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• April 21, 2010 21 Apr'10

  Options settlement costs mar Juniper's 1Q10

  Communications equipment maker Juniper Networks reported a 19% rise in turnover year on year to $912m as its operating margin rose to 17.6% from 10.6% a year ago.

• April 19, 2010 19 Apr'10

  BT, Asda top mobile satisfaction table

  BT and Asda offered the best value in terms of contract and pay-as-you-go mobile contracts respectively, according to subscribers surveyed by consumer rights...

• April 15, 2010 15 Apr'10

  Ofcom starts anti-piracy code consultation

  Communications regulator Ofcom has issued a consultation on a code of conduct that aims to cut online copyright infringement by up to 70%.

  It is also...

• April 15, 2010 15 Apr'10

  China-based DDOS attack hits Australian multinationals

  A China-based distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on a financial services company has halted internet services for several hours to some customers...

• April 08, 2010 08 Apr'10

  Wimax speeds up 4G standard to meet user demand for bandwidth

  Massive demand for radio-based 4G broadband has prompted the Wimax Forum to speed up the release of standards that will improve the throughput rate of Wimax networks by more than 50%.

• April 07, 2010 07 Apr'10

  Comcast decision casts a long shadow on UK net neutrality

  The US government's plans to provide 90% of citizens with 100Mbps broadband access in 10 years could be hijacked by network operators

• April 07, 2010 07 Apr'10

  How the costs of the Digital Economy Bill add up for ISPs

  Internet service providers face a host of extra costs that could add up to £15m a year if provisions in the Digital Economy Bill become law.

• April 07, 2010 07 Apr'10

  Labour ditches 50p broadband tax in wash-up

  Government plans to fund high-speed broadband networks were in disarray after ministers admitted there was not enough time to debate the proposed 50p per month tax on fixed-wire phones.

• April 07, 2010 07 Apr'10

  Election 2010: The main parties' technology policies

  All three parties have pushed technology-related issues up the agenda for 2010's General Election. Here's our round-up of the main policies…

• April 05, 2010 05 Apr'10

  Buyer's guide: New approaches to combating network secuity threats

  Polymorphic malware is on the rise. Panda Security identified 25 million new strains of malware in 2009.

• April 01, 2010 01 Apr'10

  Google business in China hit by service disruptions

  Google's business in China is taking a beating after the company experienced service disruptions in the wake of announcing that it had stopped...

• April 01, 2010 01 Apr'10

  Internet addresses to void in 30 days

  ICANT, the organisation responsible for allocating internet addresses, will switch off the present IPv4 addressing system in 30 days, leaving only websites...

• March 31, 2010 31 Mar'10

  REC outlines 2020's in-demand technology skills

  The IT profession and the skills it needs will...

• March 31, 2010 31 Mar'10

  Flood hits tens of thousands of BT broadband users in north London

  A flood in a BT exchange in the Paddington area has knocked out telephone and broadband services to tens of thousands of customers in north and west London....

• March 31, 2010 31 Mar'10

  Anti-Digital Economy Bill campaign gains momentum

  Civil rights campaigners 38 Degrees and Open Rights Group (ORG) have raised nearly £12,000 to fund an initiative aimed at persuading MPs to oppose the Digital Economy Bill's controversial disconnection clauses becoming law without being debated.

• March 31, 2010 31 Mar'10

  Interview: Paul Cheesbrough, CIO, Telegraph Media Group

  Paul Cheesbrough, chief information officer at the Telegraph Media Group, has pioneered cloud computing and web 2.0 technologies at the newspaper.

• March 30, 2010 30 Mar'10

  Ofcom wants ISPs to be upfront about broadband speeds

  Consumers may be able to get out of their broadband contract if their access speed is "significantly" below the speed they are paying for, communications...

• March 30, 2010 30 Mar'10

  BT unveils broadband upgrade to 300 exchanges

  BT plans to upgrade just over 300 exchanges between autumn 2010 and summer 2011 to extend high-speed broadband to four million more homes.

• March 30, 2010 30 Mar'10

  Cisco gets EU and US green light for Tandberg buyout

  The European Commission (EC) and US Department of Justice have approved Cisco's $3.4bn...

• March 30, 2010 30 Mar'10

  Google confirms problems with mobile service in China

  Google has reported the partial blocking of its mobile internet services in China a week after the internet firm announced that it had stopped...

• March 29, 2010 29 Mar'10

  British Gas sparks smart meter roll-out

  British Gas has signed several multimillion pound contracts to roll out smart meters to nearly 1 million households from the end of 2012. The meters will...

• March 24, 2010 24 Mar'10

  Budget leaves key network issues unresolved

  Alistair Darling's Budget proposal to introduce a 50p per month tax on fixed-wire phones to support the roll-out of high-speed broadband may be overtaken by events.

• March 23, 2010 23 Mar'10

  BT to open ducts and poles to rivals' fibre

  100Mbps broadband is likely to become the norm for millions of citizens following UK telecoms regulator Ofcom's proposals to let third parties roll out their own fibre networks using BT's ducts and poles.

• March 23, 2010 23 Mar'10

  HP integrates Microsoft Unified Comms Server for branch offices

  HP has introduced a suite of products optimised for Microsoft Communications Server "14," the next version of Microsoft's unified communications platform.

• March 22, 2010 22 Mar'10

  Political parties dangle the broadband carrot

  Access to high-speed broadband networks has become a hot potato for political parties. They promise it will give voters more of what they like, which is mainly better quality television and government services.

• March 22, 2010 22 Mar'10

  Quality, not speed counts in broadband, says BSG

  Politicians' plans to spend billions to provide superfast broadband are misplaced, says industry association the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG).

• March 22, 2010 22 Mar'10

  Gordon Brown turns his focus to digital economy

  Gordon Brown's raft of new measures to boost the digital economy has shown the growing awareness in government of the importance of technology.

• March 22, 2010 22 Mar'10

  Gordon Brown promises every UK home will have high-speed broadband by 2020

  Gordon Brown has promised that every home in the UK will have a high-speed broadband connection by 2020.

• March 18, 2010 18 Mar'10

  Deutsche Telecom aims to double revenue from mobile data, TV and intelligent networks

  Mobile data traffic, television and intelligent networks will provide the richest opportunities for revenue growth, says Deutsche Telekom CEO René Obermann

• March 17, 2010 17 Mar'10

  Telecoms industry raises concerns over FCC US broadband plan

  The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) National Broadband Plan has had a mixed reception, according to US reports.

• March 16, 2010 16 Mar'10

  National broadband plan to set US on path to digital inclusion

  In ten years 90% of Americans will have affordable access to 100Mbps broadband, with schools, hospitals and army bases getting 1Gbps access, if Congress...

• March 16, 2010 16 Mar'10

  Broadband will catapult US economy into growth, says Google CEO

  The widespread availability of high-speed broadband networks will "catapult" the US economy into growth and restore its competitive edge in business and science, says Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

• March 15, 2010 15 Mar'10

  Mobile broadband spectrum auction may hit legal wall

  The government's proposed auction of radio frequencies to enable the roll-out of mobile broadband may be delayed further by legal action.

• March 12, 2010 12 Mar'10

  Deutsche Post DHL builds wide area network with Vodafone

  Deutsche Post DHL (DPDHL) is rolling out a managed wide area network across 67 countries to improve its tracking capabilities and provide access to bespoke applications

• March 12, 2010 12 Mar'10

  Windows Mobile loses favour in US as Google Android gains ground

  Microsoft's share of the smartphone market has crashed in the US, while Google has made the biggest gains.

• March 11, 2010 11 Mar'10

  Video: Most people would rather vote online

  More than three in four (77%) of the public would vote via the internet in the general election if given the choice, according to a survey. Some 1,000 people...

• March 11, 2010 11 Mar'10

  Tech billionaires’ wealth rises by $55.8bn despite recession

  The world's richest technology billionaires upped their collective wealth by $55.8bn last year despite the impact of the recession.

  However Bill Gates,...

• March 11, 2010 11 Mar'10

  MEPs reject Acta online anti-piracy deal

  Negotiators who are thrashing out a secret...

• March 10, 2010 10 Mar'10

  Wimax operators to get first crack in broadband spectrum auctions

  Mobile network operators will be allowed to own a maximum of 90MHz in frequencies above and below the 1GHz band, making it impossible for any one the four...

• March 10, 2010 10 Mar'10

  Digital Economy Bill amendment threatens free speech on web

  Communications executives say proposed amendments to the Digital Economy Bill ...

• March 10, 2010 10 Mar'10

  Malware found on out-of-the-box Vodafone HTC Magic smartphone

  Security researchers report that malware has been discovered on a Vodafone HTC...

• March 09, 2010 09 Mar'10

  Election 2010: Tories told what policy on IT should be

  IT industry tells the Conservative Party what it would like the next government to do.

• March 09, 2010 09 Mar'10

  Gmail user sues Google over Buzz violating data privacy

  A Gmail user is suing Google for allegedly violating data privacy laws when it launched its Buzz social networking service in February. Former US Navy...

• March 05, 2010 05 Mar'10

  Lack of broadband is driving businesses out of rural areas, says government advisor

  The lack of broadband communications in rural areas is forcing businesses and young people to abandon the countryside, a government advisor says.

  The...

• March 05, 2010 05 Mar'10

  Ofcom to hold consultation on net neutrality

  UK communications regulator looks into media owners' complaints that broadband carriers are deliberately slowing down some types of net traffic.

• March 02, 2010 02 Mar'10

  ISP rules could hit unis and Wi-Fi cafes

  Universities, libraries and Wi-Fi providers such as cafes, caravan parks and hotels may have to register as internet service providers to conform with proposals...

• March 02, 2010 02 Mar'10

  Update: Operators slam Ofcom plans for BT pension shortfall

  Network operators have reacted angrily to Ofcom suggestions that BT be allowed to fill a hole of almost £9bn in its pension fund from a 4% increase in wholesale prices.

• March 02, 2010 02 Mar'10

  Orange and T-Mobile merger gets EC approval

  Orange and T-Mobile have been given the all-clear to merge their UK networks by the European Commission.

• March 01, 2010 01 Mar'10

  Cambridgeshire Council extends broadband network to isolated places

  Cambridgeshire County Council is one of the first local authorities to roll out a high-speed broadband network to more isolated and rural locations.

  The...

• March 01, 2010 01 Mar'10

  Highways Agency iPhone app approaches download record

  A mobile phone application released by the Highways Agency has become the fourth most downloaded iPhone app in just over a week.

• February 26, 2010 26 Feb'10

  France Telecom holds steady despite staff upheaval

  France Telecom endured a tough year capped by the resignation of its CEO as it produced stagnant growth, declining margins and a deeply unhappy workforce.

  Outgoing...

• February 26, 2010 26 Feb'10

  Novell reports increase in profit despite sales decline

  Network firm Novell reported a slight drop in sales, but increased profits and doubled earnings per share in its first quarter 2010.

• February 25, 2010 25 Feb'10

  MPs call for end to BT's tax privileges

  BT should pay the same business rates as its competitors, MPs said this week.

• February 25, 2010 25 Feb'10

  UK misses fibre to the home list - again

  The UK is still absent from the list of the top European countries offering optical fibre links to homes

  But France, Portugal, the Czech Republic and...

• February 25, 2010 25 Feb'10

  Virgin Media to meet demand for 100Mbps broadband

  Virgin Media has issued sparkling results for the fourth quarter of 2009 and said it will launch a commercial 100Mbps broadband service later this year.

• February 24, 2010 24 Feb'10

  Morrisons rolls out wireless to support Oracle business plan

  Supermarket Morrisons is planning to roll out wireless IT infrastructure across five of the company's UK manufacturing facilities to automate its paper-based...

• February 24, 2010 24 Feb'10

  KLM switches to GMail for enterprise comms

  KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has become the latest major business to use GMail as its enterprise e-mail server.

• February 23, 2010 23 Feb'10

  Recession has hit communications, say businesses

  Business communications have deteriorated in the recession, with 70% of companies surveyed admitting they have been hit in some way.

  Some 52% of businesses...

• February 18, 2010 18 Feb'10

  MNOs face big squeeze on cost, bandwidth and regulation

  CIOs should be wary of mobile network operators' (MNOs) claims to offer access to customers and staff anywhere, any time using mobile apps.

  MNOs face...

• February 17, 2010 17 Feb'10

  O2 confirms use of NEC kit in Slough LTE test

  O2 confirmed that it is using Japanese electronics firm NEC's Pasolink microwave backhaul technology in its UK trial of LTE (Long-Term Evolution) 4G next-generation mobile services.

• February 17, 2010 17 Feb'10

  Mobile World Congress: Google tries to placate mobile operators

  UK mobile network operator Vodafone has called for an end to Google's dominance of the internet search advertising market and accused the firm of wanting...

• February 15, 2010 15 Feb'10

  Mobile World Congress: Can 4G extend enterprise IT?

  Mobile World Congress has kicked off with a raft of announcements covering new operating systems and apps for smartphones from the likes of Intel, Nokia,...

• February 15, 2010 15 Feb'10

  Mobile World Congress: Microsoft Windows Mobile 7 is a phone hub

  Windows Phone 7 Series, unveiled at Mobile World Congress, is Microsoft's latest attempt to build a smartphone operating system.

• February 15, 2010 15 Feb'10

  Mobile World Congress: Network operators have big plans for platforms

  Last year it was apps; this year platforms dominated the opening days of the 2010 Mobile World Congress.

• February 12, 2010 12 Feb'10

  CMA calls for new communications act

  The next government should set up a single department to oversee telecommunications and broadband, according to the Communication Managers Association (CMA).

• February 11, 2010 11 Feb'10

  Alcatel-Lucent posts first net profit

  Alcatel-Lucent today posted its first quarterly net profit since its inception in 2006, but its full year figures were blighted by the impact of the recession...

• February 11, 2010 11 Feb'10

  Richard Branson ditches NTL-Telewest brand and unveils Virgin Media Business

  British entrepreneur Richard Branson last night buried the NTL-Telewest brand, replacing it with Virgin Media Business to reflect more accurately the division's...

• February 10, 2010 10 Feb'10

  DWP awards £237m contract extension to BT

  The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has awarded a £237m contract extension to BT.

• February 09, 2010 09 Feb'10

  Nokia to fight securities fraud suit

  The world's largest mobile phone maker Nokia ...

• February 09, 2010 09 Feb'10

  New features fuel rivalry between Facebook and Google

  The rivalry between Google and Facebook is set to intensify with both planning improvements to their messaging services.

  Google is expected to announce...

• February 08, 2010 08 Feb'10

  Winterflood gains space and power with Cisco UCS

  City trading firm Winterflood, the first UK company to use Cisco's Unified Computing Solution (UCS), has released details of its configuration and use.

• February 08, 2010 08 Feb'10

  Network users get great clarity on call pricing

  Network users will have greater insight into suppliers' pricing following Ofcom's decision to insist on the publication of prices lists for call termination rates.

• February 04, 2010 04 Feb'10

  Video: O2 and Huawei show off 4G video streaming and Playstation

  Rob Joyce, from O2 Radio Evolution, and David Fowler, chief technology officer of Huawei, have given a demonstration of what UK users can expect from 4G...

• February 04, 2010 04 Feb'10

  Tories would push fibre to the home to meet 100Mbps target

  The Conservative Party ...

• February 04, 2010 04 Feb'10

  VOA disputes Tories' BT fibre valuation

  The government's Valuation Office Agency (VOA) has disputed Conservative Party claims that BT pays trivial business taxes on its fibre network links.

• February 04, 2010 04 Feb'10

  UK authorities await EC approval to investigate Orange/T-Mobile merger

  The UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has asked the European Commission (EC) for the right to review the planned merger of France Telecom

• February 04, 2010 04 Feb'10

  Cisco results signal economic recovery

  Cisco Systems has reported a return to revenue growth after declines in the past four quarters.

  The network equipment maker and industry bellwether...

• February 03, 2010 03 Feb'10

  VOA to meet industry over tax on wireless and fibre networks

  The government's Valuation Office Agency is to meet communications industry representatives in the next few weeks to discuss the application of business rates taxes to wireless and fibre networks.

• February 03, 2010 03 Feb'10

  Winterflood picks Cisco UCS to manage 250 million daily updates

  Winterflood Securities has become the first UK firm to implement Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) to improve data throughput at lower cost.

• February 03, 2010 03 Feb'10

  UK authorities seek to scrutinise Orange/T-Mobile merger

  UK regulators will push to get involved in reviewing the proposed merger...

• February 02, 2010 02 Feb'10

  PepsiCo refreshes BT deal with Cisco telepresence

  US snacks maker PepsiCo is to use Cisco Telepresence to cut travel costs and improve collaboration worldwide in a supplement to an existing managed network contract with BT Global Services.

• February 02, 2010 02 Feb'10

  Vodafone targets SMEs with new Cheapside store

  Vodafone UK has opened the first of a network of retail stores dedicated to small business customers in Cheapside, London.

• February 01, 2010 01 Feb'10

  Tories promise 100Mbps broadband to two-thirds of UK homes by 2017

  The Conservative Party has promised to give most UK homes 100Mbps broadband network access by 2017 as part of a revamp of Britain's communications regulations.

• February 01, 2010 01 Feb'10

  Virgin Media to offer free landline to mobile calls

  Virgin Media plans to offer its customers free home to mobile calls from 1 April.

• January 29, 2010 29 Jan'10

  BSG mulls support for Vtesse on network rates

  The Broadband Stakeholders Group (BSG) will meet next week to discuss whether to support Vtesse Networks' petition...

• January 28, 2010 28 Jan'10

  Business taxes may give BT an unfair advantage, says judge

  The business rating system may give BT a huge cost advantage over its fibre network competitors, which could restrict competition, keep prices high and slow...

• January 28, 2010 28 Jan'10

  BT switches to agile techniques to create new products

  BT is to revamp its product development process following the successful trial of agile...

• January 26, 2010 26 Jan'10

  Microsoft calls for greater spectrum to support cloud computing

  Microsoft has called on European governments to ensure they deliver low-cost broadband networks to support cloud computing.

  In a speech...

• January 25, 2010 25 Jan'10

  BT delivers 40Mbps business fibre broadband for £45

  Businesses will be able to access 40Mbps fibre broadband for £45 per month under a service launched by BT.

  BT said the service gives business traffic...

• January 25, 2010 25 Jan'10

  Multinational companies waste billions sourcing telecoms

  The world biggest companies are throwing away billions of pounds because they are not very good at sourcing and managing their telecoms services.

• January 22, 2010 22 Jan'10

  BT undercuts competitors with superfast broadband

  BT has launched a "superfast" 40Mbps optical fibre broadband service for £20 a month, £8 cheaper than a similar service from rival Virgin Media.

• January 20, 2010 20 Jan'10

  Broadband growth prompts Carphone Warehouse to consider its own fibre network

  Carphone Warehouse, the UK's second largest broadband supplier, may build its optical fibre network capacity following a possible re-regulation of BT's communications infrastructure

• January 15, 2010 15 Jan'10

  TSF sends comms equipment and support teams to Haiti

  Telecoms San Frontieres (TSF) has sent an emergency team...

• January 14, 2010 14 Jan'10

  ITU sends $1m tech boost to Haiti

  The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is joining the fight to help those affected by the earthquake in Haiti with $1m worth of technology equipment.

• January 14, 2010 14 Jan'10

  Panasonic to put 300,000 users in IBM's cloud

  Consumer electronics manufacturer Panasonic has become the largest user of cloud computing services.

• January 14, 2010 14 Jan'10

  York to get £13m dark fibre network from H2O

  The City of York has signed a £13.7m, eight-year renewable contract for a city-wide managed fibre network with Pinacl Solutions and H2O Networks.

• January 13, 2010 13 Jan'10

  UK hogs middle of broadband superhighway

  The UK's position in the middle of the information superhighway has been highlighted by the latest stateoftheinternet report from web content delivery firm Akamai.

• January 12, 2010 12 Jan'10

  BT to work with Green Touch to cut ICT energy use

  BT, the UK's biggest telecommunications operator, is to take part in and support the Green Touch initiative launched by Bell Labs to cut the energy use of the IT sector to one-thousandth of its present consumption.

• January 12, 2010 12 Jan'10

  Google extends Apps with shared enterprise storage

  Google has extended its Apps Premier Edition cloud-based office productivity suite, with tools and services to aid online collaboration.

• January 11, 2010 11 Jan'10

  Green Touch consortium aims to slash internet's carbon footprint

  The internet could be running on 1,000 times less energy that it presently uses within five years, say members of a consortium of IT and communications equipment and services suppliers.