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Internet infrastructure

• 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

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Scottish government denies "cloud-washing" mobile device procurement framework

  Scottish government's National Framework for Cloud Computing and Proprietary Devices risks confusing suppliers, claim analysts

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Alibaba makes data protection pledge to Aliyun cloud users

  Chinese cloud firm makes data protection promises, as it gears up for overseas expansion

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  IBM steps up open-source cloud commitment to developers

  Big Blue has unveiled several open-source initiatives geared towards helping developers make cloud apps

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  Worldwide public cloud spend tipped to hit $70bn in 2015

  Latest IDC cloud spending data highlights growing appetite for public cloud services across several vertical markets

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  Investment in the internet of things boosts revenue for manufacturers

  A TCS report reveals executives plan to increase spending on IoT initiatives to boost business

• July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15

  Retail should invest in upskilling to close employee skills gaps

  A report by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills suggests retailers will need to invest in upskilling to prevent a drop-off from older employees and appeal to the younger generation

• July 20, 2015 20 Jul'15

  Openreach CEO defends current operating model

  Openreach CEO Joe Garner says that separating the organisation from BT would make no sense in light of improvements to its service

• July 17, 2015 17 Jul'15

  Stop telling patients not to Google – one man’s quest for joined-up healthcare

  Technologies such as Google, health trackers and social media will be contributing factors in the future of joined-up healthcare, says one digital healthcare advocate

• July 17, 2015 17 Jul'15

  Hunt elects Martha Lane Fox to develop NHS digital innovation proposal

  Jeremy Hunt has asked Martha Lane Fox to develop a proposal for more digital technology and innovation in healthcare

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Puppet Labs hails importance of IT managers in winning over DevOps sceptics in the enterprise

  Automation supplier's fourth annual DevOps research report highlights the important role IT managers play in ensuring enterprise-wide adoption

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  UK tech sector called to contribute to EC Digital Single Market consultations

  Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) says UK must feed back to the European Commission (EC) to inform the delivery of its Digital Single Market vision

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Ofcom starts debate over future of BT and Openreach

  Telecoms regulator Ofcom wants to hear industry opinions on competition in broadband and mobile networks – including on BT's Openreach subsidiary

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Specialist clothing brand Musto deploys Cybertill point of sale system

  Luxury sailing brand Musto signs payments company Cybertill to redesign its point of sale (POS) system for its multichannel operation

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  GDS creates outcomes framework for digital inclusion

  Government Digital Service (GDS) launches Digital Inclusion Outcomes Framework to act as a template for digital inclusion evaluation

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  Huawei to implement 4.5G network for Shanghai Disney

  Huawei signs world’s first 4.5G network co-operation agreement to implement a smart city network at the Shanghai Disney resort

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  Nordic region has most connected 'things' per person

  Study shows Nordic countries are leading the way in the internet of things, but are yet to use it for business transformation

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  AWS to build wind farm in North Carolina to power its cloud datacentres

  AWS follows up earlier renewable energy pledge by setting out plans to build 208MW wind farm

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  Rackspace brings public cloud managed support to Microsoft Azure

  Managed cloud provider Rackspace strikes a support partnership deal with Microsoft to monitor and control the firm's Azure public cloud service

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  UK to invest £45m in digital research and skills

  Millions of pounds will be invested in building research centres to fuel the UK’s digital economy research and skills

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  GE predictive analytics optimises Irish Power electricity production

  Irish Power is an early adopter of GE's predictive analytics tool suite Reliability Excellence from GE, built on the company’s Predix platform

• July 10, 2015 10 Jul'15

  Government moves to cut broadband red tape

  The government is considering making a temporary relaxation of broadband infrastructure planning regulations a permanent fixture

• July 10, 2015 10 Jul'15

  Government produces Digital Transformation Plan to boost UK productivity

  Chancellor George Osborne's Digital Transformation Plan puts digital technologies at the heart of the UK's economic future

• July 10, 2015 10 Jul'15

  PayPal most trusted mobile wallet in UK as Apple Pay set for launch

  Although it expects rapid adoption, Apple Pay faces challenges scaling in the UK with consumer trust in other providers – notably PayPal

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  Government finds £10m for ultrafast broadband in the South West

  The government announces a £10m funding boost for ultrafast BDUK projects in the South West of England

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Do we really need bank branches?

  Bank branches are being used less and less, but that doesn't mean customers are getting a less personal service

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  From cars to cranes, Nordic industry is embracing the industrial internet of things

  Nordic industry is beginning to use industrial internet of things (IIoT) technologies such as machine learning, big data and the internet of things (IoT)

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Marks & Spencer online sales grow as relaunched website takes off

  Online sales rise at food and clothing retailer Marks & Spencer as it comes out of the other side of a redesign for its e-commerce website

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Successful IoT projects beget further innovation, says Vodafone

  Vodafone’s M2M Barometer report says that, once organisations extract value from an internet of things (IoT) project, they quickly find further applications

• July 07, 2015 07 Jul'15

  BDUK arrives on the Outer Hebrides

  Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband surfaces in Stornoway on the Isle of Harris

• July 06, 2015 06 Jul'15

  Gigaclear wins third BDUK superfast broadband contract

  Altnet Gigaclear continues its drive to infill gaps in the BDUK scheme after winning a contract to supply more than 10,000 properties from Superfast Berkshire

• July 03, 2015 03 Jul'15

  Sales of cloud-enabling infrastructure grew 25% in Q1, finds IDC

  IDC cloud infrastructure tracker suggests enterprises are coming round to the idea of hybrid IT

• July 03, 2015 03 Jul'15

  Superfast Cornwall broadband roll-out boosts local economy by £186m

  The Superfast Cornwall fibre broadband roll-out programme hits its 95% coverage target, with more than £186m of economic benefit already realised

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  BBC to cut 1,000 jobs and merge tech teams due to low licence fees

  The BBC will cut jobs and merge its technology teams in an effort to save funds after a drop in licence fees as fewer people watch live TV

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  Local digital services “not my job” says GDS’s Bracken

  The government’s digital chief was questioned over how local authorities can collaborate with Whitehall on common challenges

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Sungard follows Apple, Facebook and Microsoft's lead with Irish datacentre plans

  Sungard teams up with Digital Realty to create new Irish datacentre

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  CipherCloud and CSA lead calls for cloud security open APIs

  The pair have teamed up to create a working group that will guide the industry on how to make the cloud more secure, but in an open way

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Public and government attitudes to smart cities a vicious circle

  A survey of attitudes towards smart cities conducted by comms infrastructure supplier Arqiva has revealed a vicious circle of ignorance

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Unified commerce the next step for retailers

  Retailers should be adopting a unified platform and rethinking the value of stores if they want a true omni-channel business, says Demandware

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Government should follow in private sector’s footsteps if it wants digital to succeed

  The government should use tactics deployed by the private sector if it wants to encourage the public to use online services

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Gigaclear to bring gigabit broadband to 4,500 Essex properties

  Fibre broadband supplier Gigaclear wins a contract to deploy a network in Epping Forest as part of Superfast Essex’s Rural Challenge Project

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  AWS to open first datacentres in India from 2016

  Public cloud giant wants to tap into sub-continent's growing demand for cloud services while tackling latency and sovereignty issues

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  West Yorkshire extends BT BDUK contract in £13m deal

  West Yorkshire Combined Authority will extend the Superfast West Yorkshire BDUK scheme to 28,000 more properties by 2018

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  European enterprises deploy one new cloud service a day, research shows

  Skyhigh Networks' European cloud adoption report flags concerns about how much insight IT has into what employees do in the cloud

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  EC ends roaming charges and reinforces net neutrality across EU nations

  The European Commission (EC) enacts legislation to end mobile roaming charges and reinforce the principle of a free and open internet across the European Union (EU)

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Microsoft in the dark after Parliamentary email disrupted for three days

  After a week of investigations, Microsoft has been unable to provide an explanation for failure of the Microsoft 365 cloud-based email service used by Parliament

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Challenger finance firms taunt banks over legacy IT at SAP services conference

  Challenger finance companies presented at a SAP financial services event to inject some urgency into the banking sector

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  BT rejects Sky calls for Openreach competition inquest

  BT hits back after Sky asks telecoms regulator Ofcom to initiate a full investigation into Openreach

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Cisco launches IoT System for enterprise and smart cities

  Cisco unveils 15 products to address the growing complexity of internet of things deployments

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Devon and Somerset Councils throw out BT BDUK bid

  Devon and Somerset Councils reject BT’s bid for Phase 2 of BDUK and will put the contract back out to tender

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Alstom runs 4G LTE multi-services pilot for train operations

  Transport engineering company Alstom conducts the first live pilot test of 4G LTE multi-services on French railways

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Choose Digital CTO makes case for "NoOps" software delivery approach

  Allowing developers to create, test and deploy updates alone lets companies take risks and innovate with greater ease, argues Mario Cruz

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  TalkTalk sets UFO FTTP broadband price bar low

  TalkTalk reveals details of prices and packages for its ultrafast fibre UFO network in York

• June 22, 2015 22 Jun'15

  Interview: Christina Page explains how Yahoo keeps its datacentres green and clean

  Yahoo's global director for sustainability explains why cloud providers need to get clued up on renewable energy

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Nordic companies drive the future of the smartcar industry

  Nordic companies are pioneering the smartcar industry as businesses and consumers turn to software to improve efficiency and safety

• June 16, 2015 16 Jun'15

  Facebook confirms plans to build second European datacentre in Ireland

  Social networking giant Facebook puts paid to weeks of speculation by confirming plans to open new datacentre in Ireland

• June 15, 2015 15 Jun'15

  Wikimedia to encrypt all connections by default

  The Wikimedia Foundation calls on all sites to join its move to encrypt all connections by default

• June 12, 2015 12 Jun'15

  Level 3 outage slows down the internet

  Internet services around the world have suffered a major slowdown following an outage on Level 3’s tier one fibre network

• June 11, 2015 11 Jun'15

  Greenpeace ranks world's most popular websites on renewable energy use

  Campaign group releases Chrome browser extension that gives web users at-a-glance information on the clean energy habits of internet sites

• June 10, 2015 10 Jun'15

  Pressure grows on AWS to power more datacentres with green energy

  Public cloud giant is being called on again to be more transparent about its use of renewable energy, this time by Green America

• June 10, 2015 10 Jun'15

  OnApp helps small public cloud firms take on AWS, Google and Microsoft

  The OnApp Federation marketplace will help smaller firms compete more effectively with the public cloud giants, it is claimed

• June 10, 2015 10 Jun'15

  Gartner: Smart machines are coming

  CIOs will need to assess how smart machines, capable of making decisions without human intervention, will impact business processes

• June 10, 2015 10 Jun'15

  Oxford and Cambridge University colleges turn to Aerohive to manage WLAN traffic

  Colleges and institutions at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge are attempting to mitigate the effects of the substantial demand on their wireless networks

• June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15

  Local government blind to internet of things savings

  A report from Vodafone says local councils could save billions by implementing smart city systems, but are ignorant to the possibilities

• June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15

  Iomart builds out hybrid cloud play with £12.5m SystemsUp acquisition

  Hosting company buys public cloud consultancy to capitalise on enterprise appetites for hybrid IT models

• June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15

  HMRC denies reports of Verify causing users problems

  HMRC has denied that problems faced by the public attempting to claim marriage tax breaks are caused by the Gov.uk Verify scheme

• June 08, 2015 08 Jun'15

  Public cloud emerges as Europe's least popular off-premise IT deployment method

  Easynet research investigating European IT decision-maker buying trends suggests private cloud rules the roost

• June 05, 2015 05 Jun'15

  UK mobile payments to hit more than £1.2bn a week by 2020

  Brits are spending more using their mobile phones, reveals Visa Europe research

• June 04, 2015 04 Jun'15

  Peer demands action over ‘illegal’ Prism programme

  US technology companies are operating illegally by accessing data on UK citizens, Lord Laird tells the House of Lords

• June 04, 2015 04 Jun'15

  Ed Vaizey to chair Digital Infrastructure Taskforce for broadband and mobile

  Digital economy minister Ed Vaizey will take charge of a Digital Infrastructure Taskforce focused on broadband, mobile and the digital economy

• June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15

  City of Groningen to create smart city infrastructure

  Groningen in the Netherlands signs a memorandum of understanding with Huawei to develop a smart city infrastructure

• June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15

  Digital signage and manufacturing are fastest-growing IoT sectors

  The worldwide market for internet of things systems will grow to a total value of $1.7tn in 2020, according to analyst house IDC

• June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15

  Equinix bought TelecityGroup for datacentre connectivity locations, says vice-president Eric Schwarz

  Datacentre operator Equinix admits £2.3bn deal to buy TelecityGroup could spark a flurry of merger and acquisition activity elsewhere in the market

• June 02, 2015 02 Jun'15

  HP updates Helion CloudSystem as hybrid cloud push gathers pace

  Hardware giant reinforces commitment to hybrid, open cloud push with updates to Helion CloudSystem software

• June 02, 2015 02 Jun'15

  EPSRC launches £10m IoT hub to explore security issues

  The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is to run a contest to develop a research hub to explore the security issues around the Internet of Things

• June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15

  Interview: Praveen Akkiraju, CEO, VCE

  Six months on from becoming an EMC-owned company, VCE CEO Praveen Akkiraju talks about how the move will benefit his firm

• June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15

  Microsoft seeks planning permission for another Dublin datacentre

  Software giant will have to wait until August to see if the application for its latest Irish facility has been accepted

• June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15

  BBC tests 4G broadcasting at FA Cup final

  The BBC turns to EE to test out 4G-powered mobile broadcasting during the FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium

• May 29, 2015 29 May'15

  CIO interview: Billie Laidlaw, RSPCA

  RSPCA CIO Billie Laidlaw explains how the charity's cloud-first approach to IT procurement benefits the animals in its care

• May 29, 2015 29 May'15

  Google pads out internet of things ecosystem with Brillo

  Google launches Brillo IoT operating system and Weave device communications protocol at Google I/O developer event in San Francisco

• May 29, 2015 29 May'15

  Equinix to acquire datacentre rival TelecityGroup for £2.35bn

  Equinix's bid to acquire rival wins backing of the board, beating Interxion to the crunch