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May 20, 2011
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May'11
MPs call for extending mobile broadband coverage to 98% of UK
MP and rural broadband campaigner Rory Stewart tells Computer Weekly why next-generation mobile should be extended to include an extra two million people in the UK.
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May 20, 2011
20
May'11
Mobile malware set to double in 2011, says Kaspersky Lab
Mobile malware is set to at least double that of 2010 based on the number of new malware signatures detected in the first quarter of the year, says Kaspersky Lab.
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May 20, 2011
20
May'11
Mobile operators appeal against Ofcom’s proposed MTR fee cuts
The UK's largest mobile operators are appealing against a decision by telecoms regulator Ofcom to push through severe cuts in mobile termination rates.
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May 19, 2011
19
May'11
Nokia’s sales hit 14-year low as worldwide smartphone sales soar
Nokia's worldwide market share of mobile devices dropped to the lowest level since 1997, according to research from Gartner.
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May 16, 2011
16
May'11
Sony swamped by password reset requests as PlayStation Network restored
Sony has begun the phased restoration of its PlayStation Network - suspended after hackers accessed systems, exposing up to 100m Sony user records in the data breach - but the process is not running smoothly.
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May 13, 2011
13
May'11
Analysis: What does Microsoft's Skype acquisition mean for businesses?
Microsoft's planned acquisition of internet telephony services firm Skype for $8.5bn has caused quite a stir in the consumer world, but what will it mean for business?
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May 12, 2011
12
May'11
Government gets the smart metering ball rolling
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has put out a notice out to IT suppliers informing them to be ready to bid for work in its plan to introduce smart meters to UK homes, businesses and public sector organisations.
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May 12, 2011
12
May'11
Government urges councils to accelerate superfast broadband roll-out
The government is calling on local authorities to accelerate broadband roll-out to help it deliver superfast broadband services to 90% of homes and business by 2015.
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May 12, 2011
12
May'11
BT fourth quarter results show 9% profit growth to £495m
BT has increased its full-year dividend by 7% and reported market-beating fourth-quarter results, saying it expects to continue to grow profit and free cash flow.
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May 12, 2011
12
May'11
Cisco warns quarter results will fall below analysts' expectations
Technology industry bellwether Cisco Systems has warned that company profit and sales in the current quarter may miss analysts' estimates.
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May 10, 2011
10
May'11
Update: Microsoft buys Skype Technologies
Microsoft is in talks to acquire internet telephony services company Skype, and a deal of between $7bn and $8bn could be announced today, according to US reports.
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May 10, 2011
10
May'11
TalkTalk broadband offers centralised web filtering
TalkTalk claims to be the first major UK internet service provider to allow broadband customers to block malicious or offensive material at server level.
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May 05, 2011
05
May'11
Apple releases iPhone and iPad software update to fix user location tracking
Apple has pushed out a software update to fix a location-tracking bug on its iPhone and iPad devices.
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May 05, 2011
05
May'11
Brocade develops ethernet fabric for cloud computing
Brocade has developed a fabric-based ethernet network, designed to tackle the challenges of networking in a cloud computing environment.
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May 03, 2011
03
May'11
BlackBerry World 2011: RIM allows IT departments to split corporate and personal data
Research in Motion (RIM) has unveiled software to split personal and corporate data on its BlackBerry devices.
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May 03, 2011
03
May'11
Small investment in social media can deliver big business benefits, says analyst
Businesses should not be afraid to experiment with social media to reach out to their customers and partners, says analyst firm Ovum.
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May 03, 2011
03
May'11
Apple more than doubles global iPhone shipments
Apple continued to gain market share after more than doubling global shipments of its iPhone in the first quarter of 2011.
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May 03, 2011
03
May'11
Cloud computing: How to avoid a network bottleneck
Cloud computing can put a huge load on a business's network. Organisations need to ensure network access from the user's browser on the local area network (LAN), to a cloud-based datacentre across on the public internet are fit for purpose.
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April 28, 2011
28
Apr'11
Nottingham University Hospitals Trust deploys wireless network
The Nervecentre system has improved patient safety, workforce planning and productivity.
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April 28, 2011
28
Apr'11
PC sales boosted by iPad, but netbooks decline
The PC market grew 7% in Q1 2011, according to research from Canalys, due to the popularity of Apple's iPad.
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April 28, 2011
28
Apr'11
Apple blames bug for tracking users' location
Apple has blamed a bug for surreptitiously tracking iPhone and iPad users' locations and has promised to release free software to remedy the problem in the...
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April 26, 2011
26
Apr'11
Bradford in top 100 fast internet cities
The city of Bradford has made it into Akamai's top 100 list of fast internet cities, coming in at 99th.
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April 26, 2011
26
Apr'11
Half a billion people set to use mobile ticketing by 2015
The deployment of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology will lead to half a billion people worldwide using their mobile devices as travel tickets by 2015, according to research from Juniper Research.
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April 21, 2011
21
Apr'11
Ofcom: TalkTalk has highest number of customer complaints
TalkTalk tops the league in terms of number of customer complaints, according to a new report from Ofcom .
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April 18, 2011
18
Apr'11
Microsoft executive's departure sparks Apple cloud rumours
Reports that Apple has hired a senior Microsoft datacentre expert have sparked speculation of the company's plans to expand its cloud services portfolio....
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April 18, 2011
18
Apr'11
EU to investigate telcos’ data traffic management practices
European regulators are to investigate telecoms companies' data traffic management practices to promote transparency and net neutrality.
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April 15, 2011
15
Apr'11
Computer Weekly marks the end of an era as a new one begins
The first issue of Computer Weekly magazine in 1966 marked the start of an era in the UK IT industry - the first ever weekly technology publication. This is the story of how it all began.
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April 15, 2011
15
Apr'11
Is Cisco in trouble?
Cisco has been the leading supplier of network equipment to enterprises for some time. But they are now facing many challenges and resurgent compeitition.
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April 14, 2011
14
Apr'11
Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 7 'Mango'
Microsoft has unveiled its latest Windows 7 phone operating system, code-named Mango, which will include augmented reality and multitasking features.
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April 14, 2011
14
Apr'11
Japan’s Fujitsu plans to take high-speed fibre broadband to rural UK
Fujitsu has announced plans to build a high-speed broadband network to reach five million homes in rural parts of the UK that will rival download speeds provided by BT.
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April 13, 2011
13
Apr'11
Building an Olympics network
Preparation is clearly the key to Olympic success, as players on 27 July 2012 will see years of finely honed practice condensed into one gruelling fortnight
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April 11, 2011
11
Apr'11
Securing the cloud is much like securing the enterprise, says industry analyst
Security is widely cited as the single biggest reason for not embracing cloud computing, but security is really made up of several aspects says Quocirca.
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April 11, 2011
11
Apr'11
Google halts new Street View imagery in Germany
Google will stop taking photography in Germany for Google Street View despite a court ruling declaring the service legal.
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April 11, 2011
11
Apr'11
Manageability issues impede adoption of virtualisation
Virtual infrastructure management challenges are hindering the adoption of virtualisation within businesses, according to research.
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April 07, 2011
07
Apr'11
Google reaffirms commitment to open source on Android
Google's head of mobile software, Andy Rubin, reaffirmed the company's commitment to keeping Android an open-source project amid criticism that it is 'locking...
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April 07, 2011
07
Apr'11
Cisco investors seek to axe consumer unit in company shake-up
Investors have called for Cisco Systems to axe its low-margin consumer division after chief executive John Chambers announced plans for a company shake-up.
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April 06, 2011
06
Apr'11
EC to set RFID tag guidelines to address privacy concerns
An agreement between the EC and the ENISA commits to creating guidelines for the use of RFID (radio frequency identification device) tags after concerns about the privacy of user data.
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April 06, 2011
06
Apr'11
BT accused of obfuscation over infrastructure prices
BT has been accused of clouding the issues in its reaction to an ISPs' letter to communications minister Ed Vaizey threatening to boycott pilot rural broadband projects over BT's prices for third-party access to its physical infrastructure.
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April 06, 2011
06
Apr'11
Cisco boss plans company shake-up
Cisco Systems' chief executive of 16 years, John Chambers, has announced plans for a company shake-up in the face declining investor confidence.
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April 05, 2011
05
Apr'11
University of Nottingham saves £60k a year through VoIP migration
The University of Nottingham is saving up to £60,000 a year after moving to a voice over IP (VoIP) system.
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April 05, 2011
05
Apr'11
US investigates privacy in smartphone apps
US Federal authorities have begun an investigation into how smartphone applications use personal data, according to US reports.
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April 05, 2011
05
Apr'11
Analysis: Is the Epsilon data breach a watershed for the marketing industry?
Thousands – potentially millions – of e-mail addresses have been stolen in a hacker attack on US marketing firm Epsilon, but the firm has downplayed the incident, saying that the data is limited to e-mail addresses and/or customer names.
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April 05, 2011
05
Apr'11
BT defends pole and duct pricing as industry criticism spreads
BT has defended itself against criticism of its proposed pricing for access to its poles and ducts, despite further industry support for the concerns raised by a number of its rivals this week.
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April 05, 2011
05
Apr'11
New Look expands multi-channel strategy with mobile commerce site
Fashion retailer New Look has launched a new mobile commerce website as part of its multi-channel strategy.
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April 05, 2011
05
Apr'11
Broadband boycott threat comes as no surprise
It can hardly have surprised communications minister Ed Vaizey (pictured) and BT CEO Ian Livingston that would-be competitors to BT would find the terms, conditions – and prices – of access to BT's poles, ducts and other infrastructure unacceptable.
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April 04, 2011
04
Apr'11
Telecoms firms threaten BDUK boycott over BT terms and conditions
The government's £830m plan to provide high-speed broadband access in rural areas may be on the rocks following a letter to communications minister Ed Vaizey from network operators.
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April 04, 2011
04
Apr'11
The fundamentals of preparing for desktop virtualisation
Virtual desktop infrastructure allows IT departments to break free from the cost of PC renewal cycles and simplify desktop support.
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April 04, 2011
04
Apr'11
How West Nottinghamshire College tamed Microsoft Active Directory for desktop virtualisation
The configuration of an organisation's Microsoft Active Directory domain services can be a challenge when deploying virtualisation software.
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April 04, 2011
04
Apr'11
West Nottinghamshire College halves IT spend through 2X Software's desktop virtualisation
West Nottinghamshire College has halved IT costs and saved 80 man hours a week through desktop virtualisation.
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April 04, 2011
04
Apr'11
Cloud contracts stalled by existing support/maintenance
A survey of 200 IT directors within large enterprise organisations has found that IT directors are worried about the potential management headaches of cloud computing.
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April 04, 2011
04
Apr'11
Vodafone sells SFR to Vivendi for £6.8bn cash
Vodafone has announced it will sell its entire 44% shareholding in French mobile network SFR to Vivendi for £6.8bn in cash.
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April 01, 2011
01
Apr'11
Ofcom budget cuts reduce costs to stakeholders
Communications regulator Ofcom is to slash 170 jobs as it seeks to cut its budget from almost £150m to £116m for 2011/12.
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April 01, 2011
01
Apr'11
Community networks to be part of Devon and Somerset broadband projects
Devon and Somerset county council has issued requests for tenders worth...
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April 01, 2011
01
Apr'11
Samsung and Visa team up for mobile NFC payments
Samsung and Visa have formed a partnership to provide mobile payments in time for the 2012 London Olympic games.
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April 01, 2011
01
Apr'11
Walsall council embarks on public sector network project
Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council has embarked on a project to connect all its assets with its own PSN
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April 01, 2011
01
Apr'11
TfL halts plans for tube mobile network in time for the Olympic games
Transport for London (TfL) has shelved plans to install a mobile network on London's underground in time for the Olympic games in 2012.
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March 31, 2011
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Mar'11
Flaws in NASA network put operations and personnel at risk, report reveals
Computer servers on NASA's agency-wide mission network have high-risk vulnerabilities that can be exploited from the internet, a US government report has revealed.
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March 31, 2011
31
Mar'11
Ofcom to cut Openreach prices up to 9% in real terms
Ofcom proposes to impose real cuts of up to 9% on the wholesale price of a range of BT Openreach's products.
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March 30, 2011
30
Mar'11
Vaizey wins cautious praise on net neutrality
The government won cautious praise for its approach to net neutrality, otherwise known as the open internet, at a public all-party parliamentary committee debate on Tuesday.
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March 30, 2011
30
Mar'11
Government IT strategy 'lacks local council focus’
Jos Creese, president of Socitm, has welcomed the government's new IT strategy, but says it lacks details on the involvement of local government.
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March 30, 2011
30
Mar'11
All for one fibre, one fibre for all, says ECTA
Countries should separate the provision of new fibre networks from their operation, executives from telcos struggling to enter new national markets told the European Commission and major banks on Tuesday.
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March 30, 2011
30
Mar'11
Microsoft partners with Telefonica to provide BlueVia SDK for .NET developers
Microsoft will use its Windows Azure platform alongside Telefonica's application API project, BlueVia, to provide a free SDK for .NET application developers.
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March 30, 2011
30
Mar'11
Windows Phone 7 will take second place behind Android by 2015, says IDC
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 OS is set to surge to second place in the OS market behind Google's Android by 2015, according to a research firm.
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March 30, 2011
30
Mar'11
Network failures cause BBC website outage
A network problem caused all BBC online news websites to suffer a complete outage for an hour.
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March 30, 2011
30
Mar'11
Firefox 4 now available for Android phones
Mozilla's Firefox 4 web browser is now available for smartphones running Google Android.
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March 29, 2011
29
Mar'11
Broadband may be lifeline for Cornwall country pub
A Cornish hotel owner hopes fibre-based broadband will put his pub on the world tourism map.
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March 29, 2011
29
Mar'11
Amazon leads the way on multi-media storage in the cloud
Amazon has stolen a march on Apple and Google with two services that enable users to store multi-media files in the cloud and stream them to computers and smartphones.
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March 28, 2011
28
Mar'11
Public network could cut 6.4% government IT costs, says Cisco survey
Government IT figures believe the government could cut 6.4% of its £16.5bn annual spending on information and communications technology (ICT) without affecting front-line services, says network equipment maker Cisco.
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March 25, 2011
25
Mar'11
Cumbria issues £121m tender for broadband and managed IT contracts
Cumbria County Council has issued a tender for two projects worth £121m over five years
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March 25, 2011
25
Mar'11
CMA slams Ofcom's 4G auction process; Ofcom responds
Ofcom's proposed auction of so-called 4G spectrum ignores crucial consumer interests in price, quality of service (QoS), timescale and coverage in favour of revenue...
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March 25, 2011
25
Mar'11
UK police cyber operations gear up ahead of new funding
The Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit is expanding operations in anticipation of new funding over the next four years.
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March 25, 2011
25
Mar'11
Android set to dominate as smartphone market doubles by 2016
Android will take up 38% of the global smartphone market by 2016 as the industry doubles in size, according to an analyst report.
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March 25, 2011
25
Mar'11
Rutland seeks owner-operator for next-gen broadband network
Rutland, the UK's smallest county, is seeking a broadband network operator to supply its 15,000 premises with next generation broadband access
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March 25, 2011
25
Mar'11
RIM posts 33% annual sales increase as it prepares for Playbook launch
Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has posted a 33% increase in sales for its fiscal year 2011 compared to the previous year.
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March 24, 2011
24
Mar'11
Include community broadband networks, Vaizey urges counties
Counties anxious to roll out broadband networks may be able to get matched funding from government via a new process by the end of the year.
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March 24, 2011
24
Mar'11
Programmable networks the goal as industry giants hook up
Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, Yahoo and 17 other companies are to work together to develop a programmable network management protocol they call Software-Defined Networking through a new body, the Open Networking Foundation
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March 23, 2011
23
Mar'11
Firefox 4 now available to download
Mozilla has made Firefox 4 available to download for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Mozilla released...
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March 23, 2011
23
Mar'11
Amazon Android app store set to shake up status quo, say analysts
Amazon has launched an online app store for Android-based mobile phones and tablets in competition with Google's own Android Market
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March 22, 2011
22
Mar'11
Digital Economy Act review starts tomorrow
The London High Court will tomorrow start its judicial review of the copyright provisions of the Digital Economy Act (DEA) called for by BT and TalkTalk, the UK's largest internet service providers.
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March 22, 2011
22
Mar'11
Ofcom proposes cap to amount of spectrum for 4G licensees
Ofcom has released long-awaited proposals for the 2012 auction of 800MHz and 2.6GHz frequencies, the so-called 4G or LTE spectrum, to create more capacity on the UK's mobile networks and possibly extend high-speed mobile broadband to more rural ...
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March 21, 2011
21
Mar'11
Visa rolls out mobile and e-mail payment system
Visa has rolled out a service that will enable its customers to transfer money using e-mail, phone or visa account numbers.
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March 16, 2011
16
Mar'11
Internet must be developed on democratic principles, says Alun Michael
The development of the internet should be based on "people-centric" principles, says MP Alun Michael, who represents the UK at the UN's Internet Governance Forum (IGF).
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March 16, 2011
16
Mar'11
Ofcom grants Gigaclear powers to build 1Gbps broadband network
Businesses and residents of the Thames valley may soon have access to a 1Gbps broadband network, following Ofcom's decision to grant fibre provider Gigaclear powers to dig up roads and other public assets to lay fibre.
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March 16, 2011
16
Mar'11
One million homes get 100Mbps broadband, says Virgin
A million homes can now get 100Mbps broadband via Virgin Media's cable network, the company said on Wednesday.
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March 11, 2011
11
Mar'11
Rural broadband fund triggers technology tussle
News that the government may be giving serious thought to a "last mile first" approach when it comes to spending public money on broadband projects emerged this week to a cautious response from industry.
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March 11, 2011
11
Mar'11
AOL to axe 900 jobs
AOL is to cut 900 jobs, about 20% of its global workforce, following the completion of its $315m (£196m) Huffington Post acquisition.
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March 10, 2011
10
Mar'11
Rural communities to get broadband with £20m BDUK funding
Britain's hill farmers may be among the first to get high-speed broadband following the government decision to provide £20m for a new rural community broadband...
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March 09, 2011
09
Mar'11
Businesses set to exploit SMS messages to reach customers
SMS text messages are set to take off as a channel for business to communicate with their customers, research by analyst group Ovum Research reveals.
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March 09, 2011
09
Mar'11
Glasgow wins IBM smarter city grant
Glasgow has become the first city in the UK to win an IBM smarter cities grant, worth £250,000.
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March 08, 2011
08
Mar'11
Government to monitor companies supporting critical national infrastructure
The government is to increase its commitment to further contact with operators of the UK's critical national infrastructure (CNI).
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March 08, 2011
08
Mar'11
Lancashire issues £40m broadband tender
Lancashire County Council has issued a request for between three and five tenders to provide superfast broadband to the county within three years at a cost of £20m to £40m.
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March 08, 2011
08
Mar'11
UK 'dangerously reliant' on GPS sat nav
The UK could be dangerously dependent on satellite radio navigation systems such as GPS, warns the Royal Academy of Engineering.
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March 08, 2011
08
Mar'11
Kroes seeks comms bosses' ideas for high-speed broadband funds
Europe's Digital Agenda boss Nellie Kroes invited CEOs from communications equipment manufacturers, network operators and content providers to suggest new ways to finance her broadband goals.
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March 07, 2011
07
Mar'11
Intel launches second generation Core vPro processor
Intel says new chip will increase the speed of business applications by 60%
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March 07, 2011
07
Mar'11
Libya internet blackout continues
Libya's internet service is still down following a weekend of blackouts, according to Google's Transparency Report.
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March 04, 2011
04
Mar'11
Osborne starts race for £50m broadband prize
Chancellor George Osborne has opened the bidding for an initial £50m for high-speed broadband projects as part of a four-year, £530m plan to extend broadband to rural areas of the UK
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March 04, 2011
04
Mar'11
Azure propels Southampton's Windows Phone 7 balloon above the clouds
Microsoft Azure is helping Southampton University to reach above the clouds in a first-of-its-kind experiment to probe the stratosphere using an unmanned vehicle.
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March 04, 2011
04
Mar'11
BT rolls out cloud-based social network for staff
BT is rolling out a cloud-based social networking, blogging and data sharing service across 40,000 current and former employees.
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March 04, 2011
04
Mar'11
South Korean websites come under cyber attack
Hackers have attacked around 40 South Korean government and private websites.
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March 04, 2011
04
Mar'11
The future of networking?
In the past two months, three of the biggest IT networking suppliers have brought intriguing options to market for processing and transporting information