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January 31, 2008
by Janet Harris
Lenovo and Fujitsu are planning to launch notebooks which use the same chip as Apple's new super-thin MacBook Air notebook.
Intel designed the special Core 2 Duo chip at Apple's request, especially for MacBook Air. The space saving Core 2 Duo uses significantly less power than conventional notebook chips, and is ideal for ultraportable notebooks of 3 pounds ...
by David Allen
Many people believe that by paying the TV licence this gives them the right to receive decent TV picture but this is not so, and for 1.25 million people in East Anglia they appear to be faced with a choice that will cost them even more cash, get satellite or cable or risk losing the picture all together.
National Grid Wireless wanted to ...
by Grant Draper
Promise is a promise in my opinion, not according to Apple it seems. Despite telling anxious users the “take two” version was only a few weeks away, the release has been delayed.
Widescreen TV users in America will be benefiting from the ability to rent high definition movies directly, although the project is “not quite finished” according to Apple
Apple has said it now plans ...
by Grant Draper
Sony’s goal is to “recreate the original cinematic viewing experience as closely as possible at home”, with it’s latest launch, the Sony VPL-VW40 Home Projector.
Sony says, each frame is digitally enhanced; noises are reduced, while colours are vibrant, thanks to BRAVIA ENGINE (a custom processor).
Originally developed for cinema projection systems, the SXRD panel technology delivers the full 1920x1080 resolution, ...
by David Allen
It’s a sign of the times that businesses are finding difficult to make do, but when a company the size of Yahoo announces that they will be laying off over a thousand employees in order for the company to be able to develop and survive well into the future.
The chief executive Jerry Yang reported that the company’s profits had fallen by twenty three ...
by David Allen
It turns out that a village in Cambridgeshire may end up with no broadband at all following a fault that has developed in the exchange that manages their connections.
The people who live in the village of Prickwillow will have to wait to see if their high speed internet will be fixed or taken away leaving them without the connection at all. ...
by David Allen
It was last year when Tiscali paid £210 million for Pipex, this moved the business up to forth place in the league of ISP’s, but they appear to be having problems with the system used by Pipex and are planning a sneaky switch over which will make things more efficient and of course help Tiscali's profit margins.
The problem with the Pipex system is that ...
by Alan Harten
The government of the United States has announced that it will continue to scrutinise Microsoft, regarding the company's perceived compliance, with the terms of the antitrust case; the scrutiny will last for a minimum of two more years.
Court appointed supervisors will study Microsoft’s compliance, with regard to the antitrust ruling until at least November 2009, Colleen ...
by Fahim Farook
The Boeing Company, which has a contact to build three new satellites for DIRECTV, Inc., has announced the delivery of the second of those satellites, DIRECTV 11, to its Sea Launch Home Port in Long Beach, California. The satellite will be launched via a Sea Launch Zenit-3SL rocket in March this year. DIRECTV 11 is a 702-model satellite ...
January 30, 2008
by Janet Harris
According to French Web metrics company, XiTi Monitor, Mozilla’s Firefox browser gained market share in 90% of European countries in December.
At the end of the year, Firefox held a 28% share of the European browser market, a 5 per cent improvement on 2006.
Firefox made its gains at the expense of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, but Internet Explorer still remains way out ...
by Grant Draper
An initial dip HD DVD sales, when Warner Bro’s announced dropping the format, has now been corrected in the states.
According to NPD Group data, the week ending January 19:
• 33% of all high definition set-top unit sales were HD DVD
• 63% of all high definition set-top unit sales were Blu-ray
• 4% of all high definition set-top unit sales were Dual Format.
As you can see from the figures, ...
by David Allen
It promised to be the next gen in music downloads, Qtrax is supposed to be the first website that will offer unlimited and more importantly free music. But somehow they found themselves being plagued with problems.
The website is reputedly to have over twenty five million tracks all ready to be downloaded at no cost to the user, but despite all of the promises ...
by David Allen
The digital television equipment and technology company Pace have been doing very well this year, after the Saltaire based company announced that they are on course for their continued growth and expansion, this comes following the results for 2007, which shows a pre tax profit of more than fifteen million pounds.
The company has been shipping out set boxes in huge quantities, in fact in ...
by David Allen
With work continuing to build the broadband network in Scottish highlands and islands, the progress is said to be going well, but there are also warnings that there will some extra costs and even more delays before the job is completed.
Originally the project was going to cost around £70 million, but this has already gone £1.6 million over budget and is at the moment ...
by David Allen
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received a complaint from a member of the public, they take it really seriously it seems. The complaint was regarding an advert on a certain social networking site, but as it turned out the advert was out of date by three weeks.
The advert was for a broadband package deal which offered speeds up to 24 Mbps for a ...
by Rohan Parker
The second quarter of this year will see the launch of the new nForce790i chipset from Nvidia. The new motherboard will support Intel processors with FSB of up to 1600MHz, and will adopt Nvidia's current C73 northbridge and MCP55 southbridge.
The nForce 790i is set to replace the current high-end product and will feature 3-way SLI and Hybrid SLI ...
by Alan Harten
The music industry has requested, or should that be begged, for help from Internet service providers, known as ISP’s, and worldwide governments, to assist the ailing industry in its fight with pirate music suppliers
Speaking on the behalf of the big music companies. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, or IFPI, has published proposals that Internet service ...
by Fahim Farook
Globecomm Network Services Corporation, which provides global communications, media and entertainment services via satellite, has been awarded a multi-year contract by Showtime Networks Inc. to broadcast the Smithsonian Channel, a new high-definition channel, as part of the Showtime family of channels. Globecomm has also upgraded Showtime 2, an existing standard-definition channel, to high-definition as part of their continuous process of evolving and upgrading their existing content platform. As ...
January 29, 2008
by Janet Harris
Apple is selling a range of accessories for the new, ultra-thin MacBook Air notebook, which it announced at the Apple MacWorld Conference in San Francisco on 15 January. MacBook Air is less than an inch thick and turns on the moment it's opened.
Unfortunately the notebook's stunning design seems to have been achieved at the expense of features, and Apple is making ...
by David Allen
Following a mini cabinet reshuffle at number ten, it seems that the current Broadband Minister Stephen Timms is needed elsewhere like the Department for Work and Pensions. So who will be replacing him?
It’s going to a lady, Baroness Shriti Vadera will be taking up the position of communications minister and the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform, and her predecessor was having ...
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Lenovo and Fujitsu are planning to launch notebooks which use the same chip as Apple's new super-thin MacBook Air notebook.
Intel designed the special Core 2 Duo chip at Apple's request, especially for MacBook Air. The space saving Core 2 Duo uses significantly less power than conventional notebook chips, and is ideal for ultraportable notebooks of 3 pounds ...
According to French Web metrics company, XiTi Monitor, Mozilla’s Firefox browser gained market share in 90% of European countries in December.
At the end of the year, Firefox held a 28% share of the European browser market, a 5 per cent improvement on 2006.
Firefox made its gains at the expense of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, but Internet Explorer still remains way out ...
