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Top 10 telecommunications stories of 2013 so far

Phone call
4G, mobile, broadband and the handling of data all feature in a busy first six months in the telecoms industry
14 Jun 2013

Three UK gets back up... then goes down again

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3G provider Three suffers a day of (brief) ups and downs as the network crashes for a second time
04 Jun 2013

Three UK 3G services back up in London, still down elsewhere

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A Three UK spokesperson declines to comment on cause of outage
04 Jun 2013

Three UK 3G network is down

Customers flock to Twitter to complain at network failure. Claim network has been down since last night
04 Jun 2013

We will not cooperate with 'snooper's charter', warn web giants

In a leaked letter Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo and Twitter warn home secretary over surveillance plans
30 May 2013

Update: Sally Bercow loses *innocent face* tweet libel case against Lord McAlpine

Judgment published in Sally Bercow – Lord McAlpine libel case
24 May 2013

Sally Bercow loses *innocent face* tweet libel case against Lord McAlpine

Injudicious tweet ruled libel by innuendo. Speaker's wife hastily settles
24 May 2013

Twitter (finally) unveils two-factor authentication - long after Google, Facebook and others

Twitter responds to security concerns following a string of high-profile account hijackings
23 May 2013

Technology that drives success: An interview with Trader Media’s CIO, Tim Jones

As Trader Media Group prepares to publish the very last print edition of Auto Trader magazine, CIO Tim Jones tells Sooraj Shah about the next stage in the company’s ambitious multi-platform digital strategy
16 May 2013

Twitter acquires big data visualisation firm Lucky Sort

Start-up Lucky Sort helps customers to discover patterns in live data streams
14 May 2013

Nationwide Building Society online banking hit by IT glitch

Customers enraged as mobile banking also cuts out
23 Apr 2013

Social media use by SMEs to see significant growth by 2014

IDC suggests small businesses are increasingly adopting Facebook, Twitter and other social media
26 Feb 2013

American Express launches ‘pay by Tweet’ service

Unknown if service will launch in the UK
13 Feb 2013

Twitter users attacked by cyber criminals

A quarter of a million Twitter accounts have been compromised by hackers
04 Feb 2013

New rules for business #628


31 Jan 2013

Analysis: Why Twitter may well be worthy of a £6.8bn IPO valuation

There's good reason to suppose it will avoid 'doing a Facebook' if it does float in 2014
08 Jan 2013

Instagram: 'We don't have right to sell people’s photos'

Co-founder tries to put angry users at ease
19 Dec 2012

MPs warn on 'chilling effect' of proposed anti-trolling law

Defamation Bill would curb online freedom says Joint Committee on Human Rights
12 Dec 2012

Broadband down across the UK on the busiest e-shopping day of the year

Customers incensed at loss of broadband and the time it may take BT to fix the problem
03 Dec 2012

Google acquires retail coupon firm Incentive Targeting

Financial terms undisclosed but start-up is said to have raised £2.7m in funding
29 Nov 2012

Analysis: Twitter mob rule

Getting carried away in a 'Twitter lynch mob' could prove very costly for some. But what constitutes a potential libel online? Graeme Burton talks to Addleshaw Goddard libel lawyer David Engel.
29 Nov 2012

Cisco predicts capacity to 'print' food in 15 years

Cisco futurist also foresees artificial intelligence in the cloud, in Twitter interview
20 Nov 2012

Google: 'Government surveillance is on the rise'

But requests for data access in the UK fell slightly in the six months to July 2012
14 Nov 2012

Twitter apologises for password resets after security breach

Large numbers of social media users forced to change passwords for no good reason
09 Nov 2012