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By Steve McCaskill TalkTalk will offer ultrafast broadband for the same price as copper broadband and cheaper than superfast to both businesses and consumers when it launches its 1Gbps service in York this autumn. The company’s joint-venture with Sky and CityFibre has been building a city-wide fiber to the premise (FTTP) network, with the intention […]

By Ben Sullivan Airbus is set to build a fleet of 900 microsatellites that will beam Internet access down to Earth. Airbus was selected by OneWeb, the firm behind the satellite constellation program that is set to launch by early 2018. Space Story “This partnership is a fantastic new chapter in our space story,” said […]

By Steve McCaskill Wikipedia founder and London resident Jimmy Wales says the capital’s cultural assets are a huge benefit in attempts to establish a tech hub in the city, but believes more of a community must be established if it is ever to rival Silicon Valley. “I meet people around London and they ask ‘when […]

By Ben Sullivan Paris is aiming to become the European capital of cloud computing this year by gathering more than 4,000 IT influencers, decision makers and experts together for the first ever Cloud Week Paris, a conference that is claiming to change the way we think about the cloud. Set to be held from July […]

By Steve McCaskill Just one-tenth of all devices stolen from businesses containing sensitive information are being reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). According to Freedom of Information (FoI) requests submitted by security firm ViaSat UK, 13,079 such devices were reported to police between March 2014 and March 2015, but the ICO reported just 1,089 […]

By Steve McCaskill The United Kingdom could face an exodus of technology companies if the controversial Snooper’s Charter becomes legislation, according to cryptography specialist Eris Industries, which has temporarily moved its headquarters from Britain to the United States. Previous attempts to introduce the charter had been thwarted by the Conservatives’ former Liberal Democrat coalition partners, […]

By Matthew Broersma British police forces made, on average, nearly one request for communications data every two minutes from the beginning of 2012 to the beginning of this year, according to newly published data based in Freedom of Information (FoI) requests. A total of 733,237 requests for such data—including persons involved in communications such as […]

By Michael Moore A new report has found that tablet computers are becoming a remarkably popular presence in British homes, despite only being launched five years ago. Ofcom figures have revealed that 54 percent of households in the United Kingdom now own a tablet of some kind, with 21 percent of households currently without them […]

By Tom Jowitt Technology bosses within the British government have opted not to renew the extended support agreement for the ancient Windows XP operating system. Windows XP is still being used by a number of government departments and agencies, but the powers that be feel they have the ability to protect the increasingly vulnerable OS. […]

By Michael Moore British shoppers have recorded the largest growth in online spend for some time, new figures have revealed. The warmer weather and an increase in must-have gadgets resulted in a 13 percent year-on-year growth for online sales in April, according to the latest figures from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index. This figure […]

By Ben Sullivan Scotland is set to get another green data center in 2016 that will be largely powered by six nearby wind turbines. A planning application for the 10,000 square-meter data facility in East Ayrshire has been submitted by a company called Intelligent Land Investments, and shows the data center will draw 40 percent […]

By Michael Moore Far from keeping aware of threats from around the world, it seems that some of the biggest cyber-security threats facing British businesses, in fact, come from within the United Kingdom. A report from security firm ThreatMetrix has discovered that nearly three quarters (72 percent) of attacks come from sources within the United […]