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‘Cavalier’ GCHQ online spy centre loses 35 laptops

‘Cavalier’ GCHQ online spy centre loses 35 laptops

GCHQ lost 35 laptops in seven months last year, potentially containing highly sensitive data.

Cisco launches Internet super-router

Hyped as the router that would "change forever the face of the Internet", Cisco has launched its new CRS-3 system as the box that it predicts will stream video into the Net's darkest recesses.

BlackBerry phones suffer data problems

Some BlackBerry users in North America and the United Kingdom said they experienced data outages earlier this week on Wi-Fi-equipped BlackBerries when not connected to Wi-Fi.

ICANN meeting opens in Nairobi

After a series of board meetings on whether to cancel or not due to security issues, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meeting kicked off in Nairobi.

Vodafone cuts 375 jobs, including IT

Vodafone is cutting 375 jobs, primarily in back office functions, starting this month.

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IBM researchers close to optical chip connections

IBM researchers are a step closer to developing chips that use pulses of light instead of electrical signals to carry information between them.

BAA Heathrow to sign £30m network integration deal

BAA Heathrow to sign £30m network integration deal

London’s Heathrow Airport plans to sign a four-year, £30 million network integration framework deal.

Nokia Symbian mobiles make Skype calls

Nokia Symbian mobiles make Skype calls

Skype and Nokia have released a new Skype client for the Symbian mobile OS

SafeNet looks to secure data in the cloud

Encryption vendor SafeNet is now offering technologies that help enterprises securely store and access information held in third-party data centers.

Nokia says LTE latency as important as speed

Attention has been focused on the higher speeds that will be offered by next generation LTE (Long-Term Evolution) mobile networks, but improved latency will be equally important to users, according to Nokia Siemens.

VeriSign to secure the Internet with DNSSEC

VeriSign is reporting no serious problems with its ongoing deployment of DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) on the Internet's root servers and on the top-level domain servers that it operates, including the systems that power the popular .com and .net domains.

Cisco secures mobile access with VPN

Cisco Systems will soon release a VPN client for smartphones and PCs aimed at enterprise administrators who want to provide secure access to their networks and ward off malicious software.

EMC, Intel and VMware team up for cloud security

EMC, Intel and VMware are teaming up to improve security and regulatory compliance in cloud computing with a proof of concept to be demonstrated at this week's RSA Conference.

Skype app for Windows Mobile goes MIA

Skype's VoIP apps for the Windows Mobile operating system, Skype Lite and Skype for Windows Phones, are no longer available for download, the company announced, claiming the apps didn't offer a good enough experience.

Virgin Media to roll out superfast 100Mbps broadband

Virgin Media has revealed that it will launch a 100Mbps broadband service by the end of 2010.

Ofcom to test UK broadband speeds

Ofcom has revealed it will once again be testing fixed-line broadband speeds.

100/40G ethernet adoption held back by price

Though demand for 40G and 100G Ethernet is on the rise, prices need to come down to earth before mainstream adoption can occur, experts at an Ethernet conference said here this week.

Ashford Council saves with virtualised voice

A council in Kent claims to be the first local authority in the country to go down the route of virtualised voice, as part of a move to virtualisation that could lead to savings of about 60 percent of cost

Italian telcos caught up in massive Mafia fraud

Italy's telecom sector was reeling from the news that two of its biggest operators were caught up in a massive fraud allegedly orchestrated by members of the Calabrian Mafia, considered the most powerful and dangerous of the country's organized crime groups.

Cisco, HP, Juniper drive Ethernet switch market

The Ethernet switch market grew almost 20% sequentially during the fourth quarter, with Cisco, HP and Juniper Networks adding almost $600 million in incremental revenues, according to a recent study by Dell'Oro Group.

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