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• 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 29, 2014 29 Apr'14

  Golder Associates plans global WAN

  Engineering company Golder Associates is rolling out a wide area network (WAN) across its 180 global sites to optimise connectivity for its diverse and often remote locations

• 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 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

  BT and Microsoft to offer secure fast lane to Azure cloud

  Microsoft’s UK cloud chief hails service as critical step in supporting CEO Satya Nadella’s ambitious plans for global cloud dominance

• April 04, 2014 04 Apr'14

  RWE signs seven-year network deal with Vodafone to improve efficiency

  Utility provider RWE has signed a seven year, multi-million pound contract to run its network, to reduce cost and gain greater efficiency

• 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

  Government failed at promoting competition over BDUK, say MPs

  The government has consistently failed to promote competition during the roll-out of rural broadband across the UK, according to the PAC.

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Global taskforce agrees on green datacentre metric

  DCeP hopes to win widespread support as a useful and meaningful standard for measuring datacentre efficiency

• March 14, 2014 14 Mar'14

  Red Bull ramps up network for 2014 F1 championship

  An extended relationship with AT&T will support RedBull Infiniti Racing on and off the track as it prepares its 2014 championship bid

• 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 28, 2014 28 Feb'14

  Virgin Media boosts broadband speeds

  Virgin Media promises a top speed of 152Mbps for customers across the UK, as well as boosting its entry-level connection from 30Mbps to 50Mbps

• February 24, 2014 24 Feb'14

  Case study: Virtualised storage adds value to Denmark's tunnel vision

  State construction firm Femern selects DataCore system to help speed up Fehmarnbelt undersea odyssey and keep the sharks at bay

• 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 21, 2014 21 Feb'14

  Data network outages hit Vodafone

  Mobile operator Vodafone apologises to customers on Twitter but refuses to give an estimate of when services will return to normal

• February 17, 2014 17 Feb'14

  Roaming costs lose mobile operators 300 million users

  A new survey by the European Commission shows 94% of citizens limit their mobile use when in another state to save on roaming charges, meaning mobile operators could be missing out on big revenues

• February 17, 2014 17 Feb'14

  Latvia’s Lattelecom: 1Gbps will be standard by 2018

  Latvian telecoms firm will make 1Gbps its standard connection to homes by 2018, with the internet of things and customer demand necessitating the rise

• February 17, 2014 17 Feb'14

  NHS Scotland awards SWAN contract to Capita

  Capita wins the £110m contract for the Scottish Wide Area Network project, while BT continues to seek damages for losing out

• February 12, 2014 12 Feb'14

  BT sues NHS Scotland for £20m over SWAN project

  After losing its bid for the Scottish Wide Area Network project, the telecoms giant is suing the NHS National Services Scotland

• February 11, 2014 11 Feb'14

  Schneider accreditation aims to boost green datacentre skills

  Datacentre supplier offers free vendor-neutral courses and certification through its online Energy University

• February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14

  Amazon nets lion’s share of $10bn public cloud market

  AWS continues its unassailable domination of the sector, despite recent moves by Google, IBM and Microsoft

• February 03, 2014 03 Feb'14

  EE and Three sign ‘passive’ network share deal for rural UK

  The two providers will not be sharing spectrum or antennae as in previous deals, but will work together on the backhaul to bring 4G services to rural areas

• January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14

  WIll open source save the datacentre industry?

  IT rivals stand cheek-by-jowl to praise Facebook’s Open Compute Project, but is the love-in a Damascene conversion or just damage limitation?

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Microsoft joins Open Compute Project

  Redmond giant makes server specs public in bid to influence future datacentre design

• January 24, 2014 24 Jan'14

  BT pledges extra £50m to commercial broadband roll-out

  The telecoms giant promises to bring a further 400,000 premises onto its fibre network across 30 cities

• 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 24, 2014 24 Jan'14

  Samsung profits fall in Q4 2013

  Electronics firm Samsung sees profits fall 11% quarter on quarter – the first decline it has seen in two years

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  EE routers vulnerable to ‘incredibly easy’ hack

  A blogger claims to have found a flaw in EE’s BrightBox broadband routers that could leave sensitive information accessible to hackers

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  IBM to open London datacentre as part of $1.2bn global cloud push

  New facility first in UK to be based on IBM SoftLayer cloud architecture

• January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14

  Case study: Berkshire NHS adopts 4G for home visits

  The Foundation Trust enables its nurses to access and update patient records on the move with 4G mobile Wi-Fi from EE

• January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14

  Olympics executive named new BDUK chief

  Chris Townsend will lead the government’s rural broadband project, including pilot schemes of alternative technologies for areas that are hardest to reach

• 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

  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 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Top European IT initiative to support business in 2014?

  Expanding IT to support business growth is one of the biggest areas of focus for IT departments in 2014, so what does this mean?

• January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  HSBC boss to take over BT Openreach

  BT confirms Joe Garner will take over as the CEO of its Openreach division when Liv Garfield steps down in February

• January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  Former WTO chief leads debate on future of European spectrum

  The future of the UHF spectrum band will be discussed by industry leaders over the next six months before presenting proposals to the European Commission

• 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

• December 31, 2013 31 Dec'13

  CW500 Club in 2013

  Computer Weekly's CW500 Club attracts the top IT leaders in the UK to talk to their peers about the topical challenges they face

• December 20, 2013 20 Dec'13

  UK citizen wins legal round against Facebook over Prism leaks

  A British citizen has applied for a judgement against Facebook in a case that will test the right of tech firms to give UK personal data to the NSA.

• December 19, 2013 19 Dec'13

  BT launches proceedings against Scotland's NHS over SWAN project

  Telecoms giant BT has launched a court case against the Scottish health service after failing to win the contract for the Scottish Wide Area Network project

• December 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  Greater Manchester signs penultimate BDUK contract with BT

  Eight councils in Greater Manchester sign a £15m contract with BT to bring 39,000 homes high-speed broadband by March 2016

• December 13, 2013 13 Dec'13

  EE holds title for most complained about broadband

  With more than double the average number of complaints, EE – previously Orange Broadband – has been named the most complained about broadband provider by Ofcom for the fifth consecutive quarter

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  UK citizen sues Microsoft over Prism private data leak to NSA

  A court action brought in the UK will test Microsoft's legal right to disclose private data on UK citizens to US intelligence services

• December 04, 2013 04 Dec'13

  Three begins 4G roll-out

  The last of the UK’s major mobile operators to join the race, Three confirms it has started to roll-out its 4G network and will cover 98% of the population by the end of 2015

• December 04, 2013 04 Dec'13

  EE connects 10 more locations to 4G

  A further 10 towns and cities will go live today, with the mobile operator promising 19 more will get the faster mobile connectivity by Christmas

• December 04, 2013 04 Dec'13

  Councils threatened with disconnection from PSN in escalating security row

  A London council was hours away from being disconnected from the public sector network, in an row between central and local government over security compliance

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  Where is Satyam now? Well, it’s not Satyam for a start

  Satyam, which was rescued from collapse in 2009, has plans for restoring its position as a top-tier Indian IT services provider

• November 27, 2013 27 Nov'13

  European Parliament closes Wi-Fi after man-in-the-middle attack

  A number of mailboxes have been compromised and users’ smartphones could be at risk following a man-in-the-middle attack on the European Parliament’s public Wi-Fi

• November 26, 2013 26 Nov'13

  Argos brings O2 Wi-Fi to 735 stores

  The retail giant is rolling out Wi-Fi to all its stores in time for the Christmas rush