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• April 15, 2016 15 Apr'16

  E-commerce struggles for growth in Asean countries

  Online retail market growth in the Asean nations remains slow but nonetheless significant, according to a survey of consumer habits in the region

• April 15, 2016 15 Apr'16

  BBC turns micro:bit computers into IoT devices

  The BBC and Nominet demonstrate a new use case for the micro:bit computer and hope to turn Britain’s schoolchildren into internet of things pioneers

• April 14, 2016 14 Apr'16

  Data protection law sails through European Parliament

  The European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation has successfully passed through the European Parliament

• April 14, 2016 14 Apr'16

  IBM and Oracle fortunes hit by rapid growth of PaaS, Gartner claims

  Gartner’s application infrastructure market tracker reveals how PaaS growth is shaking up the supplier landscape

• April 14, 2016 14 Apr'16

  Ticketmaster tech chief claims software engineers should consider sales training

  Ticketmaster tech chief says undergoing sales training could help software engineers become more persistent in tracking down bugs

• April 14, 2016 14 Apr'16

  Government surveillance under fire across Europe

  UK and US government surveillance programmes are facing criticism from the courts, MPs and data protection regulators

• April 12, 2016 12 Apr'16

  Ofcom to present Openreach network access plan by summer of 2016

  Ofcom’s Sharon White tells MPs she hopes to present detailed proposals on how BT’s rivals can access the Openreach network by the summer of 2016

• April 12, 2016 12 Apr'16

  Superfast network build brings broadband to Somerset village

  Specialist ISP Satellite Internet has connected the third and final village in its BDUK market test pilot project in Somerset in just seven weeks

• April 11, 2016 11 Apr'16

  IDC research shows steady drop in on-premise hardware spend as cloud adoption soars

  IDC infrastructure research highlights how enterprise demand for cloud is affecting on-premise IT spending trends

• April 11, 2016 11 Apr'16

  Hyperoptic launches FTTP services in Brighton

  Hyperoptic rolls out its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) broadband service to housing developments in Brighton

• April 11, 2016 11 Apr'16

  Openreach passes 25 million premises with fibre backhaul

  BT Openreach marks another milestone in its national fibre broadband network roll-out

• April 08, 2016 08 Apr'16

  UK has hit 90% ‘superfast’ target, say broadband analysts

  Statistics from broadband comparison site Thinkbroadband seem to suggest the government has hit its target of making superfast broadband available to 90% of UK premises

• April 07, 2016 07 Apr'16

  Rackspace debuts private cloud packages to drive up enterprise adoption of OpenStack

  Rackspace claims pre-configured hardware, software and services stack will smooth enterprise path to OpenStack-based clouds

• April 06, 2016 06 Apr'16

  SSE Enterprise Telecoms connects customers over CityFibre network

  SSE Enterprise Telecoms becomes the first customer on CityFibre’s recently acquired long-haul national fibre network

• April 06, 2016 06 Apr'16

  Volkswagen Group selects Mirantis OpenStack for private cloud build

  Volkswagen outlines plans to use open source cloud platform, as it moves to embrace connected devices and agile software development techniques

• April 05, 2016 05 Apr'16

  'Citizens will be stripped naked' by Turkey’s data law

  Turkey's data protection law, introduced in March 2016, will make Turkey a near total surveillance state, yet the EU, apparently more concerned about securing Turkey's help in controlling immigration, is turning a blind eye

• April 04, 2016 04 Apr'16

  Digital Single Market: European Commission warned not to over-regulate online platforms

  Ministers from 11 EU member states warn European Commission off over-regulating use of online platforms during the creation of the Digital Single Market

• April 04, 2016 04 Apr'16

  Middle East enterprises warm to wearable technology

  Organisations in the region are increasingly investing in wearable technology, but there are hurdles to overcome before there is broad take-up in the enterprise sector

• March 31, 2016 31 Mar'16

  New London mayor urged to take ‘drastic action’ on capital broadband

  A YouGov poll for the Foundation for Information Society Policy finds widespread disillusionment among Londoners when it comes to broadband provision in the capital

• March 30, 2016 30 Mar'16

  Ofcom must be ready to take radical action over Openreach

  The government says Ofcom should take whatever action is needed to correct the problems the regulator identified in its communications market reviews

• March 30, 2016 30 Mar'16

  New Chelmsford housing estate has FTTP built in

  Developers Countryside and L&Q deploy full fibre broadband services on their Beaulieu residential development in Chelmsford, Essex

• March 29, 2016 29 Mar'16

  Fibre altnet B4RN may get code powers to build out network

  Ofcom has started a consultation to give community-backed fibre-to-the-premises altnet B4RN new powers to roll out its network on a wider scale

• March 29, 2016 29 Mar'16

  University of Reading deploys IPv6 on Malaysian campus

  The University of Reading has recently built a campus in Malaysia, allowing a new network design deploying IPv6 from the outset

• March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16

  Urban broadband speeds three times higher than rural

  Ofcom releases statistics on average broadband speeds in the UK and finds the gap in experience between town and country dwellers remains as wide as ever

• March 23, 2016 23 Mar'16

  GDS preps guidance for third-party suppliers to deliver 'government as a platform'

  Government Digital Service (GDS) chief insists "pragmatic extensions" to outsourcing contracts implies nothing permanent in push for "government as a platform" (GaaP)

• March 23, 2016 23 Mar'16

  Government launches consultation on 10Mbps broadband obligation

  DCMS begins the consultation process to implement a nationwide universal service obligation for broadband of 10Mbps

• March 22, 2016 22 Mar'16

  Santander launches voice-controlled banking

  Santander has made technology available that enables its customers to control its mobile banking app and access information using their voices

• March 22, 2016 22 Mar'16

  Akamai report raises questions over UK broadband stats

  Akamai’s latest 'State of the internet' report claims UK average broadband speeds may not be rising as fast as hoped or claimed

• March 22, 2016 22 Mar'16

  Ofcom forces BT Openreach to cut wholesale leased line prices

  Ofcom forces BT Openreach to cut its wholesale prices for leased lines and imposes stricter services standards

• March 21, 2016 21 Mar'16

  Singapore and Malaysia most aware of gap in IT availability

  The gap between IT availability and what users want is clear to organisations in Singapore and Malaysia, according to a global study

• March 21, 2016 21 Mar'16

  Britain to pay billions for monster internet surveillance network

  New questions raised about Britain’s snoopers’ charter after Denmark abandons its own UK-style surveillance programme for a second time

• March 21, 2016 21 Mar'16

  Gigaclear hits 10,000 Oxfordshire properties with ultrafast broadband

  Home FTTP broadband network builder Gigaclear’s commercial roll-out in Oxforshire approaches a major milestone with the connection of its 10,000th property

• March 21, 2016 21 Mar'16

  Southend Council to connect key sites with dark fibre network

  Southend-on-Sea Borough Council selects CityFibre to supply a 50km dark fibre network across 120 public sector sites in the town

• March 17, 2016 17 Mar'16

  Apple emerges as Google Cloud Platform user – report

  Report suggests Apple has joined Spotify in signing up to use Google’s cloud infrastructure services

• March 16, 2016 16 Mar'16

  Fintechs want to take one-third of traditional banks’ business

  Banks know they could lose large chunks of business to fintech firms, but if the challengers have their way, it will be more than expected

• March 16, 2016 16 Mar'16

  Rolls-Royce cloud HR project will pay for itself in two years

  HR IT director Mark Judd explains how engineering and aerospace firm swapped ageing ERP and spreadsheets for a company-wide core HR system

• March 16, 2016 16 Mar'16

  Salford Council puts gigabit fibre into public housing

  Salford Council in Greater Manchester is to deploy fibre to the premises (FTTP) broadband across its council housing portfolio

• March 15, 2016 15 Mar'16

  Internet of things needs more innovative business models

  At a government event on IoT policy, speakers call for more innovative business models and joined up thinking to enable the IoT to live up to its potential

• March 15, 2016 15 Mar'16

  Dropbox invests in building out on-premise storage as user numbers soar

  Cloud-based file share and sync service reveals details of its hybrid cloud strategy, which has seen it invest large sums in building its own on-premise infrastructure

• March 14, 2016 14 Mar'16

  New UK law will criminalise failure to hack on demand

  MPs have been given only two weeks to read 1,200 pages of documents which disclose new powers to require technology companies to install secret surveillance capabilities in software, computer equipment or networks

• March 11, 2016 11 Mar'16

  Technology and new finance firms will test banking industry

  UK bankers now think fintech is a bigger issue than regulatory change, according to a study

• March 11, 2016 11 Mar'16

  RTÉ leans on satellite broadband to cover Irish general election

  Irish TV network RTÉ turned to satellite ISP Europasat to support its coverage of the country’s general election

• March 10, 2016 10 Mar'16

  451 Research warns of software-defined infrastructure skills gaps

  Analyst house 451 Research warns CIOs against the dangers of failing to pair software-defined technology investment with staff training

• March 10, 2016 10 Mar'16

  Openreach to build FTTP networks for free on new housing estates

  Openreach announces a major expansion of fibre broadband and will provide free FTTP networks to housing developments with more than 250 properties

• March 10, 2016 10 Mar'16

  Equinix taps into Open Compute Project to build open source datacentre ecosystem

  Technology produced by Facebook-backed Open Compute Project gets snapped up by datacentre operator Equinix

• March 09, 2016 09 Mar'16

  BT CEO hints at change of direction on FTTP broadband

  BT boss Gavin Patterson tells a conference he is working to enable Openreach to accelerate deployment of FTTP

• March 09, 2016 09 Mar'16

  CityFibre opens network to public sector supplier Updata

  Urban fibre infrastructure supplier CityFibre signs a national agreement to allow Updata to offer services over its ultrafast network

• March 09, 2016 09 Mar'16

  Challenger bank buys digital gaming specialist

  Challenger bank Atom buys gaming expertise business Grasp to develop its online customer interfaces

• March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16

  Facebook to overhaul UK corporation tax-paying regime – report

  Social networking giant plans to book larger deals with British firms via its UK arm, paving the way for it to pay more corporation tax

• March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16

  Legal spears fly at Privacy Shield

  Police Scotland is investigating the implications of the end of Safe Harbour. Service providers must comply with UK law, regardless of where they are based

• March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16

  Miserden has most miserly broadband speed, report claims

  Speed tests carried out by Cable.co.uk have located the slowest average broadband speeds in the UK, in the village of Miserden in Gloucestershire

• March 03, 2016 03 Mar'16

  US researchers begin solar-powered datacentre research project

  Massachusetts-based project aims to uncover how best to integrate datacentres and smart grids

• March 03, 2016 03 Mar'16

  Ofcom badly wrong on Openreach separation, MPs told

  The decision not to separate BT and Openreach has not solved any regulatory issues and will not address the problems at the heart of broadband roll-out, a Select Committee hears

• March 02, 2016 02 Mar'16

  AWS cuts cloud data transfer fees for academic and research user groups

  Cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) rolls out discounts in bid to lower the cost barrier to making scientific discoveries

• March 02, 2016 02 Mar'16

  Virtual insanity: Is 2016 the year users go big on VR?

  At Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona, virtual reality appeared to emerge as a technology that is at long last hot to trot – but is it still a lot of virtual hype?

• March 01, 2016 01 Mar'16

  Data sovereignty issues drive up cost of cloud for European CIOs

  Addressing data sovereignty concerns means European CIOs are forced to pay more for cloud services than their US counterparts

• February 26, 2016 26 Feb'16

  After BT's Openreach reprieve, what now for the UK broadband roll-out?

  After Ofcom's decision to leave Openreach in BT, what happens next – and how will the UK reap the benefits of superfast broadband?

• February 26, 2016 26 Feb'16

  52 contactless payments made every second in UK last December

  Contactless card payments continue to rise at a rapid rate, with nearly £8bn spent in the UK last year using the technology

• February 26, 2016 26 Feb'16

  Tech Nordic Advocates partners with Nordic Startup Conference

  Tech Nordic Advocates, sister organisation of startup group Tech London Advocates, is partnering with the Nordic Startup Conference show in Copenhagen in March

• February 25, 2016 25 Feb'16

  Openreach reformed, but remains part of BT as Ofcom aims to open up fibre broadband market

  Telecoms regulator Ofcom wants to stimulate building of fibre broadband direct to homes and premises, but will not split up BT - yet

• February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16

  GE lures allies for Predix industrial internet dominance

  Global manufacturer GE has established a partner programme for its Predix platform to drive the value of analytics across the industrial internet

• February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16

  Hertz division chooses Cognizant to support IoT plans

  The equipment hire division of Hertz has contracted IT services firm Cognizant to support the implementation of its internet of things strategy

• February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16

  Mapping technology turning Depok in Indonesia into smart city

  Depok in Indonesia is using mapping technology to support its smart city ambitions

• February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16

  Spotify to move datacentre workloads to Google’s cloud

  Spotify says building and buying datacentres to keep up with demand for its services is no longer viable, as it prepares to shift its infrastructure into the Google cloud

• February 23, 2016 23 Feb'16

  Case study: National Rail Enquiries tackles website uptime issues with AWS and SOASTA

  The National Rail Enquiries website took a battering in the wake of the 2013 St. Jude’s storm, prompting the organisation to rethink its hosting and load-testing procedures

• February 18, 2016 18 Feb'16

  Two-thirds of UK firms plan to take their IT estate all-in on cloud, research claims

  According to the Cloud Industry Forum's latest cloud adoption research, UK firms are steadily coming round to the charms of running their IT off-premise

• February 17, 2016 17 Feb'16

  Middle East telecoms operators face up to IoT smart city challenges

  As smart city initiatives spring up in the Middle East, telecoms operators contend with the strain of the internet of things (IoT) on networks

• February 17, 2016 17 Feb'16

  New optical receiver technology could slash the cost of FTTP

  A team of researchers at University College London has developed a new design of optical receiver that they claim could dramatically reduce the costs of deploying FTTP broadband

• February 15, 2016 15 Feb'16

  Peer-to-peer lender wants to acquire traditional mortgage firm

  LendInvest suggests acquisition could help it become “the biggest mortgage lender in the country”

• February 15, 2016 15 Feb'16

  Singapore restructures infocomm and media agencies

  Singapore government merges its ICT and media agencies in recognition of their overlapping responsibilities

• February 15, 2016 15 Feb'16

  Sweden’s NFT Ventures looks to Finland for fintech startups

  Swedish startup fund that targets financial technology developers has expanded its reach into Finland

• February 12, 2016 12 Feb'16

  Netflix is now 100% all-in on the AWS cloud

  Streaming firm details the challenges it faced during seven-year push to wind down its datacentres and move everything into the AWS public cloud

• February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

  Tech Nation 2016 report reveals demand for digital skills in all sectors

  The digital industries contributed £87bn to the economy in 2014 – but there remains a lack of skills and broadband is still unevenly distributed

• February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

  Digital internships in India with TCS now open to UK graduates

  India’s biggest IT supplier, Tata Consultancy Services, plans to recruit 1,000 UK graduates for paid internships over the next four years

• February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

  Cisco sees slowdown in large network deals as stock markets wobble

  Erstwhile customers are putting large networking deals on hold in an uncertain financial climate, claims Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins

• February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

  Estonian telco deploys 100Gbps core on national network

  Telia Eesti selects Adva Optical Networking technology to sit at the core of its national backbone network

• February 10, 2016 10 Feb'16

  Combining edge datacentres with commercial property builds could boost sustainability

  Professor Ian Bitterlin makes the case for combining edge datacentres with commercial property builds for heat re-use purposes

• February 10, 2016 10 Feb'16

  Smart cities pointless without universal superfast broadband

  Smart city deployments will not get very far, or realise effective socioeconomic benefits, if more attention is not paid to the underlying infrastructure

• February 05, 2016 05 Feb'16

  ABN Amro reacts to demand for Snapchat customer support

  Dutch bank is widening its social media-based channels by communicating with customers using Snapchat

• February 05, 2016 05 Feb'16

  Agreement struck to put superfast broadband in new-build homes

  The government has struck a deal with Openreach and the Home Builders Federation to supply superfast broadband connectivity to new homes

• February 04, 2016 04 Feb'16

  How to survive a broadband service failure

  With BT yet again forced to apologise to consumer and business broadband customers after another technical fault, how can businesses reliant on one telco prepare themselves for the inevitable?

• February 03, 2016 03 Feb'16

  Government admits altnets can compete against BT in rural areas

  A series of pilot schemes has proved that small broadband suppliers can effectively compete against BT Openreach in rural areas

• February 03, 2016 03 Feb'16

  Further staff cuts at Yahoo as it reports a $4.43bn loss

  Yahoo announces another strategic plan to reduce costs by $400m and raise up to $3bn in the wake of a $4.43bn loss for the fourth quarter of 2015

• February 02, 2016 02 Feb'16

  EC confirms EU-US Privacy Shield to replace Safe Harbour data-sharing agreement

  The European Commission (EC) confirms it has negotiated a replacement for Safe Harbour, and expects it to come into force in three months

• February 02, 2016 02 Feb'16

  BT broadband network suffers technical fault

  A technical fault on the BT network left users around the country unable to access broadband and phone services

• February 02, 2016 02 Feb'16

  EU commissioner sets out challenges of finding a Safe Harbour replacement

  European commissioner Věra Jourová outlines the challenges of establishing a data-sharing agreement between Europe and the US

• February 02, 2016 02 Feb'16

  Google parent Alphabet ousts Apple as top global company

  In the first quarterly results since switching to the Alphabet structure on 2 October 2015, the company reported a profit of $4.9bn on revenue of $21.3bn

• February 01, 2016 01 Feb'16

  Irish row over Safe Harbour deepens

  Ireland faces legal challenge over the independence of its data commissioner, in wake of the scrapping of the Safe Harbour data protection agreement

• February 01, 2016 01 Feb'16

  Leading Edge Forum teams up with Imperial college on business disruption

  Global thought leadership membership organisation launches programme to teach business heads about digital disruption

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  Government adds wireless to BDUK consumer voucher scheme

  The government has extended the BDUK consumer broadband voucher programme to cover wireless systems in a few locations, in addition to satellite

• January 28, 2016 28 Jan'16

  EE emerges as top performing network at London airports

  RootMetrics’ analysis of mobile broadband connectivity at London’s City, Gatwick and Heathrow airports reveals EE is far outpacing its rivals in terms of performance

• January 28, 2016 28 Jan'16

  Facebook shares top $100 on bumper fourth quarter

  Facebook's share price has risen above $100 in response to better than expected annual and fourth-quarter results for 2015

• January 27, 2016 27 Jan'16

  Internet of things a smart opportunity for energy companies

  We investigate how energy companies are taking advantage of internet-connected devices to support smart home initiatives

• January 27, 2016 27 Jan'16

  VMware to cut 800 jobs in cloud-focused company restructure

  Virtualisation company VMware confident adoption of software-defined datacentres will offset softening demand for older products

• January 27, 2016 27 Jan'16

  Government may consider state-owned broadband provider

  A public sector-owned broadband infrastructure provider is one option on the table as DCMS consults on the future of the £1.7bn BDUK scheme

• January 26, 2016 26 Jan'16

  Ofcom to let SMEs ditch broadband contracts due to slow speeds

  Ofcom announces protections and rights for SMEs buying standard broadband products

• January 26, 2016 26 Jan'16

  Challenger finance firms will kill only those banks that fail to evolve

  It’s not doom and gloom for the UK’s traditional banks – as long as they can learn from fintech and transform themselves

• January 25, 2016 25 Jan'16

  Facebook to start building second European datacentre in Ireland

  Facebook to construct second datacentre facility in Ireland after overcoming resident opposition in planning application appeal

• January 25, 2016 25 Jan'16

  Consumers wasting £156 a year on expired broadband offers

  Research by altnet Relish reveals that BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin customers are locked into overpriced broadband deals

• January 25, 2016 25 Jan'16

  Google pays HMRC £130m in tax deal

  Google is to pay more UK tax in line with new rules – £130m, said to cover the last 10 years – but denies any wrongdoing in the past