Month: January 2015

File-sharing website The Pirate Bay claims it is “about to take the biggest step” in its history after relaunching. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

The former Metropolitan Police Chief, Lord Blair, with support from Lord Carlisle, Lord King and Lord West, has once again attempted to sneak a controversial new Internet Snooping law into the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill (CTSB) after initially withdrawing it last Monday. The huge amendment, which is very similar to 2012’s rejected Communications Data Bill …

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A Bulgarian security researcher called Todor Donev has demonstrated a new proof of concept attack against one of D-Link’s ADSL based wireless broadband routers (D-Link DSL-2740R), which allows a hacker to change the routers default Domain Name Server (DNS) details and thus hijack its web traffic. Other routers could also be vulnerable. The vulnerability has …

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The Hip hop star could challenge Beats and Spotify with his offer for the HD music service Tidal Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

The sensation of the human touch is disappearing in a computer age, and with it, part of our human nature, says the novelist Will Self. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

Nokia has threatened legal action against a UK start-up over the use of the word “HERE”. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

At least £90m will be reinvested in rural broadband services after an underspend by BT, the BBC learns. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

BTOpenreach’s long running VDSL2 Vectoring (ITU-T G.993.5) trial, which aims to improve the performance of BT’s existing “up to” 80Mbps capable hybrid Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) superfast broadband lines by significantly reducing crosstalk interference, has been extended to 100 DSLAMs in selected areas that will benefit from the upgrade. At present one of the biggest and growing …

BT Extend UK Vectoring Trials to Fix FTTC “Fibre Broadband” Speeds Read More »

Rory Cellan-Jones gives a round-up of the week’s big tech stories. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

When I first heard about Cumulus Networks in August 2013, I thought, “what’s the catch?” Now, after a year of working with companies deploying Cumulus Linux based switches in their production environments, it turns out there is really no catch. Open networking is for real. The way you buy a server is now the way …

Open Networking: From Concept to Reality Read More »

The annual uSwitch.com Broadband Awards 2015, which took place last night at The Gherkin in London, have unveiled a variety of winners across multiple categories for broadband, TV, phone and mobile services. Top among the winners was Virgin Media, which took three awards for Best Customer Rated Broadband, Fastest Broadband and Best Broadband Provider. Apparently …

uSwitch 2015 Awards Name Virgin Media UK Best Broadband Provider Read More »

The firm will roll out a single, rewritten privacy policy across Europe after coming under fire across the continent. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

Rory Cellan-Jones sees how Cayla, a talking child’s doll, can be hacked to say any number of offensive things. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

Drone maker introduces no-fly zones in the US, plus other technology news Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

BT has today published its latest results for Q4-2014 (calendar), which revealed that their retail division had added +119,000 broadband subscribers in the quarter to total 7,592,000 (up from the +88k added in Q3 and the +104k in Q2). Meanwhile almost 22 million UK premises can now access the operators “Fibre Broadband” (FTTC/P) network. BT’s …

BT Top 7.59m Broadband Subscribers and Grow FTTC to Cover 22M Premises Read More »

The national telecoms operator, BT, has today delivered an earlier than expected surprise by announcing their intention to deploy the next generation hybrid-fibre G.fast (ITU G.9701) broadband technology across the United Kingdom from 2016/17, with “most homes” told to expected speeds of ‘up to’ 500Mbps (Megabits per second) and there’s also a “premium” option for …

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An Indian woman who says she was raped by a Delhi driver of web-based taxi firm Uber files a lawsuit against the service in a US court. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

BBC Click looks at some of the week’s technology highlights Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

The tech which could allow any car with an automatic gearbox to become self-driving Read more here:: BBC News – Technology

Nokia’s demise hit Finland hard – but its legacy is a vibrant start-up scene Read more here:: BBC News – Technology