BT will upgrade 178 telephone exchanges in a bid to ensure the government’s target of Europe’s best broadband network by 2015.
The upgrades will take broadband coverage to another 1.8 million homes, giving more than half the UK population access to broadband in 2012, according to The Telegraph…
An Ofcom report has found that take up of super-fast broadband in the UK is very low despite now being available in many parts of the country.
The communications watchdog released the information as part of its sixth annual International Communications Market Report. The report looks at internet services on offer to consumers and the way in which they use them.
“In terms of availability of super-fast services the UK compares favourably [with other European countries], with 48 percent of households passed by Virgin Media’s cable service in June 2010 and around 20 percent passed by BT’s fibre-to-the-cabinet services (FTTC).”
The UK defines superfast broadband as faster than 24Mbps…
A major report into the cost of fixing software problems in live applications revealed that the average large application requires £2.23m extra to fix as a result of problems once applications go live, but leaving software to run with problems risks even greater damage.
Software measurement firm Cast published the results of its Report on Application Software Health, which analysed 365 million lines of code in 745 large software applications belonging to 160 companies in 10 countries, revealed an average cost (technical debt) of £2.23 per line of code to fix…
Scientists in Bristol have built and demonstrated a working, programmable photonic chip that “generates manipulates and measures entanglement and mixture”. The scientists, whose work is published in Nature Photonics, describe their work as “a major step forward towards optical quantum computing”.
“In order to build a quantum computer, we not only need to be able to control complex phenomena such as entanglement and mixture, but we need to be able to do this on a chip, so that we can scalably and practically duplicate many such miniature circuits – in much the same way as the modern computers we have today,” says Professor Jeremy O’Brien, Director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics at Bristol University…
UK workers are addicted to accessing work-related information 24 hours a day and risk drowning in it unless their business takes steps to support the information explosion, according to a survey.
The YouGov research, commissioned by Symantec, interviewed over 1,000 office workers about their relationships with information. It analysed how businesses can create an environment that supports workers in today’s information heavy business environment.
With data at the fingertips of employees on numerous devices 24 hours a day businesses are faced with security, storage and availability challenges…
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