Three-quarters of British households have internet access and 67% of adults use a computer every day, according to the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). In 2012, 21 million households had an internet connection, ...
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Security researcher Michael Coppola demonstrated how small and home office (SOHO) routers can be compromised and turned into botnet clients by updating them with backdoored versions of vendor-supplied firmware. Coppola, who is a security ...
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U.S. broadband providers are delivering close to their advertised speeds, according to a U.S. Federal Communications Commission report, but not everyone trusts the numbers. The FCC's new broadband performance study, released Thursday, ...
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Enterprises that use Internet services in Asia for branch office connectivity continue to report latency issues. We outline what enterprises must do to minimize Internet latency and optimize application performance. Common mistakes ...
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U.S. ISPs are reporting a significant rise in IPv6 traffic during the last three months, even though the overall numbers remain tiny -- less than 1% of Internet traffic. RELATED: How the U.S. is winning the race to next-gen Internet ...
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Alcatel-Lucent reported a third-quarter loss and declining gross margins, as its cost-cutting programme failed to keep up with declining sales of its network equipment and related services. The company reported a net loss of €146 ...
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MIT researchers have figured out a way to help developers more easily rearrange their image processing code so that it can execute faster and use fewer computational resources. Such a technique could prove especially beneficial for mobile ...
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Details have emerged of an extraordinary attack in which millions of DSL broadband routers in Brazil were hit by a serious software flaw that allowed criminals to gain complete control of all web traffic running through them. First ...
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Virgin Media is in discussions with 30 cities across the UK about deploying free fibre-based Wi-Fi networks using small cell technology. Duncan Watts, head of business development for fixed and wireless at Virgin Media Business, revealed ...
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Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy knocked out mobile, phone and cable service in many parts of the eastern U.S. on Monday, with about one in four cell sites affected in the hardest-hit band of the country between Virginia and Massachusetts, ...
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According to a recent report from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), some 19 million Americans live in rural areas where broadband Internet access is either unavailable or delivered at speeds that fall well below targeted goals. ...
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BT has confirmed a nationwide network problem that has affected broadband users across the country. On social networking site Twitter,the telecoms giant said:"Sorry if you were unable to use the internet this morning,we've got a network ...
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AT&T reported revenue of $31.5 billion for the third quarter of this year, flat compared to the third quarter of 2011, while net income was up slightly to $3.6 billion. Revenue in AT&T's wireless division grew 6.6% to $16.6 billion but ...
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IDG News Service - Verizon Communications reported 3.9% growth in revenue for the third quarter and 21.2% growth in net income, driven by gains in mobile revenue and customer additions for its Fios broadband and television services. ...
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IDG News Service - Alcatel-Lucent has upgraded its implementation of the VDSL2 vectoring noise cancellation technology in order to make it easier to implement, and as a result let operators offer higher broadband speeds over phone lines to ...