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RSS traffic in newsUK officials going snoop crazy
News More than 1,400 requests per day were made to spy on phone call records and web traffic last year, up on the average of less than 350,000 per year over the previous two years. Officials made more than 500,000 requests to snoop on private phone and... [23 Jul 2008]
Yahoo! profits dip - yet claims 'strong' Q2
News Revenue increased eight per cent to $1.35bn, excluding commissions called traffic acquisition costs that are paid to advertising partners. Yahoo! s earnings for its second quarter came in one cent lower than expectations, with net income declining... [23 Jul 2008]
Privacy chief fights UK-wide database
News A database of all calls, emails and internet traffic, to be stored by the Home Office for at least 12 months, is thought to be included under proposals for "modifying procedures for acquiring communications data" in the draft Communications Data... [15 Jul 2008]
C&W inks £8m deal to hook up Réunion Island
News The increased bandwidth offered by the network will enable it to carry higher volumes of voice and data traffic and support innovative new services, the two companies said. Telco Cable & Wireless (C&W) has inked an £8m, 15-year contract with... [14 Jul 2008]
Google open sources web 2.0 security
News The proxy works passively by analysing existing, user-initiated traffic, and is particularly tuned for complex web 2.0 environments, Zalewski said in a blog post. Google has released as open source a web application assessment tool, Ratproxy, that... [14 Jul 2008]
Faster broadband demands more bandwidth
News The study, by market development organisation the FTTH Council Europe, compared usage by consumers with FTTH (fibre to the home) with ADSL users across four European countries and found fibre homes currently drive three times more traffic than... [08 Jul 2008]
3G iPhone up for grabs online - or is it?
News Carphone Warehouse's website saw a 46 per cent increase in traffic after 11:00(BST), she added. The 3G iPhone has today been made available to pre-order online from the O2 and Carphone Warehouse websites. [07 Jul 2008]
Battle of the social networks: Facebook outpaces MySpace
News Other number-crunching firms show similar results: a Compete.com graph of the two, for example, shows MySpace's US traffic shrinking slightly while Facebook's is growing steadily but not astronomically. [24 Jun 2008]
3.5G laptops to overwhelm mobile networks?
News Then it will not do to offer 14.4Mbps which is actually 1Mbps or unlimited data traffic which is in reality limited to a few gigabytes per month. Mobile data traffic - generated by USB-sticks and dongles and PC-cards - already exceeds mobile voice... [20 Jun 2008]
Microsoft takes embedded OS in new direction
News Features include Live Search capabilities, which ties into Microsoft's online mapping service, and links to MSN Direct for "traffic alerts and fuel prices", Microsoft said. Microsoft has released Windows Embedded NavReady 2009, its first embedded... [17 Jun 2008]
Forecasting tech blows away stormy weather
News In March the Met Office announced a traffic light system for warnings issued by its Public Weather Service to better inform emergency services of potential disruption by severe weather. The UK will be better protected against devastating downpours... [13 Jun 2008]
Mobile internet use 'rocketing in Europe'
News Data roaming traffic in the EU grew by 75 per cent in the same period, it added. The EU's mobile data market grew by 40 per cent last year, to €7bn, the research found, with 3G users doubling to 112 million in the year to April 2008. [11 Jun 2008]
Stock Exchange offers low latency feeds
News The exchange claims the average speed of data traffic within the City of London has been cut to below a millisecond. The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has agreed a deal for connectivity service provider Savvis to provide a proximity hosting service... [10 Jun 2008]
Brics demand feature-packed mobiles
News While there has been focus on increasing mobile traffic bandwidth in these countries, devices need to complete the picture. With saturated mobile markets in developed nations, phone manufacturers are having to find ways to squeeze more features... [09 Jun 2008]
Mobile market booming: But there's room for all
News One is the increased consumer demand for creating and sharing multimedia content from device to device, which increases data traffic on networks. As mobiles get more sophisticated, they will continue to be used for more purposes but they will not... [06 Jun 2008]
