Networks

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

Huawei Admits Defeat And Withdraws From US Market

Huawei is to withdraw from the US telecommunications market after US national security concerns

11 years ago

Fibre Channel 32Gbps Standard Completed

The standard for 32Gbps Fibre Channel, an interface for storage area networks, has been officially agreed

11 years ago

Researchers Create Malware That Jumps Air Gaps Using Inaudible Sound

Experiment shows malware can transmit stolen data using standard microphones and speakers, but there are clear limitations

11 years ago

Labour Telecoms Proposals Call For Reduced BT Line Rental Charges

Shadow Communications Minister Helen Goodman publishes proposals to protect consumers from fixed line and mobile operators

11 years ago

TalkTalk Business Pitches Cheap Ethernet Over FTTC Service

TalkTalk Business offers a symmetric Ethernet service without laying fibre to your door

11 years ago

Intel Looking To Sell IPTV Service By End of 2013 – Report

Intel reportedly wants $500m for its yet-to-launch web TV service OnCue, with Verizon amongst the possible buyers

11 years ago

Dell Wants Half its Workforce To Work Remotely By 2020

Dell says part-time telecommuting would save it money, increase productivity and help the environment.

11 years ago

Cisco Urges Basic Security Measures

Infections by the Cryptolocker malware could have been prevented by the use of fundamental security procedures

11 years ago

IT Life: From Modems To Data Security

Colin Tankard likes modems - and makes his living in data security

11 years ago

Unify Upgrades OpenScape 4000 For Unified Comms Push

Unify launches the OpenScape 4000 IP communications platform to pave the way to its UC solution

11 years ago

Nominet To Finally Introduce Shorter ‘.uk’ Domain In 2014

Businesses will be able to register for .uk domains from next summer

11 years ago

Salesforce Partners With HP For ‘Superpod’ Dedicated Service

Despite being on the Cisco board, Benioff chooses HP converged infrastructure to run dedicated service

11 years ago