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• May 02, 2013 02 May'13

  Fujitsu lock-in makes DECC only Whitehall department incapable of cloud

  The Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) cannot adopt cloud computing due to lock-in with system integrator Fujitsu

• May 01, 2013 01 May'13

  Technology fail during US 2012 election day averted by practising failure

  A “catastrophic” IT failure was avoided on the US presidential election day due to rigorous testing of the IT infrastructure

• May 01, 2013 01 May'13

  4G to bring in $1tn for mobile operators

  A study from Juniper Research predicts mobile providers will make $1tn from 4G services over the next five years

• May 01, 2013 01 May'13

  Schuh takes first steps to in-store Wi-Fi

  Shoe retailer Schuh signs a contract with The Cloud to offer free Wi-Fi to customers

• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  Case study: The DANTE link for Euro academics

  The best technology innovation winners of Computer Weekly’s European User Awards for Networking on how DANTE brings together researchers from far and wide with Infinera solutions

• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  UK leads roll-out of Skype video in Outlook webmail

  Microsoft has announced that mail service Outlook.com will now support Skype voice and video calling and instant messaging

• April 29, 2013 29 Apr'13

  Ofcom: White space roll-out expected by 2014

  The telecoms regulator will pilot white space technology in the autumn, using gaps in spectrum to provide added connectivity

• April 26, 2013 26 Apr'13

  Chancellor announces Future Fifty programme to boost UK tech startups

  Chancellor George Osborne has announced a programme in partnership with the Tech City Investment Organisation, which aims to help entrepreneurs and investors in the UK

• April 25, 2013 25 Apr'13

  UK boasts around 80 broadband providers

  Ofcom reveals the figures behind unbundled copper lines and fibre infrastructure, claiming the UK has more competition than ever before

• April 24, 2013 24 Apr'13

  Tata goes trackside with Mercedes F1

  Mercedes AMG Petronas signs a deal with Tata Communications to provide connectivity to the famous Formula One racing team

• April 24, 2013 24 Apr'13

  Virgin Media ‘positioned well’ for merger, says CEO

  As Virgin Media's profits rise in Q1 2013, CEO Neil Berkett says the firm's balance sheet positions it well for the merger with Liberty Global

• April 24, 2013 24 Apr'13

  London’s Air Ambulance uses 4G for rapid response

  London’s Air Ambulance teams up with EE to help it reach incidents across the capital faster

• April 23, 2013 23 Apr'13

  Nationwide systems down

  Nationwide building society’s online banking, mobile banking and online payments systems are unavailable as a result of IT issues

• April 23, 2013 23 Apr'13

  EE signs up 318,000 4G customers

  Despite having almost 28 million customers on its books, EE has only managed to sign up 318,000 to its 4G services in the first five months since launch

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  UK online businesses neglect mobile strategy

  Online businesses are failing to implement mobile strategies, according to a report from Barclays bank

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  London schools offered superfast Wi-Fi

  Virgin Media Business and London Grid for Learning team up to offer affordable Wi-Fi to 2,000 of the capital’s schools

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  Google is tax law compliant and key to UK growth, says Eric Schmidt

  Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt says the company is tax law compliant and key to electronic commerce expansion in the UK

• April 19, 2013 19 Apr'13

  Mobile ads boost Google’s Q1 results

  Online revenues have helped boost Google's net profit to $3.35bn in the first three months of the year, up 16% from the same period in 2012

• April 15, 2013 15 Apr'13

  Case study: London's Olympic network from BT

  After receiving an honourable mention in the European user awards for networking, Computer Weekly looks at the challenge of rolling out the network for the London Olympic Games in 2012

• April 12, 2013 12 Apr'13

  Alexandra Palace rolls out Wi-Fi across historic venue

  Alexandra Palace has rolled out Wi-Fi connectivity across the venue enabling visitors to stay connected when they come to events

• April 12, 2013 12 Apr'13

  Google has another go at allaying EU competition concerns

  Google has submitted a fresh set of proposals to address European concerns about its business practices and avoid punitive action

• April 11, 2013 11 Apr'13

  UK rises to 7th place in global ICT league table

  The UK has risen dramatically in a global ranking of the countries benefiting most from information and communications technology

• April 10, 2013 10 Apr'13

  Google rolls out super-fast broadband to Austin, Texas

  After weeks of media speculation, Google has confirmed that it will be extending its super-fast fibre broadband service to Austin, Texas.

• April 09, 2013 09 Apr'13

  EE promises to double 4G speeds

  EE says 10 cities will get 4G speeds of more than 20Mbps by the summer as the company refarms its 2G spectrum

• April 09, 2013 09 Apr'13

  Why CIOs need to become tax literate

  Digital technologies can have significant ramifications for corporate taxation. IT teams need to be aware of the issues, says PwC

• April 08, 2013 08 Apr'13

  O2 customers to get London Underground Wi-Fi

  O2 has joined EE and Vodafone in leasing Virgin Media’s Wi-Fi deployment on London’s Tube network

• April 05, 2013 05 Apr'13

  ‘Small-scale test’ casts doubt on 4G/Freeview issue

  Despite the fears surrounding 4G signals and their impact on Freeview, a pilot scheme near Birmingham has shown few interruptions

• April 05, 2013 05 Apr'13

  Facebook announces new software for Android devices

  Facebook has launched a new user interface for mobile users, which tightly integrates the social network within the device

• April 04, 2013 04 Apr'13

  Case study: Liverpool FC goes wireless with Xirrus

  Premier League Liverpool FC offers fans Wi-Fi on match days and corporate customers the extra connectivity for events at Anfield

• April 02, 2013 02 Apr'13

  4G taxis come to London and Birmingham

  Mobile operator EE brings 4G connectivity to 50 black cabs in London and Birmingham

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Ofcom slams Orange in broadband complaints report

  Ofcom says more consumers complained about Orange than any other internet service provider (ISP) after it cancelled its free broadband deal

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Government must address digital divide, says NAO

  Despite the public appetite for greater digital public services, government must start putting its plans into action to address the ‘digital divide’, according to a National Audit Office report.

• March 27, 2013 27 Mar'13

  EC proposes broadband installation savings

  European Commission (EC) proposes to cut costs of installing fibre broadband by 30% to address the lack of standards across Europe

• March 21, 2013 21 Mar'13

  Hampshire signs broadband contract with BT

  Funding from the council, BDUK and BT will provide over £13m to bring superfast broadband to at least 90% of the county by 2015

• March 21, 2013 21 Mar'13

  Businesses turn to analytics to motivate employees

  Investors are increasingly placing businesses under scrutiny over the way they engage and manage their workforce

• March 21, 2013 21 Mar'13

  Cumbria next on EE’s 4G roll-out

  The Northern Fells area of Cumbria will get fixed and mobile broadband based on EE’s 4G infrastructure

• March 20, 2013 20 Mar'13

  EC funds researchers in Pursuit of new internet model

  The European Commission (EC) invests $6.7m in the Pursuit project to speed up internet access and cut security threats for European citizens

• March 18, 2013 18 Mar'13

  Fujitsu pulls out of BDUK

  Fujitsu, BT’s only rival in BDUK – the government-funded roll-out of superfast broadband – has withdrawn from the process

• March 14, 2013 14 Mar'13

  Businesses urge government to boost economy by broadband investment

  Digital Business First, a coalition of businesses in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, says countrywide broadband coverage is essential

• March 14, 2013 14 Mar'13

  eBay study highlights big problem for search advertising

  A study by online auction company eBay has revealed that paying for keywords to boost rankings by search engines has little effect on sales

• March 13, 2013 13 Mar'13

  Spectrum auction and HS2 funding should go to broadband

  The money from the 4G auction should go back into connectivity, while funding for HS2 should be redirected to digital infrastructure, say parliamentarians

• March 13, 2013 13 Mar'13

  Case Study: Telestroke Network hastens stroke treatment

  The public sector winner of our European User Awards for Networking worked with Virgin Media to bring treatment to stroke patients

• March 13, 2013 13 Mar'13

  John Lewis drops virtual mirror project as part of ‘fail fast at innovation' strategy

  John Lewis has canned its virtual mirror project as part of the company’s approach to ‘failing fast at innovation’

• March 13, 2013 13 Mar'13

  Google to pay $7m fine for harvesting wireless data in the US

  Google has agreed to pay a $7m fine in the US for intercepting private Wi-Fi data without authoritsation using its Street View vehicles.

• March 12, 2013 12 Mar'13

  O2: ‘We have not lost a single customer to EE’

  O2’s head of enterprise says no customers have been drawn to EE's 4G and expects a challenge to entice them even after all operators launch

• March 12, 2013 12 Mar'13

  BT bolsters broadband in Scotland

  Almost 40,000 more homes and businesses have been added to BT’s fibre broadband roll-out in the UK

• March 08, 2013 08 Mar'13

  Berkett severed in Virgin Media buy-out

  After tackling the tough negotiations for Virgin Media to be bought out by Liberty Global, CEO Neil Berkett’s contract is being terminated with $19.6m in severance pay

• March 07, 2013 07 Mar'13

  BT hires 1,000 broadband engineers

  The OpenReach division of communications giant BT will get a big boost to staff numbers as it continues its broadband roll-out across the UK

• March 06, 2013 06 Mar'13

  Businesses and IT suppliers to collaborate on big data

  Businesses are to collaborate to work out how to exploit the rapidly growing volume of data generated by social media, mobile devices and the internet of things.

• March 06, 2013 06 Mar'13

  KFC brings free Wi-Fi to customers

  KFC teams with The Cloud to give customers free internet connectivity.

• March 06, 2013 06 Mar'13

  Case study: Birmingham NEC boosts Wi-Fi network

  Birmingham NEC has deployed Xirrus technology to bring high-bandwidth wireless connectivity to visitors and staff

• March 06, 2013 06 Mar'13

  Undersea cables bring superfast broadband to Scilly Isles

  Unused fibre cables lying on the Atlantic seabed bring superfast broadband to the Isles of Scilly, replacing a radio link to Cornwall

• March 05, 2013 05 Mar'13

  UK slips on superfast broadband adoption

  The latest report from Ofcom shows there is more enthusiasm for superfast broadband adoption in Belgium and Malta than in the UK

• February 28, 2013 28 Feb'13

  Nominet scraps proposals for secure .uk domains

  Nominet has decided to scrap its plans to go forward with a new service offering a “secure” .uk domain

• February 27, 2013 27 Feb'13

  ISPs in the US join forces to serve “six strikes” to illegal downloaders

  Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the US are leading a campaign to target piracy using a “six strike” warning system

• February 25, 2013 25 Feb'13

  Scotland could get internet independence

  London Internet Exchange (LINX) considering an internet hub in Scotland to reduce the reliance on London and Manchester hubs

• February 25, 2013 25 Feb'13

  Google penalises Interflora and UK newspapers for failing to comply with SEO regulations

  The website for Interflora has disappeared from Google search pages, amid accusations the company has manipulated links

• February 22, 2013 22 Feb'13

  Superfast Wales project gets underway

  The first state-sponsored fibre cabinet is installed in Bangor as part of the Superfast Cymru project to bring faster broadband speeds to Wales

• February 22, 2013 22 Feb'13

  Music companies critical of Google’s anti-piracy efforts

  Music companies have accused Google of failing to fulfil a pledge not to give prominent rankings in search results to websites offering illegal music downloads.

• February 21, 2013 21 Feb'13

  Case study: City of London School goes wireless

  The independent boy’s school installs a wireless network and mobile device management systems to enable staff, pupils and visitors to get connected

• February 21, 2013 21 Feb'13

  Yahoo to update homepage to win back users

  Yahoo is to update its homepage for the first time in four years as part of efforts to win back users from rival Google

• February 20, 2013 20 Feb'13

  The winners and losers of Ofcom's 4G spectrum auction

  The results of Ofcom’s 4G spectrum auction and what it means for the industry, the government and the users

• February 20, 2013 20 Feb'13

  Ofcom announces 4G spectrum winners

  The main four mobile operators and BT win lots in the spectrum auction, albeit for more than £1bn less than Chancellor George Osborne hoped

• February 19, 2013 19 Feb'13

  Google may soon face action by EU privacy regulators

  Google may face action by privacy regulators across Europe if it does not change the way it manages user data

• February 18, 2013 18 Feb'13

  Barclays brings free Wi-Fi to branches

  Barclays bank will offer free Wi-Fi in 1,500 branches after trialling BT’s wireless white label solution

• February 14, 2013 14 Feb'13

  Virgin Media creates 400 UK jobs for broadband and TV networks

  Virgin Media is hiring engineers and customer service representatives for its growing superfast broadband network and television customer base

• February 14, 2013 14 Feb'13

  Google battles BT in patent row

  Google has launched legal action against BT, accusing the British firm of four counts of patent infringement

• February 13, 2013 13 Feb'13

  European Commission funds research to eliminate latency

  Researchers from universities and enterprises across Europe are undertaking a project to minimise latency over the internet

• February 12, 2013 12 Feb'13

  BT adds 1.2m premises to fibre broadband roll-out

  BT has announced the next phase of its £2.5bn roll-out of fibre broadband across the UK, including the upgrade of 99 exchanges

• February 08, 2013 08 Feb'13

  Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen resigns as company posts losses

  Telecoms hardware manufacturer Alcatel-Lucent reports losses of €1.37bn and confirms CEO Ben Verwaayen will step down

• February 07, 2013 07 Feb'13

  Interview: Phil Smith, CEO of Cisco UK & Ireland

  Cisco's UK CEO talks about innovation, wireless vs wired and software defined networking at the company’s annual Cisco Live event in London

• February 04, 2013 04 Feb'13

  Brits stash £24bn of digital assets in the cloud

  Brits are storing about £24bn of photos, music and videos in the cloud, as well as sensitive data such as passwords, study shows

• February 01, 2013 01 Feb'13

  BT announces Totally Unlimited broadband

  BT has announced ‘Totally Unlimited’ broadband deals, offering customers limitless usage and downloads on their contracts

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  LED technology to bring Wi-Fi over light

  The University of Strathclyde is developing micron-sized LEDs which could be used to provide internet connectivity

• January 30, 2013 30 Jan'13

  Amazon sales soar in 2012

  Amazon sales rose 27% to $61bn (£39bn) in its 2012 results and 22% in its 2012 fourth quarter revenues to $21.27bn, compared with 2011

• January 30, 2013 30 Jan'13

  First tech start-ups chosen for financial services innovation lab

  Seven financial technology companies have been selected to take part in a mentoring programme in London

• January 29, 2013 29 Jan'13

  Cisco Unified Access connects University of Wales Hospital

  New Catalyst switch, combining wireless and wired access into one product used by University of Wales hospital to benefit patients and staff

• January 28, 2013 28 Jan'13

  River Thames to flow with Wi-Fi

  Hotspots along the river and on Thames Clipper boats will serve Wi-Fi to more than 30 million people each year

• January 25, 2013 25 Jan'13

  Government launches online property finder service

  The government has launched a property finder website as part of its move to save £1.8bn in property rationalisation

• January 25, 2013 25 Jan'13

  Cisco sells off Linksys to Belkin

  Networking giant Cisco sells its consumer brand Linksys to its rival Belkin for an undisclosed sum

• January 25, 2013 25 Jan'13

  Glasgow gets 'smart city' funding - but is it an opportunity missed?

  Glasgow gets a £24m grant to transform it into a futuristic ‘smart city’ but critics claim the project has missed a technological business opportunity

• January 25, 2013 25 Jan'13

  Civil service lacks the skills to become digital, says NAO

  The civil service currently lacks the skills it needs to deliver a modern, digital government, the National Audit Office has said

• January 24, 2013 24 Jan'13

  Ed Vaizey launches Fast Start scheme to accelerate broadband roll-out

  Communications minister Ed Vaizey has launched the Fast Start initiative to accelerate broadband roll-out, with Norfolk slated for the pilot scheme

• January 23, 2013 23 Jan'13

  Vaizey promises ‘mechanisms’ to meet spectrum needs

  Ed Vaizey says 4G roll-out is not enough and more spectrum must be freed up to support UK businesses

• January 21, 2013 21 Jan'13

  GDS must not become an outlier, warns Martha Lane Fox

  The Government Digital Service (GDS) must not remain an outlier to the way the public sector delivers online services, says Martha Lane Fox

• January 18, 2013 18 Jan'13

  Google buys King's Cross site for UK headquarters

  Internet giant Google spends £1bn on a 2.4 acre site in the King's Cross area of London where it plans to open its UK headquarters in 2016

• January 16, 2013 16 Jan'13

  United Airlines brings Wi-Fi to long haul flights

  United Airline becomes the first from the US to offer wireless connectivity using Ku-band satellite technology on long haul flights

• January 16, 2013 16 Jan'13

  Campaigners oppose Nominet plans for secure .uk domain

  Digital rights campaigners have criticised Nominet's plans to create a secure .uk domain, saying it will create a monopoly of trust in UK domains

• January 15, 2013 15 Jan'13

  Plusnet tests sharing IPv4 addresses

  ISP Plusnet looks for a solution to the dwindling number of IPv4 addresses left by asking customers to share

• January 15, 2013 15 Jan'13

  Islip puts up cash for fibre broadband

  The Oxfordshire village of Islip gives BT £11,000 to enable a local cabinet and bring broadband speeds of over 30Mbps to the residents

• January 14, 2013 14 Jan'13

  Welsh government invests £39m in school broadband

  The Learning in Digital Wales Grant will support government efforts to bring online learning tools to pupils across Wales

• January 14, 2013 14 Jan'13

  Why e-petitions wouldn't have happened with a system integrator

  The speed at which e-petitions was developed wouldn’t have been possible with a system integrator, says Peter Herlihy from the GDS

• January 09, 2013 09 Jan'13

  Punch Taverns serves up free Wi-Fi with The Cloud

  Pub chain Punch Taverns plans to roll-out free Wi-Fi to all of its venues by the end of March 2013, hoping it will boost business

• January 09, 2013 09 Jan'13

  CES 2013: Driverless cars could be next for the enterprise

  Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, thinks businesses will be big benefactors of the driverless car revolution

• January 08, 2013 08 Jan'13

  Online growth buoys retailers over Christmas

  Strong e-commerce growth kept retailers' heads above water during flat Christmas trading, with sales up 17.8% compared with December 2011

• January 07, 2013 07 Jan'13

  Government broadband policy must refocus on business

  Policy Exchange claims Whitehall has focused for too long on consumer and retail broadband and needs to give the enterprise equal attention

• January 04, 2013 04 Jan'13

  Huawei revenues to smash $35bn for 2012

  The CEO reveals a 10% rise on both profits and revenues as the controversial Chinese firm pledges to “become more open and transparent” in 2013

• January 04, 2013 04 Jan'13

  Mobile broadband best bet for telecoms revenues

  A new report from Ovum claims mobile broadband will be the best technology to enable telecoms firms to ‘claw back revenue’ over the next three years

• January 03, 2013 03 Jan'13

  Ofcom proposes early exit to combat price rises

  Regulator Ofcom says users should be able to leave mobile, broadband and landline contracts without charge if their provider ups the price

• January 02, 2013 02 Jan'13

  Vint Cerf recalls switch-over to the modern internet

  The modern internet is 30 years old. In a blog post, Vint Cerf described January 1 1983 as the day the modern internet was born.