2013

A BA British Airways aeroplane. Image credit Steve Mann / Shutterstock

Enterprise

Ungrounded: 100 Geeks On A Plane Hope To Solve Skills Problem

Tech gurus are going up to the summit in the sky

Networks

Millions Of Open Servers Are Helping To Set Off Huge Digital Bombs

Spamhaus attacks show how the Internet's millions of open DNS resolvers are 'the scourge of the Internet'

Broadband

BT Reaches Kensington And Chelsea Broadband Peace Agreement

Royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea withdraws street cabinet objections

Broadband

BT Wins BDUK Funds In Shropshire Broadband Deal

Shropshire broadband deal will bring fibre to 93 percent of one of the most rural counties in England

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T-Mobile USA To Scrap Lengthy Contracts

T-Mobile USA announces plans to abandon contracts, introduce the iPhone and rollout an LTE network

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Open Source

Linux Users In Spain File An Official Complaint Against Microsoft

Hispalinux demands an investigation into the use of UEFI Secure Boot protocol in Windows 8

Regulation

UK Launches Cyber Security Threat Sharing Centre

Threat data to be shared across industries, thanks to project announced by Francis Maude

Broadband

European Commission Looks To ‘Burn’ Red Tape For Fibre Broadband Rollouts

Proposed EC regulations unveiled by the EC would make new properties broadband-ready

Three 4G Service Unlikely To Launch Until End of 2013

Three adds 1m new customers during 2012 but wont be rushed into 4G

Networks

Big Switch’s Switch Light Aims To Drive OpenFlow Adoption

Big Switch's open source switching platform is aimed at making it easier for businesses to adopt software-defined networking using switches based on commodity hardware

Mac

Logitech Debuts iPad Keyboard

Logitech's Keyboard Folio includes magnetic closures to help protect the iPad and its touch-screen

Marketing

Google Fights Sweden Over ‘Ungoogleable’ Definition

Sweden's government wanted to include the word 'ungoogleable' in a dictionary of modern language, but Google's lawyers begged to differ - so the definition was dropped

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Cloud

Oracle Launches Faster SPARC Chips Amidst Decline In Sales

Oracle claims its new SPARC T5 and M5 processors are the fastest in the world

Marketing

Video: Experts Weigh In On Weightless M2M Potential

First part in TechWeekEurope’s video series looks at how Weightless works, and what makes it perfect for M2M applications

Mac

World’s Smallest Phone Charger Achieves Kickstarter Funding Goal

Fuel phone charger claims to offer 20-30 minutes of emergency battery life

mobile OS

Android Malware Targeting Tibetan Activists

One of the first cases of Android malware used in targeted campaign

Marketing

FINANCIAL SERVICES TECHNOLOGY FORUM 2013

The Financial Services Technology Forum (previously: Banking Technology Forum) is a bold and exciting initiative by Ovum in partnership with Banking Technology that is set to establish itself firmly as a key date in the diaries of t ...

Marketing

SMART TO FUTURE CITIES 2013

OVUM and INFORMA TELECOMS & MEDIA are joining forces in 2013 to bring you a next generation Future Cities event. Too many smart city conferences do not distinguish between what is possible in developed countries as opposed to emergi ...

Marketing

OVUM BYOX: STRATEGY AWARDS 2013

While acknowledging that there is no “one size fits all” strategy when it comes to managing mobile consumerization, the Ovum BYOX Strategy Awards have been designed to recognize enterprise innovation and best practice in the field o ...

Marketing

OVUM BYOX: WORLD FORUM 2013

This event from Ovum will provide the blueprint for CIOs to take away and implement a robust mobility strategy that addresses the challenges of consumerization. It will present our latest research into both the supply side and deman ...

Marketing

OVUM INDUSTRY CONGRESS 2013

The Congress is structured around the following themes: Transforming Infrastructure & Services, Information Management & Analytics, Adapting to IT Consumerization, Optimizing Customer Experience and Enterprise IT Management. All the ...

Regulation

UK Battles Brussels To Kill Data Privacy Regulation

Lord McNally wants lightweight privacy rules instead of the EU's proposed tough Regulation

Marketing

Distribution Automation Europe

SMi's 3rd annual Distribution Automation Europe conference will address how major European Utilities are improving reliability and increasing efficiency and capacity to help reduce energy wastage. The smart grid distribution network ...

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Green-IT

Google Tests White Space Broadband, Connects Schools In South Africa

British advances in the white space field don’t go unnoticed

Marketing

Telecoms for Smart Grids

SMi’s 3rd annual Telecoms for Smart Grids conference will address the developments of both UK and European communications infrastructures for Smart Metering, Substation Automation, and Distribution Network Upgrades. The two-day conf ...