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Cheat Sheet: The Police Central e-crime Unit
Cheat Sheet Even the Association of Chief Police Officer's lead on e-crime, deputy assistant commissioner Janet Williams, thinks the 30-man unit based within London's Metropolitan Police Service needs more cash. Bless you, that's... [20 Jul 2009]
Homeland Security hires ex-hacker
News The HSAC members will provide recommendations and advice directly to secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano. Jeff Moss, founder of the Black Hat and Defcon hacker and security conferences, was among 16 people... [08 Jun 2009]
Uni takes supercomputing to the cloud
News Janet [the national education and research network] is looking at shared services for its data centres, it's only a small step to say 'let's put a supercomputer in there and have regional HPC centres'," he said. [11 May 2009]
Police launch £1bn-worth of e-crime investigations
News The PCeU is already working with government agencies, businesses and banks on investigations into "top end" cyber attacks, including distributed denial of service and malware attacks on key systems, Metropolitan Police Service deputy... [25 Mar 2009]
BT slammed over unbundling price hike
News J is for Janet According to a statement from TalkTalk on Monday, BT raising its line charges for local loop unbundling (LLU) will "raise the barrier [to broadband access] for lower income households". [10 Mar 2009]
£4.5m gets Midlands kids onto Janet
News Millions of students and school staff in the Midlands are set to be connected to the Janet education and research network. The body that oversees Janet has signed a £4.5m deal with ntl:Telewest Business... [06 Mar 2009]
Cheap broadband will stop BT going fibre charge crazy
News J is for Janet Cheap mobile broadband and existing fixed services will keep BT from running a fibre monopoly, according to the communications regulator Ofcom. The watchdog today announced it will be imposing no price... [03 Mar 2009]
Mind the mobile broadband cash gap
News J is for Janet The success of mobile broadband is putting European operators in a sticky situation as retail prices are often well below the cost of providing the service. According to analyst Strand Consult, many... [11 Feb 2009]
Broadband Britain: Where's our revolution?
Comment J is for Janet Yesterday the comms minister, Lord Carter, unveiled a draft strategy which the government hopes will ensure the UK keeps pace with tech change and grows its digital economy over the next five years and... [30 Jan 2009]
'UK needs spectrum-for-speed swap'
News J is for Janet ISPs should be given radio spectrum in exchange for rolling out fibre, a quasi-governmental body has suggested. The lottery-funded National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta) released a... [20 Jan 2009]
Bournemouth braced for first Fibrecity homes
News J is for Janet The first clutch of homes to be connected to the 100Mbps Fibrecity network currently being built in Bournemouth will be hooked up by the end of March. The superfast seaside broadband network is being built... [20 Jan 2009]
UK broadband: Reality is half the promised speed
News J is for Janet Ofcom has published the initial findings of its research into the real speeds UK consumers are getting from their broadband connections. According to a preliminary version of the telecommunications... [08 Jan 2009]
Virgin debuts 50Mbps broadband
News J is for Janet Virgin Media has finally launched its long-anticipated '50Mbps' cable broadband service but analysts have warned the headline speed may not be attainable for very long. The £51-per-month service, which... [16 Dec 2008]
Nokia to take on mobile broadband market
News J is for Janet The world's top mobile maker Nokia plans to tap the surging market for connecting laptops to mobile broadband networks taking on market leader Huawei, a senior official said. Nokia will start to ship its... [12 Dec 2008]
ISPs agree to 'honesty code' of broadband speeds
News J is for Janet Internet service providers in the UK will, from Friday, follow a voluntary code of practice that will commit them to being honest and accurate about the actual speeds of their broadband products. [05 Dec 2008]
