Telecoms watchdog Oftel is inadequately staffed and too poorly funded to keep the UK's telcos in check, according to MPs. A Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report published today warns that dominant telecoms companies have "considerable resources...
The UK today achieved a world first by throwing open its entire gas and electricity market to competition. The electricity market for small businesses and domestic customers first opened up last September, but the job is complete as of today.
UK gas and electricity company, Independent Energy, has acquired York Gas for an undisclosed amount. The company claims it is now the largest independent provider of both gas and electricity in the UK, with nearly 250,000 customers, including Boots...
The project was designed to avoid energy shortages and the power centre will be powered by gas-fire, with electricity from the national grid used only as a back-up source. The £22m deal makes the site, which hosts clients' websites, the first in...
The Sun Fire 15k Server is the largest Unix server available in a single cabinet. CPUs within Sun Fire can be exchanged with those in the smallest of Sun's server range and each part of the server can operate independently and intelligently...
Rumours are rife this week that Microsoft is about to make perhaps its most significant acquisition yet - antivirus giant McAfee - formerly known as Network Associates. Companies would deny it was happening whether it was or wasn't at this stage in...