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BT Signs £14m East Riding Superfast Broadband Deal

Superfast broadband is coming to the East Riding part of Yorkshire, as BT wins another BDUK deal

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OpenDaylight Prepares ‘Hydrogen’ SDN Platform

The first release of OpenDaylight's SDN architecture comes five months after founding members including IBM, Cisco and the Linux Foundation announced the initiative

Networks

Teenager Blows $33k Of Daddy’s Money On Wikileaks Server

Father said to be "speechless" at son's purchase of server used to get leaks online

Networks

Jeroen Hoencamp To Replace Rogers-Bound Guy Laurence As Vodafone UK CEO

Guy Laurence departs Vodafone UK for Canada's Rogers Communications

Networks

Insider Suspected In Massive Vodafone Hack

Operator says a highly sophisticated attack could have been perpetrated by one of its own

Broadband

ASA Bans BT Infinity TV Advert Over Fibre Speed Claims

You'll never have to see the BT Infinity advert with the flatmates ever again

Networks

Cisco Acquires All-Flash Whizz Whiptail For $415m

Cisco's move into the all-flash game could spell trouble for its partnership with EMC

Networks

BT Pens £21.96m West Yorkshire Superfast Broadband Deal

BT to pump £12m into spreading fibre across God's Own Country

Networks

EE Hits 1 Million 4G Subscribers

EE passes the 1m subscriber mark on its 4G network, but a GSMA study finds Europe lagging in 4G penetration

Networks

Tor Network Spike Caused By Botnet

Mevade botnet responsible for Tor traffic jump in August

Networks

European Commission Plans To Ban Mobile Roaming Leaked

Roaming will be a thing of the past, if the draft put together by Neelie Kroes and Co can become a reality

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Wikileaks SpyFiles Show Surveillance Industry ‘Thriving Unchecked’

TechWeek digs into Wikileaks files to find a British supplier is implicated in selling to repressive regimes for significant sums

Networks

Vint Cerf Wants Public Outcry Over ISPs’ IPv6 Delays

Cerf is still banging on about IPv6, calling on people to put more pressure on the likes of BT

Networks

Cisco CTO Criticises Software-Only SDN

Cisco's Padmasree Warrior reveals strategic differences between Cisco and VMware around software-defined networking

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Networks

Big Switches See Growth Again

Network switches for carriers are seeing growth after some troubled times, according to research

M2M

Kickstarter Project Flutter Proposes M2M Net With Half A Mile Range

Flutter is building a cheap Arduino-based tool for the Internet of Things

Broadband

BDUK Deal Makes Newcastle One Of Europe’s Best Connected Cities

BT wins more BDUK cash in the Northeast in £3.8m deal to extend fibre to 97 percent of Newcastle-on-Tyne

Broadband

BT Calls Time On Old Dial-Up Service – Or Does It?

If you can't get broadband, you'll have to take your modem over to BT-owned Plusnet

Broadband

Milton Keynes And Bedfordshire Agree £12m BT BDUK Deal

BT wins yet more BDUK cash in Milton Keynes and Bedfordshire

Broadband

BT Wins BDUK Leicestershire Cash

BT agrees £16.9m BDUK deal to bring fibre to 95 percent of the county

M2M

ARM Improves Its M2M Potential With Sensinode Acquisition

The small Finnish company is responsible for shaping a number of M2M communication standards

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Chinese Internet Blasted By ‘Biggest DDoS It’s Seen’

Experts spot major jump in DDoS activity in China, as DNS provider takes a battering

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European Equipment Suppliers Win Third Of £2bn China Mobile 4G Contract

Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia Siemens Networks all set to benefit from China Mobile 4G tender as Huawei and ZTE secure half

Networks

Syria’s Online Conflict: The Hackers And Their Weapons

Attacks on missile warning services, sophisticated malware campaigns and the Syrian Electronic Army make for a chaotic cyber conflict, TechWeek finds

Broadband

Google Seeks Testers For Balloon-Based Internet

Google wants you, or more specifically Google's Project Loon wants people who live in California's Central Valley and who would be willing to let Google install some Loon equipment on their property. The search engine giant wants he ...