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News K is for Kingston O is for Ofcom A recent state of the digital nation Ofcom report found UK dongle sales nearly doubled between February and June this year, rising from 69,000 to 133,000 per month. B is for BT [20 Aug 2008]
£68m 'snooping' database: Little impact on serious crime
News K is for Kingston O is for Ofcom B is for BT Powers to snoop on the UK's email and internet records will be of limited use in tackling serious crime, the government has admitted. Home Office proposals for phone, email and internet records... [13 Aug 2008]
Companies urged not to ban Facebook
News K is for Kingston O is for Ofcom B is for BT Companies shouldn't ban staff from using social applications such as Facebook and MySpace because of concerns about how they might be used. Instead businesses should view employee participation as part... [08 Aug 2008]
O2 considers high fibre rollout
News K is for Kingston Following BT's Tuesday announcement that it was to plough £1.5bn into a fibre-access rollout to 10 million homes, an O2 spokesperson told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk that O2 was "not going to move" until Ofcom changed the... [17 Jul 2008]
BT plans £1.5bn fat pipe upgrade
News K is for Kingston O is for Ofcom But the company has said comms industry regulator Ofcom needs to look at changing the regulatory environment in order to ensure a "fair rate of return" for companies looking to roll out the technology. [15 Jul 2008]
Law firm gets SaaSy with email security
Case Study K is for Kingston O is for Ofcom B is for BT Ashurst has been using technology from email management specialist Mimecast to manage its Microsoft Exchange and Outlook applications. Broadband from A to Z [15 Jul 2008]
Brits still dissatisfied with broadband speeds
News K is for Kingston O is for Ofcom Last month telecoms regulator Ofcom announced a voluntary code of practice for ISPs for speed, with guidelines including providing customers with an accurate estimate of the maximum speed their line is likely to... [14 Jul 2008]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study K is for Kingston O is for Ofcom B is for BT Taylor Woodrow has moved its 1,800 staff onto Google Apps for email and other services, estimating it will save £1m per year in the process. The construction division of Taylor Wimpey has embraced... [10 Jul 2008]
UK business lacking high fibre diet
News K is for Kingston O is for Ofcom The CMA's report coincided with a speech given to Intellect, the UK's IT industry body, by Ofcom chief Ed Richards. Richards said: "Ofcom favours a regulatory environment for the next generation of networks and... [07 Jul 2008]
Ofcom: Mobile broadband driving interest in fibre
News K is for Kingston The rapid take-up of mobile broadband could help spur the arrival of super-fast fibre broadband networks in the UK, says telecoms regulator Ofcom, which has set out plans for a pro-investment regulatory framework that will... [04 Jul 2008]
Skype touts biz credentials
News K is for Kingston O is for Ofcom B is for BT Skype is touting its voice over IP (VoIP) technology for small businesses keen to work globally and keep costs down. According to Skype research, 30 per cent of its 309 million users use it for work and... [02 Jul 2008]
ISPs face fresh threat from file-sharing laws
News K is for Kingston O is for Ofcom B is for BT But the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) has hit back, warning the government that legislation could result "in cumbersome regulation". Malcolm Wicks, business, enterprise and regulatory... [18 Jun 2008]
Thin clients switch on digitally excluded
Case Study K is for Kingston O is for Ofcom B is for BT The project is aiming to give digitally excluded families a leg up onto the internet by installing thin client Windows PCs, complete with the MS Office suite, in their homes. [17 Jun 2008]
Stolen music still big with MP3 generation
News K is for Kingston O is for Ofcom B is for BT Young people are getting almost half of their music collection through illegal means. Record industry artist and publisher group, British Music Rights (BMR), claims the average 14- to 24-year-old now has... [16 Jun 2008]
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment K is for Kingston The same upbeat tone runs through the Ofcom report - the source of the story (covered here by silicon.com). O is for Ofcom Ofcom's take on the digital divide being a 'town vs country' affair glosses over the real cracks in the... [23 May 2008]
