Neowin News Feed for: Wales

Revealed: These UK cities have the fastest and slowest broadband speeds

Paul Hill — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 08:00:01 +0000

A new report from Broadband Genie has found out which UK cities have the fastest and slowest broadband. Interestingly, the best performers were widely distributed around the UK nations. Read more...

NHS COVID-19 app hobbled to reduce number of ‘pings'

Paul Hill — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 18:40:01 +0000

The NHS COVID-19 app has received an update that will see fewer people receive self-isolation alerts. The government faced criticism after 600,000 people were pinged in a single week in July. Read more...

Google and Apple block NHS COVID-19 app update over privacy issues

Paul Hill — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 14:22:01 +0000

The England and Wales NHS COVID-19 app has had an update blocked by Google and Apple. The tech firms said that the update would go against privacy rules which the government initially agreed to. Read more...

RootMetrics says EE is the mobile carrier to beat in the UK

Paul Hill — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:02:01 +0000

EE has come out as the best mobile carrier around the UK in RootMetrics' latest report. The authors did over half a million tests around the country to find out which carriers were most reliable. Read more...

Virgin Media connects Welsh towns and cities to its Gig1 network

Paul Hill — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 12:04:01 +0000

Virgin Media has announced that its Gig1 gigabit network is now available in areas around south Wales. It comes just under a month after Gig1 arrived in London and Northern Ireland. Read more...

NHS COVID-19 app removes possible exposure notifications

Paul Hill — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 14:28:01 +0000

The NHS COVID-19 app has been updated. It removes possible exposure and near-miss notifications, improves the distance measurements and lowers the threshold for isolation notifications. Read more...

UK's numerous contact tracing apps to become interoperable

Paul Hill — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 21:44:01 +0000

The coronavirus contact tracing apps across the UK will also speak to one another from November meaning that users don't have to download different apps if they cross borders to other nations. Read more...

NHS contact tracing app receives fix for scary notification

Paul Hill — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 17:00:01 +0000

A new update has been published for the NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app. The update addresses a scary notification that tells users they may have been exposed to COVID-19 without further explanation. Read more...

England and Wales COVID-19 contact tracing app launches

Paul Hill — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 00:22:01 +0000

England and Wales have finally released their COVID-19 contact tracing app for Android and iOS. Scotland and Northern Ireland independently released their own contact tracing apps. Read more...

Old TV in Welsh village behind broadband outages

Paul Hill — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 12:16:01 +0000

An old second-hand TV has been emitting an electrical signal in a village in Wales knocking surrounding broadband connections offline. It took Openreach engineers 18 months to discover the cause. Read more...

Cyberflashing law reforms set to come to England and Wales

Paul Hill — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 16:02:02 +0000

The Law Commission has put forward some reforms for the U.K. government to look at, they include the criminalisation of cyberflashing and pile-on harassment but increase the criminality threshold. Read more...

England and Wales to launch COVID tracing app on Sept. 24

Paul Hill — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 12:00:01 +0000

England and Wales will launch their new coronavirus contact tracing app to the general public on September 24. It will let people know if they've come into contact with the virus and need to isolate. Read more...

UK: Campaigners call for anonymity in revenge porn cases and better police training

Paul Hill — Sun, 19 May 2019 08:58:01 +0000

Campaigners and experts have made calls for victims of revenge porn to be given anonymity when they report a crime. Revenge porn cases also saw a 23% drop in charges in recent years. Read more...

Ofcom claims that a majority of UK homes and businesses can access ultra-fast broadband

Paul Hill — Fri, 03 May 2019 04:08:01 +0000

Ofcom has released a new report which suggests that the majority (53%) of premises in the UK now have access to ultra-fast broadband which is defined as having download speeds above 300Mbit/s. Read more...

UK: Vodafone will launch 5G in 19 towns and cities this year

Paul Hill — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 16:58:02 +0000

Vodafone has announced that it will launch its 5G network to the public in 19 cities and towns this year. The announcement comes just months after it concluded a successful trial of 5G. Read more...

UK government is encouraging public sector organisations to use Office 365

Paul Hill — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 10:18:02 +0000

The UK government is to begin encouraging public sector organisations to use Office 365. Microsoft outlined that the move would save the government money, enhance co-operation, and bolster security. Read more...

Lockheed Martin will launch rockets from planned UK spaceport in the early 2020s

Paul Hill — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 15:38:01 +0000

The UK is aiming to have rockets take off from Sutherland, Scotland by the early 2020s from a newly built spaceport. Spaceports are also expected to be built in Glasgow, Cornwall, and Snowdonia. Read more...

Free Wi-Fi is coming to train services across England and Wales by 2017

Andy Weir — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 21:20:01 +0000

The UK government is spending £47.8m to bring fast, reliable and free Wi-Fi to trains in five rail franchise areas across England and Wales - including the new TSGN super-franchise - from 2017. Read more...