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February 22, 2008
by David Allen
The huge market in TV phone lines for competitions and phone voting on all sorts of TV shows has grown into a massive £139 million market, but as with many things there is always something that can upset the publics point of view towards things like this could actually damage the industry for a long time or you would have thought.
But ...
by David Allen
It must come as no surprise that Sky would not just sit back and be told what to do by the Competition Commission, and they will as Sky intend to launch a legal case against the ruling that they must reduce their shareholding in the commercial TV channel ITV.
They will first call upon the Appeal Tribunal to overturn the original ...
by Alan Harten
The latest statistics from the BBC indicate that the number of downloaded programmes or OnDemand streamed programming via iPlayer has now passed the 17 million mark, or up to half a million a day.
The Beeb states that daily volume figures have become very steady since the Christmas Day launch of iPlayer last year, just last week for the first time, it ...
by Janet Harris
IBM is researching the use of carbon nanotubes to aid in the miniaturisation of chips.
The company is developing a technique to arrange carbon nanotubes into arrays with DNA molecules. The nanotubes are strands of carbon atoms which can conduct electricity.
When the nanotube array has been constructed, the laboratory-generated DNA molecules can be removed, leaving a nanotube grid ...
February 21, 2008
by David Allen
The UK version of the Black Entertainment Television will be launched on the Sky next week; the channel is one of the leading channels of its kind in the states and will be the first of its kind to appear in the UK.
At the moment the content will predominantly be from the US with programmes such as student reality show College Hill, crime documentary ...
by David Allen
The UK government watchdog Ofcom, has been busy reclassifying the headings under which channels are being grouped, this is supposed to be making the whole system easier to navigate for the users who will be under doubt which services they are choosing.
These plans will affect around ten services, which will include the gambling channels which will be reclassified from editorial to tele-shopping, how this was ...
by David Allen
People who would have normally been left out of the country’s workforce due to many different circumstances like long term illness or living in remote areas have now found a way to get back to work but at the same time remain at home. Their circumstances remain the same but the lives have become much better due to the availability of broadband ...
by David Allen
At last there could be a solution to the problem with rural broadband in the UK, and the way it could work is by using weather balloons that hover on the outer limits of the planets atmosphere where they will remain for just one day before collapsing.
Each balloon would have its own small transceiver which when it reaches the maximum height of 100,000 ...
by Rohan Parker
Graphics card makers, Biostar Microtech International have released information today on their new V9603GT52 card which is to be the first in their range to incorporate Nividia's new GeForce 9600 GT GPU chip.
According to a release from Biostar, the new card is going to offer 64 stream processors with a 256-bit frame buffer. This new card is expected to ...
by Alan Harten
Following the news a few days ago, that HD DVD is to meet an early demise, retailers are scrambling to sell off movies and players as quickly and painlessly as possible.
Massive online retailer Amazon announced last Wednesday, that it was dropping HD DVD in favour of the rival Blu-ray system, has slashed prices on all HD DVD movies, including new releases ...
February 20, 2008
by Janet Harris
Microsoft has made release candidate 2 of Windows XP Service Pack 3 available to the public, following the release of a beta version a few weeks ago. RC2 is believed to be the final version of the Windows XP operating system.
SP3 RC2 can be obtained through Windows Update, however users will need to change some ...
by David Allen
In order to establish how the Next Generation Internet Television will be seen, the BBC and twenty one partners are spending a fourteen million Euro grant on deciding how the next gen TV will be seen by the millions of viewers, be it a new platform or something that we have been used to already.
But they will be initially putting together a ...
by David Allen
Most broadband subscribers believe that their internet connection speed is much higher than it really is, but according to research carried out by 18,558 tests that have been carried out on broadband connections just to see exactly what the true speed is.
Despite users feeling that their 8 Mb is good enough for all that they require, then they may be ...
by David Allen
In less than two months the BBC iPlayer has been used more than seventeen million times to watch some of the programmes that have already been shown on the channels up to seven days before. The creation of the iPlayer has also increased traffic to the BBC website by other twenty nine per cent for the year ending in January.
The most popular ...
by David Allen
The very public battle between Virgin Media and BSkyB has created a very aggressive market for the TV, Broadband and Telephone sector.
In fact Sky’s advertising spend has increased by a massive thirty per cent to an estimated £160 million for the year 2007.
Most of the money around £115 million, went on traditional advertising such as TV, Press, Radio, Cinema and Outdoor ...
by Rohan Parker
February 21 will see the launch of Nvidia's new GeForce 9 series graphics chip. The GeForce 9600 GT (G94), will be launched for the mid-range market.
The new 9600 GT chip is manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and should run a 65nm process. The previous chip in the range, the 8600 GTS ran 32 processing units and ...
by Alan Harten
A company in the UK has claimed a patent for a new high-tech version of exploding dye packs that are placed in banks in bags of cash. This new patented software will photograph the laptop thief remove any sensitive files, and not only that, will give away its position.
The system has had exhaustive tests in the county of Yorkshire, which followed ...
February 19, 2008
by Janet Harris
IT solutions provider, Elonex, is launching the first under-£100 laptop.
The "One" laptop will cost £99. The Linux-based machine is designed for students and will be launched at The Education Show at the NEC in Birmingham, 28 February to 1 March.
Full specification details are not yet available, but the laptop will have three-hour battery life, Wi-Fi, a flash-based hard ...
by Rohan Parker
Graphics card manufacturers Micro-Star International experienced a 40% raise in unit sales last year, selling over 10 million cards. The increase is due largely to contracts with Acer, and now means the company is the topmost worldwide supplier.
Industry sources have stated that MSI is planning to raise the amount of notebook-use cards they produce so as ...
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The huge market in TV phone lines for competitions and phone voting on all sorts of TV shows has grown into a massive £139 million market, but as with many things there is always something that can upset the publics point of view towards things like this could actually damage the industry for a long time or you would have thought.
But ...
The UK version of the Black Entertainment Television will be launched on the Sky next week; the channel is one of the leading channels of its kind in the states and will be the first of its kind to appear in the UK.
At the moment the content will predominantly be from the US with programmes such as student reality show College Hill, crime documentary ...
