UK next-gen broadband gets funding body

(ZD NET UK) - Two major upgrades to the UK’s broadband infrastructure have moved closer with the creation of an organisation which will allocate funding for the work.
On Thursday, the government launched Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK), which will allocate funds for the two major schemes: the universal service commitment and next-generation [...]

Twitter hits 10 billionth tweet

(TELEGRAPH) - The milestone, which was reached last night, underlines Twitter’s meteoric growth and increasing popular appeal. In November 2008, it broke the billion tweets mark, and reached five billion tweets last November.
However, Twitter users have been unable to identify who sent the 10 billionth tweet, as [...]

E-Commerce will be fundamental to entrepreneurial success over the next five years

PayPoint.net’s Powering Small Business Britain report identifies shifts in enterprise and small business activity
(PRWeb UK) March 2, 2010 — Businesses that don’t keep up with the escalating trend towards e-commerce are doomed to fail as the internet takes an ever-greater share of global business, according to a new report published today. But, with nearly half [...]

Kaspersky Lab Automates Internal IT Processes with Assyst from Axios Systems

Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, chooses assyst to create a single global Service Desk, formalize internal IT processes and implement Service Catalog
(PRWeb UK) February 26, 2010 — Axios Systems, the world’s leading provider of IT Service Management (ITSM) solutions, and Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of anti-virus software, today [...]

Twitter hits fan as scams smite banks, cabinet ministers

(THE REGISTER) - The Twitter phishing attacks from earlier this week stepped up a gear on Friday with huge volumes of spam from compromised accounts, some of which belonged to UK cabinet minsters and even a bank.
Pwned micro-blogging accounts include high profile targets such as Ed Miliband MP, Secretary of State for [...]

Google integrates MySpace updates to become more ‘real-time’

(TELEGRAPH) - After announcing the deal in December 2009, the integration has now gone live. The results will show live updates from MySpace users including news, photos, music and blog posts that people had selected to make public, ranking the results by the most [...]

UK Educational Institutions Sitting On a Data Loss Time Bomb

IT professionals surveyed by Acronis indicate that over 50% of teachers suffered from data loss in 2009
London, UK (PRWeb UK) February 16, 2010 — According to a recent survey conducted by Acronis, over half of teachers are not protected by an adequate backup and recovery strategy. As a result a staggering 55% of teachers and [...]

Guava to Speak About the future of Online Content at University College Falmouth

Leading digital marketing company return for third guest lecture discussing web content and trust at UCF.

Cornwall, UK (PRWEB) February 12th, 2010 –Search engine optimisation and digital marketing company, Guava, are to return to University College Falmouth as part of the institution’s ongoing programme of guest lectures from industry specialists.
The lecture, ‘Search and research: The future [...]

voxclever Highlights Importance of Government Support For SMEs

Government resources will be vital in providing improved support for small to medium enterprises as we begin to emerge from the recession according to voxclever, a leading provider of small business IT solutions for SMEs.
London, UK (PRWEB) February 13, 2010 — Government resources will be vital in providing improved support for small to medium enterprises [...]

Fifteen Straight Months At The Top Spot For SEO Consult

TopSEOs, the independent search vendor, has ranked SEO Consult as the best Search Engine Optimisation Company in the UK in February 2010. This latest prize continues a remarkable run of fifteen consecutive months in which SEO Consult, leading global provider of website optimisation services, have achieved first position in this globally recognized award.
(PRWEB) February [...]