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There are some things that require a permanent internet connection. One cannot listen to internet radio, watch YouTube or take part in a video conference, without a permanent, live, high-quality ...

The UK has the opportunity … [to become] ... a neutral arbitrator for services that are trusted by all ... [but] ... we must first demonstrate leadership in facing down those who believe they have ...

Has Amazon decided against launching a bank account?

The Internet Society has sold the Public Interest Registry (.Org) to a purpose built Venture Capital firm whose domain name was itself registered by an advisor to the Chinese organised World ...

The other day, the government announced yet another consultation on the future of the UK's digital networking infrastructure, this time exploring the possibility of liberalising the planning laws ...

Three years ago I blogged on why I made the mistake of voting Remain. I would still prefer the UK to be a member of a reformed, multi-track, democratically accountable European Union. But that is ...

1) DCMS kicks the can down the road - again The deadline for submissions to the DCMS consultation on On Line Harms  is July 1st. The NAO report politely savaging the UK failure to join up its ...

BT’s new chief executive, Philip Jansen, is to revise Openreach’s targets for its full-fibre broadband network roll-out upwards when he reveals BT’s full-year financial results on Thursday 9 May, ...

Many people using the London Underground today will likely have noticed that the usual Virgin Media-run Wi-Fi service is not working. Some might even have been mildly inconvenienced by not being ...

With eight days until the UK's scheduled exit from the European Union, a prime minister who has lost control, a paralysed political system, and Britain reduced to a laughing stock on the world ...

For the last three decades since its introduction, the web has informed, educated and entertained society. It has given musicians, artists and businesses of any size connectivity to a global ...

While the internet existed way before the Worldwide Web (WWW), the web changed everything. Its success has as much to do with the simplicity of using an HTTP web browser, as the fact that it was ...

Next month will be the 30th anniversary of the world wide web. In 1989, who would have thought the web would touch every aspect of people’s lives - not only in a good way but also in ways that seem ...

The technology industry is still relatively young, and certainly has a lot more growth to come. But it’s old enough now for us to see the repeating trends that make regulatory and legal ...

Uncontrolled Brexit is an existential threat to the British Establishment and the Westminster lobbying community

The UK Security Minister sent an apparently very odd message to Google and Facebook in a Sunday Times interview on New Year's Eve, "obey the law or be taxed." HMRC has a long and dishonourable ...

A vote by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to repeal the net neutrality rules spearheaded by the Obama administration was largely met with disdain by internet companies and users. ...

This is the first in a series of articles exploring the challenges and opportunities facing the audio visual (AV) industry, which has its annual European flagship event, ISE2018, in February. This ...

SITA is trying out the application of mixed reality to the air travel industry

The Google Cloud Platform challenges tier-1 public clouds as well as the hybrid cloud concept

Ten of the really BIG tech issues of today and tomorrow that no-one wants to discuss.

The current surge of fake news is driven by the generation of clicks (worthwhile and/or genuine or not) in support of pay-per-click advertising models.

It is time to take a different view of the politics of left and right. We sinisters (from Leonardo  da Vinci to Bill Gates) have always been in the forefront of change, cutting through the defences ...

Royal mail and the Post Office appear about to work together to rebuild an integrated local delivery service for the Internet Age. Will they also provide the trusted, to-your-doorstep and/or ...

Royal Mail is now looking at collection points at every Post Office for goods ordered over the Internet. This could herald a rebuilding of integrated local access to the Internet Age.

Last week I used the appeals for support for the forthcoming demonstration in support of the CWU Campaign to halt the closure of the SE27 Sorting Office to illustrate how Royal Mail appears to be ...

The domain name system (DNS) is fundamental to providing reliable Internet access. Despite this, many organisations neglect DNS, relying with over-complex infrastructure with poor insight, ...

Royal Mail must reconcile the need for larger sorting offices to handle goods ordered over the Internet with that for local collection offices for those out when delivery was attempted.

How does the UK fund a full fibre infrastructure if BT is unable and/or unwilling to pay the price?

We need to take action against fraud and deception before the On-line Advertising market implodes

The mass market adoption of the Internet is now leading to 1930s protectionism not internationalisation

The Millennium Bug, which as long-time readers of Computer Weekly will remember was going to cause systematic global IT failure at the stroke of midnight on 1 January 2000 (power cuts, planes ...

In the wake of last week's vote to leave the European Union (EU), if we are indeed going to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty later in the year - and despite the lingering hope that there ...