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Wick Hill Wins WatchGuard EMEA Distributor Of The Year 2012 Award
Continued growth for WatchGuard
Woking, Surrey: 7th June, 2012 – VAD Wick Hill has been awarded WatchGuard’s EMEA Distributor of the Year Award 2012. The award was given to Wick Hill for outstanding sales growth and exceptional value added services to WatchGuard resellers over the last year, both in the UK and Germany.
WatchGuard itself has experienced significant growth in the EMEA region over the past twelve months. WatchGuard VP of sales, Bill Smith, commented: “Wick Hill has made a major contribution to our continuing high growth in the SME sector, our core area of market leadership, as well as helping us to continue to grow our business in higher end devices and virtualised appliances.”
Fourth Year of CDN World Summit to Host Stellar Speaker Line-up and Enhanced Feature Programme
London, 22 May 2012 – CDN World Summit, the world’s leading and most established CDN event today reveals its impressive line-up of key industry speakers. Focussing on enabling and assessing the strategic and technological opportunities in the content delivery space, the conference and exhibition, which is now in its fourth year, will also include a host of new features.
Robyn Peterson, CTO of Mashable; Neil Walker, Head of IP Video Services at BSkyB; Markus Freikamp, Head of International Wholesale Business Models at Deutsche Telekom and Richard Cooper, Controller, Digital Distribution at BBC are counted among the line-up of industry heavy-hitters speaking at the event.
UPnP Technology Adoption Continues to Soar With New Areas of Growth
UPnP Forum’s efforts in promoting device interconnectivity standards help UPnP grow
Beaverton, Ore., USA – 10 May 2012: The proliferation of personal computers and home networks, along with UPnP Forum’s ongoing efforts in device standardization and certification, is leading to a surge in growth of the adoption of UPnP technology. UPnP Forum is now seeing record levels of activity in its certification program, with over 1,000 device implementations now certified as compliant with UPnP standards.
Travel Corporation Chooses Neustar Web Performance Solutions
Webmetrics Enables International Travel Service to Ensure Uptime, Positive Brand Experience
London, UK – 24th April 2012, Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR) a trusted, neutral provider of real-time information and analysis to the Internet, telecommunications, entertainment, advertising and marketing industries, today announced that its Webmetrics Monitoring Service has been selected by The Travel Corporation, an international travel group with over 25 award winning brands, to provide a web monitoring solution that will keep track of the company’s website availability and performance issues, saving valuable management hours and minimising the risk of bad user experiences.
WiFi on Trains Now a Vital Weapon in Fight for Customers
(Ledbury, 17th April, 2012) Train operators can no longer afford to be without on-board train WiFi systems, argues Transport and Wireless Consultancy BWCS who will host a Conference on the subject this June.
Graham Wilde, CEO of BWCS claims that “The fight for passengers is getting fierce and train companies cannot be left without WiFi which can be an important weapon in this scrap,” . “Every single new long-distance competitor in Europe has seen WiFi on board as an important lure for new passengers. This in turn forces incumbents to get their act together and respond” he argues. “Besides helping in the dog-fight for passengers, the new services will also offer a heady combination of new cost-saving applications for the train operators as well as new, income-generating, entertainment services for their passengers.”
Intuate Group and Foregenix team up to provide PCI compliance in SA contact centres
London, 10th April 2012 – South African solutions and people resources integrator, Intuate Group, has partnered with information security consultancy and Payment Card Industry Data Security Specialist (PCI DSS), Foregenix, to help Southern African contact centres significantly reduce their PCI scope and their risks, as well as associated costs, by removing cardholder data from the call centre environment.
