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February 27, 2008
by Rohan Parker
According to motherboard makers, AMD is upping the challenge to Intel's dual-core Celeron line in China, by releasing a rival product, the dual-core Sempron, which like the Celeron will be aimed at the entry level market.
The first of the range, the Sempron 2100+ processors have a 65nm process and have a 1.8GHz core frequency. As this stage, the pricing in ...
by Rohan Parker
According to sources within the company, ECS (Elitegroup Computer System) are expecting to have shipped 3.8 million notebooks by the end of the year. This would be a hefty increase of 26.67% from last years sales.
ECS currently holds the position of OEM for the Intel Classmate PC, however the company is still having issue in ...
by Rohan Parker
In the aftermath of a raid yesterday, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), has released a statement outlining the company's stance on the issue.
The Chinese-language newspaper, The Liberty Times, reported that the company is under investigation because of allegations surrounding the company's take over of Uniwill Computer. Prosecutors in the case ordered the raid in an effort to find evidence of insider stock ...
by Alan Harten
Finnish corporation Nokia, the world's largest producer of mobile phones has announced that, in conjunction with the UK’s University of Cambridge. They have developed a new type of mobile phone known as Morph.
This technological leap for cell phones uses new innovations in conceptual nanotechnology, to allow cellphones of the near future, to bend into almost any shape.
The Morph ...
February 26, 2008
by Janet Harris
Apple has upgraded its Macbook processors with extra memory and faster processing speeds. The company has introduced higher spec models of the MacBook and MacBook Pro.
The MacBook Pro line-up features Intel Core 2 Duo processors, running at up to 2.6GHz with 6MB of shared L2 cache. Hard drive capacity has been increased to 300GB, and 2GB of memory is now standard ...
by David Allen
Never to sit back and watch the business world pass them by Virgin Media are about to launch their latest broadband offer of just £10 per months, but this is only going to be the entry level package which will not be offering some of the great speeds that have been hitting the headlines recently, so there could be a market for ...
by David Allen
The town of Warrington has been visited by the O2 broadband bus which parked up at the Riverside Retail Park and the entertainers who were travelling on then began to file out. Soon there would be a whole host of weird and wonderful entertainers, such as stilt walkers who were quickly getting the attention of many passers by.
Naturally the whole ...
by David Allen
Virgin Media has been busy looking into the BSkyB and ITV competition commission ruling that ended up with BSkyB being ordered to sell all of their shares in ITV apart from 7.5%. Virgin Medias legal claim is that they should have been made to sell all of the holding.
They claim that by making BSkyB sell their entire holding in ITV is ...
by David Allen
The UK telecom regulator Ofcom has issued the latest licences to ten organisations that will be able to operate services of the frequency bands 10 GHz to 40 GHz, this is fourth such auction of this kind, and will these organisations to offer other high capacity wireless services.
The tradable licences were given to Arqiva, BT, Digiweb, Faultbasic, MLL, Orange, Red-M, T-Mobile, Transfinite and UK ...
by Alan Harten
Nearly all the worlds’ internet users were unable to access the extremely popular Youtube website on for several hours on Sunday, and Monday. This was caused by the government of Pakistan, attempting to block domestic use of the website.
The loss of Youtube for a few hours in itself is nothing more than a minor inconvenience. But that would be overlooking ...
February 25, 2008
by Janet Harris
Fujitsu will become the third manufacturer to launch a 500G-byte hard disk drive - the MHZ 2 BT.
The company has combined three magnetically-coated disk platters, on which data is stored, inside the drive. Each of the platters has a 170G-byte capacity.
Hitachi and Samsung Electronics have also announced 500G-byte drives with a three platter design.
The addition ...
by David Allen
Never before have so many people been looking at digital TV, not that they have much choice in the matter as one by one the analogue signals are turned off, but what is the best package to go for? Well it may be surprise to find out that there are quite few packages out there, in fact there are an estimated 530,000 ...
by David Allen
Much has been spoken about the unrivalled success of the BBC’s iPlayer, there is no doubt that this success has led the BBC to think internet.
This move means that many more people are going to be able to access BBC programming via the internet and as there are large screen monitors available now this will mean that in theory ...
by David Allen
The UK is set to become one of the first countries to introduce sanctions on ISP’s who do not make any attempts to stop the illegal downloading of music and films, however how this is going to be done is a completely different matter. After all it is not that easy to know what is being downloaded, it could be a software ...
by David Allen
The government is to launch new independent review on what exactly are the barriers that could potentially hold up the rolling out of new high speed and next generation broadband networks. The government are worried about this because they feel that failure to find a suitable solution for these problems could actually have an effect on the economic success in the future.
What this ...
by Rohan Parker
According to sources in the industry, Nvidia is set to release the full range of the GeForce 9 series, the forerunner of which was the mid range 9600 GT, which should hit graphics card makers in the next few months.
The graphics card manufacturers are set to launch their high end products first, on March 11 and then ...
by Alan Harten
On Friday executives at Microsoft forwarded an upbeat worded e-mail to outline the company's version of how it expects to complete the league take over Yahoo, and then merge the two companies’ resources and cultures.
Microsoft's offer for Yahoo, which exceeded $44 billion, two weeks ago, was rejected. And Microsoft is said to be planning for a hostile ...
February 22, 2008
by Janet Harris
The government has warned that it will introduce legislation to prevent illegal file sharing unless ISPs take voluntary action by April 2009.
It will also introduce rules to protect intellectual property and promote broadband.
The government supports talks between ISPs and rights' holders about tackling the problem of illegal file sharing, as part of a Department for Culture, Media and Sport action plan ...
by David Allen
By now most people interested in the internet and more in particular the internet speeds that people can or should be getting will know that this year some parts of the UK can expect to be seeing a huge increase in the speed rate that they receive, but the question is, will they know it?
Industry experts have been contemplating the whole ...
by David Allen
Online storage has become very popular as back of files for personal use; this first came about with the introduction from BT whose entry level Virtual Vault is free for all BT customers using the Total Broadband service.
As this has proved a success and indeed could be counted as a selling point, Sky have made the move and will now be offering Store ...
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According to motherboard makers, AMD is upping the challenge to Intel's dual-core Celeron line in China, by releasing a rival product, the dual-core Sempron, which like the Celeron will be aimed at the entry level market.
The first of the range, the Sempron 2100+ processors have a 65nm process and have a 1.8GHz core frequency. As this stage, the pricing in ...
