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EC Wants Digital Europe Not Just Digital Britain

The UK may have come up with its own levy for broadband roll-out but the EC wants Europe-wide agreement on the issue

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HP And VMware Team Up On Virtualisation

VMware is incorporating HP's Discover and Dependency Mapping app into its upcoming vCenter ConfigControl software

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Digital Britain- It Could Be A Great Piracy Experiment

The UK government's proposed crackdown on ilegal copying could make a perfect test of the music industry's assumptions, says Peter Judge

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Digital Britain: £6 Levy For Faster Broadband

Final report also includes plans for Ofcom to police file-sharing and universal broadband service

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“Spooks” Caught Up In Digital Britain Debate

UK TV spy series producer calls for the government to crack-down on file-sharing

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Upgraded MiFi Pocket Hotspot Comes To Europe

Share a broadband link with up to five devices - without any set-up

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Government: Communications Minister Always Meant To Go

The man behind the Digital Briain report, Lord Carter, didn't quit says government, leaving after the publication of the document was always part of the plan

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EU Will Confound Critics With Speedy Telecoms Decision

European authorities have a reputation for slow decision making with they must prove wrong says the EC's Viviane Reding

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Tough Times Need Disruptive Technologies

The recession is encouraging interest in ‘green' IT, virtual servers and desktops, the growth of cloud computing and the rise of the netbook.

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Broadcom Promises 40 Percent Savings With Green Switches

Ports power off when idle, and reduce power on short cable lengths

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Cisco Boss Says Video Is The Future

Chambers pointed to Cisco's purchase of the company that made the Flip video as a key advantage for Cisco as it moves into a more video-based future, where he said video will soon account for 90 percent of all network traffic

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UN Climate Conference To Use Cisco Telepresence

But some analysts claim that high-end video-conferencing systems can be extremely expensive and resource hungry

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HP Puts Wired And Wireless In The Wall

New ProCurve device does all your networking from inside a wall socket

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New OpenSolaris: Faster And Better

Sun's new OpenSolaris 2009.06 is faster - and has better networking thanks to Project Crossbow

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Server Virtualisation – Some Real Cost Savings

Server virtualisation promises to save space, costs and energy, but two UK local authorities have discovered there's more to achieving these benefits than the technology alone.

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Broadcom Offering Low Power Switches

Broadcom is rolling out a host of products to support a unified networking vision both at the core of the enterprise data center and on the edge of business WLANs

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Local Government Sets Green Computing Example

Local government is stealing a march on central government in its use of virtualisation to harness cost savings and power efficiencies,

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Storage Economics: When Data Meets Dough

If you think storage is cheap, you aren't doing your sums right. The big picture, with power, carbon, and legal costs, adds up to a new discipline, says Hitachi Data Systems' David Merrill - a storage economist

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Aerohive Tightens Up Pre-Shared Wi-Fi Keys

Private PSK increases security for those who can't get everyone on 802.1x. But didn't Ruckus do this already?

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New Wireless LAN Product Hits “Underserved” SME Market

With maybe ten competitors U4EA isn't alone - but it maintains it's the cheapest WLAN in town

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Cisco Wireless Launch Includes WebEx On the iPhone

Collaboration and UC on all devices - and a new wireless switch, as well

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Cisco Develops Smart Grid For Green Power

Cisco Systems is unveiling its Smart Grid initiative, a move to offering an end-to-end communications platform based on IP protocols to a power industry under pressure to create more electricity and to do so more efficiently

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Infrastructure Tool Manages Data Centre Power

Planning needs a link to real time data, says Avocent

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BT’s Problems Come From Global Services Unit

BT's poor results and shock redundancy plan have come about because of problems in its Global Services division, says Bathwick Group's Katy Ring. But there could be hope

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Secure Tweets: Three Business Apps Rated

Socialcast, Socialtext and Huddle; three services offering the features of Twitter, Facebook and other Web 2.0 technologies but palatable to business.

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Fujitsu Unlocks The Cosmic Cube

What does the name of Fujitsu's new blade-based data centre system, the Dynamic Cube, actually mean? Forget the speeds and feeds - Peter Judge wants occult significance