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Skype Users Hit 2 Billion Minutes A Day Milestone
Microsoft has revealed that Skype users consume 2 billion minutes each day on its popular VoIP service
FBI Warns Of DoS Attacks On Emergency Telephones
US authorities are warning about Telephone Denial of Service attacks against emergency telephone systems
Ubiquisys Acqusition Strengthens Cisco Small Cell Offering
Swindon-based Ubiquisys is to be bought in £205m deal
Cumbria Broadband Delayed Again By European Red Tape
The superfast broadband rollout in Cumbria is facing yet more delays, blamed on red tape from Brussels
‘Critical’ BIND Vulnerability Puts DNS Servers At Risk
A flaw reported in the handling of regular expressions means most DNS servers running on Linux or Unix are vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks, according to security experts
US Concerns Over Huawei, ZTE Complicate Sprint Merger
A $20.1bn deal between the US' Sprint and Japan's Softbank is facing complications due to the US government's mistrust of Chinese telecoms equipment makers Huawei and ZTE
Egypt Makes Arrests After Undersea Internet Cable Hacked Apart
Police claim three scuba divers were caught attempting to cut an undersea connection
EE Expands 4G Network, Reaches Half Of UK Population
Bradford, Leicester, Luton, Doncaster, St Albans, Reading and other towns join the EE 4G service
Hollow Fibres Carry Data Faster
Hollow-core fibres nearly hit the speed of light in a vacuum, cutting latency
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'
BT Reaches Kensington And Chelsea Broadband Peace Agreement
Royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea withdraws street cabinet objections
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
European Commission Looks To ‘Burn’ Red Tape For Fibre Broadband Rollouts
Proposed EC regulations unveiled by the EC would make new properties broadband-ready
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
Google Tests White Space Broadband, Connects Schools In South Africa
British advances in the white space field don’t go unnoticed
BT Signs £146m Scottish Highlands And Islands Broadband Deal
BT says deal is the most complex and challenging it has undertaken
Hyperoptic Doubles Fibre Broadband Connections
Broadband start-up Hyperoptic has now connected 20,000 London locations to its 1 Gbit/s fibre-to-the-premises service
Cisco Buys SolveDirect For Cloud Infrastructure Expertise
Cisco's acquisition of Austrian firm SolveDirect is designed to help build the company's enterprise IT portfolio, and also follows a pattern of buying companies outside the US
Oracle Acquires Networking Specialist Tekelec
Oracle has followed its Nimbula buy with the acquisition of Tekelec, which makes software that keeps data flowing efficiently over wired or wireless networks
Brocade Launches Fabric Vision, Outlines Future Products
There’s a new Fibre Channel solution, new SAN switch and new software from OpenStack
St George’s Park Launches FA Bid For Sports Tech Leadership
Every aspect of football needs technology, says the FA's Rob Ray
Amazon An Early Winner In ICANN gTLD Rollout
Tech giant Amazon passes initial evaluation for three of its applications
Why Software Defined Networks Won’t Kill Hardware – Juniper
Why does a hardware vendor want sofware defined networks? We asked Mike Marcellin of Juniper Networks
BT Signs £13.8m Hampshire BDUK Deal For Fibre Broadband
BT wins more government funding for rural broadband
Tim Berners Lee And Vint Cerf Share £1m Queen Elizabeth Engineering Prize
Internet founders get the first "Nobel Prize for Engineering - the QE
Juniper Introduces Smaller SuperCore Router
Juniper's PTX3000 router makes the company's two-year-old Converged SuperCore networking architecture available to a wider range of service providers
BT Northamptonshire BDUK Deal To Create 1,700 New Jobs
£16m BDUK deal is worth £110m to the local economy and will benefit 53,000 properties
BT Agrees £40m Kent Broadband Partnership
BT strikes deal to bring superfast broadband to 95 percent of county with the help of BDUK funds
Fujitsu Abandons BDUK, Leaves BT To Scoop Up Contracts
With Fujitsu gone, BT eats all the fibre