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• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  McDonald's to engage with tech-savvy customers in restaurants

  McDonald’s is engaging with customers by implementing interactive technologies in its restaurants

• November 05, 2013 05 Nov'13

  Government urged to release planning data for future city construction

  Data will have a large role to play in the designing of buildings in future cities, but the UK government needs to make data from planning and designs accessible now

• November 04, 2013 04 Nov'13

  EE to launch 300 Mbps 4G network in London

  Mobile operator EE has launched an LTE-Advanced network, which it claims to be the fastest 4G mobile network in the world

• November 01, 2013 01 Nov'13

  Governments need to work with tech startups to solve social problems

  Governments around the world should look to startups to solve social problems more efficiently

• November 01, 2013 01 Nov'13

  AT&T eyes up Vodafone for buyout

  The US mobile giant is rumoured to be looking for an entrance to the UK market by buying the UK-based firm

• November 01, 2013 01 Nov'13

  UK startups call for change

  The Web Summit conference in Dublin was a hot bed for technology startups, who told Computer Weekly about the challenges they face.

• November 01, 2013 01 Nov'13

  Big businesses must stay fresh by acquiring innovative SMEs, says Cisco

  Big companies must keep up with changing technologies by acquiring innovative startups, says Cisco

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  BDUK seeks new CEO

  The top job within the division with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport charged with rolling out broadband across the UK is up for grabs

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  UK cities fail to offer superfast broadband

  Not one of the UK’s 50 major cities has yet to reach average download speeds of 24Mbps – the government’s definition of superfast broadband

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  Companies need to think about user experience as HR technology takes off

  Companies are replacing 10-year old, on-premise HR systems, with cloud based alternatives, says consultant Jason Averbrook,

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  BT Sport hits telecoms giant’s profits

  The UK telecoms firm reports a fall in profits as it continues to invest into its new television services

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  Media agencies must go “digital first” to survive, says The Guardian

  Embracing digital is the only way media organisations will survive, said chief technology officer of The Guardian, Tanya Cordrey

• October 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  Three quarters of UK homes can access superfast broadband

  A report from telecoms regulator Ofcom claims three in four homes can now access superfast internet connections and adoption of the technology is on the rise

• October 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  BT and Whitehall tell council to keep BDUK postcodes quiet

  BT and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) told Cumbria County Council to keep BDUK roll-out locations secret

• October 24, 2013 24 Oct'13

  Legacy IT preventing councils from delivering better digital services

  Local authorities are being held back by their legacy IT systems from delivering improved and cost-effective digital services

• October 24, 2013 24 Oct'13

  Naming authority Icann announces internet domains in Arabic, Chinese and Cyrillic

  Internet naming authority Icann has announced four non-Latin generic top-level domains in Arabic, Chinese and Cyrillic scripts

• October 23, 2013 23 Oct'13

  The commercial reality of Huawei’s trust issues

  The Chinese firm is working tirelessly to tell the world it can be trusted but, the US remains unwilling to budge

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  MEPs vote to tighten data protection rules after internet surveillance revelations

  MEPs want internet companies to personally inform European citizens of any requests to transfer their data outside the EU

• October 18, 2013 18 Oct'13

  Mobile operators ready to embrace Wi-Fi

  The CEO of the Wi-Fi Alliance claims ‘the era of reticence and resentment is gone’ and mobile operators are now looking to how Wi-Fi can benefit them, rather than seeing it as their enemy

• October 18, 2013 18 Oct'13

  Technology and innovation in European banks

  Innovations in online and mobile, in video banking, social integration and CRM, are taking precedence to connect with banking customers

• October 18, 2013 18 Oct'13

  Google share price at record high on third quarter results

  Google’s share price has hit a record high in response to better-than-expected third quarter results

• October 18, 2013 18 Oct'13

  High-growth companies selected for government Future Fifty programme

  The first high-growth UK companies have been chosen for the government’s Future Fifty fast-track programme.

• October 17, 2013 17 Oct'13

  Spanish bank La Caixa looks to startups for innovation

  La Caixa is looking for ways to innovate in an increasingly competitive environment, and is turning to startups for new and niche technologies

• October 17, 2013 17 Oct'13

  EE offers 4G broadband to rural areas

  The UK mobile operator is targeting its 4G broadband packages at rural areas missing out from superfast connections

• October 16, 2013 16 Oct'13

  UK average internet speeds up 48%

  The latest State of the Internet report from Akamai shows the UK rising up the ranks when it comes to average connection speeds

• October 16, 2013 16 Oct'13

  Case study: Yellow Pages digitises records for the web

  Canada's Yellow Pages is investing in a digitisation programme to compete with online information providers, such as Google, Facebook and Yell

• October 16, 2013 16 Oct'13

  Huawei confirms UK R&D centre

  Huawei says it will build an R&D centre as part of its £1.3bn UK investment after the firm's CEO met Chancellor George Osborne

• October 16, 2013 16 Oct'13

  Ofcom seeks bidders for MoD 4G spectrum

  Telecoms regulator Ofcom is given 190MHz of spectrum by the MoD for commercial use, so another auction could be on its way

• October 16, 2013 16 Oct'13

  Yahoo puts positive spin on third quarter despite revenue drop

  Yahoo has reported revenue of $1.14bn for the quarter ended September 30, 2013, a 5% fall compared with the same period a year ago

• October 14, 2013 14 Oct'13

  Vodafone completes Kabel Deutschland acquisition

  The mobile operator pays out £6.6bn for Germany's largest cable company

• October 14, 2013 14 Oct'13

  BT seeks startups for superfast broadband services

  BT joins East London's TechHub encouraging startups to develop applications and services using superfast connectivity

• October 14, 2013 14 Oct'13

  Case study: South Staffordshire College leads technology revolution in education

  South Staffordshire College is to open a digital campus, where students will be encouraged to immerse themselves in education through tech

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Building railways not broadband is a ‘strategic mistake’

  The chief technology officer for Microsoft in EMEA claims the government is making a mistake investing billions into HS2 rather than broadband infrastructure which could enable more mobile working

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Case study: Sky Broadband looks to scale with Cisco

  Sky Broadband ISP chooses Cisco’s new Network Convergence System (NCS) to meet the demand of its growing customer base

• October 10, 2013 10 Oct'13

  NHS to replace NPfIT Spine system with open-source technology

  The NHS is rebuilding its Spine platform using open source software

• October 10, 2013 10 Oct'13

  BIS launches Smart Cities Forum to capitalise on the growing industry

  The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has launched an initiative to help the UK develop smart cities

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  Alcatel-Lucent to axe 10,000 staff

  The networking company’s new CEO continues his cost saving plan by wiping almost 14% of its global workforce

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  Misys expects payback in 12 months from talent management in the cloud

  Financial software company Misys has opted for a cloud based talent management system, after SAP proved wanting.

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  Rural 10% forced to wait for broadband

  The most rural areas of the UK may have to wait for BT to complete the BDUK broadband roll-out before they get connected

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  UK breaks into ITU’s top 10 for ICT development

  UK takes eighth place in International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU’s) league table for ICT deployments and adoption

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  UK companies missing from top 100 innovators

  UK companies have failed to make it onto a global ranking of the 100 most innovative organisations

• October 07, 2013 07 Oct'13

  Government holds consultation on broadband delivery

  A meeting to tap the industry for its knowledge on broadband delivery is taking place in Whitehall today, but DCMS gives little notice for companies to be prepared

• October 02, 2013 02 Oct'13

  Ofcom announces UK white space trials

  UK organisations will play a major part in European tests for the wireless technology

• October 02, 2013 02 Oct'13

  Tesco profits drop despite multichannel shopping

  Tesco's pre-tax profits fell 24% to £1.39bn over the first half of its financial year despite adopting multichannel shopping technology

• October 01, 2013 01 Oct'13

  Case Study: London Symphony Orchestra fine tunes Wi-Fi

  London Symphony Orchestra deploys Xirrus technologies at its St Luke’s venue in central London

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Network Rail to boost mobile broadband on trains

  Network Rail will work with industry partners to boost mobile broadband connections for train passengers by 2019

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Charity uses cloud HR system to keep track of staff working in danger zones

  It took a disaster in Haiti to demonstrate to charity World Vision why it needed better HR systems

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Huawei poses no competitive threat to US networking firms, says Enterasys CEO

  Too few US organisations trust China government-linked Huawei for it to pose a threat to networking firms, says Enterasys’s CEO

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  ‘I don’t believe privacy exists,’ claims network executive

  Ipswitch executive claims European businesses more paranoid about privacy than US, where attitudes have changed since 9/11

• September 27, 2013 27 Sep'13

  Google facing European sanctions over data protection

  Google is facing possible European sanctions over its privacy policy after French data protection regulators said the search firm has not complied with its requests

• September 26, 2013 26 Sep'13

  What does the Public Accounts Committee want from BDUK?

  MPs slammed the BDUK broadband process for making it too easy for BT. But how to rectify the situation? We take an in-depth look at the report

• September 25, 2013 25 Sep'13

  Europe threatens to pull out of US data-sharing deal over NSA surveillance claims

  European Parliament threatens to pull out of deal to allows US authorities access to European payment networks for tracking terrorist funding

• September 25, 2013 25 Sep'13

  Cyber attacks to escalate over next decade

  Medical implants, cars and critical infrastructure could be at risk from cyber attacks by the end of the decade, study claims

• September 24, 2013 24 Sep'13

  eBay to harness bricks and mortar to grow online retail

  eBay is working with Argos to provide merchants that use its online platform with a local pick-up point for UK shoppers

• September 23, 2013 23 Sep'13

  US websites should inform EU citizens about NSA surveillance, says report

  US web site providers should inform European citizens that their data may be subject to government surveillance, says a report for the European parliament

• September 18, 2013 18 Sep'13

  Eurostar catches up with Wi-Fi roll-out

  Nomad Digital will supply the technology to bring connectivity to Eurostar’s upcoming fleet of e320s

• September 12, 2013 12 Sep'13

  EU plans an end to high roaming charges

  EU Commissioner for the digital agenda Neelie Kroes has proposed an end to exorbitant mobile voice and data charges when abroad

• September 11, 2013 11 Sep'13

  Case study: Macmillan turns to social media to ease restructuring

  Publishing company Macmillan Science and Education has turned to social media to help it merge businesses in 50 countries into a single operating division

• September 10, 2013 10 Sep'13

  Vodafone confirms five Midlands cities for 4G

  Birmingham, Coventry, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield will all get Vodafone’s 4G services from the end of September

• September 10, 2013 10 Sep'13

  Case study: M2M and cycling aid Diabetes research

  The mHealth Tour will see cyclists use mobile technologies to investigate the link between exercise and blood sugar levels

• September 09, 2013 09 Sep'13

  West Yorkshire signs £22m BDUK contract with BT

  Four local authorities team up for the West Yorkshire project and award BT the contract for rolling out superfast broadband

• September 09, 2013 09 Sep'13

  EE boasts one million 4G customers

  EE reaches its 4G customer target four months early, serving as a reminder to its competition it was the first to market with faster mobile services

• September 05, 2013 05 Sep'13

  European Commissioner Neelie Kroes pushes for 5G despite EU 4G lag

  European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes calls for 5G investment despite a GSMA report showing 4G take-up of just 1% in EU

• September 02, 2013 02 Sep'13

  Vodafone admits ‘advanced discussions’ with Verizon

  Media speculation that the UK firm will sell off its 45% of the US firm Verizon Wireless has truth to it, but the UK operator says there is no certainty that an agreement will be reached

• August 30, 2013 30 Aug'13

  Newcastle and Milton Keynes sign BDUK contracts

  Two more councils award BT with the contract to roll-out superfast broadband as part of the government’s nationwide project

• August 29, 2013 29 Aug'13

  Vodafone and O2 join 4G party

  Vodafone and O2 have ended the temporary 4G monopoly of EE with the launch of services in three UK cities.

• August 28, 2013 28 Aug'13

  Leicestershire signs BDUK contract

  Leicestershire County Council signs a contract with BT to roll-out fibre broadband to 95% of homes and businesses by March 2016

• August 27, 2013 27 Aug'13

  BT to recruit 150 engineers in Scotland

  BT is creating 150 new posts in Scotland to help with its broadband roll-out across the country

• August 27, 2013 27 Aug'13

  ARM buys Sensinode for ‘internet of things’ push

  ARM acquires the start-up to boost communication capabilities between devices and gain a stronger place in the open standards community

• August 27, 2013 27 Aug'13

  BT to shut down dial-up in September

  BT tempts its customers over to broadband services, although also offers PlusNet narrowband alternative for those outside of its footprint

• August 22, 2013 22 Aug'13

  Yahoo pulls ahead of Google for first time since 2011

  Yahoo has recorded the most traffic of any web property in the US for July, beating Google for the first time since May 2011

• August 22, 2013 22 Aug'13

  Vint Cerf: The internet and 40 years of openness

  Father of the internet and Google evangelist, Vint Cerf, speaks to Computer Weekly about tapping, privacy and IP addresses

• August 21, 2013 21 Aug'13

  Worcestershire County Council overlaps connected areas with BDUK broadband roll-out plans

  Worcestershire County Council lists 14 parishes as ‘intervention areas’ despite funding superfast broadband, breaking EU rules

• August 21, 2013 21 Aug'13

  Internet of things to power classroom education

  Businesses and academics have joined forces in an £800,000 project to extend the internet of things into the classroom

• August 21, 2013 21 Aug'13

  Yahoo appoints UK TV executive Dawn Airey to run European operation

  Internet firm Yahoo names UK TV executive Dawn Airey to replace EMEA senior vice-president Rich Riley

• August 21, 2013 21 Aug'13

  Facebook leads mission to connect the world

  Facebook is to join forces with several top tech companies to connect as many parts of the world to the internet as possible

• August 20, 2013 20 Aug'13

  Ofcom champions faster satellite connections

  The telecoms regulator launches a consultation into using higher frequency bands for satellite broadband connections, enabling faster speed for trains, aeroplanes and ships

• August 16, 2013 16 Aug'13

  Multimillion-pound broadband project axed in Yorkshire

  Despite millions of taxpayer’s pounds sunk into the Digital Region project in South Yorkshire, the councils involved decide to drop it to save £12.5m

• August 16, 2013 16 Aug'13

  Facebook tests mobile payments tool

  Facebook is planning to test a mobile payments feature which will automatically fill in payment details when purchasing on mobile apps

• August 15, 2013 15 Aug'13

  UK sites wrongly blocked in Premier League piracy battle

  Users were unable to access a number of UK sites when they were wrongly blocked for copyright infringement

• August 12, 2013 12 Aug'13

  ICO to investigate London bins that track smartphones

  Information Commissioner's Office is making enquiries into bins in London that track passing smartphones to target advertising to owners

• August 09, 2013 09 Aug'13

  Privacy International challenges GCHQ collaborators including BT and Vodafone

  Privacy International has sent a solicitor’s letter to underseas cable operators accusing them of unlawful conduct

• August 08, 2013 08 Aug'13

  72% of UK adults shop online

  Almost three quarters of adults in the UK access the internet on a daily basis and most have bought goods and services online.

• August 07, 2013 07 Aug'13

  UK average broadband speed rises

  The average download speed for broadband in the UK has reached 14.7Mbps, but take-up of superfast connections still low

• August 06, 2013 06 Aug'13

  Case study: Birmingham rolls out free public Wi-Fi

  Birmingham City Council is working with Virgin Media Business to bring free Wi-Fi to public spaces and encourage mobile operators to invest in better 3G and 4G signals

• August 05, 2013 05 Aug'13

  London Innovation Lab seeks second round of FinTech startups

  The second annual FinTech Innovation Lab is calling for applications from early-stage financial technology entrepreneurs

• August 05, 2013 05 Aug'13

  BT signs two new BDUK contracts

  Oxfordshire and Worcestershire sign contracts with telecoms giant BT to roll-out superfast broadband across the two counties

• August 05, 2013 05 Aug'13

  Gigabit internet speeds brought to Bournemouth businesses

  CityFibre launches leased line broadband service in the seaside town of Bournemouth

• August 05, 2013 05 Aug'13

  Twitter to introduce “in-Tweet report button”

  Microblogging platform Twitter will introduce a button to report abusive behaviour on its website and Android app next month

• August 02, 2013 02 Aug'13

  Wales has worst access to superfast broadband

  Access to superfast broadband in Wales is significantly lower than the rest of the UK, according to a new report from Ofcom

• August 01, 2013 01 Aug'13

  O2 set for August 4G launch

  O2 confirms it will switch on its 4G network in London, Leeds and Bradford on 29 August, with 10 more cities going live by the end of 2013

• July 31, 2013 31 Jul'13

  Digital TV spectrum clear for 4G

  Ofcom confirms the 4G spectrum it auctioned off earlier this year is now cleared and ready to be used by mobile operators

• July 30, 2013 30 Jul'13

  BT forms new business retail division

  BT Retail will split into business and consumer divisions when its leader ascends to the role of CEO in September

• July 30, 2013 30 Jul'13

  Where is BDUK rolling out broadband?

  The places in the UK that will – and, more importantly, those that won’t – be getting BDUK’s superfast fibre

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  CW500: Internet of things to pose 'huge security and privacy risks'

  The internet of things will pose enormous security and privacy challenges, a recent CW500 Club meeting heard

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  Miller calls out local authorities for broadband plans

  Maria Miller writes to local councils telling them to publish their roll-out plans after BT confirms it is happy for the details to be made public

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  Smart meters: Good for consumers but infrastructure unresolved

  Energy and Climate Change Select Committee report highlights infrastructure risks and spiralling costs in UK smart meter roll-out

• July 25, 2013 25 Jul'13

  BT profits drop despite customer growth

  Whilst customers continue to sign up for broadband and TV services, reported profits plummet 16% and revenues fall by 1%

• July 24, 2013 24 Jul'13

  Government fails rural areas in broadband and mobile

  The rural affairs select committee says there is not enough government funding to put rural services on par with urban areas

• July 22, 2013 22 Jul'13

  UK to block online porn by default

  The UK is to block online pornography by default to all new internet users, David Cameron is to announce