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July 27, 2010 27 Jul'10
iPhone jailbreaking not illegal, says US government

The US government has given iPhone users the go-ahead to bypass electronic protection on Apple's iPhones to enable them to use any wireless service provider.
July 23, 2010 23 Jul'10
Wi-fi mobiles threaten 3G revenues

Most consumers will be using mobile handsets with chipsets that provide Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS (Global Positioning System) within the next five years, says market researcher ABI Research.
July 23, 2010 23 Jul'10
Ofcom excludes business networks from fixed, mobile broadband report

Business network interests are to be excluded from communications regulator Ofcom's assessment of the availability of fixed and mobile broadband coverage for its first report on communications infrastructure under the new Digital Economy Act.
July 22, 2010 22 Jul'10
Nokia profits plunge as smartphone sales rise 1%

Smartphone sales and currency movements helped Nokia report a 1% rise in sales to €10bn for the second quarter of 2010, but operating profit plunged 15%...

July 22, 2010 22 Jul'10
No room for BT complacency, said chairman

BT chairman Sir Michael Rake said the previous financial year had been a "year of delivery" at the company's annual general meeting in Liverpool today.
July 21, 2010 21 Jul'10
Why the ACCC thinks carrier Ethernet is important

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has indicated it may include Ethernet services in its list of Domestic Transmission Capacity Services. Richard Chirgwin analyses the implications of the move.
July 21, 2010 21 Jul'10
Using 3G as a backup WAN

3G data services are often advanced as a cheap way to provide a disaster recovery service for your WAN. But experts say you need to do more than just cut from one link to another to create a functional connection.
July 20, 2010 20 Jul'10
Farnborough Air Show: wireless service transfers aircraft flight data at gate

Airlines are testing a high-capacity wireless service that will allow aircraft to share on-board flight data and maintenance data with the airline's IT systems in real time when planes land at an airport gate.
July 20, 2010 20 Jul'10
NSN consolidates second place with $1.2bn Motorola deal

Nokia Siemens Networks' (NSN) proposed $1.2bn takeover of most of Motorola's wireless business will strengthen its position as a supplier of mobile and fixed wireless network infrastructure, but leaves the company still number two to Alcatel-Lucent ...
July 19, 2010 19 Jul'10
BT hitches onto Arqiva wagon for utility smart meter ride

Signal distribution company Arqiva has attracted BT and security specialist Detica as partners to address communications for the UK's £10bn smart meter roll-out programme.

July 19, 2010 19 Jul'10
Apple share price unscathed by iPhone "debacle"

Apple shares have held their price despite the alleged design fault in the iPhone 4 launched on 24 June.
July 16, 2010 16 Jul'10
Universal broadband to take three more years

Providing universal access to broadband speeds of a minimum of 2Mbps will take until 2015, three years longer than Labour had predicted, the government said...
July 16, 2010 16 Jul'10
NTT to acquire Dimension Data in $3.2bn deal

Japanese telecommunications operator NTT has announced an agreement to acquire UK-listed IT services company Dimension Data for $3.2bn.
July 16, 2010 16 Jul'10
Apple unlikely to recall iPhone 4, say analysts

Apple's announcement of a news conference in New York today has sparked speculation as to how the company plans to deal with a design flaw that is causing reception problems with the iPhone 4.
July 14, 2010 14 Jul'10
Facebook claims 150 million mobile users

Facebook claims to have about 150 million mobile users and expects mobile phones to be a crucial platform for the future.
July 14, 2010 14 Jul'10
Lords query £140k grant to rural broadband quango

Questions have been raised in the House of Lords about £140,500 of taxpayers' money given to support a mentoring scheme for rural broadband projects, but more may be at stake.
July 13, 2010 13 Jul'10
BT wins more time to fight £42m overcharge case

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has granted BT extra time to prepare its appeal against an Ofcom finding that it overcharged other network operators almost £42m for partial private circuits for five years
July 12, 2010 12 Jul'10
Ofcom orders mobile operators to move to same-day transfers from April 2011

Mobile network operators will have to provide the porting authorisation code (PAC) that mobile phone users need to switch operators within two hours from 11 April 2011.
July 09, 2010 09 Jul'10
Kent County Council fills in rural broadband 'not-spots'

Kent County Council has spent £486,000 to fund the roll-out of high-speed broadband to nearly a dozen villages and parishes
July 09, 2010 09 Jul'10
BT and CWU agree pay deal to avert strike ballot

The Communications Workers Union (CWU) has agreed to a 3% pay rise which will be recommended for its members in a ballot in the next few weeks.
July 09, 2010 09 Jul'10
Google apologises to Australians for Wi-Fi snooping

Google has apologised to Australians for harvesting private Wi-Fi data as the company collected images for its Street View service
July 08, 2010 08 Jul'10
UBS bank gets CSC voice and data services

UBS bank has signed a five-year deal with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) for networking services for $580m.
July 07, 2010 07 Jul'10
France Telecom to buy new national optical fibre network

France Telecom/Orange is to spend €2bn on a new optical fibre network that will cover 40% of French homes by 2012, and every French dèpartement by 2015.
July 07, 2010 07 Jul'10
CNBC picks BT for video distribution

Business and financial news channel CNBC has outsourced European distribution of its video content to BT's Media Network for five years.
July 07, 2010 07 Jul'10
Skype hires Yahoo's customer experience expert

Virtual telecoms company Skype has hired Yahoo's vice-president for customer engineering Madhu Yarlagadda as its new chief development officer to look after Skype's engineering and development initiatives.
July 07, 2010 07 Jul'10
Arqiva presses for long-range radio for smart meter network

The communications network to link the UK's smart meters should be assessed as part of the nation's critical national infrastructure, not simply another application on the existing fixed and mobile networks, says Arqiva smart meter project director ...
July 07, 2010 07 Jul'10
Assess smart meter network on total cost of ownership, says Arqiva

The government should base its assessment of communications network alternatives for the proposed national £10bn smart meter/smart grid project on the total cost of ownership over the entire 25 year expected life of the project…
July 06, 2010 06 Jul'10
Union calls off BT strike ballot

The Communication Workers Union has cancelled a strike ballot that was expected to favour the start of the first national strike in 23 years at BT.
July 05, 2010 05 Jul'10
Apple says tests confirm iPhone 4 has best wireless performance ever

Apple has denied a design fault in the antennae of the iPhone 4 and has blamed instead the formula used to calculate signal strength.
July 01, 2010 01 Jul'10
NHS spent £1.6bn on IT in 2009

The NHS spent £1.6bn on IT in 2009, the government has revealed.
June 28, 2010 28 Jun'10
Government eyes 'big society' rural broadband option

The government could rely on its "big society" idea to get broadband into rural communities.

The idea that communities club together and set up their...
June 28, 2010 28 Jun'10
Congressmen ask Steve Jobs to explain changes in Apple’s privacy policy

US congress members have written to Apple chief executive Steve Jobs about concerns that the firm is collecting and sharing geo-location data of iPhone and...
June 28, 2010 28 Jun'10
Cisco signs network agreement with Abu Dhabi government

US network equipment maker Cisco has signed a framework agreement with Abu Dhabi Systems and Information Centre (Adsic), the information and communications technology arm of the Abu Dhabi government.
June 28, 2010 28 Jun'10
US auctions spectrum to double broadband

The US government has announced plans to nearly double the wireless communications spectrum in the next ten years to encourage the spread of wireless broadband,...
June 25, 2010 25 Jun'10
Smaller networks hit by fibre charges

The Valuation Office Agency plans to publish new business tax rates on optical fibre networks in July, but few if any smaller network operators have been consulted.
June 24, 2010 24 Jun'10
HP collaborates with VMware to slash virtualisation costs

HP is collaborating with VMware to provide integrated storage, desktop and connectivity to support virtualisation in the datacentre and pave the way towards...
June 24, 2010 24 Jun'10
Video: Droid X takes shine off iPhone 4

While people are queuing up today to buy Apple's latest baby, Google, Motorola and Verizon have launched Droid x, their iPhone 4 killer, which offers a 4.3 inch 854 x 480 resolution screen and voice recognition.
June 24, 2010 24 Jun'10
NCP targets barriers to enterprise mobility

Concern about the security of public internet access is still preventing many businesses giving mobile access to company data, says secure connection software...
June 23, 2010 23 Jun'10
Two London teenagers arrested in cybercrime investigation

The Metropolitan Police's Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) has arrested two teenagers in an international cybercrime investigation.
June 22, 2010 22 Jun'10
Schroders gives staff social media services to increase productivity

The asset management and private banking company Schroders is turning to social media to help its staff communicate more effectively and to cut spiralling volumes of e-mail.
June 22, 2010 22 Jun'10
Sewer-based dark fibre operator up for entrepreneur of the year

Elfed Thomas, CEO of metropolitan dark fibre network operator i3, will represent the North West in Ernst & Young’s search to find the UK entrepreneur of the year.
June 21, 2010 21 Jun'10
BT offers all-you-can-eat WiFi on your Home Hub

BT is to scrap its cap on WiFi traffic following O2's announcement that it will limit data traffic on its mobile network. BT Retail consumer managing director John Petter said BT's broadband users were previously limited on WiFi minutes available at...
June 21, 2010 21 Jun'10
Government seeks no-cost ideas for universal 2Mbps broadband

The government is to hold a open day on 15 July in London to hear ideas from industry about how to provide and pay for a minimum 2Mbps broadband service to the UK's "not spots", and how to roll a "superfast" service at the same time
June 21, 2010 21 Jun'10
Met police secures IT savings to 2015 with contract extension

Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has extended its contract with IT services supplier Capgemini until December 2015. The original £350m seven-year deal was signed in 2005, but the police service opted for an early renewal.
June 21, 2010 21 Jun'10
Telstra/NBN FAQ

Richard Chirgwin analyses the proposed deal between the federal government and Telstra, explaining how it will work, what it will mean for your broadband connection and the impact on competition.
June 18, 2010 18 Jun'10
Banks rank cable TV firms less risky than telcos for broadband roll-out

Banks see cable TV companies as better bets than telecommunications companies in the race to deliver national high-speed broadband, it emerged last night.

Jeffrey...
June 17, 2010 17 Jun'10
Broadband contract termination charges slashed

Despite voice and broadband suppliers BT, TalkTalk and Virgin Media believing their early contract termination charges were fair, they have nevertheless...
June 17, 2010 17 Jun'10
iPhone 4 demand exceeds expectations

Apple has reported pre-orders of 600,000 for the latest version of the iPhone in the first day, wiping out initial iPhone 4 stocks and surpassing demand for the recently launched iPad.
June 14, 2010 14 Jun'10
World Cup 2010: Huge internet spike expected on 23 June

UK internet traffic is expected to be almost 50% higher than normal on 23 June, when England plays its final group qualifying match in the 2010 World Cup.
June 11, 2010 11 Jun'10
Cisco debuts Quad collaboration and Prosumer Video

Cisco has launched an enterprise collaboration platform, called Quad, that offers video, real time instant messaging (IM) and social networking capabilities.
June 11, 2010 11 Jun'10
Virgin Media adds ex-Verizon CFO to board

Virgin Media has appointed former Verizon Commnications CFO Doreen Toben as a non-executive director. She will join the company's audit committee.
June 10, 2010 10 Jun'10
O2 scraps 'all you can eat' tariffs

O2, the UK's second largest mobile operator, is to scrap its "all you can eat" single tariff in favour of charging separately for data, to cut traffic congestion and claw back revenue.
June 10, 2010 10 Jun'10
Google could face privacy complaint in the UK over Wi-Fi data

Privacy International is planning to file a criminal complaint with the UK police over Google's interception of private Wi-Fi data.
June 10, 2010 10 Jun'10
US Air Force to deploy cybercontrol system using HP technology

The US Air Force (USAF) is to deploy a cybercontrol system (CCS) to identify cyberthreats to US cyberspace and other strategic information
June 10, 2010 10 Jun'10
Government introduces Digital Britain 2.0

"Within this parliament we want Britain to have the best superfast broadband network in Europe," culture secretary Jeremy Hunt said, setting out the new government's ambitions with respect to creating a digital economy in the UK.
June 09, 2010 09 Jun'10
Government promises more ambitious broadband target for UK

The Conservative government has pledged to give the UK the best broadband network in Europe.
June 09, 2010 09 Jun'10
India to check all Chinese telecoms equipment for spyware

India is appointing auditors to check that all telecoms equipment imported from China is free of software designed to monitor data transmissions.
June 08, 2010 08 Jun'10
UK’s quest for a fair and rational privacy law

The government's decision to scrap identity cards relieved privacy advocates but did not solve the basic problem, which is that citizens need a cheap, reliable, easy to use and universally accepted way to assert their identity.
June 07, 2010 07 Jun'10
Australia to investigate if Google violated local privacy laws

Australian police are to investigate if Google's Street View service has breached local telecommunications privacy laws, the attorney general Robert McClelland has announced.
June 04, 2010 04 Jun'10
Union ultimatum as BT staff move on with strike ballot

Over 50,000 workers at BT will now be balloted for strike action after the Communication Workers Union expressed disappointment that BT will not improve its offer of a 2% pay increase.
June 03, 2010 03 Jun'10
Podcast: Microsoft beefs up security in IE and Hotmail

Microsoft is working hard to improve the reputation of its Internet Explorer (IE) web browser and is set to raise the security bar even higher in version 9 currently under development.
June 03, 2010 03 Jun'10
Skype founders take second shot at web music service

Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have launched an online service that sells monthly music subscriptions.
May 26, 2010 26 May'10
Fifa World Cup supercomputer is based in Slough

Fifa has unveiled its Fifa.com supercomputer site, which will support online access to the world cup.
May 26, 2010 26 May'10
CWU members vote for BT strike ballot to press 5% wage claim

Communications Workers Union members voted unanimously this morning to ballot 60,000 BT workers for a strike in support of their 5% wage claim against BT's offer of 2% plus a guaranteed bonus of between £250 and £500.
May 26, 2010 26 May'10
Berners-Lee and Shadbolt disappointed at cancellation of Institute of Web Science

Computer scientists Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt have said they are "disappointed" by the government's plans to cancel the Institute of Web Science.
May 26, 2010 26 May'10
CWU to vote on strike action at BT

Communications workers will vote this morning on whether to ballot members on a strike at BT, the UK's biggest network operator. The move follows a...
May 25, 2010 25 May'10
Spectrum bonanza unlikely as government sits on auction plans

The moderate prices achieved in the German auction of next-generation mobile spectrum suggest the UK government will get nothing like the £24.6bn bonanza...
May 24, 2010 24 May'10
IBM spends £1.4bn on Sterling Commerce purchase

IBM has acquired Sterling Commerce from AT&T for $1.4bn, as part of its planned $20bn acquisition spree to bolster in high-growth markets.

With the...
May 24, 2010 24 May'10
Speed of light is too slow for mobile comms, says RIM CTO

The problem with the speed of light is that it is just too slow, says David Yach, CTO of Research in Motion's software.
May 20, 2010 20 May'10
Licence fee could fund part of UK broadband rollout

The BBC licence fee could be used to help fund part of the rollout of superfast broadband in the UK.
May 20, 2010 20 May'10
CSC profits down, but hopes up

CSC reported a fall in profits for its latest quarter, but a rise in sales for the final three months of the financial year sets the scene for the company to grow next year.
May 20, 2010 20 May'10
ISPA shortlists top internet service providers for awards

The UK's Internet Services Providers' Association (ISPA) has announced the finalists for the 12th Annual Uk Internet Industry Awards.
May 19, 2010 19 May'10
Government wasted £21bn a year on IT, says think-tank.

Transformational Government, Labour's ambitious plan to use IT to transform how citizens and government agencies interact, has been a disaster, says an academic think-tank.
May 19, 2010 19 May'10
Cisco SaaS to power interactive services for London 2012 Olympics

London's organising committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games plans to deliver interactive online content around the 2012 sporting events.

To...
May 19, 2010 19 May'10
Worldwide mobile phones sales up 17% in Q1

Worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 314.7m units in the first quarter of 2010, a 17% per cent increase from the same period in 2009, according to Gartner.
May 18, 2010 18 May'10
UK's slower websites to lose rank to faster US ones in Google

UK FTSE companies will have their websites ranked lower by Google than their US rivals because their websites are slow. Research carried out by web optimisation company Aptimize, found that the websites of FTSE companies in the UK were 27% slower ...
May 18, 2010 18 May'10
Microsoft pays $200m to VirnetX in patent lawsuit

Microsoft is to pay $200m in settlement of a patent infringement case brought by VirnetX. VirnetX had claimed Microsoft was infringing on two of its patents on automatic and secure virtual private network (VPN) technology.
May 17, 2010 17 May'10
Interview: Virtualise or die warns Citrix CEO, Mark Templeton

Antony Savvas in San Francisco talks to Mark Templeton, CEO of Citrix, at the company's Synergy 2010 about virtualisation, competition and convergence of corporate and consumer IT
May 17, 2010 17 May'10
Phishing scam hits thousands on Twitter

A phishing scam is targeting thousands of Twitter users hoping to increase their number of followers. Spam messages are circulating that claim to contain links to websites that will help Twitter users to increase their number of followers for free.
May 17, 2010 17 May'10
YouTube notches up two billion daily views in five years

YouTube is marking its fifth anniversary by announcing the service has exceeded two billion daily views, demonstrating rapid growth in popularity since reaching...
May 17, 2010 17 May'10
Google says Street View cars collected WiFi data by mistake

Google has admitted that it mistakenly collected data sent over WiFi networks using its Street...
May 14, 2010 14 May'10
IT sector braces for public sector cuts, seeks clarity on IT policies

The UK's information and communications (ICT) sector is bracing itself for massive cuts in public sector IT spending, but this may offer fresh opportunities to small and medium (SME) suppliers, says the industry's trade body, Intellect.
May 14, 2010 14 May'10
ITU group will develop cloud standards

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has formed a group to establish global standards for interoperability and secure information exchange across...
May 13, 2010 13 May'10
BT pledges £1bn to increase UK broadband coverage

BT will spend an extra £1bn to increase broadband coverage from 40% to 66% of the nation's homes in the coming year, CEO Ian Livingston, said this morning.
May 12, 2010 12 May'10
Mobiles save Deutsche Telekom's bottom line

High-margin income from mobile phone customers rescued Deutsche Telekom's results as revenues stayed flat for the first quarter of 2010, the company reported today.
May 12, 2010 12 May'10
Last call for entries in Best of British Innovation competition

A competition to find the UK's most innovative businesses and put them in front of potential investors will soon close to entrants.

IT developers are...
May 12, 2010 12 May'10
Verizon service aims to cut international mobile costs

Verizon Business has introduced a service aimed at reducing international mobile roaming costs for European enterprises.
May 11, 2010 11 May'10
Joint Orange-T-Mobile firm promises Everything Everywhere

Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom have unveiled Everything Everywhere (E2), the new name for their combined UK mobile operators, Orange and T-mobile. The...
May 11, 2010 11 May'10
Nokia revamps, hires ex-Sun software boss as CTO

Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone company, has simplified its management structure "to increase competitiveness and deliver a stronger and more differentiated consumer experience", the company said.
May 11, 2010 11 May'10
Threatening Tweet costs man £1,000

A man was found guilty of sending a menacing electronic communication after he tweeted he would blow up an airport.

Former trainee accountant Paul...
May 10, 2010 10 May'10
BT to get back on broadband wagon

BT, the UK's largest network operator, is expected to reveal plans to extend its broadband service to two-thirds of UK homes when it announces its annual results this week.
May 10, 2010 10 May'10
Smart meter roll-out starts in strong Q1 for British Gas

This winter's unusually cold weather meant British Gas had a better-than-expected first quarter of 2010, with its good performance underpinned by a continued drive to cut costs.
May 07, 2010 07 May'10
Nokia’s board backs shift of focus to mobile services

Nokia's board has come out in support of a management plan to regain lost ground in the smartphone market by switching focus from hardware to mobile services.
May 05, 2010 05 May'10
Microsoft-Nokia mobile alliance delivers first application

Microsoft and Nokia ...
May 04, 2010 04 May'10
IT in the spotlight at M&S as new chairman takes over

Marks & Spencer's new chief executive Marc Bolland starts today at the high street giant, and IT-related decisions are at the top of his in-tray.
April 30, 2010 30 Apr'10
Technology is built into new Essex hospital

Broomfield Hospital in Essex is installing a range of technologies to improve patient care as it expands into a new five-storey wing.
April 30, 2010 30 Apr'10
Transport for London starts CCTV modernisation

Transport for London (TfL) has begun a £22.6m project to revamp its closed-circuit TV (CCTV) infrastructure using internet protocol (IP) technology. The transport body has signed a 10-year contract with supplier Easynet for the design, build, ...
April 30, 2010 30 Apr'10
Steve Jobs reveals why Apple will not put Adobe Flash on its mobiles

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has detailed why he will not allow Adobe Flash software on mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPod and iPad.
April 28, 2010 28 Apr'10
Digital Economy Act – changing the landscape or crawling over the finish line?

The Digital Economy Act implements a number of the recommendations contained in the government's Digital Britain initiative that require legislation. However, many observers feel the Act is as notable for what it omits as for what it contains.
April 27, 2010 27 Apr'10
Video: Blackberry Version 6 promises iPhone-like experience

Research in Motion has put together a video to demonstrate its Blackberry Version 6 operating system, which is due to launch in July. There are no details...