Networks

Wales BDUK Fibre Rollout Reaches 100,000 Properties

BDUK-backed Superfast Cymru plans to reach 690,000 homes and businesses by March 2015

11 years ago

Palo Alto Networks Buys Security Firm Morta

Palo Alto Networks is to acquire security startup Morta, established by former NSA and Air Force members

11 years ago

Coinye Currency Launches Despite Threats From Kanye West

Kanye West's cease and desist letter gives the Coinye currency a publicity boost

11 years ago

Oracle Boosts SDN Portfolio With Corente Deal

Oracle is to purchase Corente, which specialises in software-defined networks for WAN environments

11 years ago

TorrentFreak News Site Blocked By Sky Porn Filter

More fury at filters blocking non-offensive websites

11 years ago

Rockstar Group ‘In Talks’ To Sell Patents

Rockstar, backed by Apple, Microsoft and others, is reportedly interested in selling off some of the technology patents it acquired…

11 years ago

BT Awards £26.9m Contracts For Scottish Highlands And Islands Subsea Fibre Rollout

BT is to work with three companies on laying 250 miles of fibre-optic cables off the west coast of Scotland

11 years ago

Study Finds SDN Deployments Emerging Gradually

Amidst strong interest, few enterprises have so far actually deployed software-defined networks, according to Quinstreet Enterprise

11 years ago

O2, Virgin Media And Sky Top Ofcom Customer Service Charts

Ofcom research reveals pay TV and mobile users are happier than landline and broadband consumers

11 years ago

Ofcom Tells BT To Repair And Install Fixed Lines Faster Or Risk Fines

Ofcom seeks to shortern the time telephone and broadband line repairs, as well as finish new installations

11 years ago

GSMA Creates Remotely Managed SIM For M2M Applications

The new embedded standard lets devices connect to the Internet of Things without having to change their SIM

11 years ago

Cisco Offers Up Cloud Desktop Virtualisation Solution

Cisco partners with Citrix and VMware and launches a cloud-based desktop-as-a-service solution

11 years ago

Government Boasts Of 200,000 BDUK Premises As Rollout Accelerates

The government celebrates ‘Super Switch-on Day’, promising 25,000 homes and businesses will be added each week from spring 2014

11 years ago

Bruce Schneier Leaves BT As Surveillance ‘Conspiracy Theories’ Denied

Schneier isn't leaving because of alleged BT connections with GCHQ spying, as "conspiracy theories" are shrugged off by the telecoms…

11 years ago

Nortel Networks Settles Bankruptcy Claims

Nortel reaches a bankruptcy settlement with a number of Europe entities, including a UK pension fund

11 years ago

Intel Snaps Up Mindspeed’s Wireless Infrastructure Unit

Intel continues its aggressive move into the data centre with the purchase of Mindspeed's mobile network assets

11 years ago

Cisco Targets Mobile With Collaborate.com Purchase

Cisco acquires Collaborate.com in an effort to beef up its mobile collaboration capabilities

11 years ago

BT And Eight Local Councils Team Up For £15m BDUK Manchester Deal

An additional 39,000 premises to receive fibre by March 2016 as part of BDUK Manchester project

11 years ago

BT Forces Customers To Make Parental Controls Choice

BT will offer network level parental controls to customers - and there's no sitting on the fence

11 years ago

Cisco: Snowden Leak Hit Chinese Sales ‘Unfairly’

Questions about Cisco's role in NSA surveillance have hit Cisco's sales unfairly, the UK director of security tells TechWeek

11 years ago

Big Android Botnet Sends SMS Messages To China

South Korean phones send stolen messages to Chinese email addresses

11 years ago

BT Complaints Rise Following BT Sport Launch

Complaints about BT's landline, broadband and pay TV service increase, according to Ofcom

11 years ago

Sky Customers Cut Off As Failed Copper Thieves Steal BT Fibre

At least the dimwitted criminals didn’t make any money

11 years ago

Dell World 2013: Dell Announces All-Flash Array And New Networking Switches

Dell claims its new EqualLogic storage products unlock the true power of flash

11 years ago

Cisco Loses Legal Challenge To Microsoft Skype Deal

Cisco loses its legal challenge over Microsoft's purchase of VoIP giant Skype, but will not appeal

11 years ago

Alcatel-Lucent Bolsters SDN Capabilities

Alcatel-Lucent builds OpenFlow and OpenStack support into its OmniSwitch Ethernet portfolio

11 years ago

Another 31 Communities In Devon And Somerset To Get Fibre Broadband

Local councils plan to have 91 percent superfast connectivity by 2016

11 years ago

RBS: NatWest Site Hit By DDoS

Just days after experiencing system failures, NatWest is hit by a DDoS

11 years ago

Microsoft Lync App Updated For Windows 8.1

Microsoft boosts enterprise communications after releasing the updated Lync app for Windows 8.1

11 years ago

Intel Targets Enterprise Networks With High-End Platform

Intel bolsters its networking silicon to expand in the enterprise, cloud-provider, and carrier network space

11 years ago