Communications
Network operators across Europe have 'coped well' with additional traffic load amid coronavirus crisis
No glaring network congestion issues observed so far in Europe, according to the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications
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Season One: Empowering the remote working revolution
Internet Archive opens up its 1.4 million book digital lending library for the Covid-19 crisis
National Emergency Library opened up amid concerns students will not be able to access texts during the lockdown
Getting it right with influencer marketing and celebrity endorsements
Influencers can help brands reach audiences that might normally be out of their reach, but there are rules that need to be followed, warns Goodman Derrick partner Paul Herbert
Working from home, keeping connected: 17 video conferencing and collaboration tools to consider
Whether you're a global corporation or a small business, ensuring remote working colleages can keep in touch is suddenly more important than ever. We look at 17 video-enabled collaboration tools that could help bridge the communications gap.
BT: Working from home? We can handle it
BT responds to media claims that the UK’s networks can’t handle the strain of millions of people suddenly working from home
New laws will make it mandatory for developers to hook-up new homes to fibre broadband
New laws will force developers to ensure that all new homes are hooked-up to 1Gbps broadband
PC gamers and researchers asked to donate GPU and CPU time to help fight coronavirus
The deadly virus has already killed more over 6,300 people worldwide
Accidental breakthrough by UNSW researchers may have major implications for quantum computing
They controlled the nucleus of a single atom using just electric fields
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey strikes private equity investment deal in peace agreement with activist investor Elliott Capital
Silver Lake Partners to invest $1 billion in Twitter, which will be used to fund a share buyback, while Dorsey will stay on as CEO – for now
CityFibre adds 36 towns and cities to its £4bn fibre-to-the-home roll-out
Glasgow, Nottingham and Wolverhampton, as well as smaller towns, such as Solihull, Crawley and Barnsley, to benefit from CityFibre gigabit broadband network
Chinese kids give homework app poor reviews to get it removed from Apple App Store
They are being asked to sign in to the app daily and join their classes for online lessons
Peter Cochrane: Fake news, ignorance, and technology wars
State-backed cyber warfare is intended to sow confusion and disillusion people across the democratic world, writes Professor Peter Cochrane
UAE government-linked spy app ToTok tells users to just ignore Google's warnings
ToTok boomed in popularity in the United Arab Emirates - after the government had banned all other messaging apps
Broadband and mobile phone providers must now tell customers when their contract ends
New rules from Ofcom require broadband, mobile phone and pay TV providers to notify residential and business customers when their deals are drawing to a close
Chinese researchers smash the record for realising two entangled quantum memories at maximum distance
Quantum entanglement can be used to create encrypted communications channels that are secured against hacking
Mobile World Congress 2020 cancelled over Coronavirus fears
The spread of the disease made it impossible for MWC to proceed, says event organiser GSMA
Government plan to regulate online platforms will hit more than 200,000 businesses in the UK
Government support for online regulation will encompass at least five per cent of UK businesses
Huawei can 'covertly access' mobile phone networks worldwide via secret 'back doors', claim US officials
Huawei denies claims that secret 'back doors have been built-in to Huawei mobile hardware for more than a decade
Now China urges France not to discriminate against Huawei on 5G networks
China warns that shutting out Huawei from EU networks could affect Nokia and Ericsson in China
Former WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers dies
78-year-old Ebbers made WorldCom one of the world's largest telecoms company - committing one of the world's largest accounting frauds in the process