Curtains for Flash? Next month Firefox will block certain Flash content deemed “not essential to the user experience”
July 20, 2016
TalkTalk Loses More Broadband Customers But Makes Fibre Gains
TalkTalk's cyberattack hangover continues but revenues largely flat and company is optimistic about York FTTP pilot
Google Uses DeepMind AI To Slash Data Centre Energy Use
Artificial intelligence platforms predicts power needed for cooling, resulting in 40 percent energy saving
US And German Governments Make Most Google Data Requests
Record number of government data requests around the world with the US seeking the most information
BlackBerry Pushes Mobile Security Credentials And Signs US Government Contracts
BlackBerry says businesses need better mobile security and agrees software deals with US government and coastguard
Equinix Admits To Power Failure That Knocked Out BT Internet
Equinix’s Telecity LD8 data centre in London’s Docklands suffers brief outage, in turn affecting BT’s services from LINX
Code Hooking Opens Security Product Vulnerability
Fresh concern raised about the security of the very products designed to protect users from cyber nastiness
Buffalo LinkStation 510 Giveaway
SAP Sees High License Growth, Adds 500 HANA Customers
SAP profit up nine percent, software licenses hit £870 million in Q2
Virgin Media Brings Cable To 450,000 London Premises And FTTP To Barnet
Virgin Media has already connected 100,000 premises to superfast broadband as part of £3bn Project Lightning expansion. Now it targets 350,000 more by 2018
IBM Claims It’s Hired 30,000 Staff As Non-Cloud Workers Get The Boot
Internal email describes massive hiring spree as IBM's "resource planning" scoops up skills for cloud and cognitive computing
Vodafone Achieves 20Gbps In 5G Tests With Huawei
Vodafone and Huawei test out 70GHz spectrum as race to develop 5G by 2020 continues
BT Broadband Outage Affects Customers Across UK
UPDATE: BT says it has fixed a power issue that caused broadband problems for 10 percent of customers
Microsoft Azure Cloud Revenue Grows 102 Percent
Azure growth offsets poor performance in PC and phone market as Microsoft ups pressure on AWS