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Internet infrastructure

• December 14, 2017 14 Dec'17

  Aberdeen City Council launches next phase of fibre broadband programme

  A further 57 council sites around Aberdeen will be connected to CityFibre’s gigabit broadband backhaul network in the coming months

• December 14, 2017 14 Dec'17

  B4RN breaks ground on rural broadband network in East Anglia

  Community ultrafast fibre broadband organisation B4RN East Anglia has started work on its first dig in Norfolk

• December 13, 2017 13 Dec'17

  Robots will create more jobs than they eradicate by 2020

  Artificial intelligence technology will begin to create more jobs than it replaces, says Gartner

• December 12, 2017 12 Dec'17

  Startups and corporations mingle at Finland’s Slush tech event

  Startup events are becoming rich hunting grounds for large enterprises looking for the platforms of the future

• December 08, 2017 08 Dec'17

  Forging a new identity: IT underpins Openreach’s independence

  Openreach chief technology and information officer Mark Lam discusses how IT is helping to forge a new and distinct identity for the network infrastructure business as it leaves the wider BT Group

• December 07, 2017 07 Dec'17

  Hortilux uses Mendix-powered application to digitise greenhouses

  Grow light maker shifts from product to digitally enabled service to support greenhouse growers

• December 05, 2017 05 Dec'17

  US utility provider PG&E on ditching the datacentre and going cloud-first

  US-based utility provider Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) discusses how getting out of the datacentre business and into the cloud is helping meet its regulatory, affordability and innovation targets

• December 04, 2017 04 Dec'17

  Australia-Singapore submarine cable connection cut again

  The damage to the SEA-ME-WE3 cable took place more than 1,000 km from Singapore, affecting Australian internet users who can expect increased latency to Asian destinations

• December 01, 2017 01 Dec'17

  ‘Sound policy’ to prosecute hackers in UK, says former DPP in Love case

  The former director of public prosecutions (DPP), Ken Macdonald, said in written evidence in Lauri Love’s extradition case that it is normal practice to prosecute hackers accused of attacking US servers in the UK – rather than extradite them to the ...

• December 01, 2017 01 Dec'17

  Openreach has incentive to stifle broadband competition, says Ofcom

  Ofcom is proposing tighter regulation on the wholesale prices Openreach charges service providers, to avoid stifling competition

• November 30, 2017 30 Nov'17

  Digital infrastructure critical to future development of London

  Mayor Sadiq Khan’s new London Plan will treat access to digital infrastructure as critical to the city’s development over the next 20 to 25 years

• November 30, 2017 30 Nov'17

  Lauri Love could face jail in detention centre condemned by US judges

  Appeal court hears conditions in Metropolitan Detention Centre, where alleged hacker Lauri Love is likely to be sent if extradited to the US, described by US judges as 'unconscionably bad', and that Love would be at 'real risk'

• November 29, 2017 29 Nov'17

  Uber breach affected 2.7 million Britons

  Last year’s data breach, which saw the details of 57 million accounts compromised, affected about 2.7 million accounts in the UK

• November 29, 2017 29 Nov'17

  Lauri Love would face ‘medieval’ conditions in US prison if extradited over hacking charges

  Engineering student Lauri Love should be tried in the UK, court hears, as new evidence is presented on the “medieval” conditions in US jails for people with medical problems

• November 29, 2017 29 Nov'17

  Mobile operators face profitability squeeze in 2018

  Mobile operators will struggle to balance the twin challenges of rapidly declining revenues and rapidly growing demand for mobile investment, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit