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• February 04, 2011 04 Feb'11

  Lancaster City Council scraps broadband funding bid

  Lancaster City Council has scrapped support for a "digital village pump" pilot project that would have provided at least seven remote Lancashire villages with fibre to the home (FTTH) for £92 a year.

• 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

• February 03, 2011 03 Feb'11

  Comic Relief prepares IT for Red Nose Day 2011

  The organisers of this year's Red Nose Day have released details of the IT that will support the enormous peaks of web traffic on the Comic Relief fundraising day on 18 March.

• February 02, 2011 02 Feb'11

  Twitter flood heralds Egypt’s return to the internet

  A flood of celebratory and congratulatory tweets on Twitter has greeted the news that internet services have been restored in Egypt.

• February 01, 2011 01 Feb'11

  Rural broadband upheaval as Wooster quits JON

  Community broadband spokesman Adrian Wooster has resigned from the Joint Open Networks Exchange (JON), citing differences of opinion over the speed with which it should attack the UK market.

• February 01, 2011 01 Feb'11

  Cisco CEO John Chambers urges businesses prepare for network economy

  The networked economy has the potential to raise global productivity by up to five percent but security issues could inhibit that, Cisco CEO John Chambers...

• January 31, 2011 31 Jan'11

  Lancashire tenders for £40m county-wide broadband network

  Lancashire County Council (LCC) is to tender for a single network operator to provide a £40m county-wide superfast broadband service by mid-2013.

• January 31, 2011 31 Jan'11

  BT joint venture takes over Lancashire community broadband network supply

  Three community broadband networks in Lancashire have received termination notices following the take-over of their backhaul supply by a joint venture between BT and the county council.

• January 31, 2011 31 Jan'11

  Six-year project could make internet 100 times faster

  The internet could be 100 times faster than it is today if a new £7.2m six-year research project, the Photonics Superhighway, is successful.

• 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 27, 2011 27 Jan'11

  TalkTalk to cut hundreds of jobs to boost profitability

  UK broadband provider TalkTalk has announced it is to cut its staff by almost 13% to help improve profitability.

• 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 26, 2011 26 Jan'11

  Akamai reports huge variation in UK mobile connectivity speeds

  A study from Akamai, the internet content delivery network company, has highlighted major differences in the bandwidth available from UK mobile operators.

• January 25, 2011 25 Jan'11

  MP Rory Stewart welcomes Cumbria broadband progress

  MP and rural broadband campaigner Rory Stewart says the goal of superfast communications across Cumbria - one of the key regions for assessing the progress of rural broadband access - has taken a step forward after three recent announcements.

• January 24, 2011 24 Jan'11

  Microwave technology could accelerate rural broadband access

  Start-up French wireless communications company Bluwan has previewed microwave technology that promises to cut the cost of providing high-speed broadband to rural areas.

• 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

  Mixed reception for Openreach's pole and duct access proposals

  Communications providers are coolly receptive to Openreach's draft proposals to open up BT's poles and ducts to other network operators, but some firms are much less keen.

• January 14, 2011 14 Jan'11

  BT offers pole and duct access - and asks for the same in return

  BT has proposed that network operators that want to share its poles and ducts should have to let BT share their infrastructure too

• 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 13, 2011 13 Jan'11

  Stress test IPv6 set for June 8

  June 8 2011 is to be World IPv6 Day in an attempt to publicise the need to support the new internet addressing scheme, or watch the internet run out of addresses.

• January 13, 2011 13 Jan'11

  BT to give 41 more towns 40Mbps broadband access by Spring 2012

  Forty-one market towns with around 300,000 businesses and consumers will get broadband access of up to 40Mbps from spring next year as part of the next phase...

• 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

  CES 2011: Ericsson debuts 4G LTE modem on Verizon mobile broadband network

  ST-Ericsson is demonstrating its LTE modem on Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE Mobile Broadband network at the CES

• January 05, 2011 05 Jan'11

  UK school networks vulnerable to attack

  UK schools are vulnerable to cyber attack, putting pupil, employee and administrative data at risk, according to security testing firm NGS Secure.

• 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.

• January 05, 2011 05 Jan'11

  RIM reacts to Indian Blackberry data interception reports

  Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM) says there will be no change to the security model of Blackberry Enterprise Server.

• January 04, 2011 04 Jan'11

  Kent County Council moves to unified communications

  Kent County Council (KCC) has signed a deal with Siemens to implement converged IP telephony and unified communications.

• January 04, 2011 04 Jan'11

  Goldman Sachs investment deal values Facebook at $50bn

  Facebook has raised $500m of an anticipated $2bn funding from Goldman Sachs and other investors, valuing the social networking firm at $50bn.

  This...

• January 04, 2011 04 Jan'11

  Skype faces China ban as iPhone debuts video conferencing

  Internet voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephony service Skype could be banned in China as the government cracks down on what it calls illegal internet telephone providers.

• January 04, 2011 04 Jan'11

  Six villages to get fibre broadband by early 2012

  The winners of BT's Race to Infinity for villages to get access to a 40Mbps fibre to the cabinet broadband service are: Baschurch, Shropshire Blewbury,...

• December 29, 2010 29 Dec'10

  2010 Review: Top 10 broadband stories

  2010 has been a critical year for UK broadband as a new government comes in with their own ideas about how to ensure roll-out of next-generation superfast services.

• 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.

• December 23, 2010 23 Dec'10

  2010 Review: The 10 most-read stories of the year

  This year we've seen coal miners trapped for 68 days in Chile, Prince William and Kate Middleton announce their engagement and the World Cup. But what were...

• December 21, 2010 21 Dec'10

  BP signs $400m hosting deal with HP

  BP has signed a $400m (£258m) five-year outsourcing services deal with HP Enterprise Services.

• December 21, 2010 21 Dec'10

  Net neutrality: FCC set to legalise traffic management

  US communications industry regulator Federal Communications Commission is set to alter the economics of the web in a way that would bias certain types of network traffic, Reuters has reported.

• December 21, 2010 21 Dec'10

  Hansard considers cloud to escape Microsoft lock-in

  Whitehall techies proposed putting Hansard in the cloud to escape restrictions imposed by Microsoft's proprietary multimedia standards.

• December 17, 2010 17 Dec'10

  Open source body challenges €189m EC software deal

  The open source lobby has challenged the €189m software contract struck by the European Commission last month.

• December 17, 2010 17 Dec'10

  Nokia escalates Apple patent row with 13 new infringement claims

  Nokia's patent war with Apple escalated yesterday, as the Finnish-based manufacturer filed 13 more infringement claims against the technology giant.

• December 13, 2010 13 Dec'10

  London attack on Sarah Palin’s website attributed to Wikileaks 'hacktivists'

  Sarah Palin's website has been targeted by London hackers avenging Wikileaks, the former governor of Alaska has claimed.

• December 10, 2010 10 Dec'10

  West Wales pilots LTE wireless using digital switchover TV spectrum

  Wireless technology is being piloted in the Preseli Mountains, West Wales, which could overcome the issue of dead spots in broadband coverage in rural areas

• December 08, 2010 08 Dec'10

  Salesforce.com debuts cloud database in competition with Oracle

  Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing firm, has introduced a database-as-a-service (DbaaS) product, Database.com at its annual conference, Dreamforce, in San Francisco.

• December 07, 2010 07 Dec'10

  Study finds businesses unready for risks from new technology

  Less than a third of global businesses have an IT risk management programme capable of dealing with the risks related to the use of new technologies, a study has revealed.

• December 07, 2010 07 Dec'10

  UK broadband adoption and satisfaction improving, says Ofcom

  Broadband take-up has increased significantly among older people, and more people intend to get on the internet in the next 12 months

• December 06, 2010 06 Dec'10

  No monopoly on broadband supply, says culture minister

  No-one was "writing a cheque to BT," culture minister Jeremy Hunt said on Monday at the launch of the government's broadband strategy in London.

• December 06, 2010 06 Dec'10

  BT names front runners in high-speed fibre race

  Residents in Blewbury, Caxton, Castleton, Madingley and Whitcomb are winning the race to be the first areas to get BT's high-speed fibre service.

  The...

• December 06, 2010 06 Dec'10

  Rural providers react to government broadband strategy

  Communities and non-BT network operators reacted with dismay to the government's new broadband strategy.

• December 05, 2010 05 Dec'10

  Government broadband strategy will put digital hubs in every community

  The government plans to put a "digital hub" into every community by the end of this parliament as part of its £830m broadband strategy

• December 03, 2010 03 Dec'10

  Government to spell out UK broadband plans on Monday; BT offers 90% fibre coverage

  Culture minister Jeremy Hunt will set out the government's plans to stimulate investment in UK broadband networks on Monday.

• December 02, 2010 02 Dec'10

  UK consumers turning to internet access on the move, says Ofcom

  Staying connected while on the move is the key characteristic of the UK communications consumer, according to the latest research from Ofcom

• December 02, 2010 02 Dec'10

  Amazon cloud kicks off WikiLeaks following US pressure

  Amazon threw Wikileaks off its servers at the request of US senator Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate's Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee,...

• December 01, 2010 01 Dec'10

  Europe threatens price crackdown on network operators that abuse market dominance

  Dominant telcos face a crackdown unless they provide fair pricing and access to information to organisations that want to lease their infrastructure, the European Commission’s Digital Agenda boss warned

• 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

  Communications costs comprise 12% of UK household spending

  UK consumers spent more on communications than on alcohol and tobacco as a result of more homes having computers and internet connections, the Office for National Statistics revealed on Tuesday.

• November 30, 2010 30 Nov'10

  Comcast sparks US net neutrality row

  US internet network operator Level 3 has accused cable firm Comcast of introducing charges for carrying internet movies and other traffic.

  Level 3...

• 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 29, 2010 29 Nov'10

  Massive policy changes in data protection hold keys to business opportunity

  This past year, 2010, will be remembered as an important year for data protection, with the highest level of regulatory activity for more than 40 years.

• November 29, 2010 29 Nov'10

  Virgin Media shuts down 500 unsecured in-house wireless access points

  Virgin Media has deployed a new corporate wireless network across 30 of its UK sites after discovering up to 500 staff members were using shop-bought routers...

• November 29, 2010 29 Nov'10

  Google-backed O3b brings satellite broadband to developing countries

  Google-backed O3b Networks plans to launch satellite-enabled broadband for developing countries in 2013 after securing $1.2bn funding.

• November 29, 2010 29 Nov'10

  Chinese government hacked Google, claims Wikileaks leaked US diplomatic cables

  The Chinese government hacked into Google's computer systems, a leaked US diplomatic report claims.

• November 24, 2010 24 Nov'10

  Fight looms over shared infrastructure for broadband networks

  How to share infrastructure is likely to become the hottest topic in rolling out next generation broadband access (NGA), especially in rural areas, it emerged at the NextGen10 conference in Birmingham this week.

• November 23, 2010 23 Nov'10

  Enterprise spending boosts HP sales by 8% in Q4

  Hewlett-Packard has reported an 8% increase in overall sales in the fourth quarter of 2010 after 25% growth in enterprise storage and servers revenue.

• November 23, 2010 23 Nov'10

  BT’s T&Cs put broadband providers off £830m rural pilot bids

  The government's plans to attract competitive bids for four rural broadband pilot projects may be disrupted because non-BT network operators say they lack...

• November 22, 2010 22 Nov'10

  Fallen giant Novell to be acquired by Attachmate for $2.2bn

  Software supplier Novell, once one of the most influential companies in corporate IT, is to be acquired for $2.2bn by Attachmate

• November 18, 2010 18 Nov'10

  CERN connects India to data network

  India is now connected to Cern's Large Hadron Collider grid through a 1 Gbps network provided by Reliance Globalcom.

• November 16, 2010 16 Nov'10

  Caxton and Malvern villages first with 1,000 votes for BT fibre exchanges

  Caxton in Cambridgeshire and Malvern in Worcestershire are the first villages to register more than 1,000 votes in BT's Race to Infinity competition to find...

• November 16, 2010 16 Nov'10

  Tesco picks C&W Worldwide for online bank network

  Tesco Bank has chosen Cable & Wireless Worldwide to provide managed datacentre services and hosted voice services to support its banking and insurance customer service centres in Newcastle and Glasgow.

• November 16, 2010 16 Nov'10

  Comms minister Vaizey to explain business rates to network operators

  Network operators have been invited to a private meeting with communications minister Ed Vaizey to be briefed on the business rating system for communications networks, and broadband networks in particular.

• November 16, 2010 16 Nov'10

  EMC to buy Isilon for £1.4bn

  EMC has announced it will acquire the data storage firm by the end of 2010

• 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

  Steria wins contract with the MoD

  French IT services supplier Steria has won a £60m contract with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), part of the UK Ministry of Defence.

• November 15, 2010 15 Nov'10

  100Gbps Ethernet threat to fibre channel

  Researchers have pushed Ethernet transmissions to 100Gbps over a 275m link of Opti-Core laser-optimised multimode fibre optic cabling at Ixia Corporation's...

• 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 12, 2010 12 Nov'10

  BIS cash aims to raise awareness of need to move to IPv6

  "Panic now and avoid the rush when the internet runs out of IP addresses in June next year', was the (slightly hyped) message from 6UK, the non-profit organisation launched on Thursday to raise awareness about the need to adopt the IPv6 internet ...

• November 10, 2010 10 Nov'10

  Digital Economy Act goes to judicial review

  The Digital Economy Act, which passed into law in controversial circumstances, will undergo judicial review to establish its legal status.

• 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.

• November 09, 2010 09 Nov'10

  Cabinet Office conducts governmental digital review

  The Cabinet Office is reviewing the government's digital engagement strategy as part of its business plan to meet the coalition government's policies.

• November 08, 2010 08 Nov'10

  Telefonica picks Teradata to optimise broadband pricing

  Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica is using a Teradata-powered "brute force" system to optimise revenue from its global broadband offerings.

  Telefonica...

• November 03, 2010 03 Nov'10

  Has the Windows-based business desktop had its day?

  Has the concept of the Windows-based business desktop become irrelevant due to the uptake of low-cost internet-connected devices and mobile apps? Cliff Saran investigates.

• November 03, 2010 03 Nov'10

  Google breached UK data protection laws, says ICO

  Google breached UK data protection law by intercepting Wi-Fi data as it recorded images for its Street View service, according to the Information Commissioner's Office.

• 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

  UK IT directors need product roadmap information

  Survey claims the majority of UK IT directors would consider switching suppliers in return for better visibility and influence over product roadmaps.

• 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 21, 2010 21 Oct'10

  Smart meters need single network, say BT partners

  The government should go for a single, long-range radio-based network, separate it from existing networks, and classify it as critical national infrastructure,...

• October 20, 2010 20 Oct'10

  Spending Review: Survival of rural broadband plans good news, say SMEs

  Small business groups have welcomed the government's plans not to put super-fast broadband in rural areas on ice.

• 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 19, 2010 19 Oct'10

  Government CIO Suffolk tells Indian suppliers: ‘bid, bid, bid’

  UK government chief information officer John Suffolk has encouraged Indian suppliers to compete for IT work in the public sector ahead of the massive spending cuts to be announced in the Comprehensive Spending Review.

• October 19, 2010 19 Oct'10

  Ofcom stalls on complaints about Project Canvas’ YouView

  Ofcom has stalled complaints that Project Canvas, the internet-based digital terrestrial TV project owned by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, BT, TalkTalk and Arqiva, is anti-competitive.

• October 19, 2010 19 Oct'10

  NRO warns of “chaotic scramble” for IPv6 addresses

  The Number Resource Organisation (NRO) has warned of a "chaotic scramble" for IPv6 addresses as the world's IPv4 addresses are almost depleted.

• October 19, 2010 19 Oct'10

  BT accused of using predatory tactics to retain broadband dominance

  BT is using "predatory" practices to destroy broadband competitors, particularly in rural areas, claims cross-bench peer Lord Erroll.

• October 18, 2010 18 Oct'10

  Improvement rate slows as UK joins broadband leaders

  The UK stepped up a couple of places in Cisco's third annual broadband quality survey, but is falling behind in its rate of improvement.

• 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...