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• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  Subway puts Zen on broadband menu

  Leading UK food chain confirms long-standing ISP as an accredited partner to supply its stores across the country with a bespoke connectivity offering that facilitates a delivery line of service that was not previously possible

• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  Alleged Twitter security failings spell trouble ahead

  Twitter’s former security head, Peiter Zatko, has alleged a number of serious cyber failures at the social media platform, raising the spectre of investigations and sanctions

• August 23, 2022 23 Aug'22

  Altice gets regulatory green light for added stake in BT

  Despite previous worries by UK government of potential threat to levelling-up agenda on broadband, corporate regulatory probe finds no issue with increase in stakeholding by long-rumoured potential buyer of UK incumbent telco

• August 23, 2022 23 Aug'22

  Giganet taps Neos Networks to drive UK gigabit broadband expansion

  UK fibre connectivity supplier provides what it says is crucial back-haul capability to allow growing established internet service provider to offer regional and national high-speed fibre connectivity

• August 22, 2022 22 Aug'22

  Ogi ramps up full-fibre broadband roll-out across south Wales

  Leading Welsh broadband provider reveals the latest areas designated for full-fibre connectivity as part of its broadband digital infrastructure programme, bringing the total to 38 Welsh towns and villages

• August 22, 2022 22 Aug'22

  CityFibre looks to power next phase of growth with brand update

  Corporate brand refresh is designed to help cement firm’s increasing prominence in UK full-fibre arena, addressing what it says is consumer confusion across the broadband market

• August 19, 2022 19 Aug'22

  Google employees demand end to collection of abortion data

  In the wake of the US Supreme Court rolling back abortion rights, Google employees are calling on the company to stop collecting abortion-related data, so that it can never be shared with police

• August 19, 2022 19 Aug'22

  Freedom Fibre onboards business customers as CityFibre announces Newark net

  More momentum in UK fibre market as altnet makes business play and third-largest network company announces expansion in Midlands

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  Leeds signs Allied Telesis to improve network customer experience

  Premier League football team and enterprise IoT and software-defined network solutions provider claim 15 years’ no-fail networking and improved experiences for infrastructure users

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  Growing MFA use spurs ‘pass-the-cookie’ attacks

  The exploitation of stolen session cookies by cyber criminals is once again back on the agenda, thanks to the growing popularity of multifactor authentication tools

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  Jabra, Lenovo expand collaboration to claim first full Microsoft Teams rooms system

  Purpose-built, modular room kit provides enhanced business productivity and collaboration capabilities for companies looking to upgrade their meeting room technology for the hybrid working world

• August 16, 2022 16 Aug'22

  Older customers prefer phone calls to chatbots

  Businesses are increasingly adopting customer-facing digital technologies, but the older generation are not so keen to embrace tech

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  England and Wales councils unprepared for PSTN withdrawal in 2025

  Freedom of information act request reveals worrying finding that over half of councils in England and Wales have no strategy for the prospective withdrawal of traditional PSTN communications networks

• August 15, 2022 15 Aug'22

  UK government aims to allow struggling families access to cheaper broadband

  New support scheme designed to enable customers to give permission to broadband providers to confirm their eligibility for cheaper deals

• August 12, 2022 12 Aug'22

  CityFibre begins £30m full-fibre build out in Rochdale

  UK’s third largest infrastructure provider continues with its cross-UK gigabit fibre rollout in Lancashire town to benefit residents, businesses and services

• August 12, 2022 12 Aug'22

  UK Amazon workers stage series of wildcat strikes over pay offers

  Amazon warehouse workers across the UK have organised a series of spontaneous strike actions after the e-commerce giant’s management offered them pay rises between 35p and 50p

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  Sellafield Ltd inks network services contract with BT

  UK incumbent telco strikes deal with leading UK nuclear facility to take on network service responsibility across all of its sites with potential for future projects involving technologies such as IoT and 5G

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  Online retail sales see year-on-year drop of 2.3% in July 2022

  Despite another year-on-year drop in online retail sales in July, the fall is smaller than those seen in previous months of 2022 as online sales decline slows

• August 10, 2022 10 Aug'22

  Google Cloud to open three new cloud regions in APAC

  New Google Cloud regions in Malaysia, Thailand and New Zealand will enable local organisations to maintain low latency and meet data residency requirements

• August 05, 2022 05 Aug'22

  Zzoomm, Jurassic Fibre aim to advance full-fibre gigabit broadband across non-urban UK

  Pan-UK full-fibre gigabit broadband provider inks tech partnership to deploy broadband connections offering download speeds up to 10 Gbps while South West-based internet service provider announces start of ultrafast broadband network build in ...

• August 05, 2022 05 Aug'22

  Inside Bukalapak’s cloud strategy

  Indonesian e-commerce unicorn Bukalapak’s multicloud strategy, underpinned by the use of microservices and DevOps, has enabled it to meet the diverse needs of its users while addressing business requirements

• August 04, 2022 04 Aug'22

  Work-from-home slows in US but remains important part of hybrid workplace

  Deloitte survey shows the ways in which people are using connected devices and technology to improve and enhance their lives, in particular dealing with the balance of hybrid work

• August 03, 2022 03 Aug'22

  Understanding the metaverse

  At this year’s South by Southwest in March, many events – not surprisingly – revolved around the metaverse. But what's happened since?

• August 02, 2022 02 Aug'22

  UK safety tech sector sees strong revenue and employment growth

  Safety tech is now one of the fastest-growing sectors in the UK tech industry, with jumps in revenue, investment and employment

• August 02, 2022 02 Aug'22

  Welsh rural areas, poorer people suffering from ‘sub-par, unreliable’ broadband

  Report from Welsh parliament highlights ‘disappointment’ that so many in the country are unable to access superfast broadband

• August 01, 2022 01 Aug'22

  Operator and VC consortium makes £4.5bn UK fibre play with Virgin Media O2

  Adding to existing infrastructure, Liberty Global, Telefónica and InfraVia Capital Partners form joint venture to construct and operate a wholesale fibre-to-the-home broadband network in the UK covering up to seven million premises

• August 01, 2022 01 Aug'22

  CloudMile banks on trust in regional expansion

  Taiwanese cloud and AI startup CloudMile keeps its billing transparent and provides round-the-clock support to build trust with customers as it grows its business in Southeast Asia

• July 29, 2022 29 Jul'22

  Fibre forges ahead but global fixed broadband shows varied growth in Q1 2022

  Report from Point Topic finds fixed broadband subscriber numbers growing in 90% of covered territories, with FTTH accelerating.

• July 29, 2022 29 Jul'22

  How TCS is supporting Australia’s electricity market settlement

  Tata Consultancy Services worked with the Australian Energy Market Operator to build a new system that speeds up electricity market settlement

• July 28, 2022 28 Jul'22

  Virgin Media O2 shows return to revenue growth and improved profitability

  Merged company increases its fixed and mobile customer base with 8,000 fixed and 13,000 mobile contract net adds, leading to revenue and Ebitda improvements

• July 28, 2022 28 Jul'22

  BT sees challenging Q1 but beats the heat to ‘smash’ network development objectives

  UK incumbent telco ends first quarter facing continued challenging enterprise market conditions offsetting growth in other segments, in particular strong growth of business with core fibre and 5G network assets

• July 28, 2022 28 Jul'22

  Facebook net income drops 36% as economic outlook worsens

  Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is planning to slash spending by $6bn, but remains focused on AI development

• July 28, 2022 28 Jul'22

  Ocado revenue drops despite distribution centre successes

  Ocado has spent the past six months rolling out new customer fulfilment centres and signing partners for its smart platform, but the cost-of-living crisis still sees revenue taking a hit

• July 27, 2022 27 Jul'22

  Netomnia, Truespeed advance UK altnets’ full-fibre march

  Company claiming to be the UK’s fastest-growing wholesale fibre broadband operator expands reach across swathe of UK while Southwest England provider racks up 300 gigabit business customers

• July 27, 2022 27 Jul'22

  Gigabit Networks brings ‘futuristic’ broadband to Wolverhampton

  Regional UK ISP adds to its growing reach across UK Midlands with 930Mpbs connectivity offer based on CityFibre infrastructure

• July 26, 2022 26 Jul'22

  Secret court asked to quash a decade of MI5 surveillance warrants following ‘systemic breaches’

  The culture at MI5 was to ‘prioritise’ missions ‘over everything else’, including compliance with safeguards designed to protect the public, the UK’s most secret court heard yesterday

• July 26, 2022 26 Jul'22

  Eutelsat confirms OneWeb merger after ‘robust’ financial year

  As it posts results showing growth in connectivity and mobile services, satellite operator inks agreement with joint venture satellite broadband provider to create what they claim will be a global connectivity leader

• July 26, 2022 26 Jul'22

  Meta publishes first-ever human rights report

  Meta details its approach to protecting and promoting human rights, but civil society groups say the company has failed to grapple with the human rights risks associated with its own business model

• July 26, 2022 26 Jul'22

  Ducktail infostealer targets Facebook Business users

  Newly uncovered Ducktail operation targets individuals with access to Facebook Business service and tries to steal their accounts

• July 22, 2022 22 Jul'22

  LinkedIn most impersonated brand in phishing attacks

  Social network LinkedIn, along with Microsoft and DHL, are just some of the brands that are most frequently imitated by cyber criminals conducting phishing attacks

• July 21, 2022 21 Jul'22

  GCHQ experts back scanning of encrypted phone messages to fight child abuse

  Ian Levy, technical director of the NCSC, and Crispin Robinson, technical director of GCHQ, back client-side scanning software on mobile phones to detect child abuse

• July 19, 2022 19 Jul'22

  UK fintech outperforms global sector

  Investment in UK fintech continues to increase, outpacing a flat global sector, according to Innovate Finance

• July 15, 2022 15 Jul'22

  Drivers’ union calls for immediate dismissal of Uber executive

  Uber’s continued employment of an executive directly involved in efforts to resist regulatory oversight puts the ride-hailing firm in breach of its 2018 licence conditions, says drivers’ union

• July 15, 2022 15 Jul'22

  HPE expands private cloud capabilities in GreenLake

  HPE’s GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise is a managed service that provides flexibility in deployment models with automation capabilities for a cloud-like experience

• July 14, 2022 14 Jul'22

  How hostile government APTs target journalists for cyber intrusions

  Proofpoint shares data on multiple campaigns of cyber intrusions against journalists originating from threat actors aligned to the governments of China, Iran, North Korea and Turkey

• July 14, 2022 14 Jul'22

  Government pauses Online Safety Bill’s progress

  The government has paused the Online Safety Bill’s journey towards becoming law, amid timetable pressure

• July 14, 2022 14 Jul'22

  Cost-of-living crisis drives UK consumers to rethink connectivity needs

  EY survey reveals that despite general demands for hybrid and remote working, UK households are concerned by rising home technology costs amid the cost-of-living crisis

• July 14, 2022 14 Jul'22

  NTT reveals management plans for JUNO Trans-Pacific submarine cable system

  In response to the growth of the global digital economy, Japanese technology companies collaborate to build and operate what they claim will be the largest submarine internet cable system between Japan and the US

• July 13, 2022 13 Jul'22

  APAC organisations renew focus on ERP

  Organisations in Asia-Pacific are looking to renew their enterprise resource planning systems as they emerge from the throes of the pandemic

• July 13, 2022 13 Jul'22

  Digital break-up kit to help women get out of bad relationships safely

  Domestic abuse charity Refuge teams up with Avast to equip women with the knowledge to effectively and safely end a relationship digitally