Innovation News

15 July 2010
BT helps Unilever to innovate
Unilever has extended its £1billion outsourcing contract with BT as part of plans to accelerate the roll-out of innovative new services across the global consumer brand business.

15 July 2010
BT partnership funds fibre broadband in Iwade
Local residents in the village of Iwade, Kent, are set to benefit from super-fast fibre broadband following an innovative partnership between BT and the local Parish Council.

23 June 2010
BT helps millions of Freeview viewers enjoy a high definition world cup
Millions of Freeview viewers across the UK to watch the world cup in high definition (HD) for the first time thanks to BT.

27 May 2010
Honours go to BT innovation teams
BT has received global recognition for its research teams and leadership at a prestigious innovation awards ceremony in the south of France.

13 May 2010
Ribbit claims top award
BT software company Ribbit has won a major award for its innovation...

30 April 2010
Tommy Hilfiger is a trend setter with 'virtual fitting rooms'
Designers at premium lifestyle brand Tommy Hilfiger are to use a BT videoconferencing solution to help fashion their new garments...

22 April 2010
JP high in Wired 100 poll
The managing director of BT Innovate and Design, JP Rangaswami has been ranked high in a new survey of “top digital power brokers” published by Wired Magazine in the UK...

13 April 2010
Plotstar can organise your social life
BT and Io-me, a company spun-off from BT's Adastral Park research centre, have come together to develop a new lifestyle-linked mobile phone application...

24 March 2010
New chief executive for BT Innovate and Design
Clive Selley is to become the new chief executive of BT Innovate and Design...

March 2010
BT launches interactive travel website with ILGA
BT has teamed up with the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) to launch an interactive travel website.

1 March 2010
BT to offer national videoconferencing service over N3 NHS broadband network
BT is to offer NHS Trusts a national videoconferencing service over N3, the secure national broadband network it has built and is managing for the NHS...

13 January 2010
IP Exchange wins ITSPA innovation award
ITSPA, the UK's industry body for internet telephony service providers, has voted BT Wholesale’s IP Exchange “the most innovative VoIP product of the year”...

8 January 2010
BT's wi-fi network wows the bloggers and Tweeters at LeWeb
A wi-fi network provided and managed by BT Innovate & Design for a major European web conference has gained the enthusiastic approval of more than 2,400 attendees...

8 January 2010
Ribbit announces iPhone app
Ribbit Corporation has announced an iPhone app, available from the Apple iTunes App Store that allows registered Ribbit users to access their voice messages from their iPhone...

17 December 2009
BT offers Engage Tracker tool
The Engage Tracker, a travel and carbon savings tool that helps companies document monetary savings resulting from the use of videoconferencing, has been made available by BT...

11 December 2009
BT brings video marketing to small businesses
BT Tradespace the UK’s first business social networking site, has launched version 2.0 of the social business network to enable small businesses to create and use video amongst other social media tools...

30 November 2009
I-Plate scoops top innovation award
BT Wholesale‘s I-Plate, a gadget designed to improve broadband performance in the home or in business, has won the telecommunications category of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 2009 Innovation Awards...

23 November 2009
BT research shows financial services is the UK most innovative sector
The financial services sector has emerged as the UK’s most technologically innovative business sector following the economic downturn, according to research from BT Global Services...

9 November 2009
Ribbit announces a free cloud for every mobile phone
Ribbit Corporation has announced a beta trial of Ribbit Mobile, a free web-based service that provides a new way for any mobile phone user to manage calls, messages and phones, while also providing them with a virtual online version of their mobile phone...

21 October 2009
Technology adoption fuels recovery tipping point for UK SMEs
New research from BT Business shows that small businesses at the forefront of technology adoption have been the least impacted by the recession, with those most reluctant to bring in new technology suffering the most...

16 September 2009
Openreach pilot to take broadband the extra mile
Openreach has announced a pilot of its Broadband Enabling Technology (BET), a new fixed-line solution for delivering broadband over much longer distances....

20 August 2009
eClinics give online boost to mental health
A pioneering BT-supported project which will help people with mental health problems has been launched in north Lincolnshire...

10 August 2009
Stores keen to check out new technology
With necessity being the mother of invention in these recessionary times, retailers are thinking increasingly outside the box to remain competitive...

28 July 2009
The secret to web searching
Finding information on the web is about to become a whole lot easier according to a new book co-edited by BT’s John Davies...

1 July 2009
New unified communication system reduces mobile airtime costs for small businesses
BT has announced plans to integrate the BlackBerry Mobile Voice System (MVS) technology from Research In Motion (RIM) with BT Communications Complete...

19 June 2009
New virtual service launched
A cost-effective new service designed to help large global companies add innovation to their business has been launched by BT...

19 June 2009
BT opens international telepresence centres
Business people in multiple countries can now meet face to face around a virtual table thanks to new high definition video conferencing services provided by BT....

1 June 2009
‘Live Chat’ set to increase accessibility for BT customers
Live Chat, a new, instant-messenger style function, is now available...

14 May 2009
Solar boost for BT in California
BT has completed its solar energy installation at its North American headquarters in California, which will now produce up to one fifth of its energy needs for the offices and data centre.....

15 April 2009
BT Onevoice gets triple boost
BT has announced three key enhancements to the BT Onevoice global platform which are designed to deliver further major cost reductions for global organisations...

15 April 2009
New book on the semantic web published
John Davies, head of Semantic Technology in the Centre for Information Systems and Security Research in BT Innovate, has recently published a book co-authored by representatives of a leading European research institute...

8 April 2009
CRM application boosted by cloud computing service
BT Business has launched the Ribbit for Salesforce service in the UK, enabling mobile voice communications to be linked directly with existing Salesforce CRM systems...

3 April 2009
Oliver hails Wheeltop project
Yachtswoman Dame Ellen MacArthur and BT chairman Sir Mike Rake have been given a first-hand demonstration of the life-changing capabilities of the Wheeltop...