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RSS isp 's in newsEU privacy law shake-up to force data breach confessions
News It doesn't make sense to exclude an internet banking site, a hospital with a web site or other businesses collecting sensitive data online, and just to impose it only on the telcos and the ISP. Banks, other businesses... [28 Oct 2008]
'Mobile broadband is not the same standard as fixed'
News On the latter, it noted that the data used in the ad, from Epitiro, covered ISPs with 90 per cent market share of UK broadband between them and the ISP had several other sources, including benchmarks from Broadband... [16 Oct 2008]
Artificial intelligence to join phishing fight in 2009
News US security company Symantec, German research organisation Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, ISP Tiscali and their partners have pooled their expertise on machine learning, image recognition, text extraction and security to build... [13 Oct 2008]
Rubbish home broadband? BT has the answer...
News BT Wholesale will be offering its ISP customers a hardware filter that it says could potentially improve customers' broadband by filtering out electrical interference in the home caused by TVs, fluorescent lighting and... [01 Oct 2008]
Mobile broadband threatening fixed line?
News However the survey also shows evidence of dissatisfaction with the dongle experience: 11 per cent of respondents said they plan to continue to use their home ISP and cancel mobile broadband, and 18 per cent are unsure... [20 Aug 2008]
UK spam mountain just got bigger
News Its spamming index said the worst hit were customers who had Orange as their ISP, where spam accounted for more than 96 per cent of all emails received between April and June. The amount of spam stuffed into UK inboxes... [12 Aug 2008]
BBC takes wraps off iPlayer 2.0
News We are partnering and working very closely with the ISP community. The BBC's iPlayer on-demand TV service has undergone a major facelift designed to make it more appealing and easier to use. Almost a... [25 Jun 2008]
ISPs face fresh threat from file-sharing laws
News Virgin Media recently became the first ISP to voluntarily address the problem of file sharing by agreeing to send out letters to households where music is being illegally downloaded or shared. But the Internet Service... [18 Jun 2008]
Broadband speed: ISPs accept 'code of practice'
News The ISP added it is in the process of launching a new app on its homepage which will enable customers to discern the actual speed they will receive from Be. But while an estimated line speed is "a useful starting point",... [05 Jun 2008]
Council plugs free internet for tenants
News Internet access will be delivered to the buildings over a wireless connectivity service called RedKite, provided by ISP CI-Net. Solihull Metropolitan Council is planning to offer housing tenants in six buildings free... [21 May 2008]
'Noisy' anti-Phorm tool developed
News The AntiPhorm site said: "It appears we can't stop your ISP tracking and selling your surfing behaviour but one solution could be to make the data they do collect absolutely worthless to their clients. [20 May 2008]
Security experts criticise Phorm
News Security experts have criticised targeted-ad company Phorm, claiming the nature of its infrastructure could increase the likelihood of successful denial-of-service attacks against its ISP customers. A browser request is... [18 Apr 2008]
Europe: Don't ban internet file-sharers
News A spokesperson for the UK ISP Association was not available for comment at the time of writing. People should not be criminalised for the file-sharing of copyrighted material if they are not profiting from doing so, the... [14 Apr 2008]
Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods
News The company behind an ISP-based web advertising user-tracking system has denied claims what it is doing is illegal. Intercepting traffic for spam-filtering purposes or for blocking denial-of-service attacks was a... [11 Apr 2008]
Yo!Sushi cuts copper in favour of MPLS
News He said in a statement: "It means we no longer have to deal with BT, an ISP, a router company and so on. Fast food chain Yo! Sushi is forecasting a two-year return on investment on an MPLS (multi protocol label... [07 Apr 2008]
