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London businesses are facing multiple challenges to maintain business as usual during the Olympic Games.
Feb 6, 2012 By Clare MuskerSome London businesses are already planning for the expected chaos of the 2012 London Olympic Games. With transport expected to be almost impossible for the duration of the Games, many businesses are advocating employees working from home to ensure business hours are not lost through extreme...
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UK residents have seen broadband speed increases in the last year.
Feb 2, 2012 By Clare MuskerThe broadband download speed for UK residents has increased since May last year. It is up on average 0.8Mbps. This increase will not reduce the download time for a film by anything significant but will allow users- especially those with multi- connections in a household a far higher level of...
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Internet users see the first stages of the response to the Megaupload arrests
Jan 23, 2012 By Clare MuskerIt has been suggested that the unwelcome legislation a current example being that from the SOPA acts has come about as the current file sharing industry has shown that it is unable or unwilling to react to piracy and illegal actions in commonplace on their sites. The arrest of the two...
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PIPA and SOPA support vanishes as scale of Wednesdays protest is felt
Jan 20, 2012 By Clare MuskerAn estimated 7000 websites joined the blackout on Wednesday 18 th January 2012 including giants such as Google and WordPress. Since this point only 2 days ago, at least 8 key lawmakers have withdrawn their support for the acts and the American President has declared concerns regarding their...
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Nationwide broadband downtime result of a routing hardware issue
Jan 18, 2012 By Clare MuskerFor the 5 million customers of Virgin Media broadband an as of yet undefined number experienced a loss of internet between 5pm and 8pm on Tuesday 17 th January 2012. It was during this time that a national outage was experienced. The IT company noted a broadband service blackout last...
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Internet blackout 18-01-2012 the first of its kind
Jan 17, 2012 By Clare MuskerThe blackout is a protest against proposed legislation in the United States—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate. SOPA and PIPA are two bills in Congress meant to stop the illegal copying and sharing of movies...
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Non- economically viable locations may have super-fast broadband by 2015
Dec 15, 2011 By Clare MuskerIn an attempt to enable rural English areas to have super-fast broadband access, funding has been put aside within a Governmental scheme but English councils must put in a request by February to receive funding for the project. As an IT service delivering fast broadband to remote areas is not...
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Britain on the 15th Place When It Comes to the Best Broadband in Europe
Oct 25, 2011 By ManuelaWhen it comes to IT connectivity services, Britain comes further down in Europe's rankings as the broadband that is delivered by IT services providers to IT services users is worth the 15th place. This comes as a shock because Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to bring...
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London Gets 1Gbit/sec Broadband
Oct 19, 2011 By ManuelaThe first customers of a start-up IT services provider are going live today, benefiting from IT connectivity services such as 1Gbit/sec broadband . The IT company that launched the IT service is called Hyperoptic and it started promoting it in September. Boris Ivanovic, the founder and...
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Personalised Search Results Get Encrypted by Google
Oct 19, 2011 By ManuelaInternet company Google has decided to improve the IT security of its IT services and IT products users by encrypting their search results. Evelyn Kao, product manager at the IT company said that "We recognise the growing importance of protecting the personalised search results we...
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