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March 04, 2009 04 Mar'09
UK is slipping behind on broadband services

The UK lags behind European competitor nations in its use of information and communications technology (ICT) because of the relatively high prices charged...
March 04, 2009 04 Mar'09
Nasa and Cisco build climate change reporting platform

Nasa and Cisco are partnering to develop a climate change monitoring platform.
March 03, 2009 03 Mar'09
Ofcom paves the way to super-fast broadband

BT can build its £1.5bn super-high-speed fibre-based broadband network for UK internet users, following Ofcom's decision to open up the high-speed broadband market.
February 27, 2009 27 Feb'09
Royal London Asset Management deploys VMWare

Royal London Asset Management (RLAM), part of Royal London Mutual, is a fund management firm responsible for around £30bn of client assets.

February 27, 2009 27 Feb'09
3 hits Target for enhanced mobile broadband

UK’s biggest 3G supplier teams with IT supplier to offer mobile broadband
February 26, 2009 26 Feb'09
Nortel Networks lays off 3,200 staff

Nortel Networks is to lay off 3,200 staff worldwide over the next few months as part of business and financial restructuring plan to pull it out of bankruptcy protection.
February 25, 2009 25 Feb'09
Google joins EC war on Microsoft's browser dominance

Google has backed the European Commission's investigation into Microsoft's dominance of the web browser market.
February 24, 2009 24 Feb'09
Carter defends modest broadband ambitions

Stephen Carter, the Minister for Communications, Technology and Broadcasting, has defended the government's plans to establish 2mbs as the baseline for universal broadband access.
February 24, 2009 24 Feb'09
Still room for debate on shape of Digital Britain, admits Lord Carter

Lord Carter has acknowledged that there is room for further debate before he publishes his final report on the future of digital communications in the UK.
February 24, 2009 24 Feb'09
Accenture and Cisco form enterprise agility group

Accenture and Cisco are today launching the Accenture and Cisco Business Group to help large enterprises increase business agility by embedding collaboration...

February 20, 2009 20 Feb'09
Nortel expects to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

Nortel expects to emerge from bankruptcy...
February 20, 2009 20 Feb'09
Vodafone tests 20 Mbps mobile broadband

Operator raises the prospect of higher network performance but only for customers in selected places
February 13, 2009 13 Feb'09
UK mobile broadband booming

New mobile applications and ‘attractive’ mobile computing platforms driving mobile broadband adoption.
February 11, 2009 11 Feb'09
Lord Carter to meet mobile operators to clear the way for universal broadband

UK mobile phone operators have been summoned to a meeting with communications minister Lord Carter this week to resolve a row threatening to derail plans for universal broadband internet access by 2012.
February 10, 2009 10 Feb'09
Essex council to be sued by BT over cancelled IT contract

Essex county council faces being sued by BT after it terminated an IT services contract more than three years before it was due to end.
February 09, 2009 09 Feb'09
T-Mobile boosts network to support iPhone and 3G dongle explosion

T-Mobile is using network acceleration technology from F5 and Bytemobile to support the rise in the use of mobile data due to the iPhone and the popularity...
February 02, 2009 02 Feb'09
BT and TalkTalk at war to win market in small business broadband services

The simultaneous launch of new small business broadband packages by BT and Carphone Warehouse's TalkTalk was a complete coincidence, according to both firms. But the 'everything you can do I can do better' debate between the firms looks set to ...
February 02, 2009 02 Feb'09
Digital dividend consultation launched by Ofcom, to free up 800MHz spectrum for broadband

Ofcom today launched a consultation that could give mobile broadband users a big increase in the amount of radio spectrum available to them. The airwaves, in the 800Mhz band, are particularly important because the signals they can carry over long ...
February 02, 2009 02 Feb'09
Juniper launches new 25Tbps TX Matrix Plus router, easily handles a nation of WoW-playing VOIP users

Juniper Networks today launched a router capable of handling the volume of Internet traffic that would be generated by the entire UK population simultaneously playing World of Warcraft while calling each other on VoIP telephones.
February 01, 2009 01 Feb'09
Carphone Warehouse aims for BT customers with £10 business broadband

The business-to-business division of Carphone Warehouse-owned TalkTalk is launching a business broadband package for £10 per month.
January 30, 2009 30 Jan'09
Broadband users could pick up cost of copyright policing

UK broadband consumers could have to pay more if the government acts on proposals to set up a copyright protection agency.
January 30, 2009 30 Jan'09
Business and industry underwhelmed by Carter's Digital Britain review

Businesses and network operators reacted cautiously to Lord Carter's interim review on Digital Britain, the government's plan to give every household a 2Mbps broadband connection by 2012.
January 29, 2009 29 Jan'09
IBM cleans up in Whirlpool global IT contract

Appliance manufacturer Whirlpool has signed a multi-year IT services agreement with IBM to provide global infrastructure services in more than 40 countries.
January 29, 2009 29 Jan'09
Government promises broadband for every UK home by 2012

The government will ensure that 2mbps broadband is delivered to every home in Britain by 2012, communications minister Lord Carter confirmed today.
January 29, 2009 29 Jan'09
Carter calls for 2mbps universal broadband obligation

The government set out 22 recommendations to create Digital Britain.
January 29, 2009 29 Jan'09
Brown calls for private-public partnerships to build digital infrastructure

Digital networks are "as essential to our future prosperity in the 21st century as roads, bridges, trains and electricity were in the 20th century," said...
January 29, 2009 29 Jan'09
Lord Carter's Digital Britian report expected at lunchtime

Communications minister Lord Carter will release his interim report into Digital Britain at lunchtime today.
January 22, 2009 22 Jan'09
Future of UK broadband hinges on Carter’s Digital Britain report

The long-term future of the British economy may hinge on what communications minister Stephen Carter says next week in his interim report on how to create “Digital Britain”
January 21, 2009 21 Jan'09
Nottingham Trent combines Cisco and MS unified comms

Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is to roll out a multi-million pound unified communications network to allow students to work from anywhere...
January 20, 2009 20 Jan'09
Bournemouth will have 100mbps broadband by March

Bournemouth will see its first 100mbps broadband homes connected by March. H2O Networks chose Bournemouth to become the UK's first fibre-optic broadband...
January 19, 2009 19 Jan'09
Government urged to do spectrum deal with industry to deliver fibre-broadband to all

NESTA, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, has called on the government to deliver faster fibre-based broadband access across the...
January 15, 2009 15 Jan'09
Nortel will supply London Olympics despite filing for bankruptcy

Nortel has said it will remain fully behind the 2012 London Olympics, after filing for bankruptcy
January 15, 2009 15 Jan'09
Broadband to become a universal service obligation

The Carter Report on Digital Britain will recommend that broadband access be made a universal obligation on network operators, according to reports.
January 13, 2009 13 Jan'09
CLA seeks help to identify broadband blackspots

The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) is seeking help to identify the last remaining broadband blackspots.
January 09, 2009 09 Jan'09
Conservatives commit to high-speed broadband action plan

The Conservative Party would ensure at least half of Britons had access to high-speed broadband within five years, and would make it a universal service as soon as possible after that.
January 08, 2009 08 Jan'09
Most UK broadband far slower than advertised

UK internet users are achieving an average broadband speed of just 3.6 megabits per second - well below advertised figures - according to a study from Ofcom, the regulator for the UK communications industries.
January 08, 2009 08 Jan'09
BT broadens free call numbers

People who have a BT Anytime landline phone subscription will now be able to call 0845 and 0898 numbers for free. Many UK companies including banks...
January 07, 2009 07 Jan'09
Figleaves.com goes to Citrix for optimum coverage

Online lingerie firm figleaves.com has selected Citrix NetScaler to provide load balancing and secure accelerated web application delivery to its site.
January 07, 2009 07 Jan'09
Orange provides extra juice to mobile broadband network

Operator builds out mobile broadband network in Northern Ireland and expects 20% improvement for voice and data performance
January 05, 2009 05 Jan'09
Broadband drops 25% at peak times

UK broadband speeds drop by over 25% when demand is at its highest, according to a comparison site
December 22, 2008 22 Dec'08
Ofcom acts against rip-off comms charges

UK communications regulator Ofcom has issued new guidelines that limit extra charges that communications suppliers levy on consumers for a range of events, notably early cancellation of contracts and for not paying by direct debit.
December 19, 2008 19 Dec'08
Cable damage disrupts internet services

A sub-sea cable carrying more than 75% of traffic between the Middle East, Europe and America has been damaged.

According to news service Bloomberg,...
December 18, 2008 18 Dec'08
Broadband speed queen Bowe to chair Ofcom

Colette Bowe, who chaired Ofcom's Consumer Panel from its inception in 2003 to December 2007, is to replace David Currie as chairman of Ofcom.

Her...
December 16, 2008 16 Dec'08
Free Software Foundation to sue Cisco over LinkSys violation

Cliff Saran

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Cisco alleging that various products have violated...
December 11, 2008 11 Dec'08
BT, BBC, ITV join up to spoil Virgin's 50-meg broadband party

BT has stolen some of Virgin Media's high-speed broadband thunder with an announcement today that it is teaming up with television broadcasters BBC and ITV to offer video-on-demand services over broadband.
December 10, 2008 10 Dec'08
Taylor Wessing improves network with Geo fibre

European law firm Taylor Wessing is improving it operations with a dedicated high-speed fibre network from Geo.
December 09, 2008 09 Dec'08
Morrisons links 430 UK sites with Cable & Wireless

Supermarket chain Morrisons ...
December 09, 2008 09 Dec'08
Government aims to improve emergency response with extranet

The Cabinet Office has enlisted BT to build...
December 04, 2008 04 Dec'08
Cisco calls on Obama to prioritise broadband strategy

Cisco has called on president-elect Barack Obama's incoming administration to deliver a national broadband strategy for the US.
November 27, 2008 27 Nov'08
Cloud computing – buyer beware

Switching to the cloud computing model of buying...