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Week in Review: Microsoft cuts ties with Yahoo
Microsoft finally gives up on its long and protracted takeover bid. We also looked at ID cards, sewer broadband, lie detectors, future wireless,...
Bournemouth wins fibre broadband sewer network
Bournemouth is chosen by H2O Networks as the first city to implement a sewer broadband network system throughout its homes and businesses.
Analysis: BT's fibre plans go national
How will BT's plans to spend £1.5 billion on a national fibre network affect businesses - and are they too little, too late?
Dundee to become Scotland’s first “fibrecity”
Broadband internet access should be available to 55,000 homes by 2010 by running fibre through the sewers.<br>
End of the road for 3.5 inch, fibre channel
Seagate predicts 3.5 inch drives and fibre channel interfaces are on the way out, in favour of smaller form factors and SAS.
Ofcom chairman rejects fibre optics
No need for regulation while fibre technology is 'undefined' and 'not yet stable.'
Ofcom talks fibre-to-the-home
Government watchdog suggests it is set to make a deal with BT over a fibre broadband network in the UK.
New BT head suggests fibre... for some
The new boss of BT, Ian Livingston, has hinted the company might cover the costs for fibre to homes, but not to the entire country.
Ofcom casts doubt on future of fibre
UK regulator launches consultation looking at next-generation broadband, signalling that fibre-to-the-home is not necessarily the way forward.
BT testing 100Mb/sec fibre broadband
Trials of super-fast broadband over fibre optic are to take place from August in Kent.
BT rethinks policy on fibre optics as copper prices soar
With the price of copper cabling going up in price, fibre optic is now cheaper to install in new buildings, claims chief engineer of BT Openreach.
BT to invest £1.5 billion in fast broadband
BT has said the fibre network will be available to 10 million people by 2012.
BT rules out deployment of fibre-to-the-home
Rollout of ADSL2+ over existing copper last-mile will be enough, insists BT, with its 21CN project providing enough bandwidth for UK consumers'...
Ofcom looks to utilities for networks
The watchdog is considering using existing waterworks and energy infrastructure to deploy fibre networks.
Brocade enters HBA market
New iSCSI and Fibre Channel host bus adapters see storage company enter £500m market.
Brocade unveils 10 Gigabit Ethernet San strategy
Storage company promises move to Ethernet and iSCSI will not leave behind Fibre Channel customers.
IT PRO Podcast: Ups and downs in the tech economy
This week, we discuss quarterly results and the strength of IT in a weakening economy, as well as Asus' latest Eee PC, free Wi-Fi in coffee shops,...
Plastic fibre offer 'last mile' alternative
Researchers have developed an alternative to copper and glass network infrastructure cabling they claim could eliminate issues of cost and...
SNW Europe: World's first external small format RAID subsystem launched
Infortrend take the wraps off the first small form factor RAID subsystem, offering SAS-to-SAS and fibre channel to SAS drive arrays.