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May 20, 2011 20 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.
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.
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.
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.

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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
April 28, 2011 28 Apr'11
Nottingham University Hospitals Trust deploys wireless network

The Nervecentre system has improved patient safety, workforce planning and productivity.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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 .
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....
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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
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.
March 31, 2011 31 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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...
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
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.
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 ...
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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%
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.
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
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.
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.
March 04, 2011 04 Mar'11
South Korean websites come under cyber attack

Hackers have attacked around 40 South Korean government and private websites.
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