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...Heading downstairs, I come to Information Age, a guide to human achievement in communications....
...Jon Crowcroft, Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, said file size was “a basic consideration and one would think that a software engineer...
...Yet the fortunes of heavyweights including Siemens, Lucent, Alcatel, NEC, Panasonic and Marconi waned rapidly, leading to turmoil and consolidation....
...But when he started contacting BT’s traditional suppliers, such as the British equipment maker Marconi, the former telecoms arm of GEC, they were inflexible....
...It was in 1901 on the Lizard that Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi, the godfather of modern communications, conducted successful trials of wireless data transmission when he sent signals between two wooden...
...He was convinced that, through mediums, he had repeatedly enjoyed direct communications with his dead son Raymond....
...Government ministers and Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, started baying for more funds to be put into new fibre networks rather than football broadcasting rights....
...Start-ups such as Ford, Boeing, Marconi and IBM nurtured and deployed these technologies. In the process they grew into industrial giants....
...The group was bolstered by a merger with Marconi in the 1930s to become Imperial and International Communications, which was then renamed Cable and Wireless....
...Foster believes companies in sectors such as energy, transport, food and communications may have a better chance of surviving than others....
...All were blindsided when the total haul, published in real-time on the Federal Communications Commission website, passed $30bn....
...So, too, would the men representing new, world-changing technologies: Thomas Edison, busy promoting the many uses of electricity; Guglielmo Marconi, whose wireless was transforming international communications...
...Shares in Cable & Wireless Communications were trading 2 per cent lower on Wednesday afternoon....
...Tim Berners-Lee effectively invented the world wide web out of frustration at the poor communication networks at Cern, the European particle physics centre near Geneva, where he was then working....
...Cable & Wireless evolved from Pender’s international cable companies via a 1929 merger with Marconi’s wireless interests....
...Guglielmo Marconi, the Steve Jobs of his day, had recently invented wireless communication, and realised that wealthy passengers on ocean liners would pay a lot to send messages to friends and relatives...
...There are also plenty of examples of corporate suicide, most spectacularly GEC’s decision under Lord Simpson to abandon heavy electrical engineering and, renamed Marconi, concentrate on communications just...
...In 2007, a rebel shareholder backed by John Mayo, a former Marconi finance director, unsuccessfully called on Vodafone to spin off its Verizon Wireless stake....
...After his two-year national service in the Royal Air Force, Sale worked for the Marconi electronics company....
...Parent Verizon Communications has blocked dividends since 2005; Vodafone’s valuation has suffered as a result....
...As Lord Weinstock of GEC, later the ill-fated Marconi, found, it’s a dubious privilege to be remembered as the finest manager a company ever had....
...It provides services ranging from satellite and secure communications for battlefields to air-to-air refuelling systems....
...The company grew to provide design solutions to mobile phone networks around the world, before Ibrahim sold it to Marconi in 2000 for $900m....
...Telent is the rump business of GEC Marconi which was sold to Ericsson in 2005....
...He replaced Sir Roger Hurn at the helm of the embattled communications equipment group following a boardroom coup....
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