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US Security Chief Calls EU 24-Hour Data Breach Notification Rule ‘Unworkable’

AT&T's chief privacy officer says the 24-hour deadline would force companies to notify all customers rather than just those affected

Networks

Google Is Experimenting With TCP To Give A Faster Web Experience

Google is testing ways to cut the latency in TCP connections that Web browsers make to request and retrieve data

Broadband

BT Extends FTTP Trial To Blocks Of Flats

BT is hoping to quickly and easily expand its FTTP footprint in the UK after extending its fibre trial to apartment blocks

Network Management

BYOD Is The Challenge Of The Decade

'Bringing Your Own Device' to work allows people the freedom to work with devices best suited to them. But, as Simon Wilcox writes, it requires informed network management.

Networks

Amazon Expands Cloud Service With AWS Storage Gateway

Amazon claims AWS Storage Gateway makes cloud backup cheap and cheerful

VoIP

Avaya Has A Flare For Apple iPad Unified Communications

Avaya Flare Communicator is now providing unified comms on the iPad, and other mobile platforms will go online later this year

Networks

O2 Apologises and Fixes Number Leak Security Flaw

O2 claims that it now only shares customers' numbers with 'trusted partners'

VoIP

Cisco To Launch Router And WAN Sets To Ease Cloud Integration

Cisco is planning to roll out a package that includes its router and WAN offerings to simplify cloud computing connections

Networks

Everything Everywhere And BT Extend 4G LTE Cornwall Trial

Partners and participants say that trial has successfully shown benefits of LTE in rural areas

Networks

Kroes Promises EU Cloud Strategy – Based On Angry Birds?

EU Internet Champion Neelie Kroes wants to unify regulations across Europe's states, so we can all play nicely

Networks

Huawei Acquires Green UK Photonics Technology Developer CIP

Huawei has completed its acquisition of UK photonics researcher CIP as an investment in green fibre-optic technologies

Networks

TfL To Announce London Tube Wi-Fi Provider This Spring

Winner will provide data services to 120 London Underground stations in time for the Olympic Games

Networks

Councils Face ‘Big Ask’ For Broadband Not-Spot Funds

Socitm report says local councils will find it difficult to match BDUK funding required to roll out fibre into broadband not-spots,

Networks

Megaupload Reveals The Need For User-Based Internet Legislation

Every cloud has a sinister lining or so the closure of MegaUpload and TV-Shack appears to indicate, writes Eric Doyle

Networks

Virgin Media Carries Out 4G Trial in Oxford Street

Virgin Media could bid for spectrum in 4G auction following private tests in the heart of London's West End

Networks

KC Trumps BT, With Fibre-To-The-Premise In Yorkshire

While the rest of the country gets fibre to street cabinets, homes and offices in Hull and East Yorkshire will get fibre direct, says local telecom hero KC

Networks

ITU Approves Next-Generation Mobile Technology

The finalisation of IMT-Advanced lays the groundwork for services 100 times faster than today's 3G

Broadband

Government Threatens To Pull Councils’ Broadband Funding

Councils may lose their share of the government's £530m in broadband funding if they delay rollouts, culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has warned

Networks

The Accidental Terrorist – Anonymous’ Stooges Stage Attacks

A poisoned Website is tricking innocent visitors into becoming an unwitting part of the Anonymous DDoS army

Networks

Megaupload File Storage Site Closed By FBI For IPR Breaches

Megaupload has been closed down and its organisers arrested in a multinational action led by the US Justice Department

Networks

Port 80 Security Measures Bypassed By Most Network Application Traffic

Many IT departments concentrate on port 80 security but Palo Alto Networks has found that most corporate traffic does not use it

Networks

World IPv6 Launch Sets 6 June As Target Date

Internet Society organised event sets out plans for IPv6

Broadband

Virgin Broadband Blacked Out By ‘Routing Issue’

Virgin Media's broadband services across the UK have been restored after customers experienced a blackout

Networks

Regional Broadband Scheme Faces Investigation

Taxpayers' money could be needed to prop up regional broadband infrastructure scheme, as local councils begin an investigation

Networks

Wikipedia Blackout To Go Ahead Despite SOPA Pullout

Wikipedia and other high-profile websites will shut down for 24 hours in protest against 'devastating' anti-piracy bills, while Twitter's CEO has called the action 'foolish'