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27 Feb 2025
What are the implications of Medicaid per capita caps?
By Sara HeathMedicaid per capita caps would decrease federal spending, creating a choice between increased state spending and enrollee coverage.
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27 Feb 2025
FBI: Lazarus Group behind $1.5 billion Bybit heist
By Arielle WaldmanResearchers say the heist, in which North Korean state-sponsored hackers stole funds from a cold wallet, is the biggest theft in the history of the cryptocurrency industry.
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27 Feb 2025
Lexmark looking to partners to gain A3 market share
By Simon QuickePrint player Lexmark has armed its channel with a range of options as it looks to enter the low-page volume end of the market
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08 Jul 2024
Synnovis attack highlights degraded, outdated state of NHS IT
By Alex ScroxtonMore cyber attacks against the health service are likely, and will succeed if something isn’t done to address the increasingly elderly NHS IT estate, experts are warning
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08 Jul 2024
Nokia, Google Fiber claim 50G PON first in live fibre trial in US
By Joe O’HalloranTech giant’s development hub for transforming the internet experience expands relationship with comms tech provider on 50G passive optical network trial
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08 Jul 2024
Singtel, SK Telecom gear up for 6G future
By Aaron TanBoth telcos will work together to develop advanced network slicing, telco APIs and edge AI infrastructure, among other capabilities, to pave way for 6G deployments
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08 Jul 2024
Motorola Solutions to open global R&D centre in Ireland
By Joe O’HalloranComms tech giant announces opening of research and development centre in Cork to focus on designing software for established land mobile radio portfolio
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05 Jul 2024
Nokia, BT Group, Qualcomm claim enhanced 5G Carrier Aggregation first
By Joe O’HalloranComms tech provider and operator reveal successfull aggregation of 5G Standalone spectrum using 5CC Carrier Aggregation, making the latter the first European operator to achieve this milestone
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05 Jul 2024
Virgin Media adds to Yeovil gigabit broadband estate
By Joe O’HalloranFull-fibre broadband with top speeds of 2Gbps, up to 38 times faster than the current local average, now available to more than 20,000 additional homes in key town in country of Somerset
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04 Jul 2024
5G FWA on upward trajectory but global growth patchy
By Joe O’HalloranStudy from GSMA predicts the number of 5G FWA connections across 70 countries will increase by 358% by 2030, representing an increase from 17.3 million connections to 79.2 million
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04 Jul 2024
SonicWall offers MSPs access to increased range of services
By Simon QuickeSecurity player arms partners with access to European-based SOC that will help them deal with EU compliance regulations
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04 Jul 2024
ADNOC, e& plan energy industry’s largest private 5G wireless network
By Joe O’HalloranAbu Dhabi-owned energy and petrochemicals group enters agreement with leading MENA telco to create high-speed network spanning 11,000 square km, enabling AI-driven offerings to reach remote onshore and offshore operations
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04 Jul 2024
Nokia and Solis plough connectivity path for agribusinesses in Brazil
By Joe O’HalloranComms tech provider and telecoms infrastructure firm expand private wireless networks supporting agribusinesses in unconnected rural communities across Brazil to drive digital inclusion with real-time information to support farms
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04 Jul 2024
LG acquires Athom to advance AI-enabled smart home
By Joe O’HalloranElectronics giant takes large majority stake in smart home platform company to gain deeper insights into customers’ lifestyle and usage patterns and accelerate AI home business
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03 Jul 2024
Vodafone and Virgin Media O2 announce long-term network-sharing agreement
By Joe O’HalloranNetwork-sharing agreement aims to transform experience for tens of millions of customers across the UK and rebalance the mobile market by creating a third scaled network operator
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03 Jul 2024
BT tops UK fixed broadband customer experience rankings
By Joe O’HalloranResearch from network quality of experience testing and monitoring firm pinpoints UK’s largest leading broadband provider as offering best quality of experience
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03 Jul 2024
North America surge drives global 5G connections to two-billion mark
By Joe O’HalloranFirst quarter of 2024 sees 185 million new top-end mobile additions, with total now projected to hit 7.7 billion by 2028
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02 Jul 2024
EXA Infrastructure, SOCAR Fiber plan for Red Sea route diversity
By Joe O’HalloranEuropean dedicated digital infrastructure platform provider, connecting North America and Asia via the Middle East, inks deal with secure electronic communication infrastructure company for terrestrial fibre optic route
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02 Jul 2024
NGMN unveils roadmap for more energy-efficient networks
By Joe O’HalloranForum founded by leading mobile network operators for all partners in the mobile industry releases guidance and recommendations supported on energy-saving techniques to help enhance energy-saving methods
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02 Jul 2024
Geotab, BYD Trucks Europe gear up IoT for sustainable fleet management
By Joe O’HalloranGeotab and BYD Trucks Europe collaborate to provide fleet management solution across Europe within end-to-end connectivity to ensure data privacy and security in the region
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02 Jul 2024
Westcon-Comstor and e92plus widen portfolios
By Simon QuickeDistributors are expanding and signing fresh relationships to get more options in front of their respective partner bases
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02 Jul 2024
Dassault Systèmes and Mistral AI team to accelerate edge AI generative economy
By Joe O’HalloranLeading provider of engineering design systems and artificial intelligence firm form partnership combining industrial ecosystem and frontier AI to industries in a trusted environment, to deliver secure, scalable, AI-driven services
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01 Jul 2024
Telefónica, Nokia offer ‘unique’ private 5G networks service in Spain
By Joe O’HalloranPartnership to see companies – especially those in industrial and logistics sectors – able to implement up to 100 digitisation services in cloud, private mobile networks and edge computing with 5G connectivity
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01 Jul 2024
CityFibre, nexfibre gain further gigabit ground in southern England
By Joe O’HalloranUK’s leading independent provider makes full-fibre available to majority of homes and businesses in West Sussex county town, while growing gigabit broadband wholesaler reveals plans to deliver it to more than 15,000 premises in Buckinghamshire
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01 Jul 2024
Nokia to acquire Infinera in $2.3bn deal
By Joe O’HalloranNokia sees acquisition of open optical networking solutions provider to increase scale in optical networks business
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01 Jul 2024
VMO2 hits high as it completes Shared Rural Network first phase
By Joe O’HalloranGlencoe Mountain Resort in Scotland becomes 227th site to gain improved 4G coverage as part of VMO2 roll-out
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28 Jun 2024
How Recorded Future is operationalising threat intelligence
By Aaron TanRecorded Future is investing in APIs to enable automated security workflows, among other measures, to help organisations overcome the hurdles of operationalising threat intelligence
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27 Jun 2024
Neos Networks advances Oxfordshire GigaHubs project
By Joe O’HalloranMore than 180 public service sites, from local GP practices to schools, community centres and the authority’s own IT estate, are now connected with full-fibre connectivity as part of a County Council programme
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27 Jun 2024
CloudCoCo reports H1 results amid stabilisation efforts
By Simon QuickeChannel player is going through a review that should put it in a stronger financial position, but it’s business as usual in the meantime
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27 Jun 2024
Qt lands on LG advanced automotive content platform
By Joe O’HalloranSoftware developer and CE giant extend partnership to power UI/UX development of in-car infotainment services
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27 Jun 2024
Nokia, Telefónica team to boost adoption of 5G SA network APIs
By Joe O’HalloranLeading operator inks agreement to explore new API opportunities based on 5G standalone capabilities for businesses in Spain and Germany through use of comms tech provider’s Network Exposure Function
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27 Jun 2024
Verizon brings portable connectivity to events with Network in a Box
By Joe O’HalloranComms provider Verizon launches critical communications prototype to support operations, security, event production and fan experience in venues when a permanent private network is not available
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27 Jun 2024
Hybrid workers call on employers to increase investment in connectivity
By Joe O’HalloranSurvey reveals lack of reliable mobile connectivity in the office is affecting seven in 10 hybrid workers, forcing a majority of employees to leave their office building simply to make a phone call
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26 Jun 2024
Goldilock builds out partner network
By Simon QuickeSecurity vendor adds distributors and resellers to increase UK, US and European coverage and to support its plans to go indirect
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26 Jun 2024
JT taps Ericsson for 5G test centre
By Joe O’HalloranIsland telco makes next step in progress of installing 5G using Ericsson’s advanced telecoms solutions and software services, including energy efficient features to support sustainable a network
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26 Jun 2024
Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service replaces legacy SD-WAN
By Joe O’HalloranContract awarded for the deployment of cross-Scotland software-defined wide area network designed to ensure efficient, secure and reliable administrative services to the judiciaries of Scotland
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25 Jun 2024
ALSO Cloud UK: GenAI poses significant security risks
By Simon QuickeDistributor’s event shines light on the benefits and challenges faced by users looking to adopt the technology
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24 Jun 2024
Sellafield pleads guilty to criminal charges over cyber security
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonNuclear Decommissioning Authority-backed organisation Sellafield Ltd pleads guilty to criminal charges brought over significant cyber security failings that could have compromised sensitive nuclear information
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24 Jun 2024
Starlink, Comcast collaborate to expand enterprise managed connectivity
By Joe O’HalloranNetwork giant’s broadband, wireless provider inks deal to claim to be first major network provider to team up with Elon Musk-led satellite communications company to offer enterprise customers services for improved network redundancy
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24 Jun 2024
Global Telco AI Alliance founders establish LLM joint venture
By Joe O’HalloranFounders of a global consortium of telcos looking to make best use of artificial intelligence form joint venture to codevelop and launch multilingual large language model tailored to companies such as themselves
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24 Jun 2024
Tata Communications hosted SASE claims to redefine networking, security
By Joe O’HalloranTata Communications claims world-first implementation of unified SASE solution to deliver unified visibility and control of network traffic with context-led insights and enhanced user experience
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24 Jun 2024
Hybrid work prompts spike in network security threats
By Joe O’HalloranSurvey shows more than two-thirds of organisations have seen an increase in network security threats over the past 18 months, with remote and hybrid working the biggest contributor to heightened threat levels
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21 Jun 2024
UK fibre firms continue reach expansion
By Joe O’HalloranVirgin Media O2-backed growing fibre firm Nexfibre takes XGS PON network to Canterbury while south of England local full-fibre broadband provider Toob celebrates expansion ahead of fifth anniversary
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21 Jun 2024
Qilin ransomware gang publishes stolen NHS data online
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe ransomware gang behind a major cyber attack on NHS supplier Synnovis has published a 400GB trove of private healthcare data online
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21 Jun 2024
Cato Networks cuts ribbon on managed SASE service
By Simon QuickeFirm is aiming to make life easier for those managing complex customer environments
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21 Jun 2024
ICO police cloud guidance released under FOI
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonLong-awaited guidance from the UK data regulator on police cloud deployments highlights some potential data transfer mechanisms it thinks can clear up ongoing legal issues, but tells forces it’s up to them to decide if the measures would work
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20 Jun 2024
Arista, Cisco, HPE answer AI infrastructure demand
By Antone GonsalvesArista, Cisco and HPE are racing to seize a share of the promising GenAI infrastructure market. Cisco and HPE have computing, networking and software; Arista focuses on networking.
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20 Jun 2024
Three UK, Ericsson claim new standard for smart and sustainable mobile networks
By Joe O’HalloranLeading comms tech provider and operator claim to have successfully improved energy efficiency by up to 70% at selected UK sites using AI-powered hardware and software services
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20 Jun 2024
Orange Mobile sets out 5G private SA deployment at Paris 2024 Olympics
By Joe O’HalloranOrange outlines the mobile infrastructure for forthcoming Olympics, equipping 15,000 athletes and providing a range of offers for foreign visitors, relying on 5G private standalone to connect major venues
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20 Jun 2024
Sateliot signs Exolaunch deal for satellite launch and deployment services
By Joe O’HalloranLaunch mission management, integration and satellite deployment services provider gains contract to support Spanish low Earth orbit 5G NB-IoT constellation platform
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19 Jun 2024
Legacy networking infrastructure holding customers back
By Simon QuickeResearch from Daisy reveals the challenges customers are facing due to their struggles moving away from ageing kit
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19 Jun 2024
HPE Discover 2024: Deloitte develops Gen AI industrial digitisation use case
By Joe O’HalloranDeloitte teams with enterprise networking firm on first use NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE product portfolio to help manufacturers build and operate secure-by-design manufacturing simulations
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19 Jun 2024
Nokia and Google Cloud collaborate to hasten 5G applications with telco APIs
By Joe O’HalloranComms tech provider and leading cloud firm partner to help developers worldwide create 5G applications faster and enrich developer experience with generative AI capabilities
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19 Jun 2024
HPE Discover 2024: HPE, Nvidia team to accelerate GenAI revolution
By Joe O’HalloranPartnership on product and sales channels to feature what is described as first-of-its-kind turnkey, private-cloud AI service including sustainable accelerated computing with full lifecycle services to streamline time to value with AI
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18 Jun 2024
Riverbed cuts ribbon on ONE programme
By Simon QuickeVendor combines introduction of fresh partner scheme with the launch of its AI observability platform
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18 Jun 2024
Bayanat and Oxa team up to drive innovation in autonomous vehicle technology
By Joe O’HalloranAutonomous vehicle software provider Oxa inks partnership with AI-powered geospatial solutions company Bayanat AI, aimed at advancing the development and deployment of AV systems
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18 Jun 2024
HPE Aruba Networking to connect new Everton stadium
By Joe O’HalloranPremier League football club inks deal with leading networking firm to become official supplier of soon-to-be-completed stadium
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18 Jun 2024
Altnets Netomnia, brsk announce merger
By Joe O’HalloranMerger of broadband indies described as transformative step for UK telecoms industry, establishing what companies say will be only scaled and capital-efficient retail, wholesale and consolidation platform
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17 Jun 2024
VMO2 boosts fibre, mobile comms in Essex, Manchester
By Joe O’HalloranLatest expansion for joint-venture UK fibre network to see it deliver network to over 12,000 premises east of London, boosting local connectivity
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14 Jun 2024
Nokia unveils software to expand and simplify APIs
By Joe O’HalloranNokia’s Network Exposure Platform aims to expand and simplify the number of network application programming interfaces available to service providers, their partners and customer channels
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14 Jun 2024
Amdocs simplifies eSIM activation with Google Cloud
By Joe O’HalloranCommunications software provider and cloud giant announce partnership to streamline embedded subscriber identity module onboarding and activation with automated, remote real-time processes
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14 Jun 2024
Decision-makers less confident in network investment
By Joe O’HalloranResearch finds nearly nine in 10 of those responsible for network buying are less confident in investments, and two-thirds believe network technology’s rapid advancements hinder decision-making
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13 Jun 2024
General election 2024: Labour promises to boost digital infrastructure
By Bryan GlickThe Labour Party manifesto for the UK general election promises a new industrial strategy and an overhaul of planning rules to help support the digital and tech sector
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13 Jun 2024
Carrefour taps BICS to launch eSIM travel data
By Joe O’HalloranGlobal travellers with embedded subscriber identity module-enabled phones now able to purchase data packages from multinational retail corporation over the air
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13 Jun 2024
Vonage, Telstra team to accelerate digital transformation with network APIs
By Joe O’HalloranEricsson-owned cloud communications provider partners with Australian operator to combine network APIs with API platform and 5G network capabilities to enable enterprises to build applications for optimised customer experiences
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13 Jun 2024
Barcelona kicks off edge to cloud to customise fan experience
By Joe O’HalloranAiming to fulfil its ‘mes que un club’ ethos, Spanish football giant pulls networking ‘palanca’ to offer fans customised experience at legendary stadium, becoming official edge-to-cloud partner for next four seasons
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13 Jun 2024
Enterprises scale private wireless for additional use cases, industrial sites
By Joe O’HalloranStudy shows enterprises expanded private wireless networks use or deployed them in another location
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13 Jun 2024
eSIM Go checks in with Lufthansa on-brand global travel service
By Joe O’HalloranAviation group partners with embedded subscriber identity module company to provide mobile data services to passengers across four of its airlines, enabling travellers to stay connected in more than 150 countries while avoiding data roaming charges
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12 Jun 2024
NTT upgrades JUNO submarine cable
By Joe O’HalloranLargest trans-Pacific submarine cable system boosts network capacity to support delivery of ubiquitous high-capacity 800Gb, 400Gb and 100Gb services, claiming to hit service delivery targets as soon as it launches
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12 Jun 2024
Nokia maintains 25G PON momentum with HKBN and Chorus
By Joe O’HalloranComms tech provider closes more deals for 25Gbps passive optical network technology with Hong Kong fibre network provider and New Zealand’s largest open-access internet infrastructure company on behalf of leading retail service provider
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11 Jun 2024
General election 2024: Conservative manifesto promises to continue tech policies
By Bryan GlickThe Conservative Party manifesto contains little by way of new commitments for tech and digital, but lays out plans to continue existing policies and promises made under the last government
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11 Jun 2024
RingCentral pushes AI deeper into sales tech, integrates Teams
By Don FluckingerAmong other new features, RingCentral pushes its RingSense conversational intelligence deeper into the sales market with new integrations, where it meets a crowd of tech competitors.
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11 Jun 2024
Interview: Astronaut Tim Peake on an imminent revolution in space tech
By Bryan GlickBritain’s first male astronaut discusses the UK’s successful space sector, its overlaps with enterprise IT, and how to encourage more young people to work in science and technology
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11 Jun 2024
Altnet full-fibre firms hit the north
By Joe O’HalloranIndependent UK broadband providers continue programmes of network expansion to light up premises in Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Humberside with gigabit connectivity
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11 Jun 2024
O2 Telefónica, Ericsson renew core network partnership
By Joe O’HalloranGerman operator and leading comms tech provider agree multi-year contract extension to realise network of the future
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10 Jun 2024
Telenor IoT launches testing facility for internet-connected tech
By Joe O’HalloranNordic operator announces initial work being undertaken at its recently opened internet of things test lab, aiming to help customers understand how their connected IoT products behave before deployment
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10 Jun 2024
Neutral internet sites account for 70% of leading 50 US exchanges
By Joe O’HalloranStudy reveals steady transformation over the past decade in the way networks choose to interconnect with neutral IX models operated by a neutral third party rather than by datacentre operator or carrier
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07 Jun 2024
Juniper Networks claims first with AIOps to WAN routing
By Joe O’HalloranJuniper Networks announces industry leadership with enhancements to cloud-native Mist AI engine for all network domains, claiming to deliver insight for exceptional experiences
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07 Jun 2024
Cisco Live: ThousandEyes on the prize in digital experience age
By Joe O’HalloranNetworking giant sets out strategy to empower customers to see everything across complex digital supply chain, turning data into intelligence and actions to support digital experiences that businesses base operations on
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07 Jun 2024
DDoS gang threatens to disrupt European elections
By Alex ScroxtonRussian hacktivists are threatening to disrupt the European Parliament elections, while the BBC reports on new deepfake threats to the UK’s electoral process
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07 Jun 2024
eSIM set to be next mobile industry disruptor
By Joe O’HalloranEven though its current acceptance and take-up is low, embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) pinpointed by industry report to be the next industry disruptor, bringing about lasting changes to the way people connect with mobile providers and manage subscriptions
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07 Jun 2024
Cisco makes Splunk the center of observability
By Antone GonsalvesCisco is integrating Splunk, AppDynamics and ThousandEyes to create a critical differentiator in the observability market. Networking integration will come later.
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07 Jun 2024
European data chief prepares bid to get UK to join EU digital single market
By Mark BallardData initiative Gaia-X is trying to plug the UK into a planned digital European single market, as the EU seeks to extend the reach of vast and controversial data laws over global supply chains
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07 Jun 2024
Sophos uncovers Chinese state-sponsored campaign in Southeast Asia
By Aaron TanSophos found three distinct clusters of activity targeted at a high-level government organisation that appeared to be tied to Chinese interests in the South China Sea
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06 Jun 2024
Nvidia sees massive datacentre compute growth, says networking is next
By Cliff SaranAfter posting revenues of $19.4bn in its datacentre business, Nvidia is now looking to revolutionise ethernet interconnects
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06 Jun 2024
Zoom opens immersive Experience Centre in London
By Joe O’HalloranLeading collaboration and communications technology firm looks to raise bar of international footprint and strengthen UK commitment with major investment
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06 Jun 2024
UK firms still struggling to enable hybrid work
By Joe O’HalloranSurvey reveals UK firms are still struggling to make hybrid work effective, with 62% of workplaces changing policy in the past four years and failure to adopt suitable digital tools leading employees to feel overwhelmed and frustrated
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06 Jun 2024
Vodafone, i2CAT unveil Open RAN management system
By Joe O’HalloranVodafone reveals development of open RAN technology in series of joint research projects with academia and research institutions at expanding Innovation Centre in Málaga
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05 Jun 2024
Cisco commits to GenAI with HyperFabric, $1B fund
By Antone GonsalvesCisco partners with Nvidia on HyperFabric as customers try to understand how generative AI will help them manage their network infrastructure.
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05 Jun 2024
Nokia, Telia claim successful outdoor trial in 6 GHz range with massive MIMO
By Joe O’HalloranGlobal comms tech provider teams with leading Nordic operator to complete field pilot in upper 6 GHz spectrum band range to add capacity and coverage to existing macro cell sites in dense urban environments for 5G-Advanced and 6G networks
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05 Jun 2024
Collaboration suffers as businesses fail to adapt workplace technology
By Joe O’HalloranResearch reveals critical gaps in workplace tech affecting productivity and collaboration among workers in the UK, with businesses failing to adapt IT infrastructure to suit different personality types
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05 Jun 2024
Cisco Live: AI to fuel Cisco mission to connect and protect everything
By Joe O’HalloranNetworking giant plots future where harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and data will allow companies to connect and protect everything across a global network where data is the ultimate differentiator
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04 Jun 2024
Westcon-Comstor extends Juniper Networks relationship to UK and Ireland
By Simon QuickeDistributor given chance to add more territories to the extensive list of countries across EMEA, where it already represents the vendor
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04 Jun 2024
Cisco gears up to cash in on AI innovation and investments
By Joe O’HalloranNetworking giant plots out artificial intelligence-powered future within networks to build digital resilience and offer secure visibility, observability and insight across digital footprints, with $1bn global AI investment fund
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04 Jun 2024
Invasive tracking ‘endemic’ on sensitive support websites
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonWebsites set up by police, charities and universities to help people get support for sensitive issues like addiction and sexual harassment are deploying tracking technologies that harvest information without proper consent
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04 Jun 2024
HPE looks to simplify deployment of private enterprise 5G
By Joe O’HalloranEdge-to-cloud global enterprise infrastructure company launches dedicated service designed to remove the complexity of managing, deploying and purchasing enterprise private cellular networks
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04 Jun 2024
Haier Europe taps Orange Business to build responsive SD-WAN
By Joe O’HalloranLooking to offer a scalable, secure networking infrastructure to support its growth, Fortune 500 home appliances company works with business arm of telco to deploy cloud-first platform enhancing security, visibility and agility
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04 Jun 2024
T-Mobile bolsters connected workplace with FWA
By Joe O’HalloranExpanded fixed FWA offering combines Cradlepoint 5G networking solutions and T-Mobile 5G Business Internet to offer more choice to more customers
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04 Jun 2024
Sateliot to launch four satellites in 5G IoT programme
By Joe O’HalloranLeading satellite operator continues on its programme of delivering 5G communications by deploying the first 5G-IoT satellite constellation
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03 Jun 2024
Police chief commissions ‘independent review’ of surveillance against journalists and lawyers
By Bill GoodwinPNSI chief constable appoints lawyer to conduct review into police phone surveillance of journalists, lawyers and NGOs
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03 Jun 2024
Q&A: Simon Skellon, Mitel
By Simon QuickeIt has been a busy time at the telco, with the portfolio expanding and the unified comms strategy being solidified
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03 Jun 2024
McLaren Formula 1 Team revs up network security with Cisco
By Joe O’HalloranLegendary motor racing team expands global partnership with networking giant to accelerate network security for on-premise hardware and cloud-based software, including secure firewall and XDR
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30 May 2024
US smartphone users kept same devices for longest time period yet
By Joe O’HalloranThe latest investigation of the US mobile device trade-in market by risk management solutions provider shows for the auto, lifestyle and housing protection $874m put into consumers’ pockets in first quarter of 2024