for cloud services
BPOSitive thinking

BT lands £99m comms deal with Ministry of Defence
MoD finds its voice

4,000 Indian jobs go as BT brings call centre work back to UK
Not giving up on India

O2 to hook up SMEs with landline digits
Can I get your landline number?

Voice, video, data: £1bn gov't telecoms contract up for grabs
Whitehall rings up its phone bill