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By Steve McCaskill Some smartphones and tablets seized as evidence by police are being remotely wiped, according to a report by the BBC. Police in Cambridgeshire, Cleveland, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Durham all told the corporation that such incidents had happened in their jurisdiction, while police in Dorset said it had happened six times during one […]

By Michael Moore Industry regulator Ofcom has introduced new guidelines surrounding how people make local calls as it attempts to deal with the fact that the UK is running out of phone numbers. From today, residents in five areas at risk of running out of numbers across the UK will need to dial their entire […]

By Tom Jowitt Interpol has forged partnership deals with two leading security vendors, as it opens up a new “nerve center” to combat the threat of cyber-crime. The international police body said that the Interpol Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI) building in Singapore will provide it with a state-of-the art facility to help lead the […]

By Tom Jowitt Microsoft earlier this week revealed its new operating system, Windows 10, to the world. But Redmond’s decision to avoid the Windows 9 name altogether, confused both experts and users alike—leading the company to explain its decision today. Name Jump Officially, Microsoft explained the decision to jump from Windows 8.1 straight through to […]

By Matthew Broersma Industry and the government must ensure that users feel comfortable with entrusting their data to Internet of Things (IoT) devices if next-generation wireless networks are to succeed in reaching their full potential, according to Conservative MP and former science minister David Willetts. Speaking at the 5G Huddle event in London, Willetts said […]

By Michael Moore Huawei has expanded its Internet of things (IoT) portfolio with the acquisition of British firm Neul. The Chinese manufacturer has reportedly paid out $25M to buy up the Cambridge-based company, which had been working closely with Huawei over the last nine months on narrow band cellular IoT capabilities. “In January we explored […]

By Matthew Broersma Google is to spend 600m euros (£471m) over the next four years to build an enormous data center in the Netherlands for its European business. The search engine already uses a 20-megawatt data center near Eemshaven, 133 miles northwest of Amsterdam, which is the landfall point for a high-speed transatlantic fiber-optic cable […]

By Tom Jowitt The Bank of England has warned that the digital currency Bitcoin could pose a threat to financial stability in the UK should it see widespread adoption. However the bank accepted it was not a material risk at present to the financial health of the Great Britain Plc, because it used by relatively […]

By Max Smolaks The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and its British counterpart GCHQ have been accused of breaking into the networks run by German Internet Service Providers (ISPs), in an effort to map the entire Internet. A system code-named “TREASUREMAP,” first described by The New York Times in November, has been attempting to collect […]

By Steve McCaskill An independent Scotland could face higher charges for communications services, the CEOs of six of the U.K.’s largest telcos have warned, with others suggesting that Scottish mobile users could face roaming charges when using their phones in the rest of the U.K. BT CEO Gavin Patterson, TalkTalk CEO Dido Harding, Telefonica U.K. […]

Enterprises have plenty of incentives to reduce their data center power consumption. Excessive power consumption is bad for the environment, but the cost goes directly to the bottom line. Data center managers have to get power consumption costs under control now because otherwise the problem will just keep getting worse. IT market research firm IDC […]

Undersized, cluttered and poorly designed server rooms can be a contributing factor to service outages that are expensive to fix and cause data losses that cripple or kill a business. This is a particular problem for small and midsize businesses with tight budgets that often cut corners when building their server rooms. As a result, […]