Surrey County Council has selected BT to roll-out superfast broadband to 90,000 businesses and homes that are excluded from the incumbent provider’s commercial rollout, in a deal worth some £33 million.
Companies House has confirmed to Computerworld UK that it will be carrying out a review of its systems after it came under fire from a security firm that claimed it has been putting the online details of businesses at risk by storing passwords in plain text on its servers.
The Information Commissioner has fined Scottish Border Council £250,000 under the Data Protection Act for not putting in appropriate guarantees when it outsourced responsibility to an external company to digitise employees’ pension records.
Senior government officials have intervened in the ongoing dispute over 4G spectrum, which has resulted in the UK’s four mobile operators agreeing to a one month hiatus on any legal action in order to carry out peace talks.
Companies House has come under fire from a security firm that claims the registrar for companies in England and Wales is putting the online details of businesses at risk by storing passwords in plain text on its servers.
Memset has become the second provider to achieve pan-government security accreditation through the G-Cloud, less than a month after SCC was named as the first successful applicant.
The Local Government Association (LGA) has slammed newly appointed culture secretary Maria Miller's decision to allow broadband providers to implement street cabinets without the need for prior approval from the local council.
Citigroup has slammed Nasdaq's $62 million (£39.2 million) compensation plans for market making firms that lost hundreds of millions of dollars during the botched Facebook initial public offering on 18th May.
Communications minister Ed Vaizey has appointed the chairman of premium phone services regulator PhonePay Plus, Andrew Pinder, to head up Mitco, the organisation that will be responsible for tackling television interference from the rollout of 4G services.
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has hit back at criticism he received from the House of Lords over his rollout plans for superfast broadband in the UK.
Communications regulator Ofcom has approved Everything Everywhere’s (EE) request to use its existing 1800MHz spectrum for next generation 4G services, which will allow it to roll out Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks several months before its competitors.
Everything Everywhere has agreed to sell 2X15MHz of its 1800MHz spectrum, which could be used for 4G services, to the UK’s smallest operator Three.
Mobile operator Everything Everywhere (EE), a joint venture between Orange and T-Mobile, has revealed that it plans to launch a new brand in the UK by the end of the year.
Rival network operators have hit out at communications regulator Ofcom's decision to allow Everything Everywhere (EE) to roll out 4G networks this year using its existing 1800MHz spectrum, which it currently uses for 2G services.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has revealed that it is 'making enquiries' into a number of security concerns that have been raised regarding retail giant Tesco's customer facing website.