UK.gov: Huge mobile masts coming to a grassy hill near you soon Bad news for Nimbys and 5G health cranks, good news for 4G Networks29 Aug 2019 | 73
Researchers studying Facebook's impact on democracy decry lack of data access, warn: We'll walk... Programme to shine a light on elections lacks transparency Legal28 Aug 2019 | 11
Electric cars can't cut UK carbon emissions while only the wealthy can afford to own one Analysis Why the EV market is stalling Science27 Aug 2019 | 361
Contractor association blasts UK.gov guidance on hated IR35 tax law's arrival in private sector Advice 'falls woefully short' Legal23 Aug 2019 | 67
Wait a minute, we're supposed to haggle! ISPs want folk to bargain over broadband 11?!! This cost me 12! Do you want to ruin me?! Networks23 Aug 2019 | 107
Electric vehicles won't help UK meet emissions targets: Time to get out and walk, warn MPs Blighty not even on track for legally binding 2023-2032 levels Science22 Aug 2019 | 529
TalkTalk's voice-over is writing speeds that its text can't match: Ad pulled from broadcast Mere threat of time on naughty step has ISP redrafting Legal22 Aug 2019 | 37
Gartner awakens from trance, tells huddled villagers: 5G revenue will almost double to $4.2bn next year! It has been foretold! Networks22 Aug 2019 | 10
Overseas investors eat the UK tech sector for Brexit: More cash flung about in 7 months than the whole of last year Weak pound and China trade war make Blighty attractive proposition – research On-Prem21 Aug 2019 | 44
Brits are sitting on a time bomb of 40m old electronic devices that ought to be recycled Mountain of digital detritus 'not sustainable' – survey Personal Tech21 Aug 2019 | 118
Subcontractor's track record under spotlight as London Mayoral e-counting costs spiral Bill approaching £9m compared to £4.1m in last procurement process Security19 Aug 2019 | 33
And you thought the cops were bad... Civil rights group warns of facial recog 'epidemic' across UK private sites Shopping centres, museums and conference centres all found to be using tech Security16 Aug 2019 | 46
UK.gov opens £250k competition to tackle first-world problem of crap conference Wi-Fi Forget Vegas or Barcelona. Be 'gigabit-capable' in Blighty Bootnotes16 Aug 2019 | 15
Yorkshire public sector procurement body YPO opens £400m framework for data centres, cloud hosting and security But how much will go to AWS? On-Prem16 Aug 2019 | 3
£250m fund for NHS artificial intelligence laboratory slammed as tech for tech's sake Just you wait, Matthew Hancock! Just you wait! AI + ML12 Aug 2019 | 49
Crunch time: It's all fun and video games until you're being pressured into working for free UK industry survey sheds light on ridiculous hours, culture of harassment and bullying On-Prem12 Aug 2019 | 82
Just one in five UK constituencies receive 4G from all four mobile operators – research National roaming still not a thing Networks09 Aug 2019 | 17
Trade war. What is it good for? Japan publicly approves shipment of semiconductor chemicals to South Korea Come on, guys. Do some Seoul searching and break it up Storage08 Aug 2019 | 2
Y'know how everyone hated it when tuition fees went up? Cutting them now could harm science, say UK Lords STEM subjects already lose universities £1,400 per student Science08 Aug 2019 | 85
Shopaholic Salesforce flashes $1.35bn, sucks up field service biz ClickSoftware into cloudy arm Greased Field Service Lightning SaaS08 Aug 2019 |
Virgin Media's Project Lightning now at 1.8m connections. Just 2.2m to go before year's end, right? And yes, broadband flinger appears to shift focus to hybrid Networks08 Aug 2019 | 33
1Gbps, 4K streaming, buffering a thing of the past – but do Brits really even want full fibre? Analysis Over to you, Betteridge's law of headlines* Networks08 Aug 2019 | 132
Brit couch potatoes increasingly switching off telly boxes in favour of YouTube and Netflix But still care about catching bent cops Personal Tech07 Aug 2019 | 99
Off somewhere nice on holibobs? Not if you're flying British Airways: IT 'systems issue' smacks UK airports once again It's just not summer without a TITSUP* delaying travel, is it? Networks07 Aug 2019 | 90
Amazon Web Services doubled its footprint in the UK and will only get bigger, reckon analysts Capita retains software and IT services top spot... for now SaaS06 Aug 2019 | 14
German privacy probe orders Google to stop listening in on voice recordings for 3 months Google bows to power of GDPR Security02 Aug 2019 | 38
Openreach hands out £14m to compensate for broadband outages. Not to you, silly, to your ISP! BT's digital network biz noticed it wasn't paying out enough Networks02 Aug 2019 | 10
GoDaddy's daddy goes: Chief exec Scott Wagner steps down as hosting biz swings into the red Cites health reasons amid net loss of $12.6m for Q2 On-Prem02 Aug 2019 | 13
'Transformation' at Capita: Profits? Down. Revenue? Down. Order book? You guessed it Better luck next year On-Prem01 Aug 2019 | 24
Hull be damned: KCOM shuts shop as UK High Court waves through £627m Macquarie deal Meanwhile, Vodafone closes Liberty Global gobble Networks01 Aug 2019 | 24
Outsourcing giant Capita handed £145m for UK.gov's Personal Independence Payment extension Part of plan to 'transition' to a new IT system Legal31 Jul 2019 | 26
People of Britain: You know that you're not locked into using the same ISP forever, right? Better deals, crap service main reasons for switching, but only half surveyed have ever done it Networks31 Jul 2019 | 82
UK PM Johnson spins revolving doors, new digital minister falls through Adams joins the family of Fun, completing BoJo's politico shake-up Legal26 Jul 2019 | 96
Not-so-paltry towers: Vodafone gears up to flog off massive masts business Seeking to wipe a bit of red ink off balance sheet ahead of €19bn Liberty Global swallow Networks26 Jul 2019 | 16
Virgin Media promises speeds of 1Gpbs to 15 million homes – all without full fibre But industry is sceptical hybrid network tech will cut it Networks25 Jul 2019 | 64
UK digital network Openreach takes 15 electric vans for a spin Just another 22,000 to go... Science25 Jul 2019 | 113
O2: We've found Huawei of not using you-know-who's kit in 5G rollout Sticking with Ericsson and Nokia Networks25 Jul 2019 | 14
IT outages in the financial sector: Legacy banks playing tech catch-up risk more outages, UK MPs told 'How many times in a week can we change an app without it falling over?' On-Prem25 Jul 2019 | 27
A bunch of also-RAN: Vodafone and O2 cosy up to share '5G-active' gear Sharing is caring, guys Networks24 Jul 2019 | 6
UK.gov drives ever further into Nocluesville, crowdsources how to solve digital identity Look, we're all of out ideas! Legal19 Jul 2019 | 57
Excluding Huawei from UK's 5G will harm security, MPs warn A decision must be made as a 'matter of urgency', says Intelligence and Security Committee Security19 Jul 2019 | 16
BT staffers fear new mums could be hit disproportionately by car allowance change People Framework strikes again: 'Employees feel worse off and demoted' Legal19 Jul 2019 | 65
What else can we add to UK.gov's tech project bonfire? Oh yeah, 5G Watchdog casts doubt on testbeds and trials scheme Networks19 Jul 2019 | 11
Big fat doubt hovers over UK.gov's Making Tax Digital, customs declaration IT projects Plus: Delivery on 9 more projects at 'major risk' Legal18 Jul 2019 | 20
Those facial recognition trials in the UK? They should be banned, warns Parliamentary committee Updated Latest call to halt creepy tech likely to fall on deaf ears Security18 Jul 2019 | 26
Red flag: Verify to be marked 'undeliverable' by gov projects watchdog Exclusive *Digital identity crisis intensifies* On-Prem18 Jul 2019 | 31
Banks bid legacy tech farewell as they sail to the cloud – but now all that infrastructure is in hands of the big three MPs hear how financial services are trying to improve stability in wake of TSB's meltdown On-Prem18 Jul 2019 | 26
Boris Johnson's promise of full fibre in the UK by 2025 is pie in the sky Analysis From the man who brought us the garden bridge and water cannons Networks17 Jul 2019 | 219
Industry reps told the UK taxman everything wrong with extending IR35. What happened next will astound you Don't like it? Take it to an employment tribunal! Legal15 Jul 2019 | 167
With heroes like BT and Openreach, who needs villains? ISP lobbyists' awards continue to vex How you holding up, Mozilla? Networks12 Jul 2019 | 15
UK Home Secretary doubles down on cops' deeply flawed facial recognition trials 1984 is not an instruction manual, and yet here we are Security12 Jul 2019 | 47
Ofcom head Sharon White pocketed nearly £500k last year A pittance compared to the near-£1m she is due to take home at John Lewis Networks12 Jul 2019 | 18
It's happening, tech contractors: UK.gov is pushing IR35 off-payroll rules to private sector in Finance Bill We consulted. We decided to do it anyway On-Prem11 Jul 2019 | 168
Ofcom snaps on fresh pair of rubber gloves for deeper rummage around in Giffgaff billing faff EE, Sky and O2 also face probes from comms regulator Networks11 Jul 2019 | 8
UK watchdog fined firms £3m for data breaches last year – before its GDPR balls dropped They'll never be so low again. Ask Marriott and British Airways Security10 Jul 2019 | 18
GDS, what is it good for? According to a UK parliamentary committee: 'Increasingly unclear' Suggests: Why don't you find out where legacy systems are, guys? Maybe fix them? Legal10 Jul 2019 | 20
You TalkTalk a big game, says ads watchdog, but your testing not good enough to say your Wi-Fi's best UK ISP claimed signal 'couldn't be beaten.' Regulator disagreed Networks10 Jul 2019 | 18
As HMRC's quarterly deadline for online VAT filing looms, biz dogged by 'technical difficulties' Has tax been made digital yet? Not quite, it would appear On-Prem08 Jul 2019 | 52
King's College London breached GDPR by sharing list of activist students with cops Uni apologises for barring students on royal visit and 'fesses up to ICO Legal05 Jul 2019 | 103
UK's Openreach admits 50k premises on 'gigabit-capable' FTTP network can't get gigabit speeds 330Mbps will have to do. Boohoo Networks05 Jul 2019 | 65