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BT Home Hub encryption under fire
News Ethical hackers from open-source research site GNUCitizen have claimed to have found a flaw in BT Home Hub router encryption. Adrian Pastor, a security researcher who contributes to the GNUCitizen site, claimed he had been able to build a program...
[April 16, 2008, 12:15]
BT Business Hub review
Reviews BT's Business Total Broadband includes the Business Hub (2700HGV) with the 8Mbps unlimited 'Option 2' (£25/month) and 'Option 3' (£30/month) packages. BT's Business Hub lets you set up a secure BT Openzone hotspot within your business premises.
[May 13, 2009, 11:37]
BT upgrades its Home Hub routers
News BT has launched the latest version of its Home Hub Wi-Fi router. According to BT, the use of 'N' Wi-Fi means the new Home Hub has "up to twice the wireless range" of previous models and those still issued by BT's competitors.
[July 14, 2008, 15:34]
BT under fire over GPL 'violation'
News BT is in dispute with some in the open-source community over its use of GPL-licensed code in its Home Hub router. As reported earlier this week, BT was recently accused of violating the GPL through its use of open-source software within the Home Hub.
[January 26, 2007, 16:04]
BT business customers to become Wi-Fi hotspots
News BT will soon offer all its business-hub users the chance to become Wi-Fi hotspots for their visitors and neighbours, the firm revealed on Wednesday. BT Business Open Wi-Fi will be an extension of the communications and IT firm's existing programme...
[May 21, 2008, 11:45]
BT denies routers still vulnerable to months-old hack
News The hackers, who call their organisation GNUCitizen, posted a blog on Monday that claimed users of BT's Home Hub routers could be conned into making premium-rate VoIP calls, due to the continued existence of a security hole in the router's firmware.
[January 22, 2008, 12:23]
BT's next-generation consumer offering: does BT have the answer?
News The core of the whole offering comprises two elements: ADSL broadband and the "BT Hub", a router that provides a wireless network in the home. It has also done well to emphasise the CPE aspects of the offering: it's always much easier to market a...
[December 22, 2005, 11:30]
BT turns business customers into Wi-Fi hotspots
News The latest version of the BT Business Total Broadband hub, unveiled on Monday, can effectively be turned into a BT Openzone Wi-Fi hotspot — users can give their connectivity away, or sell their customers BT Openzone vouchers and keep 25 percent of...
[February 9, 2009, 15:49]
BT launches "watershed" fixed and mobile handset
News Fusion, previously known as Project Bluephone, is aimed initially at the consumer market and is based around a cordless Motorola handset that acts as a normal cellular phone outside of the home, but inside routes calls through a hub onto a BT...
[June 15, 2005, 12:05]
BT accused of GPL violation
News BT has now admitted that its Home Hub product — a wireless router for the home market — contains GPL-licensed software. The Home Hub went on sale last year, but BT only started offering this code for download from its website on Monday 22 January.
[January 23, 2007, 16:02]
VoIP takes off
News Such devices include Vonage's handset, which plugs directly into an ADSL-enabled wall socket, and BT's Home Hub, which allows users to connect any handset directly into the IP-driven media hub itself.
[August 10, 2006, 16:25]
Mobile BT Webcam
Downloads Mobile BT Webcam requires FASTCODE MOBILE HUB V1.0 to run on te PC Side. FASTCODE MOBILE HUB V1.0 is a free software from FASTCODE and can be downloaded from HERE and it is compatible with WINDOWS XP / 2000 operating systems.
[June 7, 2008, 8:00]
BT results defy analysts
News Those services - particularly those surrounding BT Fusion, the company's Wi-Fi-hub-centred convergence offering for the home - will in future be speedily delivered by download, which should make them easier to roll out.
[July 27, 2006, 14:55]
BT offers small firms mobile convergence
News With the business version of Fusion, a firm will install a hub in the office that will connect the Fusion phones to the corporate system. also claimed that Fusion phones sometimes defaulted to a mobile network even if they are within reach of the...
[February 7, 2006, 15:45]
BT proves itself open to correction
Leader Part one says "Take this software and do what you like with it" — and BT liked to create its Home Hub wireless networking device on the back of a Linux distribution designed to help build exactly that.
[January 24, 2007, 15:53]
BT moves into smartphone market
News Until now, the company has relied on lower-specified feature phones for its Fusion service, which allows customers to make calls over the internet, rather than a mobile network, when in range of their home or business BT router or "hub".
[February 13, 2007, 12:22]
RFID: BT says 'yes', survey says 'no'
News BT Auto-ID Services chief executive Ross Hall likened the infrastructure around RFID to the telephone network, with BT in the middle acting as central hub or switch -- feeding in data from tags and dishing out information to a company's internal...
[February 3, 2004, 10:10]
BT keeps quiet on Wi-Fi sharing talks
News If BT and FON do sign a deal, it is thought that those home hubs would be made available for public use, albeit with the consent of the BT subscriber in whose home the hub is installed. BT is refusing to comment on reports that it is in talks with...
[February 5, 2007, 12:46]
BT invites Second Life users to AvaTalk
News Brotherton said other organisations who are interested in hosting an AvaTalk hub should contact BT once the trial has begun. BT is upping its presence in Second Life with a trial of its free AvaTalk phone and texting service.
[March 25, 2008, 14:15]
BT unites mobile and fixed business telephony
News The system, known as Corporate Fusion and launched on Thursday, uses a similar approach to the existing domestic BT Fusion system, which offers dual-mode handsets that switch between Wi-Fi or Bluetooth and standard GSM coverage depending on their...
[September 14, 2006, 14:45]
