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Cisco Flips Out Of Consumer Market
Cisco's jaunt into consumer gadgets was a waste of time, and distracted it from the fight of its life against HP, says Wayne Rash
UK Superfast Broadband To Pass 250,000 Mark In April
Superfast broadband will reach over 250,000 homes in Britain this month but rural areas must wait
Fujitsu To Build 1Gbps Rural Broadband Network
Virgin Media and TalkTalk back Fujitsu's bid to take rural broadband away from BT Openreach
Barracuda Networks Embarrassed By Database Hack
Hacked security company Barracuda lost email addresses of employees, channel partners and sales leads
Cisco Closes Flip Division Amid Consumer Changes
Cisco is revamping its consumer business and announced that it will close its Flip video camera business
New Ofcom Rules Allow Swift Mobile Transfer
Mobile operators will be required to provide PACs to leaving customers without delay
BT Escapes Prosecution Over Phorm
The Crown Prosecution Service will not pursue BT and Phorm for breaching online privacy laws
O2 Launches Unify For Outsourced Communications
O2 and 2e2 are targeting the enterprise market with their new IT outsourcing service, O2 Unify
BT Reveals Expansion Of Superfast Broadband
BT Openreach has named a further 156 areas in the UK to receive its superfast fibre broadband service
Smart Public Cloud For Business Launched By IBM
IBM has launched an enterprise cloud in its aim to capture £4 billion in cloud revenue by 2015
Milton Keynes Has Slowest 3G Broadband In UK
In a list of the ten worst places in Britain for mobile broadband, Milton Keynes has come top
Cisco Boss Chambers Admits Credibility Issue
John Chambers has admitted that Cisco has lost credibility in a remarkably frank memo to staff
ISPs Criticise BT Pole And Duct Sharing Charges
Some ISPs warn that the government's rural broadband push is in danger, because BT's prices are too high
BT Promises 20Mbps For 80 Percent Of Britain
Faster broadband should be on the way for more people as BT promises more ADSL2+
IEEE Approves Next Generation WiMax Standard
The IEEE standards body has given the nod to 300Mbps WiMax mobile broadband
Dropped Call For London Tube Phone Access Tender
Plans to take Wi-Fi underground on London’s Tube have hit the buffers over funding and access agreements
Google Chooses Kansas City For 1Gbps Network
A mid-western town in the US has been chosen by Google for a ultrafast 1Gbps broadband network
Ofcom Demands Cut In BT Broadband Price
BT will have to cut its wholesale prices for phone lines and broadband, according to an Ofcom consultation
Telepresence And Video Conferencing Spend To Double
Spending on video conferencing and telepresence is predicted to double in the next four years, said Infonetics
BBC Suffers Total Website Outage
The BBC admitted that most of its websites went offline in an incident described as a 'major network outage'
Comodo Trust Wanes As Two More Accounts Hacked
Certification company's humiliation drags on as hacker scalps two more Comodo registration authority accounts
An APT Lesson From RSA’s SecurID Breach
RSA's breach thrust Advanced Persistent Threats to the forefront as the biggest danger to organisations
BT Customers In Cornwall Get Fibre Broadband
The first customers in Cornwall have been connected to BT's high ‘ca-pasty’ broadband service in that area
O2 Claims LTE Trial Success In Slough
Test LTE network could sort out the UK's mobile broadband 'capacity crunch', says O2
BT Music Download Service To Combat File-Sharing
BT has confirmed plans to launch a not-for-profit music download service for its customers
Co-Developer Of Packet Switching Dies At 84
Paul Baran, whose ideas partly formed the basis for the packet switching used in the Internet, has died
TfL Opens Bidding For Tube Wi-Fi Contract
Londoners will get to surf the web at Tube stations next year as the bidding for underground Wi-Fi provision begins
HTTPS Bug Disrupts Secure Hotmail Service
Microsoft turned off HTTPS access for Hotmail in some countries, leaving emails open to interception
ISPs Start Court Action Over Legality Of DEA
BT and TalkTalk have begun to frame their arguments in a court bid to overturn the Digital Economy Act