European Technology

Archive: 03-2012

• Raspberry Pi: Shipping delayed by a “couple of weeks”

  You may have to wait a little while longer to get hold of the low-cost computing sensation

  Posted by Nick Heath | March 29, 2012, 7:39 AM PDT

• Oracle deal saves UK government £75m

  UK government says it will save £75m by acting as a single customer to Oracle rather than letting each department deal with the software giant separately.

  Posted by Nick Heath | March 28, 2012, 6:35 AM PDT

• Google should censor search results, say MPs

  Search engines should remove links to information deemed private by injunctions in UK courts, says a parliamentary report.

  Posted by Nick Heath | March 27, 2012, 9:40 AM PDT

• London Olympics 2012: Businesses prepare for tech disruption

  Businesses are preparing for the disruption to their tech infrastructure that the London 2012 Olympics is expected to cause.

  Posted by Steve Ranger | March 27, 2012, 7:01 AM PDT

• BT releases Rabit to catch cable thieves

  Can a new network ‘burglar alarm’ cut the damage that metal thieves are causing disruption to BT’s national network?

  Posted by Steve Ranger | March 26, 2012, 7:23 AM PDT

• Why The Pirate Bay’s robot drone idea is just Pi in the sky

  Network experts tell TechRepublic whether the torrent site’s plans to use flying bots to keep the site online could really work.

  Posted by Nick Heath | March 22, 2012, 10:16 AM PDT

• Ten cities in the UK to get “ultrafast” broadband

  London and Birmingham are among cities earmarked for some of the fastest broadband connections in Europe.

  Posted by Nick Heath | March 21, 2012, 1:56 PM PDT

• BBC brings iPlayer video-on-demand to Xbox Live

  The BBC’s video service, seen as one of the UK’s most successful tech developments of recent years, is now available on Xbox Live.

  Posted by Steve Ranger | March 21, 2012, 4:15 AM PDT

• How the UK became an internet economy superstar

  Thanks to a nation of “digital shopkeepers”, the internet economy now accounts for a big slice of the UKs national output

  Posted by Steve Ranger | March 20, 2012, 10:32 AM PDT

• What the Internet of Things means for you

  What to expect when intelligent computing is embedded into the world around us.

  Posted by Nick Heath | March 19, 2012, 10:41 AM PDT