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January 29, 2008
by David Allen
Its is a good sign for the IPTV market in the UK that a Scottish based IPTV equipment manufacturer Exterity is in the fortunate position to be reporting a good growth in orders destined for the home territory, this expansion in business in Scotland alone has prompted the company to recruit a dedicated sales manager just for the Scottish territory.
Exterity has been in ...
by David Allen
The UK’s premier pay TV service that allows Freeview digital television users to add additional channels to their package, Top Up TV are to launch a new and improved version of their digital TV recorder, which is essentially a Freeview box with a hard drive installed where programmes can be stored.
This machine will come with a 250 Gb hard drive, which ...
by David Allen
Despite all of the work done over the years to speed up and secure the broadband network one thing still remains the same, and that is the ISP’s, of course some of them have merged and some have fallen, but the principles remain the same.
It is estimated that at least one in ten broadband subscribers who are businesses have either changed their ...
by Alan Harten
It is expected that BSkyB will today, be instructed to sell off more than 50% of its shares in ITV, following over a year of legal wrangling with regulatory authorities, and negotiation, with TV competitors; it looks like their participation in ITV will come to an end.
This ruling will undoubtedly cost Rupert Murdoch's company several hundreds of millions of pounds.
It ...
by Rohan Parker
Asustek Computer has announced their plan to grab 6% of the global notebook market, an objective set by chairman Jonney Shih during his yearly address to the company. If Asustek are to achieve this formidable internal goal, however, they will need to establish revenues of NT$340 billion this year alone, which would be a 50% increase on their 2007 revenues.
Despite both ...
January 28, 2008
by Janet Harris
HP has launched Compaq dc7800 Ultra-Slim Business Desktop, its smallest enterprise desktop model, with the option of adding a 16GB flash-based solid-state drive (SSD) from SanDisk for an extra $330.
The SSD provided a faster boot time than a conventional hard drive, improved power efficiency and support for tools, including Intel's vPro, for easier PC management. According to HP, the ...
by Grant Draper
Olivier Van Wynedaele of the Consumer Products Division, Toshiba Information Systems, has made a statement responding to the recent news of Woolworths’ only stocking Blu-ray Discs in its retail stores.
"We have been hugely successful in expanding the number of consumers owning HD DVD players. UK consumers can now pick-up an HD DVD player for less than £150, around half the cost of ...
by David Allen
While the BBC is support by the licence payer’s fee, TV companies in the real world need to find their funding from advertising, and this has been going fairly well. But fears of a worldwide recession have made some advertising think twice about their advertising budgets and have begun to cut back.
Clearly the two main channels affected are going to be ITV and Channel ...
by David Allen
Increasing the top speed of their broadband to up to 50 Mb would for many Virgin Media customers leave them saying “Its about time” and of everyone else they would be thinking “What about us?” but Virgin Media once again are moving forward, following the trails that they held in the towns of Ashford, Dover and Folkestone in Kent.
The trials were of ...
by David Allen
There are growing concerns within the industry that the increase in IPTV could be responsible for the clogging up of the internet which slows the speeds down to the good old days of dial up. Concerns have come about since the BBC’s launch of the iPlayer over Christmas, this has seen a massive three and half million downloads in the first two weeks.
But ...
by David Allen
The digital revolution is sweeping through the hallowed hall of the BBC, blowing away all of those cobwebs that have accumulated over the years. But as always with change comes some conflict and the BBC’s plans to create a network of 60 very local websites has created much conflict from the regional media.
The local press see this as an all out assault on ...
by Alan Harten
The ever popular YouTube video site is about to make available its huge visual library on millions more mobile phones.
As part of ambitious new plans, the company, which is part of the Google group, intends to widen service to provide access to seventeen countries and in eleven languages.
The company says it will be increasing its service from just what ...
January 25, 2008
by Janet Harris
Dell and Microsoft are collaborating on a range of PCs, as part of the Product (Red) programme.
The programme was founded by Bono the lead singer in U2, and philanthropist Bobby Shriver. It comprises a group of companies which donate some of the proceeds from certain products towards research into Aids in Africa.
Dell's Product (Red) PCs will come with ...
by Alan Harten
The United Kingdom, looks like it will have its first city with total fibre internet connectivity, courtesy of cables laid throughout the sewer system, within the next couple of years.
On Wednesday, the networking company H2O said its running of fibre optic cables through city sewers means that it can carry up to 100Mbps connections within a smaller city in less than two years.
The ...
by David Allen
Due the amount of complaints that the BBC have received from licence fee payers regarding the corporations decision to change the credits at the end of most programmes on all of the BBC channels. Whereas before the programme was allowed to finish in its entirety, now the programme that has just finished is squeezed into half the screen, while the other half of ...
by David Allen
A senior Birmingham City Councillor, Les Lawrence whose remit is for children, young people and families, is calling on internet service providers to help families who are having problems affording a fast internet service for their children. This as we know could be holding them back from getting on at school and therefore could affect their future.
Nationwide figures show that there are ...
by David Allen
It seems that digital television just cannot stay out of the news these days, now it seems that there has been some research done into the viewing habits of people from the UK, by the Television marketing company Think Box, and by using the ratings figures as compiled by Barb, the ratings organisation.
The research claims that viewers in the UK are ...
by David Allen
Throughout the UK there are a growing number of broadband consumers who are feeling let down by their ISP’s. The main problems are right from the beginning with setting up, and that old favourite calling customer services.
A recent survey found that around twenty five per cent of UK internet users are not very happy about the service that they are receiving from their ...
by Rohan Parker
3 new IGP chipsets launched in China this week, with the rest of the world set to see the products around March 5 of this year.
The new chipsets include the AMD 740G, the AMD 280V, and the AMD 780G. The AMD 740G chipset, with ATI Radeon 2100 graphics, is compatible with the RS780, but only supports up to DirectX9, ...
January 24, 2008
by Grant Draper
A patent litigation proceeding has been initiated by Gemstar-TV Guide International, against Virgin Media.
Gemstar are accusing Virgin Media of infringing three current patents:
• (UK) 0 969 662
• (UK) 1 377 049
• EP (UK) 1 613 066
"We have worked diligently to license Virgin Media for their distribution of various set-top boxes that contain IPGs covered by our patents, but negotiations did not lead to a resolution," ...
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Its is a good sign for the IPTV market in the UK that a Scottish based IPTV equipment manufacturer Exterity is in the fortunate position to be reporting a good growth in orders destined for the home territory, this expansion in business in Scotland alone has prompted the company to recruit a dedicated sales manager just for the Scottish territory.
Exterity has been in ...
A patent litigation proceeding has been initiated by Gemstar-TV Guide International, against Virgin Media.
Gemstar are accusing Virgin Media of infringing three current patents:
• (UK) 0 969 662
• (UK) 1 377 049
• EP (UK) 1 613 066
"We have worked diligently to license Virgin Media for their distribution of various set-top boxes that contain IPGs covered by our patents, but negotiations did not lead to a resolution," ...
