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How the cloud is swallowing your comms
News In related news, ISP TalkTalk is predicting email could die out as younger internet users develop a preference for shorter-style messages such as tweets and IM. The ISP claimed email is turning into... [24 Nov 2009]
'Wi-fi hack makes plan to ban file-sharers unfair'
News ISP TalkTalk has criticised proposals by the government to cut illegal file-sharers' internet access, on the grounds of wi-fi vulnerability to hacking. In a blog post last week, Andrew Heaney, TalkTalk's executive... [19 Oct 2009]
Australian cops investigate 'anonymous' cyber attack threat
News The group claims its planned attack is a protest against the Federal Government's highly contentious mandatory ISP filtering proposal. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has been called in to investigate a planned... [09 Sep 2009]
Revealed: What counts as normal broadband in Britain?
News According to the telecoms regulator, the majority of consumers are happy with the speeds they receive but 26 per cent of those surveyed complained they were not getting the speeds they had expected when they signed up to their... [28 Jul 2009]
BT shelves Phorm rollout plans
News In so doing, we have already minimised our dependency on the deployment by any single ISP or in any particular market. In a statement issued on Monday, the telecommunications giant said it would be suspending its plans... [06 Jul 2009]
TalkTalk gets its very first CIO
News According to the company, Cooper will supervise the integration of TalkTalk's IT with that of ISP Tiscali, which TalkTalk's parent company Carphone Warehouse bought in May for £236m. TalkTalk has hired a CIO for the... [30 Jun 2009]
Critics slam Digital Britain over file-sharers and tax plans
News Nicholas Lansman, the secretary general of the ISP Association, said the group was pleased the government had ruled out introducing legislation to force internet companies to disconnect persistent users of illicit P2P... [18 Jun 2009]
Virgin file-sharers risking suspension
News The ISP announced on Monday that it would, before Christmas, launch an all-you-can-eat music download service for its users, based on a monthly subscription fee. Virgin Media could start suspending persistent... [15 Jun 2009]
Webwise re-Phormed with 'discovery engine'
News The technology works through a black box sitting on the network, probably at ISP level, said Burgess. The ISP maintains a list of users who have opted in or out of the service. Mike Moore, Phorm's... [03 Jun 2009]
Android phone for SMEs on the way
News They say, 'sure, we'll sell you a telephone but you have to use these services for this period of time and we're going to be your carrier and your ISP and don't you dare use voice over IP because we don't make any money... [22 May 2009]
Virgin Media trials 200Mbps broadband
News The ISP claims it is the fastest implementation of DOCSIS3 technology (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) in the world - faster even than cable services in Japan and the US which have 160Mbps and 101Mbps... [08 May 2009]
Europe votes for net-neutrality reforms
News The idea of net neutrality, or the equality of services on the internet, has traditionally been seen as an American issue, due to more limited competition in the US ISP market. The European Parliament has voted through a... [07 May 2009]
Inside the government's Facebook monitoring plans
News In a statement released on Monday afternoon, the ISP Association (Ispa) welcomed the Home Office's explicit rejection of a centralised database and said it expected the government to "commit to reimbursing service... [27 Apr 2009]
Virgin Media to shift 20,000 customers onto Gmail
News In October last year, Virgin Media's email service was knocked out of action for two days by a suspected spam attack on the ISP's email supplier, Tucows. Virgin Media is to move all its home broadband customers onto the... [15 Apr 2009]
Four in 10 phishing scams end up in Blighty's inbox
News The country that hosted the largest number of attacks, as judged by the location of the ISP or the hosting company, was the US - accounting for 60 per cent of all phishing traffic. The UK suffered the greatest number of... [18 Feb 2009]
