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January 24, 2008
by David Allen
This is news that comes straight from the horse’s mouth, in this case the horses mouth is the overall boss of Tiscali, Tommaso Pompei. He believes that the market is such that the UK arm of their business is to be the likely target for a larger company to come along and pick up a bargain.
They been struggling themselves to keep up ...
by David Allen
Most people in the UK have heard about the switchover from analogue to digital and if they haven’t then they may in trouble later on when the change over happens in their area.
Another clue to people who are a little unsure about all of this may be coming to a high street soon, for the leading electronics retailer DSG International whose ...
by David Allen
With so many problems affecting how well we can receive broadband the may be a solution right under our noises, the basic television aerial, where the space has been divided up into spectrums, as long as there was enough space available.
But with the switchover from analogue to digital, then maybe this could just free up the space required to make this type ...
by David Allen
Another broadband fault has left around forty thousand internet users without any service, after the Karoo service suffered from what was explained as a major fault.
The companies engineering staff have been working on trying to fix this problem, which is affecting over half of their subscriber base. There has been talk from the parent company Kcom, saying the usual, like they are ...
by Alan Harten
The BBC and MySpace announced Thursday that they have reached agreement that will allow clips from many of the BBC’s popular shows being made available on the social networking giant.
This will be the first time that, MySpace has entered into a partnership with a broadcaster; this is part of a strategy to make available, more video content for users. ...
by Rohan Parker
The AMD Taiwan Embedded Forum was this week the venue for an announcement from AMD regarding a series of additions to its embedded systems portfolio.
The company has said that the energy-efficient AMD Sempron processor 3700+ offers increased consistent performance and super low-power thermal envelope for value-based designs, whilst the AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core TL-56 and TL-62 processors achieve ...
January 23, 2008
by Grant Draper
A 40-inch TV has been spotted that has 155 rubies, embedded in its surround.
The TV, which will apparently be marketed at $85,000 is said to be of HD quality.
For people who want to spend even more on their customized home cinema, bigger screens and more rubies can be added, at an extra cost.
by Lin Freestone
DSG International, the owner of Currys, is to stop selling analogue television sets and DVD recorders and has stopped placing orders for analogue-only equipment.
Currys’ managing director Peter Keenan, is concerned at the high volumes of analogue TVs still on sale in the UK.
He has said: “We favour early transition to a ...
by Janet Harris
Swedish company, Polar Rose, is planning to make its face recognition technology publicly available on the web in the second quarter of 2008.
The technology can identify faces from images on the Internet, allowing photographs to be indexed in the same way as text documents.
The free software for making photos searchable is available as a browser plug-in. From February, ...
by David Allen
The work that is needed to install the new super fast broadband cables is a huge undertaking, it involves planning and digging of up roads or paths, but in some most places there is a ready made place that a cable could be easily laid in a fast, safe and non-disruptive manner.
The UK’s sewer system is over 360,000 miles long and is connected to most ...
by David Allen
The BBC chairman Sir Michael Lyons looks as if he is going to make a U turn on making the publicly funded body more transparent. There was the possibility that we may have been able to see where al of the cash is going, particularly on the subject on who gets paid what? This is a tricky subject but it would seem to be ...
by David Allen
There are probably not many employee's who has access to a computer at work, who has not succumbed to the urge to check out what’s happening on their favourite social networking site like FaceBook or MySpace, and the figures that are being put around today by Global Secure Systems, prove that this could be a real problem.
It is estimated that if the average ...
by David Allen
For what would seem to a long time, Sky One has been the one that all others follow, but there have been some changes recently in the quality of programming available on Sky One. But the challenge to BSkyB has come from a very unlikely source.
For the first time Five US one the digital outlets from Channel Five came really close to ...
by Alan Harten
Microsoft has revealed a set of instructions aimed at administrators who wish to avoid the forced upgrade to version 7, the latest version of Internet Explorer, , due to be launched on the world on Feb 12.
Microsoft's software update service for businesses users of Windows Server Update Services, or (WSUS), who currently use Internet Explorer ...
January 22, 2008
by Janet Harris
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has revealed the first major update to HTML for 10 years - HTML 5.
The update was developed by a W3C working group, which includes Google, IBM, Microsoft, Mozilla and Nokia.
The revision takes into account the current trend for rich-media applications and online collaboration.
The previous version, HTML 4, was published in 1997, ...
by Brian Turner
UK companies are increasingly turning to private bonded broadband services to cope with new media, as disillusionment with existing ISP's continues.
While BT has stated that it aims to implement faster broadband solutions, customer satisfaction surveys have found businesses are rarely entirely satisfied with the product levels and service options offered.
This is all the more an issue as triple play services come into ...
by David Allen
With the sweeping changes that have hit the BBC, meaning that cutbacks and redundancies swept through the news and current departments, while when comes to BBC 3 the opposite seems to apply causing much anger within the BBC.
But BBC 3 has a growing audience and now with a new controller Danny Cohen the new style changes will be coming into effect, ...
by David Allen
In a poll conducted by BT Total Broadband to find which are the best websites or rather preferred websites used by BT customers. There were seventeen categories to choose from and in some cases it was not always the obvious business who won the category, the results are below:
Best Books Website
1. www.amazon.com
2. www.waterstones.co.uk
3. www.play.com
Best Celebrity Website
1. www.holymoly.co.uk
2. www.nowmagazine.co.uk
3. www.heatworld.com
Best Cookery Website
1. www.bbcgoodfood.com
2. ...
by David Allen
Combining books, internet and satellite TV sounds like a great idea, and Borders Books are about to launch their new IPTV channel at Borders.co.uk. The channel will be totally about books, authors, news etc, but the really interesting part is that visitors will be able to produce their own videos of them reviewing books and then upload them to the site where other ...
by David Allen
The BT home hub is a very popular router with consumers, however it seems that it have a flaw which could lead to the customer being duped into handing over personal details such as banking and other information that could lead to identity theft.
The attack will start with the customers router being used for a VOIP call, and after manipulating the ...
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This is news that comes straight from the horse’s mouth, in this case the horses mouth is the overall boss of Tiscali, Tommaso Pompei. He believes that the market is such that the UK arm of their business is to be the likely target for a larger company to come along and pick up a bargain.
They been struggling themselves to keep up ...
A 40-inch TV has been spotted that has 155 rubies, embedded in its surround.
The TV, which will apparently be marketed at $85,000 is said to be of HD quality.
For people who want to spend even more on their customized home cinema, bigger screens and more rubies can be added, at an extra cost.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has revealed the first major update to HTML for 10 years - HTML 5.
The update was developed by a W3C working group, which includes Google, IBM, Microsoft, Mozilla and Nokia.
The revision takes into account the current trend for rich-media applications and online collaboration.
The previous version, HTML 4, was published in 1997, ...
