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• October 02, 2015 02 Oct'15

  In-flight broadband increasingly in demand, says Inmarsat

  Three in five European airline passengers report that they ‘need’ in-flight internet access, according to an Inmarsat report

• October 01, 2015 01 Oct'15

  National Coding Week 2015 – older people can learn programming skills too

  National Coding Week took place from 21 to 25 September 2015 with a programme of activities helping adults in the UK master technical skills

• October 01, 2015 01 Oct'15

  Facebook court judgement threatens Safe Harbour data-sharing agreement with US

  The European Court of Justice (ECJ) could torpedo the EU/US Safe Harbour agreement following the US National Security Agency's (NSA) mass surveillance on EU citizens using Facebook data

• October 01, 2015 01 Oct'15

  Worldwide #peacehack hackathons use technology to promote peace

  A number of simultaneous hackathons have been held across the globe to promote the use of technology to encourage peace

• October 01, 2015 01 Oct'15

  Brightsolid opens Tier III datacentre in Aberdeen to support oil and gas sector

  DC Thompson-backed datacentre operator opens third facility in Scotland to tap into cloud demands of oil, gas and public sector markets

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  Free energy from radio waves could power the internet of things

  A pocket-sized pollution monitor is one of the first applications to use free energy from Wi-Fi and mobile phone signals

• September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Monique Shivanandan, Aviva

  Aviva’s CIO, Monique Shivanandan, talks agile working, digital disruption and changing the culture of a complex 300-year-old company

• September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15

  US diplomats warn of economic dangers of scrapping Safe Harbour Agreement

  European Court of Justice confirms judgement on the future of the US Safe Harbour Agreement will be made public on 6 October

• September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15

  Surrey University 5G lab puts UK plc at forefront of mobile innovation

  At the launch of Surrey University’s 5G Innovation Centre in September 2015, mobile experts said the lab will put the UK at the heart of networking development

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  NHS hospital hails cost benefits of datacentre consolidation project

  Conquest Hospital claims sever room upgrade has made its operations more cost effective and energy efficient

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  Apple's Irish datacentre build hit by possible planning permission appeal delay

  A "valid appeal" has reportedly been raised in response to Galway County Council's decision to grant conditional planning permission for Apple's Irish datacentre build

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  TalkTalk: We will beat BT on fibre broadband take-up rates

  As it connects its first trial customers to its Ultra Fibre Optic network in York, TalkTalk says it can beat BT on customer take-up and cost of roll-out

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  ICO warns over public Wi-Fi data

  The Information Commissioner’s Office speaks out on public Wi-Fi network security

• September 25, 2015 25 Sep'15

  Brit spooks snoop on users of the BBC, Facebook, Google and more

  Documents handed to The Intercept by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal that GCHQ has harvested data from users of search engine, social media, news and adult websites, as well as online radio

• September 25, 2015 25 Sep'15

  BT embarks on year-long IPv6 transition

  BT says it will move its entire network to IPv6 by the end of 2016

• September 24, 2015 24 Sep'15

  Lloyds Banking Group launches scheme to develop digital talent

  Lloyds Banking Group has formalised a graduate programme to develop digital banking skills, with 29 graduates embarking on the two-year scheme

• September 24, 2015 24 Sep'15

  Nordea Bank signs Temenos and Accenture for core banking transformation

  Nordea Bank AB has chosen the core banking system it wants to build its digital future on, signing Temenos and Accenture as technology partners

• September 24, 2015 24 Sep'15

  IP network upgrade rings the changes for Liberian operator Libtelco

  Libtelco, the only fixed-line telecoms operator in Liberia, turned to Cataleya to support a nationwide network upgrade

• September 24, 2015 24 Sep'15

  Enterprises warned off rushing into software-defined datacentre investments

  Market watcher Gartner has urged users to take a cautious approach to software-defined datacentre investments

• September 23, 2015 23 Sep'15

  Tech innovation leads the 'slow demise of traditional broadcast'

  The broadcast sector is being revolutionised by internet technology, as delegates to the annual IBC show in Amsterdam found out

• September 22, 2015 22 Sep'15

  Belgian Privacy Commission accuses Facebook of using NSA tactics to spy on users

  Belgian Privacy Commission data protection watchdog likens Facebook's data handling processes to those of the US National Security Agency (NSA)

• September 22, 2015 22 Sep'15

  BT unveils ultrafast broadband pledge card to support digital economy

  At an event in London, BT sets out four key pledges around broadband and connectivity to ensure and secure the digital future of the UK

• September 22, 2015 22 Sep'15

  Worldwide Skype outage finally fixed

  Microsoft-owned messaging service's technical difficulties have now been resolved, after users flooded social networking sites with downtime reports

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  UK broadband consistently top among major European markets

  The UK is outperforming other major European countries on a number of fixed telecoms measures and will continue to do so, says an Analysys Mason report

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  AWS datacentre service trouble hits Netflix users

  North Virginia datacentre hit by service trouble, blighting delivery of more than 30 of the cloud giant's products

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  Gigabit network is more than a fringe benefit for city of Edinburgh

  As CityFibre begins a 150km fibre dig in Edinburgh, local businesses and the city council outline their objectives and plans for ultrafast broadband

• September 18, 2015 18 Sep'15

  Oxford City Council chooses SCC for 10-year datacentre hosting contract

  Local authority has selected IT services giant SCC to assist with fulfilling its datacentre hosting, infrastructure and server requirements

• September 18, 2015 18 Sep'15

  American Airlines forced to ground flights over IT issues

  US airline confirms "connectivity issue" that prompted it to halt flights from several airports yesterday has now been resolved

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Rugby World Cup host city Gloucester gets free city Wi-Fi network

  BT tries out a free public wireless network in the centre of Gloucester as the city prepares to host the Rugby World Cup

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Singapore general election reveals growing importance of social media

  Organisations in all sectors in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) countries are recognising the influence of social networking

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  Consumers to get connection vouchers for satellite broadband

  DCMS looks set to offer connection vouchers to help consumers access satellite broadband in remote parts of the UK

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Stewart Bromley, Atom Bank

  Atom bank's chief operating officer Stewart Bromley talks about the advantage of starting from scratch with all services available through an app

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  Surrey University opens 5G Innovation Centre with pioneering demos

  Surrey University cuts the ribbon on its 5G Innovation Centre and shows off some early technical advances with video streaming and IoT technology

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  Boeing to offer ViaSat broadband service on new aircraft

  Boeing signs a technical agreement to offer ViaSat’s broadband connectivity as an option on all new commercial aircraft

• September 14, 2015 14 Sep'15

  Haircare firm GHD rehomes hybrid cloud infrastructure in new Rackspace datacentre

  Haircare product maker shifts hybrid website infrastructure to Rackspace's Crawley datacentre in preparation for Christmas rush

• September 14, 2015 14 Sep'15

  Openreach rivals say no to more Openreach regulation

  Members of the Infrastructure Investors Group pressurise Ofcom to support fairer competition in infrastructure investment with lighter regulation

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  European Commission consults on the future of telecoms and broadband

  Twin European Commission (EC) consultations on the future of broadband and a review of the current telecoms framework will run until December 2015

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  HP topples Cisco to become cloud infrastructure equipment market leader

  Hardware giant overtakes rival in the cloud infrastructure market as demand for servers, storage and private cloud-enabling kit soars

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  BT extends fibre roll-out across London

  BT extends its commercial fibre roll-out in a number of London boroughs as it targets 95% coverage in the capital two years from now

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  Tennis governing body ATP outsources digital development

  The men's world tennis governing body, the ATP, signs Infosys to help it use digital technology to better engage fans and players

• September 10, 2015 10 Sep'15

  Digital kiosks fail to stem Argos sales decline

  Retailer Argos reports a small increase in sales in comparison to its last quarter, but still suffers revenue decline year-on-year despite digital initiatives

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  BBC announces digital content season as part of Make it Digital initiative

  Six months on from the launch of its Make it Digital initiative to help children embrace technology, the BBC announces digital content season across its media channels

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  Government Digital Service builds in-house PaaS to host government services

  Industry watchers query why the Government Digital Service (GDS) decided to build its own cloud platform, when many commercially available options exist

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  Virgin Media Business extends ultrafast service to Manchester tech quarter

  Businesses in Manchester’s government-backed startup hub are to get access to 50Mbps and 100Mbps ultrafast broadband services

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  Chef secures $40m spending round as enterprise DevOps adoption soars

  Automation software supplier Chef dismisses buyout talk after sharing details of latest funding round

• September 08, 2015 08 Sep'15

  One-third of schools admit to making no investment in coding training for teachers

  The current computing curriculum has been in place for a year, but the support given to teachers delivering these classes varies across the UK

• September 08, 2015 08 Sep'15

  CityFibre ousts BT from Edinburgh Council WAN

  Edinburgh City Council to connect 294 of its sites to CityFibre’s Edinburgh Core fibre network as it ends a long-term contract with BT

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  Philippines' roadmap aims for 500 startups by 2020

  The government of the Philippines is eager to emulate its success in BPO in the IT startup sector

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  School kids would rather study coding than a foreign language, says Ocado

  A year since computer science was added to the school curriculum Ocado discovers kids would rather learn to code than to speak another language

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  Myanmar internet gets boost with content delivery network

  Myanmar internet users will start benefiting from changes in the law that encourages foreign direct investment in communications infrastructures

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  BBC director general Tony Hall proposes an 'open BBC for the internet age'

  As the internet changes the way the public consumes content, the BBC proposes to make itself a platform for UK talent and an ongoing trustworthy source

• September 04, 2015 04 Sep'15

  Wandsworth Council housing tenants get gigabit fibre broadband

  Wandsworth Council and Community Fibre pilot a gigabit fibre network on a Battersea council estate

• September 03, 2015 03 Sep'15

  IBM and ARM deepen collaboration around internet of things

  IBM and ARM to offer device and risk management, as well as analytics capabilities, for the internet of things

• September 02, 2015 02 Sep'15

  GDS sees “significant demand” for government’s unused IPv4 addresses

  GDS says it has released some value from the sale of unused IPv4 addresses belonging to the Department of Work and Pensions

• September 02, 2015 02 Sep'15

  Virgin Media earmarks £25m for broadband in Nottingham

  Virgin Media is to offer its ultrafast 152Mbps service to 50,000 homes and businesses in Nottingham as part of its £3bn national network investment

• September 01, 2015 01 Sep'15

  The US Federal Aviation Administration's hybrid cloud plans take flight with help from CSC

  US aerospace agency sets out plans to wind down its datacentre investments and move more of its IT to the cloud

• September 01, 2015 01 Sep'15

  Google accused of abusing market position in India

  Google has until 10 September 2015 to respond to the findings of an Indian Competition Commission investigation into allegations of anti-competitive business practices

• August 28, 2015 28 Aug'15

  Google denies abusing dominant market position in Europe

  Internet giant says the preliminary findings of the EC's investigation into its business practices are “wrong as a matter of fact, law and economics"

• August 27, 2015 27 Aug'15

  Kellogg Brown and Root wins ESN Delivery Partner contract

  Kellogg Brown and Root has won the contract to supply Lot 1 of the Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme

• August 25, 2015 25 Aug'15

  Openreach connects first test customers to G.fast broadband

  Openreach switches on its first pilot of G.fast ultrafast broadband services in Huntingdon

• August 24, 2015 24 Aug'15

  Scottish government launches £9m community broadband project

  Scottish Rural Development Programme will offer grants to community-led fibre broadband projects around Scotland

• August 24, 2015 24 Aug'15

  Labour MP Chris Bryant calls for Openreach sell-off from BT

  Labour’s Chris Bryant says Ofcom’s communications review should be working on the basis that the split of Openreach from BT is a done deal

• August 21, 2015 21 Aug'15

  Westcountry businesses’ anger over Devon and Somerset broadband fiasco

  More than 14,000 businesses tell Connecting Devon and Somerset to get its act together over rural broadband after it binned its second-phase BDUK contract with BT

• August 20, 2015 20 Aug'15

  Altnet association calls for share of BDUK clawback cash

  Broadband trade association Inca calls for BT’s BDUK broadband claw-back money to be opened up to altnet suppliers

• August 20, 2015 20 Aug'15

  Broadband Stakeholder Group to review UK net neutrality policy

  The Broadband Stakeholder Group commissions an independent review into the UK’s industry-led approach to net neutrality and the open internet

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Hybrid cloud two to five years off hitting mainstream adoption, claims Gartner

  Hybrid IT approach is still some way off reaching mainstream levels of enterprise adoption, according to market watcher Gartner

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Hyperoptic turns on gigabit service in Nottingham

  Urban FTTP supplier Hyperoptic has switched on its gigabit fibre broadband service in Nottingham

• August 17, 2015 17 Aug'15

  Equinix partners with AquaComms to create high-capacity transatlantic datacentre network

  Equinix partners with AquaComms to create high-capacity transatlantic datacentre network

• August 17, 2015 17 Aug'15

  Netflix shuts down final datacentre to go all-in on public cloud

  Netflix is gearing up for the closure of its final datacentre, as it makes good on its earlier pledge to move more of its IT infrastructure to the public cloud

• August 14, 2015 14 Aug'15

  Met Police seeks MSPs as digital forensic investigations move closer to the frontline

  Metropolitan Police Force wants to make it easier for frontline staff to embark on forensic investigations involving digital devices with the help of MSPs

• August 14, 2015 14 Aug'15

  EC awards €8m to consortium to develop cloud-enabled 5G network

  Consortium led by incumbent Greek telco OTE awarded €8m of funding to support RAN virtualisation and mobile edge cloud computing for 5G networks

• August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15

  Gloucester City Homes embarks on VDI-led tech transformation with Exponential-e

  Social housing firm taps into Exponential-e's Ethernet capabilities to make it easier for its staff to work flexibly

• August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15

  Ofcom launches mobile network coverage checker

  Ofcom gives smartphone users the ability to check their operator’s mobile phone coverage at postcode level using an online tool

• August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15

  Cisco leadership hits the ground running in strong fourth quarter

  New CEO Chuck Robbins closes out the fourth quarter on a high note and speaks of a renewed energy at the network supplier

• August 12, 2015 12 Aug'15

  Vodafone extends home broadband service across the UK

  Vodafone rolls out its home broadband service nationwide following a successful trial

• August 12, 2015 12 Aug'15

  Liverpool is best for mobile internet performance, says RootMetrics

  Liverpool has UK's best mobile network performance, reliability and speed, according to new analysis by RootMetrics

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  BDUK broadband roll-out reaches three million homes and businesses

  The BDUK superfast broadband roll-out has hit three million premises around the UK

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  Digital Scotland claws back £18m for superfast broadband

  Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband programme receives an £18m funding boost to extend rural connectivity

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  Hootsuite moves social media management toolkit to IBM Softlayer cloud

  Social media management dashboard maker shifts App Directory to IBM cloud

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  Hotel trade body offers members 100GbE networking capability

  Hospitality sector trade association Hospa partners with network provider Exponential-e to enhance connectivity for its members

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  Google now an Alphabet company

  Alphabet is a new parent company that includes a “slimmed down” Google alongside companies not related to core internet products

• August 10, 2015 10 Aug'15

  BDUK ad campaign cost taxpayer £5m

  New figures released by DCMS reveal the government’s superfast broadband advertising campaign cost it over £5m

• August 10, 2015 10 Aug'15

  Carphone Warehouse data breach hits 2.4 million UK customers

  Carphone Warehouse confirms the authorities have been notified about the breach, and urges customers to take steps to protect themselves

• August 07, 2015 07 Aug'15

  HMRC releases update on personal tax accounts

  A test version of HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) long awaited personal tax accounts has been launched to assess user needs

• August 07, 2015 07 Aug'15

  Emerson Network Power makes case for datacentre PUE calculation overhaul

  Datacentre power expert makes case for the amount of water a facility consumes to be included in PUE calculations from now on

• August 07, 2015 07 Aug'15

  Battle lines being drawn for control of domestic internet of things

  A Gartner report suggests that ISPs will be fighting one another for control of the home IoT gateway

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  Smartphones now device of choice for UK consumers

  Smartphones have overtaken laptops and PCs as the most popular device used for browsing the internet, according to Ofcom

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  Skyscape cuts cloud storage price by 50% for public sector IaaS users

  Cloud services provider cites growing public sector business as reason for latest round of price cuts

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  What will happen to digital government when GDS chief Mike Bracken moves on?

  The government’s digital chief Mike Bracken has announced he will be leaving, raising concerns over the future of digital government

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  GE prepares Predix platform as a service

  GE plans to offer internal Predix analytics platform as a service to drive adoption of industrial internet apps

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  Customers on Gigaclear waiting list to get satellite broadband

  Altnets Gigaclear and SSW agree to collaborate on rural broadband roll-out using satellite services as a stopgap

• August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15

  City of Liverpool College joins Jisc shared-services datacentre in Slough

  Further education college set to use facility to help support roll-out of shared-services portfolio to other colleges

• August 03, 2015 03 Aug'15

  Huawei supplier ecosystem to help financial industry emulate internet giants

  Huawei targets the European finance sector, with a focus on the UK, through an ecosystem of niche IT suppliers

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  Ark Data Centres to underpin delivery of BT's managed cloud services

  BT signs multi-year deal with datacentre provider to support its push into the cloud integrator market

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  Facebook to boost Internet.org with UK drone

  Facebook is ready to test a UK-developed drone that is designed to fly in a circle with a radius of about 1.8 miles and provide internet coverage for an area with a radius of 30 miles

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  BT Group's first-quarter results buoyed by superfast broadband and mobile demand

  BT Group's first-quarter results highlight successes in superfast broadband and mobile divisions, but analyst warns of challenging times to come

• July 29, 2015 29 Jul'15

  MPs to investigate superfast broadband roll-out to final 5% of UK

  Select committee inquiry will assess what is needed to provide high-speed connectivity to the 1.5 million premises outside current roll-out plans

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  Digital adoption boosts GDP, says Accenture

  Digital technologies boost a country's competitive advantage and drive up its economic growth, Accenture has found

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  IoT device makers stand to lose out on software licensing revenues, warns Gartner

  Gartner claims many IoT device manufacturers could lose out on recurring revenues by failing to safeguard their software investments

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  ElasticHosts-owned Springs.IO debuts use-based pricing for Docker-like IaaS

  Springs.IO says using Linux-based container technology can help users cut cloud costs