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News Mobile social networking is also popular with many gadget-owning Brits, the survey conducted by ICM Research and the London School of Economics (LSE) for mobile operator Vodafone has found. Britain is fast becoming a nation peopled by hunchbacked... [17 Jul 2008]
Benchmarking QoS on Router Interfaces of Gigabit Speeds and Beyond
White Paper This paper presents results of Quality of Service (QoS) performance evaluation of router interfaces. The paper uses the equipment of two main manufacturers: Cisco and Juniper. The technologies used are of Gigabit per second and above, namely... [17 Jul 2008]
iPhone 3G, terrorists and tech, file sharers vs ISP
Comment Anonymous, London Anonymous, London It seems seven days can't pass without the government giving our readers something to rant about… see why one reader thinks we're in "deep sh*t" below. And, according to a certain anonymous poster, here at... [15 Jul 2008]
Exclusive: Barclays to offshore 1,800 UK tech jobs
News That will leave 1,000 GISD jobs remaining in the UK, based in Cheshire and London. Barclays is to cut 1,800 IT posts in the UK as part of plans to create centrally managed technology "centres of excellence" in key offshore locations around the globe. [14 Jul 2008]
London travellers hit by Oyster outage
News Travellers in London were forced to pay full price fares on Saturday as the computer system for the Oyster travel smartcard encountered technical problems during the morning. Card readers on the Transport for London (TfL) network weren't working... [14 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.07.08
Round-Up That's according to a survey of 300 City of London workers in which more than a quarter admitted to sneaking a peak at their work email at least once per day during their summer hols. In fact, two of the silicon.com team actually spent a couple of... [11 Jul 2008]
3G iPhone launch: Tech trouble for O2
News As of midday, the spokeswoman said O2 had sold out of 16GB iPhones in its Oxford Street store in London, adding: "We are selling in our biggest stores… 40 [iPhone] handsets an hour - which is more contracts than we usually sell in a day. [11 Jul 2008]
GNER Chose THUS to Provide a Next-Generation Network to Transfer Business-Critical Data Up and Down the Country, 365 Days a Year..
White Paper GNER wanted to connect 23 sites between London and Aberdeen with a fast, reliable and future-proof network. Great North Eastern Railways (GNER) provides high-speed train services along the East Coast Main Line, a key transport link between regions... [11 Jul 2008]
Viatel Holding (Bermuda) Case Study: Genisys
White Paper Viatel provided a 10Mbps Ethernet connection between the offices, a 2Mbps DSL internet connection for the London office and a 2Mbps Leased Line internet connection for the Basingstoke office. Genisys has enjoyed an annual growth rate over the last... [11 Jul 2008]
Dynamic Partitioning of Link Bandwidth in IP/MPLS Networks
White Paper Bandwidth allocation in the future multiservice global communication IP network presents a very interesting research issue. This paper presents the strategy of Dynamic Partitioning of link bandwidth in IP network. [11 Jul 2008]
WiMax - spreading to more UK businesses
News The provider announced it would be rolling out the technology to customers in Leeds, London, Manchester, Oxford and Sheffield, and claimed this rollout would make it the biggest WiMax provider in the UK. [10 Jul 2008]
Yahoo! 'Boss' offers up search to build on
News A London pub crawl… with wi-fi on the side weird uses for an iPod hard drive disasters In an attempt to boost its search-ad business, Yahoo! has begun a project that lets anyone build a customised search engine atop the internet company's... [10 Jul 2008]
Network Intrusion Detection & Active-Response System
White Paper Security is an important consideration in today's inter-networked global community. Communication networks, while playing an important role in governments, businesses, and organizations have become the target of malicious attacks. [10 Jul 2008]
A Methodology for Monitoring LSP Availability in MPLS Networks
White Paper Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is an evolving technology that can enable new service offerings such as Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to be delivered over an IP infrastructure. However, there is presently no mechanism for confirming... [10 Jul 2008]
Network Intrusion Detection & Response System
White Paper As computer networks become increasingly complex and network Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks become more common place, automated network intrusion detection and response will be critical in providing reliable network services. [10 Jul 2008]
