Sky broadband customers blindsided by SMTP switch-off
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Google mail outsourcing deal deadline bites Sky broadband customer have been caught on the hop this week as the firm switched off its in-house SMTP servers and completed outsourcing its email provision to Google.â¦
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School's been blown to pieces 7,500 UK schools using the email services of RM Plc, the UK's largest education technology supplier, have been without communications this week.â¦
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UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB   has temporarily shut down its fledgling broadband film service  after software provided by Microsoft  was cracked,  enabling the digital protection to be stripped.
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FTP, VPNs and Outlook should now be working Just as 3 launches its Â£10 tariff in the UK, its service in Ireland has been suffering incompatibilities, slow speeds, and complaints, forcing the company to waive a month's subs as it struggles to get the service usable.â¦
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By James Daley  The satellite TV group BSkyB ramped up the stakes in its battle with the newly launched Virgin Media yesterday, taking out television adverts to warn cable customers that they could lose access to many of Sky's channels due to Virgin's reluctance to pay enough for them.
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So much for redundant power supplies Some of the net's biggest websites went dark following power interruptions in San Francisco that are disrupted operations at co-location facility 365 Main.â¦
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Some customers are concerned that domain registrar and hosting firm can't handle early move to Daylight Saving Time.
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Broadband gets faster in the UK but some customers are not reaching speeds that firms advertised.
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Slamming mis-selling PlusNet has called on Ofcom to investigate claims that the BT-owned ISPâs customers are being unwittingly switched to TalkTalk services in violation of industry codes.â¦
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Channels switch off at midnight tonight Sky and Virgin Media have failed to reach an agreement on renewing the contract under which Sky channels have been available to Virgin Media (the supplier formally known as NTL) customers, resulting in those channels no longer being available from midnight tonight.â¦
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And UWB licences to be axed Ofcom has allowed fixed broadband internet providers to double the power of their signals in a move the UK telecoms regulator says will help bridge the digital divide.â¦
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BT has won a reprieve after telecoms regulator Ofcom backed away from demanding the former state telecom monopoly&#39;s break-up, calling instead for it to offer rivals equal access to its network.
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Goodbye to POTS Dutch telco KPN joins BT by turning off its public switched telephone network (PSTN) in less than three years. Eelco Blok, the CEO of KPN's fixed network, told German magazine WirtsschaftsWoche it will abandon its 100 year-old fixed line network in 2010 in favor of IP telephony.â¦
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Website buried in bandwidth blizzard Hot on the heels of the recent Southern Railway website debacle - where inclement weather provoked a rush of information-seeking commuters to the company's online information resource, thereby instantly derailing it - we're delighted to report that just the threat of some white stuff falling from the sky has buried the Met Office. The weather-botherers' site currently offers:â¦
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By Jay Lee, Houston Chronicle  Dec. 12--Q: When opening Outlook Express I was given a choice of working online or offline. I accidentally selected the wrong choice, causing all incoming messages to cease.
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Two days left to opt out of new 12-month agreement BT customers with Business PSTN lines will find their contract upgraded to include BT Business Line Divert come Thursday - but will find that upgrade locks them into a 12-month repeating contract unless they opt out before it kicks in.â¦
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Urgent Exchange upgrade Virgin Media customers have been suffering email outages for several days, prompting the firm to call in Microsoft engineers to help with an urgent upgrade.â¦