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February 19, 2008
by David Allen
There are growing concerns for the nine o’clock water shed, which some may say has no real relevancy in today’s digital age and even with this in place the parameters are being pushed all of the time. In guidelines drawn up by the government’s watchdog the Broadband Stakeholders group broadcasters and website will need to “Flag Up” material that is deemed to be ...
by David Allen
It is a staggering thought, but could the BBC really be thinking about selling off a part of the corporation? Well it certainly would seem so and would be a fast way of raising cash to the fund the BBC’s expansion plans.
The BBC’s finance director Zarin Patel has been quoted as saying that the deal would be very “Tempting” but the ...
by David Allen
When TV catchup was released at the end of last year there must have been alarm bells ringing all around the main TV channels offices and just to prove the point there has been several complaints from main terrestrial channel lead by the BBC.
This move has lead to the suspension of the site, where users could actually record TV programmes and watch them ...
by David Allen
By the end of this month Orange will be the only company offering the new HTC Shift, which is one of the small computers that is classed as something between a laptop and PDA, this make it very useful for people who travel around or are always working on the road, because of its size it can be used almost anywhere.
But there ...
by Alan Harten
Starting next week students will be able to purchase the £99/$200 Elonex brand laptop, the new laptop will be available for the first time at ‘The Education Show’ from 28th February until March 1st in Birmingham UK.
The new laptop called ‘The One’ will utilise the Linux system, with a 1 gigabyte hard drive (flash based) and a 7 inch screen, it also has a ...
February 18, 2008
by Janet Harris
Computer scientists from the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS), are involved in the €18m DEPLOY project, which aims to make technology more reliable and robust.
The project covers five technology areas - transportation, automotive, space, telecommunication and business information.
The project aims to build resilience into technology, making it less susceptible to ...
by David Allen
Ever since the BBC introduced the iPlayer on Christmas day there has been a barrage of complaints from the internet service providers (ISP’s) and to be fair to them you can see why. When some downloads a half hour TV programme it use around 300 Mb’s, while a programme which last an hour will use around 600 Mb’s, so its quite easy ...
by David Allen
When the big switchover was first announced there was also a plan to help some groups of people with the changes, this £600 million fund is designed to help the over 75’s, disabled people and blind people, but there are still some groups of people fall outside of these parameters and therefore are faced with a worrying prospect ahead of the switchover.
In ...
by David Allen
Ever since Sky Sports dropped British Basketball from the small screen the sport has struggled to fine a home, and yet all of the time the leagues have been carrying on as normal which has cumulated in the BBL Trophy Final which is next month.
Fortunately the league has been in talks over the past few months with up and coming sports channel Setanta and ...
by David Allen
Amazingly there could be a value in IPTV that comes from the success of the Hollywood film industry. It would appear that because of huge amounts of money spent on producing films in Hollywood they would like to see a return on their investment, this means that film goers here in the UK have little choice in what they see, and it’s ...
by Rohan Parker
According to market watchers reporting in the Chinese paper, Economic Daily News (EDN), before the end of the year, Asustek is going to be outsourcing 50% of their brand motherboards to outside OEMs.
Regardless of the recent separation of Asustek and their ODM devision Unihan Technology, EDN is still saying that the outsourcing proportion from Asustek is ...
by Alan Harten
As of the end of 2007 there are now an estimated 330 million users, a broadband across the globe, this is an increase of 4.72%, for the third quarter of the year, the second quarter increase was 5.16%.
The US and Canada were the only area of the world, where the rate of growth had a significant increase for that ...
February 16, 2008
by Lin Freestone
There are rumours circulating that Sky is planning to close its Freesat from Sky service.
It has been suggested the broadcaster would stop offering the product, which offers a basic line-up of channels without a subscription, as terrestrial broadcasters launch their Freesat service in the spring.
Sky has denied the rumours. A spokesman said: "Freesat from Sky is still ...
by Janet Harris
The UK Government is set to introduce rules to control the illegal downloading of music and films.
The Government set a deadline of 31 December 2007 for the music and film industries, and ISPs, to come to a voluntary agreement, but with no sign of an agreement in place, it is now planning to take action itself.
It will publish ...
February 15, 2008
by David Allen
In a recent report it was found that some broadband subscribers were scared to switch their ISP to another, but in yet another report it would seem that they may have got it wrong or part wrong.
A new report shows that most broadband users are fairly happy with their service, and yet there are those, around twenty three per cent, who would ...
by David Allen
The UK’s Freeview service continues to disappoint viewers all around the country, some households being able to get just the four main channels, while other places cannot get anything at all. The management at Freeview this week announced that viewers in Morpeth will not be getting the full range of channels for four years.
At the moment those households in the town can only ...
by Rohan Parker
January was a good month for Asustek, with the company experiencing a hike in consolidated revenues by 10% from last month, and 44% from January last year. At this point in January 2007, Asustek had brought in NT$15.4bn, however this year they have raised that significantly to NT$22.1bn (US$696.86 million).
At the close of the month, Asustek still had ODM contracts ...
by David Allen
The BBC has once again gone under the House of Commons spotlight for efficiency as they announce their plans for the 2008 Olympics which are held in Beijing, the BBC report that they will sending at least 150 staff over to China to cover the event.
However there has been a call to look into how efficient the corporation is, when the cost of ...
by David Allen
The Freewire service run by Inuk has almost doubled its viewers in the UK to more than forty thousand. This growth is suspected to have come from the deals that the company have been doing with more than forty universities. This is where the company provide a package of services such as phone, broadband and television through its secure closed IP system, which ...
by Alan Harten
Virgin Media, BT and TalkTalk owned by Carphone Warehouse, three of the UK’s largest ISPs (Internet Service Providers) have entered into an agreement for the use of a new advertising platform aimed at giving the company's, a large share of the rapidly expanding, online targeted ad market.
The three companies have jointly agreed to sign a contract for the ...
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There are growing concerns for the nine o’clock water shed, which some may say has no real relevancy in today’s digital age and even with this in place the parameters are being pushed all of the time. In guidelines drawn up by the government’s watchdog the Broadband Stakeholders group broadcasters and website will need to “Flag Up” material that is deemed to be ...
There are rumours circulating that Sky is planning to close its Freesat from Sky service.
It has been suggested the broadcaster would stop offering the product, which offers a basic line-up of channels without a subscription, as terrestrial broadcasters launch their Freesat service in the spring.
Sky has denied the rumours. A spokesman said: "Freesat from Sky is still ...
