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• November 10, 2014 10 Nov'14

  Government backs down on prescriptive PSN security compliance

  Restrictive security measures are out, a more flexible approach to PSN compliance is in, says government CTO Liam Maxwell

• October 20, 2014 20 Oct'14

  Government seeks suppliers for £2bn telecoms framework

  The government is seeking suppliers for a £2bn procurement framework to replace Whitehall’s telecommunications requirements

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  Oxfam unwraps mobile collaboration benefits with Box’s cloud content service

  The move to Box will mean that Oxfam workers will get mobile access to data on the move and at remote locations

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  Mothercare to trial beacons in store from early 2015

  Mothercare plans to trial beacon technology from early 2015 to engage with customers, rather than for promotional messages.

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  Sunborn puts network in the cloud at Docklands’ first floating hotel

  Hospitality firm Sunborn picks Mitel 3300 IP Communications platform for London's first floating hotel

• September 25, 2014 25 Sep'14

  Lancaster University supports SDN development with HP Networking

  Lancaster Uni deploys 40 OpenFlow-enabled HP switches to run SDN research and production environments concurrently

• September 25, 2014 25 Sep'14

  Huawei ploughs $4bn into fixed broadband research

  Huawei announces major R&D investment in ‘ultra-broadband’ research over the next three years as interest in new networking standards grows

• September 23, 2014 23 Sep'14

  Orange steps up to growing demands on business networks

  Orange Business Services is extending Business VPN to cater for growing use of internet networks for cloud and web services

• September 22, 2014 22 Sep'14

  UK could be leader in 5G technology

  The UK could be a leader in the development of the 5G network if it is fast in implementing technology and standards, says MP David Willetts

• September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14

  Peterborough City Council launches cloud-enabled technology strategy

  Peterborough City Council is launching a cloud-enabled technology strategy to improve how it connects with citizens

• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  Nokia and Red Hat collaborate to create open-source telco cloud

  Nokia Networks and OpenStack provider Red Hat join forces so mobile broadband operators can create a telco cloud infrastructure

• September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  Camden Market launches social Wi-Fi system to track footfall

  Free Wi-Fi connectivity is available to shoppers in Camden Market in London, which also provides real-time data on users

• September 02, 2014 02 Sep'14

  Natural Resources Wales takes to the cloud with Microsoft

  The Welsh envoronmental public body adopts Microsoft cloud functionalities including Office 365 and Azure

• September 01, 2014 01 Sep'14

  Suppliers discuss Emergency Services Network with Home Office

  Suppliers have attended an event held by the Home Office to discuss details of the new Emergency Services Network

• September 01, 2014 01 Sep'14

  Chinese MSN Messenger service ends in October 2014

  Microsoft will switch off Windows Live Messenger (WLM) for its last users in China at the end of October 2014

• August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  BT faces further investigation over link to US drone network

  The UK government has reopened a complaint against BT after a Computer Weekly investigation into links supporting US drone strikes

• August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14

  Veg supplier freshens up data recovery times with WAN optimisation

  Network congestion limited vegetable wholesaler Product World’s ability to create and move VMs until it deployed WAN optimisation

• August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14

  The internet of things: Britain's next big opportunity

  Tech City's Gerard Grech talks about the IoT phenomenon and a startup competition that is intended to accelerate technologies

• August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14

  NHS Spine infrastructure transition successful, says HSCIC

  The infrastructure behind the critical NHS Spine platform has been replaced by The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)

• August 15, 2014 15 Aug'14

  Nike builds datacentre cloud and network infrastructure

  Nike is creating a scalable next-generation datacentre cloud and retail network infrastructure using Juniper's MetaFabric architecture

• August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14

  Manchester has the second largest Wi-Fi network in the UK

  The city of Manchester is now home to the second largest Wi-Fi network in the country as it completes a network extension

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  What's the solution to Tech City’s lack of superfast broadband?

  Reports of poor internet connectivity for startup tech companies in London’s Tech City have been circulating for some time

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  BT Business brings 4G to SMEs

  BT Business has launched a range of plans for small businesses that include free access to 4G and unlimited BT Wi-Fi

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  IT needs to improve network infrastructure for future of retail

  IT departments need to up their game and improve networks for the retail sector which is on the brink of massive technology change

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  BT forges on with fibre roll-out but customer uptake weak

  BT rolls out fibre optic broadband across the UK at a steady pace but only 15% of fibre-ready premises sign up for the superfast internet service

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  EE launches 4G in Cornwall

  EE has deployed its 4G mobile network in Saltash, Cornwall, making it the first Cornish town to connect to the network

• July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14

  Vince Cable welcomes £135m datacentre investment in Docklands

  Telehouse, London's colo and datacentre provider, to build a mission-critical datacentre in Docklands with £135m from parent firm KDDI

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  Orange opens up to app developers and startups with Apigee

  Orange picks Apigee’s digital API platform to help developers and startups create services by levering data already held by the telco

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  The SDN state of play: first steps for the enterprise

  Software-defined networking experts say telcos will be first to push SDN ahead of enterprises and suggest how CIOs can prepare

• July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  Formula 1 big data contest launches ahead of British Grand Prix

  Tata Communications has invited IT innovators to exploit the vast amounts of data in F1 racing to give fans and drivers new insights into the sport

• June 17, 2014 17 Jun'14

  IT investment required to support global expansion of British firms

  Over half of British businesses that want to expand internationally say insufficient technology or comms infrastructures are barriers

• June 17, 2014 17 Jun'14

  Invest Bristol & Bath to drive Huawei regional recruitment plans

  Invest Bristol & Bath seeks ICT chip development, microprocessor design and software expertise

• June 11, 2014 11 Jun'14

  Adoption of cloud-based communications grows

  Improving economic conditions and exposure to technology is driving the uptake of cloud-based communications applications

• June 10, 2014 10 Jun'14

  Facebook shares lessons learnt from deploying Raid in HDFS clusters

  Facebook deployed Raid in large HDFS clusters to increase capacity and reduce data replication, but it faced many challenges

• June 02, 2014 02 Jun'14

  Unified communications supplier Unify cuts workforce by half

  Unify, formerly Siemens Enterprise Communications, cuts its workforce by half in a move towards software-defined technology

• June 02, 2014 02 Jun'14

  Queen Mary University to offer networking crash course for ICT students

  Queen Mary University of London to pilot a four-day network training and certification course

• May 21, 2014 21 May'14

  Cisco advances global Intercloud through further partnerships

  Cisco has announced a number of new partners onto its new Intercloud network

• May 21, 2014 21 May'14

  Germany leads the internet of things, says Cisco

  Cisco's Rob Lloyd says Germany leads the internet of things with its automotive industry, with Israel and Mexico close behind

• May 21, 2014 21 May'14

  The IT industry is consolidating, says Cisco CEO

  The IT industry is consolidating, and only the relevant players will be left standing, says Cisco CEO John Chambers

• May 20, 2014 20 May'14

  Shell thinks technology first in preparation for internet of everything

  Shell is reshaping its business to think technology first as it uses the internet of everything to change its business processes

• May 18, 2014 18 May'14

  Cisco CTO tells women "there is no such thing as work-life balance”

  Cisco’s chief technology officer, Padmasree Warrior, said there is “no such thing as a work-life balance”, but instead she integrates the two

• May 16, 2014 16 May'14

  London unites local authorities on Public Services Network

  London is the first region to connect all of its local authorities to the Public Services Network (PSN) through the London Public Services Network (LondonPSN)

• May 15, 2014 15 May'14

  Cisco Q3 results not as bad as feared

  Cisco reports year-on-year declines in both sales and profits for its third quarter, but the fall is not as bad as predicted

• May 14, 2014 14 May'14

  Can Tech City deliver reliable fast internet for startup businesses?

  Technology companies based in London’s Tech City are struggling to access high-speed fibre optic broadband, which is dramatically affecting the success their businesses.

• May 07, 2014 07 May'14

  UK helping US military build intelligence software for drone targeting

  The UK has been helping the US military build software to share intelligence for weapons such as drones for the past 14 years

• May 02, 2014 02 May'14

  Analysis: How the UK connects to the US global drone network

  A single acronym in a US defence contract provided the clue that established the role of the UK’s telecoms infrastructure in US drone flights

• May 02, 2014 02 May'14

  UK telecoms infrastructure used to support controversial US drone operations

  The UK’s telecommunications infrastructure is being used as part of a global defence network the US government uses for drone operations

• April 29, 2014 29 Apr'14

  Nokia appoints Rajeev Suri as president and CEO

  Following the completion of Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s handset business earlier this week, Nokia has appointed Rajeev Suri as president and CEO of Nokia

• April 28, 2014 28 Apr'14

  EE sees further rise in demand as big companies move to 4G

  Mobile network operator EE has seen a further rise in demand for its 4G services as its customer base increased by 889,000 to 2.9m over the last quarter

• April 23, 2014 23 Apr'14

  Home Office tenders for new Emergency Services Network (ESN) provider

  The Home Office is searching for a new provider of its emergency services communications contract

• April 22, 2014 22 Apr'14

  Ordnance Survey and BT sign £23m data deal

  Ordnance Survey has begun a new five-year agreement with BT Openreach to supply a range of data products and services

• April 17, 2014 17 Apr'14

  Tests prove Heartbleed bug exposes OpenVPN private keys

  Tests prove that the Heartbleed bug exposes the private encryption keys used by OpenVPN servers

• April 15, 2014 15 Apr'14

  Superfast broadband speeds rise, but rural areas still considerably slower, says Ofcom

  Superfast broadband connections – offering speeds of 30Mbps or more – rose from 5% in November 2011 to 25% in November 2013, says Ofcom

• April 11, 2014 11 Apr'14

  Endless aisle solution helps Crocs cope with small retail space

  Footwear retailer Crocs has implemented an endless aisle solution in its 200-plus stores in the US which helps overcome small store space

• April 11, 2014 11 Apr'14

  Cisco and Juniper warn of products hit by Heartbleed bug

  Cisco and Juniper have issued security bulletins warning that some products are vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug

• April 10, 2014 10 Apr'14

  Cisco identifies five sectors to benefit from IoE

  Healthcare, retail, transport, energy and manufacturing are likely to benefit first from the internet of everything

• April 10, 2014 10 Apr'14

  University of Westminster prepares for future use of SDN

  The University of Westminster has upgraded its network to increase efficiency and lay foundations for software-defined networking

• April 03, 2014 03 Apr'14

  Why have organisations failed to make PSN compliance deadline?

  A number of organisations have failed to meet the PSN security compliance deadline despite the threat of being cut off from critical services

• March 31, 2014 31 Mar'14

  Case study: Video as a service brings benefits across the NHS

  Solution from Imerja is being adopted by health organisations across the country and is reducing costs, waiting times and problems for staff

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  Case study: Logicalis helps Birmingham and Loughborough universities with networking challenges

  Computer Weekly European User Award Supplier of the Year winner Logicalis explains how it developed modern infrastructures for two universities

• March 25, 2014 25 Mar'14

  Rural broadband needed to push forward with G-Cloud services

  Broadband in remote areas of the UK needs to be implemented in order for councils to take full advantage of G-Cloud

• March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14

  DCMS to fund rural trials of superfast broadband

  The DCMS has opened up its £10m funding pot for suppliers with innovative ideas to help superfast broadband reach remote UK areas

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Non-compliant organisations risk being cut off from the PSN

  Organisations not compliant with PSN security after the end-March deadline and who fail to engage for help are “effectively opting out”

• March 13, 2014 13 Mar'14

  Gigaclear instals fibre optic broadband in rural business park

  UK ISP Gigaclear instals fibre optic broadband in Oxfordshire business park in efforts to roll-out fast internet to rural areas

• March 12, 2014 12 Mar'14

  UK superfast broadband adoption lags behind the best in Europe

  Superfast broadband is available to 73% of UK households but less than a fifth have adopted it, according to Ofcom’s European Broadband Scorecard 2014

• March 12, 2014 12 Mar'14

  Ofcom 4G auction achieved competition goal

  National Audit Office report says Ofcom achieved its goal of maintaining a competitive market through last year's 4G auction

• March 10, 2014 10 Mar'14

  Parliament suffers IT outages

  The Houses of Parliament have suffered from a number of IT failures and computer crashes after a supplier error

• February 28, 2014 28 Feb'14

  CSL and ZTE bring LTE Advanced 300Mbps network to Hong Kong

  CSL and ZTE will deploy the first LTE Advanced 300Mbps network in Hong Kong, it was announced at MWC in Barcelona

• February 28, 2014 28 Feb'14

  Computer Weekly European User Awards for networking: 2014 winners

  The winners have been announced for the Computer Weekly European User Awards for networking. See who made the top spots

• February 26, 2014 26 Feb'14

  Telefónica to embrace SDN and NFV with UNICA network initiative

  The mobile operator plans to revamp its network infrastructure to embrace more virtualisation technologies and bring more efficiency to its backhaul.

• February 24, 2014 24 Feb'14

  Operators preventing dual SIM handsets

  Acer claims that although its new handset offers dual SIM capabilities for the business user, mobile operators will stop the feature coming to market to protect revenues

• February 21, 2014 21 Feb'14

  PSN gets encryption for higher security levels

  An encryption service has been announced by the Cabinet Office which will enable public sector staff to share information at the IL3 security level over the Public Services Network (PSN)

• February 20, 2014 20 Feb'14

  Interview: Helen Milner CEO, Tinder, on the digital divide in Britain

  Eleven million people across the UK are struggling to connect to the internet. Not because of problems with hardware, bad connectivity, or even rural broadband challenges, but because they either don’t know how, or are too poor to get online

• February 19, 2014 19 Feb'14

  EE connects commuters via 4G

  EE has announced plans to expand its 4G network to aid commuters, and will be recruiting more than 1,000 new customer service staff over the next 24 months

• February 19, 2014 19 Feb'14

  UK start-ups get ready for Mobile World Congress 2014

  With the world’s biggest mobile trade show just days away, we talk to some of the representatives of the UK start-up industry representing us on the show floor

• February 17, 2014 17 Feb'14

  Care UK to introduce 4G to 4,000 employees

  Advanced Mobile Communications has won a multi-million pound contract to provide EE’s 4G connectivity to Care UK’s 4,000 employees

• February 11, 2014 11 Feb'14

  Analysis: Dell’s open embrace of SDN

  Dell's recent announcement shows it is betting big on software-defined networking, but will it win out?

• January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14

  Is Cisco’s ‘SDN plus’ the best software-defined networking?

  The networking giant has been accused of not embracing software-defined networking, but Cisco claims it offers better SDN than its competitors.

• January 24, 2014 24 Jan'14

  Cloud to drive Cisco Indian mid-market growth in 2014

  Cisco aims for growth in India by targeting the rising mid-market as 65% of India’s currently under-served mid-market firms plan to get more from their networks

• January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14

  Huawei exec named chair at Open Networking Foundation

  In a boost to his company’s reputation, Dr Serge Manning is named the chair of the wireless and mobile working group for the ONF.

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Tesco signs deal with Verizon for ‘single global network’

  Tesco will link its network across 12 countries over a single infrastructure provided by Verizon

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Cabinet Office attempts to defuse PSN compliance tensions

  The Cabinet Office has updated the public services network (PSN) programme to make it easier for councils to meet security requirements

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Post Office seeks contractors for network and back-office work

  The Post Office is looking for IT services firms to provide back-office IT applications and networking technologies in contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds

• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  SDN still failing to spark interest in Europe

  Research shows just 9% of companies across Europe are planning to implement software-defined networking in the next 12 months

• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  First steps on the Cabinet Office technology transformation journey

  Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has led the drive to change how technology is used across government, yet within his department IT is poor

• January 06, 2014 06 Jan'14

  Samsung launches Smart Home ecosystem to connect home devices

  Samsung has launched a connected home ecosystem at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

• January 03, 2014 03 Jan'14

  City Link contact centre gets real-time customer data

  Delivery firm City Link is reducing the time it takes for its contact center to handle customer requests through integrating Cisco technology with interactive software

• December 30, 2013 30 Dec'13

  CIO interview: Mike Ives, IT director, University Hospital Southampton

  University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) has upgraded its wireless infrastructure to enable staff to become more efficient by having a great choice of mobile devices across the hospital.

• December 18, 2013 18 Dec'13

  Cabinet Office commissions PSN working group

  Conversations between Socitm and the Cabinet Office over the compliance issues around the public service network (PSN) for local government continue

• December 12, 2013 12 Dec'13

  CIO Interview, David Southern, CIO WWF UK

  UK CIO of the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), David Southern, describes a technology refresh at its Woking HQ

• December 11, 2013 11 Dec'13

  EU quashes Cisco complaint on Skype sale

  The General Court of the European Union rules Microsoft’s $8.5bn acquisition of Skype adheres to competition rules

• December 10, 2013 10 Dec'13

  NATS considers 100% availability

  NATS will be investigate contingency challenges of offering a service that is 100% available after last week's outage caused many delays at airports across the UK

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  PM David Cameron opens Cisco’s startup centre IDEALondon

  Cisco’s innovation centre in London has been officially opened by Prime Minister David Cameron this morning on the third anniversary of Tech City.

• December 02, 2013 02 Dec'13

  Case study: Advantage Travel Centres implements UC infrastructure for mobile workers

  Advantage Travel Centres has implemented unified communications (UC) to improve the connectivity of mobile employees

• December 02, 2013 02 Dec'13

  CIO interview: Peter O’Rourke, director of IT, University Campus Suffolk

  Peter O’Rourke, IT director at University Campus Suffolk, is looking to students to shape the university’s IT infrastructure

• November 29, 2013 29 Nov'13

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2014 open for entries

  Computer Weekly is running its European User Awards for a second year in 2014. Find out all the details here

• November 15, 2013 15 Nov'13

  uMotif wins Cisco Big Awards 2013

  Digital health startup uMotif has won first place at the Cisco Big Awards 2013

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  Cisco unveils ACI, its answer to software-defined networking

  Cisco has unveiled its response to the growing trend of software-defined networking, in the shape of its Application Centric Infrastructure

• November 04, 2013 04 Nov'13

  EE to launch 300 Mbps 4G network in London

  Mobile operator EE has launched an LTE-Advanced network, which it claims to be the fastest 4G mobile network in the world

• October 21, 2013 21 Oct'13

  Enterprises will adopt SDN before full standardisation

  Huawei’s president of marketing solutions for its enterprise business group claims enterprises won’t have to wait for standardisation before they can feel the benefits of software defined networking