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
Lords in 2nd Attempt to Sneak UK Internet Snooping Law into Bill
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
D-Link Broadband Routers Vulnerable to New DNS Hijack Attack
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
Jay Z bids for music streaming service
The Hip hop star could challenge Beats and Spotify with his offer for the HD music service Tidal Read more here:: BBC News – Technology
Does technology make people touch each other less?
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 threatens London start-up
Nokia has threatened legal action against a UK start-up over the use of the word “HERE”. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology
BT attacked on rural broadband costs
At least £90m will be reinvested in rural broadband services after an underspend by BT, the BBC learns. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology
BT Extend UK Vectoring Trials to Fix FTTC “Fibre Broadband” Speeds
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
Implants and Apple: Tech round-up
Rory Cellan-Jones gives a round-up of the week’s big tech stories. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology
Open Networking: From Concept to Reality
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.
uSwitch 2015 Awards Name Virgin Media UK Best Broadband Provider
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
Google agrees privacy policy changes
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
VIDEO: Talking kids’ doll ‘Cayla’ is hacked
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
VIDEO: Tech review: This week’s headlines
Drone maker introduces no-fly zones in the US, plus other technology news Read more here:: BBC News – Technology
BT Top 7.59m Broadband Subscribers and Grow FTTC to Cover 22M Premises
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