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• January 20, 2011 20 Jan'11

  Amazon buys Lovefilm movie service

  Online retail giant Amazon has agreed to buy rental-by-post movie and streaming company Lovefilm.

  Market commentators have speculated that the deal...

• January 17, 2011 17 Jan'11

  Babcock outsources next-gen network to C&W Worldwide

  UK-based global engineering firm Babcock has hired Cable&Wireless Worldwide as its sole telecoms supplier for the next three years to consolidate Babcock's legacy network estate and connect its 250 UK and international sites

• January 14, 2011 14 Jan'11

  Mixed reception for Openreach's pole and duct access proposals

  Communications providers are coolly receptive to Openreach's draft proposals to open up BT's poles and ducts to other network operators, but some firms are much less keen.

• January 14, 2011 14 Jan'11

  BT offers pole and duct access - and asks for the same in return

  BT has proposed that network operators that want to share its poles and ducts should have to let BT share their infrastructure too

• January 14, 2011 14 Jan'11

  Riverbed keeps Devon cops on the beat

  A Riverbed wide area network optimisation project has allowed Devon and Cornwall police in remoter areas to spend more time out in the communities they protect.

• January 14, 2011 14 Jan'11

  Vodafone Australia sacks employees over data leak

  Vodafone Australia has sacked several people after four million customer records were exposed in a privacy leak

• January 14, 2011 14 Jan'11

  Government wants hard evidence before changing fibre tax

  The government wants concrete evidence that the business rates tax on lit fibres - the so-called fibre tax - unduly hampers network investment before it considers reviewing the system

• January 13, 2011 13 Jan'11

  Android’s growth set to double in 2011

  Android will continue to grow at more than twice the rate of its closest smart phone competitors this year, despite concerns over platform fragmentation, according to analyst firm Canalys.

• January 13, 2011 13 Jan'11

  Stress test IPv6 set for June 8

  June 8 2011 is to be World IPv6 Day in an attempt to publicise the need to support the new internet addressing scheme, or watch the internet run out of addresses.

• January 13, 2011 13 Jan'11

  O2, 2E2 combine to attack £7bn outsource market

  Businesses of all sizes could cut up to 30% off their combined IT and communications costs following the establishment of a joint venture between mobile...

• January 13, 2011 13 Jan'11

  BT to give 41 more towns 40Mbps broadband access by Spring 2012

  Forty-one market towns with around 300,000 businesses and consumers will get broadband access of up to 40Mbps from spring next year as part of the next phase...

• January 12, 2011 12 Jan'11

  Cash-strapped schools will use pupils’ mobile phones and Xboxes

  Mobile phones, iPods, and Xboxes will become part of the teaching tool-kit, according to a survey of education professionals from industry body Intellect.

• January 11, 2011 11 Jan'11

  Cambridge village competes with South Korea on broadband speeds

  Residents of Broughton have become among the first UK consumers to get access to 1Gbps broadband speeds

• January 11, 2011 11 Jan'11

  BT to develop Goonhilly satellite site for deep space comms programme

  After closing the Goonhilly visitor's centre in March 2010, BT has announced it is planning to invest in the historic telecommunications satellite site.

• January 11, 2011 11 Jan'11

  Tesco announces plan to put customer Wi-Fi in stores

  Retailer Tesco, has revealed plans to trial Wi-Fi in its stores.

• January 10, 2011 10 Jan'11

  Microsoft forced to investigate Windows Phone 7 data bug complaints

  Microsoft is investigating data usage by Windows Phone 7 devices after internet forums have been flooded with complaints about unidentified data use charges

• January 10, 2011 10 Jan'11

  State Emergency Service CIO pre-positions mobile command centers to manage floods

  The NSW State Emergency Service is pre-positioning mobile command centres - including PCs and wireless broadband-powered LANs - to help manage expected floods. The organisation is also looking at the iPad, Samsung Galaxy and other tablets to help ...

• January 06, 2011 06 Jan'11

  Skype TV move could threaten traditional telcos

  Television makers Sony and Vizio have joined Panasonic and Samsung in producing Skype-enabled TV sets, according to a blogpost on the Skype website.

• January 06, 2011 06 Jan'11

  Ofcom frees spectrum for better data, internet access

  From Thursday UK mobile network operators will be allowed to offer data services over their 2G networks, giving consumers better indoor and outdoor access...

• January 06, 2011 06 Jan'11

  CES 2011: Late UK launch could hinder Blackberry tablet success

  Research in Motion (RIM)'s delay in launching its tablet device, Blackberry Playbook, in the UK until later this year could damage its success in the tablet market, an analyst has warned.

• January 06, 2011 06 Jan'11

  Most people who sell their old mobiles don't clear personal data

  Just over three quarters of the UK population have sold on old mobile phones, but only 31% wiped all personal information before selling, a survey has revealed.

• January 06, 2011 06 Jan'11

  International callers ditch telcos for Skype

  Skype, the voice over IP telephony service, will add more than double the number of international call-minutes than all other network operators combined.

• January 06, 2011 06 Jan'11

  CES 2011: Steve Ballmer heralds new era of technology

  Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer highlighted that the next version of Windows will be the first to run on ARM processors in his keynote address at the opening of the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

• January 05, 2011 05 Jan'11

  Qualcomm looks beyond mobile with £2bn Wi-Fi acquisition

  US mobile phone chipmaker Qualcomm will acquire specialist Wi-Fi chip firm Atheros Communications

• January 05, 2011 05 Jan'11

  CES 2011: Ericsson debuts 4G LTE modem on Verizon mobile broadband network

  ST-Ericsson is demonstrating its LTE modem on Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE Mobile Broadband network at the CES

• January 05, 2011 05 Jan'11

  UK school networks vulnerable to attack

  UK schools are vulnerable to cyber attack, putting pupil, employee and administrative data at risk, according to security testing firm NGS Secure.

• January 05, 2011 05 Jan'11

  BCS CEO David Clarke talks about the future of the IT industry

  David Clarke, CEO of the chartered institute of computing the BCS, talks to Computer Weekly about being awarded an MBE, the future of the IT profession and tackling a membership revolt against his leadership last year.

• January 05, 2011 05 Jan'11

  RIM reacts to Indian Blackberry data interception reports

  Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM) says there will be no change to the security model of Blackberry Enterprise Server.

• January 04, 2011 04 Jan'11

  Goldman Sachs investment deal values Facebook at $50bn

  Facebook has raised $500m of an anticipated $2bn funding from Goldman Sachs and other investors, valuing the social networking firm at $50bn.

  This...

• January 04, 2011 04 Jan'11

  CES 2011: AMD unveils breakthrough netbook and tablet chip

  AMD has unveiled the Fusion family of Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) to power next generation HD netbooks at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

• January 04, 2011 04 Jan'11

  Skype faces China ban as iPhone debuts video conferencing

  Internet voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephony service Skype could be banned in China as the government cracks down on what it calls illegal internet telephone providers.

• January 03, 2011 03 Jan'11

  2010 Review: Top 10 analyst reports

  There is a wealth of information in our CW+ premium content service to help IT decision-makers. Here's the top 10 in 2010.

• December 31, 2010 31 Dec'10

  2010 Review: Top 10 SME IT stories

  It's been a tough year for SMEs, with many turning to IT innovation to combat a tough business climate. Read our round-up of the top IT SME stories of 2010.

• December 29, 2010 29 Dec'10

  2010 Review: Top 10 networking & mobile stories

  The internet is playing an increasingly critical role in business, government and society - and mobile technology is now a must-have for anyone in the workplace.

• December 29, 2010 29 Dec'10

  2010 Review: Top 10 broadband stories

  2010 has been a critical year for UK broadband as a new government comes in with their own ideas about how to ensure roll-out of next-generation superfast services.

• December 27, 2010 27 Dec'10

  2010 Review: Top 10 social media stories

  At the start of the year, social networking and collaboration was put at the top of the agenda for CIOs. Despite privacy risks, organisations embraced the use of social media - even to recruit staff - while other top tech firms were criticised for ...

• December 24, 2010 24 Dec'10

  2010 Review: Top 10 mobile technology stories

  Computer Weekly's top 10 mobile technology stories for 2010.

• December 23, 2010 23 Dec'10

  Skype supernode meltdown causes major outage

  Skype engineers worked non-stop over several hours yesterday to fix the peer-to-peer IP telephony's site's worst outage.

• December 23, 2010 23 Dec'10

  Snow dampens online growth in December

  Heavy snowfall may have dampened online...

• December 23, 2010 23 Dec'10

  Smartphones spoil Christmas for always-on-duty users

  One third of smartphone owners will use their devices for work purposes during Christmas and 10% will even do so at the Christmas dinner table.

• December 23, 2010 23 Dec'10

  2010 Review: The 10 most-read stories of the year

  This year we've seen coal miners trapped for 68 days in Chile, Prince William and Kate Middleton announce their engagement and the World Cup. But what were...

• December 22, 2010 22 Dec'10

  BT fire scorches retail sales

  BT has restored services after customers were left without broadband access following a fire at its West End exchange in central London.

• December 21, 2010 21 Dec'10

  BP signs $400m hosting deal with HP

  BP has signed a $400m (£258m) five-year outsourcing services deal with HP Enterprise Services.

• December 21, 2010 21 Dec'10

  Net neutrality: FCC set to legalise traffic management

  US communications industry regulator Federal Communications Commission is set to alter the economics of the web in a way that would bias certain types of network traffic, Reuters has reported.

• December 21, 2010 21 Dec'10

  Hansard considers cloud to escape Microsoft lock-in

  Whitehall techies proposed putting Hansard in the cloud to escape restrictions imposed by Microsoft's proprietary multimedia standards.

• December 21, 2010 21 Dec'10

  Minister launches East End ‘tech hub’ event

  David Willetts, minister for Universities and Science, hosted the first in a series of Shoreditch-based technology events last night.

  The clinic, with...

• December 21, 2010 21 Dec'10

  SEC investigates possible Hurd insider dealing

  The Securities and Exchanges Commission in the US is investigating whether former HP CEO Mark Hurd passed on information about the technology giant's acquisition...

• December 21, 2010 21 Dec'10

  Nokia-Microsoft alliance could be ‘as scary as Google’

  An alliance between Nokia and Microsoft would be complex, desperate and "as scary as Google", an analyst has said.

• December 21, 2010 21 Dec'10

  Twitter can be used in law courts

  Following Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's bail hearing last week, where a London magistrate permitted the use of Twitter, social media is now allowed in court.

• December 17, 2010 17 Dec'10

  Open source body challenges €189m EC software deal

  The open source lobby has challenged the €189m software contract struck by the European Commission last month.

• December 17, 2010 17 Dec'10

  Nokia escalates Apple patent row with 13 new infringement claims

  Nokia's patent war with Apple escalated yesterday, as the Finnish-based manufacturer filed 13 more infringement claims against the technology giant.

• December 14, 2010 14 Dec'10

  Transport for London routes real-time data to developers via Microsoft Azure

  Using Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, Transport for London (TfL) has made its real-time tube travel information available to mobile application developers.

• December 14, 2010 14 Dec'10

  IT departments must use agile programming properly to reap the benefits

  IT departments are failing to reap the benefits of agile programming because they are not using it in the way it was intended, it was claimed today.

• December 13, 2010 13 Dec'10

  London attack on Sarah Palin’s website attributed to Wikileaks 'hacktivists'

  Sarah Palin's website has been targeted by London hackers avenging Wikileaks, the former governor of Alaska has claimed.

• December 10, 2010 10 Dec'10

  West Wales pilots LTE wireless using digital switchover TV spectrum

  Wireless technology is being piloted in the Preseli Mountains, West Wales, which could overcome the issue of dead spots in broadband coverage in rural areas

• December 08, 2010 08 Dec'10

  Salesforce.com debuts cloud database in competition with Oracle

  Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing firm, has introduced a database-as-a-service (DbaaS) product, Database.com at its annual conference, Dreamforce, in San Francisco.

• December 07, 2010 07 Dec'10

  Study finds businesses unready for risks from new technology

  Less than a third of global businesses have an IT risk management programme capable of dealing with the risks related to the use of new technologies, a study has revealed.

• December 07, 2010 07 Dec'10

  UK broadband adoption and satisfaction improving, says Ofcom

  Broadband take-up has increased significantly among older people, and more people intend to get on the internet in the next 12 months

• December 06, 2010 06 Dec'10

  No monopoly on broadband supply, says culture minister

  No-one was "writing a cheque to BT," culture minister Jeremy Hunt said on Monday at the launch of the government's broadband strategy in London.

• December 06, 2010 06 Dec'10

  BT names front runners in high-speed fibre race

  Residents in Blewbury, Caxton, Castleton, Madingley and Whitcomb are winning the race to be the first areas to get BT's high-speed fibre service.

  The...

• December 06, 2010 06 Dec'10

  Rural providers react to government broadband strategy

  Communities and non-BT network operators reacted with dismay to the government's new broadband strategy.

• December 05, 2010 05 Dec'10

  Government broadband strategy will put digital hubs in every community

  The government plans to put a "digital hub" into every community by the end of this parliament as part of its £830m broadband strategy

• December 03, 2010 03 Dec'10

  Government to spell out UK broadband plans on Monday; BT offers 90% fibre coverage

  Culture minister Jeremy Hunt will set out the government's plans to stimulate investment in UK broadband networks on Monday.

• December 03, 2010 03 Dec'10

  Wi-Fi on UK rail ahead of Europe, says national ticket retailer

  The UK rail network is outstripping Europe in delivering onboard Wi-Fi, according to national rail ticket retailer MyTrainTicket.co.uk.

• December 02, 2010 02 Dec'10

  UK consumers turning to internet access on the move, says Ofcom

  Staying connected while on the move is the key characteristic of the UK communications consumer, according to the latest research from Ofcom

• December 02, 2010 02 Dec'10

  HTC defends HD7 handsets after antenna problems reported

  HTC has spoken out against internet reports that claim HTC HD7 handsets suffer from antenna 'death grip' problems, similar to those experienced by Apple's iPhone 4 users.

• December 02, 2010 02 Dec'10

  Remote working systems help suppliers beat the snow

  Ian Gotts, chief executive of software supplier and consultancy Nimbus Partners, was less worried than most company chiefs, when the snow caused major disruption to the country's transport systems this week.

• December 02, 2010 02 Dec'10

  Amazon cloud kicks off WikiLeaks following US pressure

  Amazon threw Wikileaks off its servers at the request of US senator Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate's Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee,...

• December 01, 2010 01 Dec'10

  Europe threatens price crackdown on network operators that abuse market dominance

  Dominant telcos face a crackdown unless they provide fair pricing and access to information to organisations that want to lease their infrastructure, the European Commission’s Digital Agenda boss warned

• November 30, 2010 30 Nov'10

  Wikileaks turns to cloud computing to fend off DDoS attack

  Whistleblowing site Wikileaks turned to cloud computing services to help defend against a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack ...

• November 30, 2010 30 Nov'10

  Communications costs comprise 12% of UK household spending

  UK consumers spent more on communications than on alcohol and tobacco as a result of more homes having computers and internet connections, the Office for National Statistics revealed on Tuesday.

• November 30, 2010 30 Nov'10

  Comcast sparks US net neutrality row

  US internet network operator Level 3 has accused cable firm Comcast of introducing charges for carrying internet movies and other traffic.

  Level 3...

• November 29, 2010 29 Nov'10

  Massive policy changes in data protection hold keys to business opportunity

  This past year, 2010, will be remembered as an important year for data protection, with the highest level of regulatory activity for more than 40 years.

• November 29, 2010 29 Nov'10

  PC sales slow as IT buyers turn to tablets and smartphones

  Global PC shipments for 2010 will fall short of expectations

• November 29, 2010 29 Nov'10

  Virgin Media shuts down 500 unsecured in-house wireless access points

  Virgin Media has deployed a new corporate wireless network across 30 of its UK sites after discovering up to 500 staff members were using shop-bought routers...

• November 29, 2010 29 Nov'10

  Google-backed O3b brings satellite broadband to developing countries

  Google-backed O3b Networks plans to launch satellite-enabled broadband for developing countries in 2013 after securing $1.2bn funding.

• November 29, 2010 29 Nov'10

  Chinese government hacked Google, claims Wikileaks leaked US diplomatic cables

  The Chinese government hacked into Google's computer systems, a leaked US diplomatic report claims.

• November 26, 2010 26 Nov'10

  Windows Phone 7 Marketplace reaches 3,000 apps milestone

  Microsoft has announced that its application store, Marketplace, has almost 3,000 applications and games available to download for the Windows Phone 7 operating system (OS).

• November 25, 2010 25 Nov'10

  Win a job - MLL Telecom sponsors student competition

  With jobs in IT and telecoms hard to find, a competition to find the Young Telecoms Engineer of the Year is a welcome development.

• November 24, 2010 24 Nov'10

  Fight looms over shared infrastructure for broadband networks

  How to share infrastructure is likely to become the hottest topic in rolling out next generation broadband access (NGA), especially in rural areas, it emerged at the NextGen10 conference in Birmingham this week.

• November 23, 2010 23 Nov'10

  Enterprise spending boosts HP sales by 8% in Q4

  Hewlett-Packard has reported an 8% increase in overall sales in the fourth quarter of 2010 after 25% growth in enterprise storage and servers revenue.

• November 23, 2010 23 Nov'10

  BT’s T&Cs put broadband providers off £830m rural pilot bids

  The government's plans to attract competitive bids for four rural broadband pilot projects may be disrupted because non-BT network operators say they lack...

• November 22, 2010 22 Nov'10

  Fallen giant Novell to be acquired by Attachmate for $2.2bn

  Software supplier Novell, once one of the most influential companies in corporate IT, is to be acquired for $2.2bn by Attachmate

• November 22, 2010 22 Nov'10

  Is All-Optical the Next LAN?

  Tellabs' announcement of an R&D facility in Melbourne saw Richard Chirgwin speak to the company’s VP of Australia, New Zealand and Japan, about the reasons for the facility – and learned about the company’s hopes for desktop fibre along the way.

• November 19, 2010 19 Nov'10

  The IT Blog Awards 2010 winners

  Who’s the 2010 blogger of the year? What is the best gadget blog on the web? All these questions will be answered.

• November 18, 2010 18 Nov'10

  CERN connects India to data network

  India is now connected to Cern's Large Hadron Collider grid through a 1 Gbps network provided by Reliance Globalcom.

• November 16, 2010 16 Nov'10

  The IT SME procurement challenge

  The government has announced it will increase SME procurement to 25% of public sector contracts. But is it likely to meet this quota with small IT businesses?

• November 16, 2010 16 Nov'10

  Comms minister Vaizey to explain business rates to network operators

  Network operators have been invited to a private meeting with communications minister Ed Vaizey to be briefed on the business rating system for communications networks, and broadband networks in particular.

• November 16, 2010 16 Nov'10

  EMC to buy Isilon for £1.4bn

  EMC has announced it will acquire the data storage firm by the end of 2010

• November 15, 2010 15 Nov'10

  BT wins back £600m Lloyds Bank network contract

  BTLloyds BT has won back the Lloyds Banking Group voice and data network contract that it lost...

• November 15, 2010 15 Nov'10

  Steria wins contract with the MoD

  French IT services supplier Steria has won a £60m contract with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), part of the UK Ministry of Defence.

• November 15, 2010 15 Nov'10

  Facebook overtakes eBay to become no.3 US internet company

  Facebook has overtaken eBay's estimated worth of $39.3bn to become the third largest US internet business.

• November 11, 2010 11 Nov'10

  Sweated assets pay off for BT

  Sweating its assets has enabled BT, the UK's biggest network operator, to declare a 48% increase in profits to £406m on sales that dipped slightly to £4.98bn for FY2Q11.

• November 10, 2010 10 Nov'10

  Digital Economy Act goes to judicial review

  The Digital Economy Act, which passed into law in controversial circumstances, will undergo judicial review to establish its legal status.

• November 10, 2010 10 Nov'10

  Young women are the most likely victims of online scams, research shows

  Women aged 25 to 34 are most likely to fall victim to online scams, according to research published today.

• November 10, 2010 10 Nov'10

  Keep the net neutral, says Europe

  Europeans' desire to keep the internet free of manipulation by network operators will be debated at the European legislators' net neutrality summit on 11 November.

• November 10, 2010 10 Nov'10

  iPhone, Android win big in 3Q10

  Apple and Android were the big winners as worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 417 million units in the third quarter of 2010, 35% up from the same period in 2009, according to market analyst Gartner.

• November 10, 2010 10 Nov'10

  Google woos SMEs with new apps

  Google has introduced eight new apps designed to extend its appeal to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and has promised to make Tuesdays "App Tuesday".

• November 09, 2010 09 Nov'10

  Bwin launches live betting app for iPhone

  Austrian gambling firm Bwin has launched a real-money live betting application for the iPhone in the Apple iTunes store.

• November 09, 2010 09 Nov'10

  Rural broadband and WiFi to slip between TV gaps

  Communications regulator Ofcom has published proposals to make available unused TV frequencies for free enhanced WiFi and rural broadband network access, among other applications.