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Internet infrastructure

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  Hootsuite moves social media management toolkit to IBM Softlayer cloud

  Social media management dashboard maker shifts App Directory to IBM cloud

• 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 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

• 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 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

  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 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 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 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

  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

  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 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 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 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

• 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 27, 2015 27 May'15

  CIF cloud certification scheme wins European Commission's backing

  Cloud Industry Forum's Code of Practice has been added to European list of trusted certification schemes

• May 20, 2015 20 May'15

  BT and BDUK failed to make costs transparent, says report

  A major report on BDUK commissioned by DCMS identifies a number of failures around the transparency of the scheme’s costs

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  Vodafone returns to quarterly revenue growth

  A minute rise in quarterly sales gives mobile network operator Vodafone hope that its financial situation is now stabilising

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  Google slashes public cloud prices to undercut rivals

  Google cuts cost of its public cloud services to pass on hardware savings in line with Moore's Law

• May 11, 2015 11 May'15

  Wearable technology to transform laggards in insurance industry

  Wearable and other smart technologies set to transform the insurance industry in the next three to five years

• May 07, 2015 07 May'15

  Huawei opens European Research Institute

  Huawei opens doors of European Research Institute in Leuven, Belgium

• May 05, 2015 05 May'15

  VCE takes wraps off "hyper-converged" VxRacks to fast-track users to the cloud

  EMC-owned converged infrastructure specialist expands portfolio of cloud-enabling platforms

• May 01, 2015 01 May'15

  Home Retail Group grows profits 15% with mobile and online channels

  Mobile and online initiatives at Home Retail Group – parent company of Argos and Homebase – drove a 15% growth in its yearly operating profit

• April 29, 2015 29 Apr'15

  Vodafone sends network in a backpack to Nepal earthquake zone

  Vodafone’s charitable arm, the Vodafone Foundation, deploys instant mini networks to help restore communications in quake-hit Nepal

• April 24, 2015 24 Apr'15

  Google reports 12% revenue increase

  Google misses analysts' $17.5bn target but reports 3.7% profit increase through growth in mobile ad sales

• April 24, 2015 24 Apr'15

  Poor customer engagement at banks opens door to competitors

  Customer experience levels at banks have failed to improve for the second year in a row and customers are more likely than ever to leave their bank

• April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15

  Nationwide extends video link service to 100 more branches

  Nationwide Building Society has expanded the use of video conferencing equipment for customer consultations

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Interoute bags private equity funding to support datacentre growth

  Cloud services giant plans to use private equity funding to support its M&A activity and push ahead with its datacentre growth plans

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  IT is more important than marketing for banks

  IT spending will grow at the expense of other areas such as marketing as optimism in financial services increases

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  Google warns of fake digital certificates

  Google has warned of unauthorised digital certificates issued for several of its domains that could be used to intercept data traffic

• March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15

  Current account comparison from Gocompare announced in Budget 2015

  The government used the Budget to announce changes in the banking sector that will increase consumer and business choice

• March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15

  Red Nose Day 2015: How Comic Relief used cloud to bank a record £78m

  Comic Relief CTO Zenon Hannick explains how the charity used cloud to process a record number of donations during Red Nose Day 2015

• March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15

  Satya Nadella: Every business will be a software business

  Digitisation may the buzzword business leaders are trying to grasp, but Microsoft has begun its journey to build a digitisation product portfolio

• March 13, 2015 13 Mar'15

  IBM could create blockchain-based digital payments infrastructure for central banks

  IBM has held informal talks with some central banks about building an infrastructure that can provide them with bitcoin-like digital payments systems

• March 11, 2015 11 Mar'15

  US government CIO tells cloud buyers to get tough on suppliers

  US Department of Labor CIO Dawn Leaf shares her learnings from helping 19,000 employees move off-premise at Cloud Expo 2015

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  Smart meter project in danger of outright failure, government warned

  A report from the Energy and Climate Change Committee has warned that plans to install smart meters across the UK by 2020 are veering off-track

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  Sharing Economy UK launched to champion digital businesses

  New trade body brings together digital businesses that encourage consumer and business asset-sharing, such as Airbnb and ZipCar

• February 12, 2015 12 Feb'15

  Baidu Chinese search engine share price falls on disappointing results

  China’s Baidu search engine share price fell by more than 8% in after-hours trade after quarterly revenue came in $11m below expectations

• February 10, 2015 10 Feb'15

  Why peer-to-peer lending is such a threat to banks

  Consumer trust for finance firms has never been high, and since the financial turmoil at the end of the previous decade it has reached rock bottom

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  Sweeping trend towards digital banking forces RBS branch closures

  Royal Bank of Scotland "taken aback" by ever-increasing take-up of digital banking and announces additional branch closures across UK

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  FCC’s Tom Wheeler offers up net neutrality plan

  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may rule in favour of a strong regulatory environment to preserve the open internet

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  Newport to get resilient fibre ring for community safety projects

  As part of a wide-reaching regeneration plan, Newport City Council deploys resilient fibre optic network to support community safety

• February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15

  Darknet technologies have legitimate security uses, says researcher

  Darket technologies have legitimate security applications for business, says security investigator

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Media industry operates on a shoestring IT budget, says BT

  The media industry struggles to invest in technology, because investors are concerned with making new television and film content

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Scotland sees startup growth, but Wales lags behind

  Scotland’s technology sector has seen a large growth in startup companies since 2009

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  Harrods invests in digital to entice customers

  Harrods is investing in digital screen and publishing technologies to engage with its customers

• January 26, 2015 26 Jan'15

  Future of parliament report calls for digital engagement and online voting

  A report outlines how parliament should embrace digital technology to be more transparent, inclusive and better able to engage the public

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  UK leads in global ranking of social open data sharing

  The UK has been named the number one country to use open data for social and economic benefit

• January 19, 2015 19 Jan'15

  HMRC trials Gov.uk Verify in busiest month of the year

  Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs is to trial the government’s Verify identity assurance scheme in its busiest month