ISPs, technologists, law enforcers and governments are wrangling over how the Internet should be regulated, but it is obvious what is the best way forward, says Axel Pawlik of RIPE.
The Digital Britain report proposed that ISPs should adopt a more active regulatory role to help curb piracy and the distribution of illegal content. Yet [...]
It is an issue that is guaranteed to generate differing, often strong opinions. Do you allow access to Social Media sites such as Facebook, Linkedin or Twitter on the company computers and in company time?
For some senior managers, accessing social networks can be seen as a time wasting, distracting technology to be banned [...]
BT (Wholesale Division) is confident it can cope with the extra demands the swine flu pandemic may put on the UK’s broadband network. It follows a meeting with the Government and emergency services which raised doubts about whether the network could cope. There were concerns it could freeze as more people suspected of having the [...]
Microsoft has announced a free web-based version of its Office software. Office 2010 will include lightweight versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote when it ships next year. The new web offering will compete with Google’s free online Docs suite launched three years ago.
Microsoft said that 400 million customers who are Windows Live consumers will [...]
OFCOM has published predicted coverage maps for each of the UK’s five 3G mobile operators. These are predictions based on propagation models and show areas where an outdoor 3G signal exceeds a minimum threshold signal strength for “50% of locations and 50% of the time”. OFCOM acknowledge that the network operators have more sophisticated models [...]
Ericsson, one of the world’s leading suppliers of mobile phones and related network solutions, has warned that it could be 2012 before the first true next generation Mobile Broadband networks gain a good foothold in the UK. The deployment of Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology (aka – 4G), which could deliver download speeds of 150 [...]
Miscreants have created a Michael Jackson mass-mailing worm. The malware, which follows a growing list of other hacking attacks in the wake of the superstar’s death last week, claims to offer secret songs and photos of Jackson in an attached zip file. In reality, the emails (which claim to come from sarah@michaeljackson.com) offer only malicious [...]
