BT must allow rivals to lay fibre in Openreach ducts and telegraph poles, while Ofcom also wants open access division to make own decisions and budgets
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Government promises business broadband review
Business secretary Sajid Javid promises manufacturers he will launch inquiry into the availability and affordability of business broadband
Microsoft’s Surface Book hits the UK
UK launch also marked with software update for both Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 to address battery issues
iPhone sales fall for the first time
However Gartner figures still show global smartphone sales growing by nearly 10 percent last quarter
Vodafone pays less tax in the UK than last year
Will there be more protests about Vodafone's low UK tax bill?
Apple repair indy hits back over Error 53
Problem is 'being blown out of all proportion' says iCorrect, to the detriment of independent Apple repairers
VTech tries to avoid data breach responsibility – could it affect business products?
VTech is the world's largest maker of cordless phones and is a contract manufacturer for electronic products
Google kills off Flash support for ads
From 30 June Google will not accept ads built in Flash for DoubleClick and Google Display Network ad services
Toshiba launches pan-European PC marketing campaign
Make IT work effort is backed by a €1 million-plus spend said Toshiba
TalkTalk data breach sees customers targeted after engineering visits
Attackers gain access to engineering visit data to trick customers in the latest TalkTalk security mishap
Lexmark unveils new global partner programme
Company takes a holistic approach to channel support
BlackBerry cuts yet more jobs
Layoffs at company’s home-town plant will help BlackBerry ‘improve efficiency’
Symantec gets $500m investment as sales and profits tumble
$5.5bn capital return programme started, including a special share dividend, after Veritas sale completed
Microsoft adds more power to Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book
Souped-up Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book are even available with a golden stylus, but do not come cheap
Waitrose brings in PCMS to support mobile and tablet promos
Ten year deal adds to PCMS contracts at John Lewis, Marks & Spencer and Waterstones
EMEA PC shipments slumped 16% says Gartner
Not much good news for PC vendors this year either says the analyst
Apple appoints COO in executive rejig
Marketing, logistics, design and developer support is the focus of the appointments
Extreme Networks offers trade in deal for latest switches
Promotion is designed to promote software-defined networking, cloud working and the mobile enterprise
Zilliant hires global channel head to execute new partner offering
The data sciences firm offers prescriptive selling technology to CRM integrators and consultants
Most small firms don’t offer consumers the right online services
Nominet research shows that the majority of SMEs admit they are not meeting expectations of potential customers
Business should also review cloud storage costs after CMA acts
Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) moves on cloud data storage providers after complaints from consumers over prices and lost data
Comarch: The Poles are coming!
IT solutions provider on the march thanks to Internet of Things, telemedicine and new UK contracts
Posiflex expands UK POS distribution network
The supplier is adding a new distributor to accompany its established one
Eflex cuts fulfilment and despatch times with ZenStores
The technology retailer sells and refurbishes laptops and desktop computers
Lenovo announces ‘immediate’ Windows 10 shipping
Windows 10 upgrades will also start on 29 July
Logitech unveils collaboration programme
Logitech already has strong product integration with Cisco, Google and Microsoft
Widget UK reports big wearables and smart watch growth
Widget distributes Fitbit, Pebble, Sphero, TomTom and Orbitsound products
BlackBerry appoints new president of global sales
Struggling smartphone maker gets Cisco, Apple, Avaya, Lucent and Texas Instruments veteran
Kano Raspberry Pi computer points to more coding sales
The brightly coloured computer can be built in about ten minutes
NewerTech offers loaded iPhone case bandwagon
One of the company's NuGuard KX protective cases was tried out by ChannelBiz.co.uk
