News
Internet infrastructure
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October 22, 2012
22
Oct'12
Cyber attacks launched at London 2012 Olympic Games every day
The IT supporting the London 2012 Olympics was hit by cyber attacks every day during the Games, says London 2012 CIO Gerry Pennell
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October 08, 2012
08
Oct'12
Lamborghini slashes web costs with Amazon Web Services
Supercar maker Lamborghini has revamped and accelerated the performance of its website by running it on Amazon Web Services
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October 08, 2012
08
Oct'12
UK needs more ambition for fibre broadband strategy
With less than 1% of UK households served with fibre-to-the-home broadband, the FTTH Council calls on the government to be more ambitious with its schemes
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October 04, 2012
04
Oct'12
Skype launches customer Wi-Fi service
The video calling company teams with Wicoms to offer a service for businesses wanting to provide free Wi-Fi to their customers
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September 25, 2012
25
Sep'12
Gartner: Businesses need to prepare now for HTML5
Businesses have been urged to prepare for the arrival of HTML5, the technology that underpins the next generation of the web
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September 14, 2012
14
Sep'12
IPv4 address pool almost dry
The five Internet Registries now have just 16.8 millions IPv4 addresses left
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September 06, 2012
06
Sep'12
Interview: Dave Scammell, CEO of Sohonet
We speak to the head of Sohonet, a service provider built for the film and media industry in the centre of London
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August 31, 2012
31
Aug'12
Enterprise wireless LAN sales jump 26% in Q2 2012
Q2 figures show businesses are investing in wireless networks despite the economic downturn, according to analyst organisation Dell’Oro
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August 30, 2012
30
Aug'12
Lord’s Cricket Ground gets Wi-Fi from The Cloud
London’s home of cricket will give spectators the chance to get online for free after signing a five year deal with the BSkyB Wi-Fi provider
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August 24, 2012
24
Aug'12
GDS rolls out Drupal
The Government Digital Service is rolling out open source content management system Drupal.
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August 20, 2012
20
Aug'12
Hunt: Ofcom 'beset by threats of litigations'
Culture secretary calls on mobile operators to call off the lawyers and focus on the future of 4G to help government achieve broadband targets by 2015
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July 31, 2012
31
Jul'12
Lords Select Committee slams government broadband plans
A report from the Communications Committee claims the government is ‘preoccupied with speed’ rather than focusing on the roll-out of broadband to more areas
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July 19, 2012
19
Jul'12
Can IT investment in schools keep pace with change?
As more schools join the academy programnme, is the next generation getting access to the right technology crucial to the digital world?
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July 19, 2012
19
Jul'12
Security researchers join forces to bring down Grum botnet
Security researchers have collaborated to take down Grum, the world’s third-largest botnet of hijacked computers
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July 10, 2012
10
Jul'12
Retailers without multichannel risk losing business
Retailers without a multichannel offering could start haemorrhaging cash as customers' expectations change, according to research
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June 19, 2012
19
Jun'12
The mobile side of net neutrality
It isn’t just ISPs managing website traffic to improve access to some destinations and limit it for others – the mobile operators are at it too
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June 18, 2012
18
Jun'12
Ofcom announces leased line consultation
Telecoms regulator Ofcom proposes regulation for 1Gbps connections but takes lighter approach to BT wholesale broadband pricing in London
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June 15, 2012
15
Jun'12
Cumbria votes against broadband proposals from BT and Fujitsu
Cumbria County Council turns down bids from BT and Fujitsu, claiming they don’t fulfil the full requirements for superfast broadband in the area
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June 13, 2012
13
Jun'12
ICANN reveals bidders for top level domain names
The internet organisation names the companies bidding for 1,930 new domains for websites
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June 06, 2012
06
Jun'12
Top 10 tips for IPv6 security
Many organisations are being misled about the complexities surrounding IPv6 security, according to security firm Stonesoft
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May 31, 2012
31
May'12
BT kills broadband roll-out in London borough
Kensington and Chelsea turn down the offer of fibre broadband to keep its ‘historic streetscapes’ intact
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May 29, 2012
29
May'12
BT helps itself to Home Hubs for public Wi-Fi
A feature of BT's routers called Fon gives away a percentage of bandwidth from home-based Wi-Fi to passers-by, often without user consent.
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May 21, 2012
21
May'12
Google Chrome overtakes Internet Explorer
Google Chrome has finally overtaken Microsoft's Internet Explorer as the most popular Web browser, according to web metrics firm Statcounter.
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May 14, 2012
14
May'12
Legislators need to get a grip on ISP speed
It is time for the rules to get tough on ISPs and their broadband speed advertising
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May 10, 2012
10
May'12
BT revenues fail to impress
BT today revealed its results for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year, showing a number of its divisions with falling incomes
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April 25, 2012
25
Apr'12
Infosec 2012: Internet security body to tackle SSL problems
The Trustworthy Internet Movement (TIM) is to tackle implementation and governance internet communication protocol (SSL) as its first project.
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March 23, 2012
23
Mar'12
Google Chrome more popular than Microsoft Internet Explorer
Google Chrome use overtook Microsoft Internet Explorer last weekend, according to figures from web analytics company StatCounter
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February 27, 2012
27
Feb'12
WAN optimisation: improving the performance of business applications
How can WAN optimisation support IT consumerisation and cloud computing?
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February 21, 2012
21
Feb'12
Google bypassed IE too, says Microsoft
Microsoft has accused Google of bypassing the privacy settings of Internet Explorer users after Safari faux pas
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January 23, 2012
23
Jan'12
Advocacy group La Quadrature du Net rallies opposition to ACTA
As controversial anti-piracy legislation stalls in the US, a European group of free internet supporters, La Quadrature du Net, calls for a halt to similar legislation in the European Union.
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January 16, 2012
16
Jan'12
Rupert Murdoch attacks Barack Obama over online piracy legislation
News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch has accused Barack Obama's administration of siding with "Silicon Valley paymasters" as two anti-piracy bills go through US Congress.
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January 09, 2012
09
Jan'12
Tim Berners-Lee supports campaign against US PIPA and SOPA
Father of the web Berner-Lee, latest to support senator Ron Wyden's initiative against PIPA and SOPA.
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January 09, 2012
09
Jan'12
Olympics resale site still offline after two days
The Olympics tickets resale site has been offline for more than two days, after tens of thousands of people clamoured online buy unwanted tickets on 6 January.
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December 06, 2011
06
Dec'11
Google chairman Eric Schmidt meets EC competition chief ahead of charges
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has met Europe's competition commissioner amid reports the European Commission (EC) is preparing a 400-page document outlining Google's alleged anti-competitive practices.
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November 16, 2011
16
Nov'11
Computer Weekly wins digital publishing award
Computer Weekly has won a prestigious publishing industry award for the product development of the year.
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November 03, 2011
03
Nov'11
US and EU hold first joint cybersecurity exercise
The US and EU are holding their first joint cybersecurity exercise in Brussels on 3 November 2011, involving more than 20 EU member states and supported by the EU's cybersecurity agency Enisa and the US Department of Homeland Security.
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November 01, 2011
01
Nov'11
MoD calls on academics, industry and inventors to pitch cyber security ideas
The Ministry of Defence is calling for innovative solutions from academia and industry to protect and secure UK interests in cyberspace.
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October 31, 2011
31
Oct'11
Barclays customers unable to log into online bank accounts
Barclays has confirmed some customers are unable to log into online bank accounts and are experiencing slow response times
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February 09, 2011
09
Feb'11
IT managers find Internet Explorer 9 fails to render websites and web applications
With the development of Internet Explorer 9.0 near completion, ComputerWeekly.com has learned that thousands of sites and applications are incompatible with the new browser and its immediate predecessor.