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March 11, 2011 11 Mar'11
Rural broadband fund triggers technology tussle

News that the government may be giving serious thought to a "last mile first" approach when it comes to spending public money on broadband projects emerged this week to a cautious response from industry.
February 25, 2011 25 Feb'11
Intel rolls out high speed cable 'Thunderbolt'

Intel has rolled out a high-speed PC connection technology named Thunderbolt, in collaboration with Apple.
February 03, 2011 03 Feb'11
Every IPv4 address is now allocated and could run out within weeks

It's official: the IPv4-based internet is full, or at least it will be within a few weeks
January 27, 2011 27 Jan'11
Sky buys The Cloud

BSkyB has confirmed plans to acquire UK Wi-Fi network provider The Cloud. The deal allows the broadcaster access to 5,000 public wireless hotspots

January 26, 2011 26 Jan'11
Virgin supplies London schools with 10Mbps fibre optic broadband

Virgin Media's business division is to supply a managed fibre optic network to London's Grid for Learning that will replace a broadband network supplied by Symmetrix, a Capita company.
January 21, 2011 21 Jan'11
Rackspace launches system administrator app

Rackspace has launched an app that allows a CIO or system administrator to dial up or take down servers and storage moment by moment.
January 17, 2011 17 Jan'11
Babcock outsources next-gen network to C&W Worldwide

UK-based global engineering firm Babcock has hired Cable&Wireless Worldwide as its sole telecoms supplier for the next three years to consolidate Babcock's legacy network estate and connect its 250 UK and international sites
January 14, 2011 14 Jan'11
Government wants hard evidence before changing fibre tax

The government wants concrete evidence that the business rates tax on lit fibres - the so-called fibre tax - unduly hampers network investment before it considers reviewing the system
January 11, 2011 11 Jan'11
Cambridge village competes with South Korea on broadband speeds

Residents of Broughton have become among the first UK consumers to get access to 1Gbps broadband speeds
January 05, 2011 05 Jan'11
BCS CEO David Clarke talks about the future of the IT industry

David Clarke, CEO of the chartered institute of computing the BCS, talks to Computer Weekly about being awarded an MBE, the future of the IT profession and tackling a membership revolt against his leadership last year.

December 23, 2010 23 Dec'10
Skype supernode meltdown causes major outage

Skype engineers worked non-stop over several hours yesterday to fix the peer-to-peer IP telephony's site's worst outage.
November 30, 2010 30 Nov'10
Wikileaks turns to cloud computing to fend off DDoS attack

Whistleblowing site Wikileaks turned to cloud computing services to help defend against a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack ...
November 30, 2010 30 Nov'10
Facebook co-founder launches Jumo social activism network

Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook, has launched Jumo, which he describes as a social network for social activism.
November 15, 2010 15 Nov'10
BT wins back £600m Lloyds Bank network contract

BTLloyds BT has won back the Lloyds Banking Group voice and data network contract that it lost...
November 15, 2010 15 Nov'10
Ofcom aims to unbundle broadband with new interface standard

Ofcom has subcontracted to the NICC network standards body the development of a wholesale broadband 'API', the Active Lines Access (ALA) standard.
November 15, 2010 15 Nov'10
Facebook overtakes eBay to become no.3 US internet company

Facebook has overtaken eBay's estimated worth of $39.3bn to become the third largest US internet business.
November 10, 2010 10 Nov'10
Keep the net neutral, says Europe

Europeans' desire to keep the internet free of manipulation by network operators will be debated at the European legislators' net neutrality summit on 11 November.
November 10, 2010 10 Nov'10
Mobile operators under pressure to merge networks, says Ovum

Mobile network operators will face increasing pressure to merge their networks as they roll out the next generation of mobile broadband, according to leading analyst firm Ovum.
November 10, 2010 10 Nov'10
Case study: Enterprise architecture at Syngenta

An IT project can succeed only if the business and the rest of the IT organisation is ready. Cliff Saran reports from the Gartner Symposium in Cannes on how one organisation has approached an IT transformational change.
October 28, 2010 28 Oct'10
Glasgow Subway first in UK to offer Wi-Fi underground

Glasgow Subway has become the first UK transport system to provide 3G and Wi-Fi networks underground.

The service, which uses The Cloud's mobile Wi-Fi...
October 27, 2010 27 Oct'10
Tidal wave of data is heading our way

Brace yourselves, this is going to get rough. The coming tidal wave of data is likely to sweep away old perceptions and practices, leaving many of us floundering...
October 26, 2010 26 Oct'10
Cloud adoption outpacing security controls, survey reveals

While Forrester Research predicts the cloud security market will grow to $1.5bn by 2015, cloud adoption is outpacing security controls, a global survey has revealed.
October 20, 2010 20 Oct'10
Spending Review: Local network operators may pitch for BDUK's £530m broadband pilots

The winners of the beauty competition to host the three rural next generation broadband pilot studies are the Highlands & Islands, North Yorkshire, Cumbria and Hereford, chancellor George Osborne said during his Spending Review statement to the ...
October 20, 2010 20 Oct'10
Somerset schools to get fibre-optic broadband network

Somerset will get high-speed internet access
October 20, 2010 20 Oct'10
BT to offer FTTP for £21.50 a month from March

BT has confirmed that its regulated infrastructure arm, Openreach is to offer fibre to the premises broadband access at 110mbps by next March, for around £21.50 a month.
October 18, 2010 18 Oct'10
Oxford Internet Institute founder sets up internet think tank

Former MP and founder of the Oxford Internet Institute Derek Wyatt is setting up the Internet Policy Institute (IPI), a high-level think tank to advise governments on developing networking policies.
October 13, 2010 13 Oct'10
Leeds CIO calls on local government to engage more on G-Cloud

A member of the Cabinet Office's Local CIO Council has urged local authorities to have their say on the G-Cloud and the app store.

Dylan Roberts, chief...
October 13, 2010 13 Oct'10
Government seeks legal advice over G-Cloud procurement

The Cabinet Office is taking legal advice over its £5.8bn cost-cutting IT programme after admitting that its G-Cloud project presents a significant challenge...
October 08, 2010 08 Oct'10
Ofcom ‘too ready’ to kow-tow to BT, says CMA

CMA anger grows as Ofcom lets BT off the high-speed hook
September 27, 2010 27 Sep'10
Top four issues in tackling the internet business blind-spot

As more businesses rely on internet-based business applications, they face new challenges in managing them. Now that applications are borderless, in that they can be located and used outside company walls, businesses must ensure they put in place ...
September 20, 2010 20 Sep'10
Broadband is a basic human right, ITU tells UN

Access to high-speed broadband should be a basic human right, the International Telecommunications Union told world leaders at the UN's Millennium development...
September 20, 2010 20 Sep'10
Fierce competition for Cumbrian NGA broadband project

Villagers and farmers could soon have access to digital "parish pumps" if ideas set out over the weekend to deliver high-speed broadband to Cumbrian communities...
September 17, 2010 17 Sep'10
BT offers free fibre upgrade for broadband users

BT is offering internet users who buy both its telephone and broadband service a free upgrade to the company's fibre broadband service
September 13, 2010 13 Sep'10
MoD extends BT networking DFTS contract

The Ministry of Defence has extended its network and communications contract with BT by three years to 2015, through the Defence Fixed Telecommunications...
September 10, 2010 10 Sep'10
Competition boosts broadband uptake to seven million lines

Competition in unbundled broadband services has reached seven million lines, up from only 123,000 five years ago.
September 08, 2010 08 Sep'10
Vtesse to appeal Cornwall's choice of BT as broadband supplier

UK telecoms operator Vtesse Networks has appealed against the European Commission's decision to approve a state-aided broadband scheme in Cornwall.

The...
September 07, 2010 07 Sep'10
Security and connectivity main worries over smart meter project

Network security, accuracy and reliability, and first-time connectivity have emerged as energy utility executives' key concerns for the proposed £10bn national smart meter project.
September 07, 2010 07 Sep'10
Welsh village gets broadband for 10% of BT quote

Rutland Telecom is to supply a 40Mbps fibre-based broadband service for £50,000 to about 80 homes in the Welsh village of Erbistock after BT quoted £550,000 for copper-based broadband link.
September 02, 2010 02 Sep'10
HP outbids Dell to buy storage company 3Par

The bidding war between HP and Dell to buy a specialist storage supplier 3Par appears to be at an end, with HP upping its bid to $2.4bn.
August 11, 2010 11 Aug'10
Vtesse fills broadband 'not spot' in Birch Green

Broadband minister Ed Vaizey opened a fibre-to-the-cabinet project in Birch Green, Hertfordshire on Tuesday that will see some 200 homes in the former "not...
July 30, 2010 30 Jul'10
STA Travel signs Azzurri for global wide area network

STA Travel has awarded service provider Azzurri Communications a five-year contract to provide a global wide area network (Wan).
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.
June 24, 2010 24 Jun'10
Net neutrality: Ofcom asks for comment on traffic blocking and choking

Communications regulator Ofcom is asking for comment on internet traffic management practices - or net neutrality - just as mobile network operator O2's plan to cap data traffic on its network comes into force.
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 23, 2010 23 Jun'10
London schools save £390m with private fibre network

London's 33 boroughs are saving £131m a year by aggregating their schools network and content delivery applications onto a newly-upgraded Juniper Networks-based fibre optic network.
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
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 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
Colt plans concrete moves with cloud

Colt (formerly Colt Telecom) is using the hype around cloud computing to boost its claim to a greater share of the hosted infrastructure and services market.
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.