Internet
As traffic demands grow, PCs and laptops may start operating at much slower speeds. Internet users will have to make do with slower and more unreliable connections as online traffic increases.
The chief information officer (CIO) of the Daily Telegraph newspaper today described how cloud computing was one of the main technologies moving the group into the future.
T-Mobile has warned the Government not to pin its hopes on mobile broadband to achieve its aim of a 2Mbits/sec connection for every home in Britain. Lord Carter's provisional Digital Britain report stated that a new universal service obligation (USO) will compel fixed and mobile-broadband providers to deliver a 2Mbits/sec connections to every home in the country by 2012.
Visa has taken the Royal Bank of Scotland Group's RBS Worldpay and US payments processor Heartland Payment Systems off its list of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant service providers.
Mobile phones offer faster processors, larger screens and smoother interfaces - just how far we are from experiencing a full desktop internet experience on our mobile?
An EU ruling comes into force which means that British ISPs will have to retain data by law, in order to aid police and intelligence agencies.


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