Category: Internet
Anti-piracy campaign set to kick off in UK
Netflix ranks Virgin Media as UK’s fastest ISP
Bell Labs pushes 10Gbps over copper phone lines
UK aims for 100% superfast broadband coverage by 2017
UK digital banking reaches £1bn a day
Social media 'influences TV viewing'
Have you ever started watching a TV show because everybody you know on Facebook and Twitter is already watching it and won't stop talking about it? Well, you're not alone. In news that will surprise nobody, a study by internet…
Virgin Media suffers nationwide DNS outage… just days after BT (fuelling my made-up conspiracy theory)
It is not a good time to be a UK broadband customer. Last night Virgin Media suffered a nationwide DNS outage – rendering most of the web inaccessible for its customers. Loving this "month-long service disruption" (customer service quote) from…
UK government filters wrongly block almost one in five websites
Online censorship is a big problem around the globe, especially in countries such as China, Syria, Iran, Iraq and Egypt. Now, it seems, we can add Great Britain to that list. Almost a fifth of websites are being wrongly blocked…
EU data roaming costs slashed by 50%
The cost of using the internet on a mobile phone when travelling in the EU has fallen by more than 50 per cent today – just in time to escape the wet summer weather in the UK. New caps on…
BT Openreach told to shape up or face fines
UK telecoms giant BT could face fines if it does not meet new targets to repair its extensive UK telephone and broadband network, Ofcom has said. IT Pro reports that new rules that come into force on Monday require BT's…