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- bscott86, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39BT corporate profile:
http://www.btplc.com/Thegroup/Companyprofile/Companyprofile.htm
"BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions serving customers in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific.
Its principal activities include networked IT services, local, national and international telecommunications services, and higher-value broadband and internet products and services." - Lazybones, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36Thanks, I had no idea who BT was.
- btipling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32BT once thought it had a patent for hyperlinking and tried to take over the world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_Group_plc#BT.27s_.22Web_patent.22
Luckily Jack Bauer stopped them within 24 hours. - doctornkul, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23When I read 'BT', I thought: what, bittorrent? How do they threaten google?
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14they have every right to be scared.. google is out-innovating the rest of the industry.
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13That's OK, once Big Telecom starts extorting Google and other dotcoms for access to the "fast lane", their decaying business model will be propped back up.
- metacoola, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9For a second there I thought BT was standing for Bittorent, mainly because I've never heard of this company before. Seriously though, google is going to reach its peak eventually? I just wonder when it is.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"The analyst also suggested that it could have been deliberate scaremongering by the BT executive."
i think we have a winner! - metacoola, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8You make google sound like a bisexual college girl...
- grossag, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Maybe I'm the only one, but does anyone really care about this news? We don't see front page articles about every company that's scared of a big company and especially random companies that, judging from the other comments, not a ton of people know about.
- theHM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It used to stand for British Telecom, but now the company is known simply as BT or BT Group plc.
- cathars1s, on 10/12/2007, -10/+13You could just google them...
- Akyan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2BT hardly needs to become 'digg famous' they run the entire telecoms infrastructure in the UK for a start.
- panatlantica, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2JESUS... here we have a typical European once state owned now privatized Telco, like Germany's T-Com, who still don't understand the simplest facts of live:
These companies wanted to be traded on the stock exchange AND they wanted to play a major role in the international, globalized business, so they were privatized, their state monopoly was removed, and now of course, they need to face competition, something they were not used to before when they were still state monopolies - and something they obviously still don't seem to get over with:
The trouble is, in England as in Germany, even though these companies are facing a market economy for a considerable time by now, they still behave like back in the "good old state regulated monopoly world". They just don't understand that they are not any more "civil servants" but nothing more and nothing less then anybody else out there running a business.
What gets even more absurd in this game, British Telecom as well as T-Com in Germany both seem to suffer from a constant "everythingitis" as well as from "excessive hubris". I'd like to tell them: get back to what you were mend for: providing phones, providing DSL connections and maybe providing cable TV. Stop the exaggeration at once: BT, you are not Google and you will never be. You should fear Google the moment Google starts pulling phone and DSL lines in every body's front garden, because only THEN they will be competition to you.
BT and T-Com, you both have on-line stuff, I guess, T-Com with their subsidiary T-Online has even more on-line offerings (http://www.t-online.de) then BT. BUT STOP playing content provider, you are all technicians, and content always sucked when it was delivered from a technician. T-Online therefore has alliances with the big media here in Germany to fill their content for them.
And searching? What has searching the Net got to do with a Telco? In Germany, telephone directory inquiry is a diverse market by now, with 10 or more official directory inquiry companies. And the original "Fraulein at the Exchange" by the old German Postal, Telephone and Telegraph Services - today T-Com is long history: T-Com's market share is not as huge as their competitors for looking up phone numbers and operator services on the phone. So if you derive searching the Internet from the original PTTs task of looking up phone numbers and connecting phone calls, well, you should better quit your job and start working as ward in a technical museum. - PhilUk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Every single person living in the UK. Only a few million or so. 4 people jumped ahead of me commenting on this!
- Garf13ld, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not entirely correct. The brand name is BT. The company is British Telecommunications plc.
- Garf13ld, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Whose heard of BT? They may not be a household name in America but they are en Europe and elsewhere. Half the American telecomms providers are owned their British equivalents.
- phreakout, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh no competition - now we'll have to actually provide a decent service.
Perhaps Google should pay BT to compensate them for actually being innovative. - residual, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Let me just say I work for BTCI the American branch of BT and we are so far from anything that google does it's not even funny. We do conferencing I mean the closest thing google does to that is what? Gmail & Google Talk? I don't think BT has anything to worry about.
- mydiggname, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1*drool*
- FunkyWitDaSysTm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2hmmm.... ya know, i've been reviewing some of google's uber-advanced features, and with the right network tweaking and the right scripts, you could set up google for any purpose. consider multi-plexed data mining: with the right scripts, there's enough info in their database for a very profitable amount of data mining, let along stray data files of value.
hell, if you really know how to use google's advanced search features, it's the best BT tracker and more. speaking of informational architecture and distribution, considering scaling, too, google can do more with it's data than anything else.
what and how much google can do is entirely up to you. simple search engine or way of life. if you learn to use google for all it's worth, you could make it do anything you want. - kigabit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Wait, so what does BT actually stand for then?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3As opposed to Google whcih records it and keeps it FOREVER?
- bufferoverflow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Who has heard of BT? Anyone with any knowledge of the tech industry.
Here - http://www.hoovers.com/bt/--ID__41763--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml - gekkokid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2British Telecom ffs
- soupisgoodfood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Digg needs to up it's standards a bit. This is a classic example. Many people don't seem to know who BT is. The submitter should have knowen this, and put the full name at least in the body text.
- TEHBunnyBoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This "Ramji" guy sounds like he knows what's coming. Personally I'm not "scared" about google pwning the way they plan on doing, but I can understand why "BT" and other conglomerates are. Simply put, they'll wither away. Let's just hope everyone dismisses him, and google wins.
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2ignore flashboca, I think he is just trolling, look at his previous comment aswell
- kingygk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What a load of crap. BT is our biggest threat. They will end up caving to the Feds and record all of our tracks on the internet and keep it for 2 years.
- panatlantica, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Garf13ld writes: half of the American Telcos are owned by their British equivalent. Yeah, that is funny. The other half is owned by German Telecom (or "T-Com / T-Online / T-Mobile (this even U.S. folks will know by heart) / T-Everything...", sorry you marketing lads, this constant T-Nagging won't better your image here in Germany.)
- cranium, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1BT who?
- mastercheif, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Or Blueotooth!
- rupertbear42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Looks like Ramji is being not being ignored. But will BT really do more on driving software and customer centric behaviours?
- rupertbear42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Its not just a question of out innovating. BT is a big company and it innovates all the time but it does not have th software roots needed.
So thats the bet. Most telcos in fact all make the network guys run the software people so guess what happens to innovation a la Google? - bariswheel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@flashboca
There is nothing my statement other than a link. And if you care left or right, call your representatives. The fact that people act out or become active in politics does not imply that they are far left. But people like you are spreading that implication, and it's working, which pisses me off. Instead of making blanket statements like 'sheep' why don't you elaborate and put the kool aid down?
"Congress is NOT trying to pass bills to make a tiered internet."
I never said Congress is trying to make a multi-tiered, you just spun it. The implications, if the bill passes, could result in a multi-tiered Internet.
All I was trying to say that it is big news.
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/08/1647239
Read and learn. - linickx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2So tranzport is from the UK then ?! Funny, seems that the rest of the world has never heard of our biggest telecoms company, heck, we're only a small poxy island anyway who cares ! (tong firmly in cheek!) :oP
- Steaminx, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Google has no idea who they are.
- bariswheel, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2And yes, reported as lame please do the same.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Congress is NOT trying to pass bills to make a tiered internet. Nice way to distort the facts. The bill does not force anyone to tier their services. BIG difference. But one that the desperate ultra left often make, and their blind sheep followers like yourself often fall for.
- bariswheel, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1People are digging everything with the word 'Google' in it without even digesting any of the facts or what the article pertains to point out or address. And who's heard of BT? Thanks to digg now they are diggfamous.
Other news that are actually relevant and hopefully get a lot more attention:
Windows Vista Beta 2 is now free for download.
Congress trying to pass bizarre bills that are attempting to make a multi-tiered internet:
read the open letter by Eric Schmidt and download the PDF by Vint Cerf regarding this matter, call your representatives:
http://www.google.com/help/netneutrality.html
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5"google is out-innovating the rest of the industry. "
Really? How? Other than their search algorithm, what has Google done that has been so innovative, and is a market leader or even CLOSE to being one? Not Google Video. Not Gmail. Google Earth? They sure as hell didn't innovate that.
To the vast majority of internet users, Google is ONE thing. Most people (virtually EVERYONE, does not have a Gmail account and has absolutely no need for one. More people use YouTube than GoogleVideo. The only people who have Google Desktop are those too dumb to say NO to the install when it is bundled.
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