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February 14, 2008
by Janet Harris
Mozilla has released the latest upgrade to its browser - Firefox 3 Beta 3.
The release is designed for developers and testers and offers a host of improvements.
Security has been improved with better presentation of website identity. The browser now supports Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates and includes malware protection, stricter SSL error pages, and anti-virus integration in the download ...
by Rachael Grant
“Our astronauts deserve the best that our nation has to offer to protect their lives in the risky business of space”, is the message of Dr. Len Losik, founder of Failure Analysis, speaking about a new proposal submitted to the NASA Johnson Space Center, International Space Station Program Office, and Houston Texas, for using telemetry prognostic technology with the International ...
by Rachael Grant
Tatanet, one of India's biggest satellite service providers has chosen Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. to provide a broadband satellite network that will serve the industry vertical market segments and the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) in the country. SkyEdge network, made up of two satellite hub stations and up to 13,000 VSATs, will provide stable and cost-effective broadband communication to the industrial economy ...
by David Allen
The UK will be allowed to scrap to a whole lot of EU telecommunication market rules in certain parts of the country where the broadband services are able to compete at good levels of service.
The rules are there to protect the services where it is limited, this should ensure that a service is always there, but in the case where there is extreme ...
by David Allen
Many people will say that Sony has said all of this before, but it seems that they are really going to be delivering an add on that will enable the PS3 to receive digital TV through the console. This device will be called the PlayTV, it is a small black box that connects to the PS3’s USB port, and the device itself has ...
by Rohan Parker
It is mixed results for January sales for three Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers. Whilst Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) have had a fall in earnings for the month, both Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI) have had marked gains.
MSI announced their figures for January, showing a total net of NT$9.54 billion (US$301 million), which is an increase of 15.19% against ...
by David Allen
It makes a change to see a business moving a call centre from India back to the UK as it normally works the other way around. However there is a growing movement from customers against these call centres as although both countries speak the same language, it is often found that neither side can understand each other and when a customer is calling ...
by David Allen
Union leaders are accusing the regulator Ofcom of virtually betraying the nation when it comes to the grand sell off of the airwaves that will be freed up when the analogue system is totally turned off. These auctions will begin in 2009, but the competition is already hotting up with the big players lining up for a piece of the action.
The ...
by Alan Harten
Customers of Richard Branson's Virgin Media broadband services will be able to access speeds of up to 50mb before the end of the year, making it much faster and easier to download items such as movies or music.
Some Virgin clients will also have their speeds double at no additional charge; this follows trials by the company last year, in Kent, where ...
by Janet Harris
A new organisation, the Internet Security Awareness Forum (Isaf), was recently launched at the British Computer Society (BCS) in London.
Isaf will aim to promote the need to be aware of online security, following a large number of major security breaches in 2007, many of which could have been avoided.
These resulted in a large amount of personal data being lost - HMRC, ...
February 13, 2008
by Rachael Grant
Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking at a 29th anniversary of the Islamic revolution rally, has revealed that prior to the country's first domestically built 'research' satellite orbit, two additional research rockets will be launched.
The news comes on the tail of the success of the first of such rockets that was launched earlier this month. Ahmadinejad has said ...
by Rachael Grant
SkyTrac have provided a complete satcom and flight following solution for Everett Aviation's helicopter fleet in Africa.
The company evaluated three vendors before making their selection, choosing the system that performed best under dangerous and demanding situations due to the political instability in the region.
Skytrac's offering was particularly appealing because of additional features they offered, such as internal battery life ...
by David Allen
The much talked about or rather hyped about relaunch of BB3 happened last night, unfortunately it seemed that a lot people missed it, they must have been watching Eastenders and Holby City, but by all account of the people who did actually watch the channel say that it was very good if not a little over the top on noise.
But the new ...
by David Allen
The NHS Direct launched their own channel on the Freeview digital service back in December this is meant to give people who are able to access it on channel 108, information on services and other information. Now this service is set to expand into the mobile communication sector with text messaging.
This text service is linked to the NHS Direct channel, and ...
by David Allen
An industry which started off with renting films on video tapes has now grown to highly sophisticated business renting out DVD’s. Lovefilm is the most successful of all the DVD rental companies in the UK and their concept is straight forward enough.
The company encourages its members to create a wish list of DVD’s from the large catalogue, and these get ...
by David Allen
It was around this time last when the TV listings website whatsontv.co.uk was first launched and at the time there was a lot people saying that this sort of thing would never really take off due to the amount of coverage that the TV listings gets through the media in its various forms.
Well one year on from the launch of ...
by Alan Harten
Big-time, mobile phone players, Orange and T-Mobile have made an announcement that they will together, pilot a new venture into multimedia broadcasting and mobile TV viewing in London, via NextWave Wireless and UMTS MBMS based TDtv.
The pilot project is due to begin later this year, in west London, with the intention of demonstrating that the cost of providing mobile ...
February 12, 2008
by Janet Harris
Nanochip, a Fremont, US-based company, has raised $14m to develop a new array-based memory technology which could provide an alternative to flash and hard drives.
The technology is expected to provide greater storage capacity than flash memory and cost savings will be achieved on the manufacturing process compared with the hard drive manufacturing process.
The first Nanochip memory prototypes will have ...
by David Allen
This seemed to be something that was going to last forever and yet not it has been announced that the only sports channel that has realistically threatened the hold that Sky Sports has had over the best sport on available on a TV screen in the UK.
But now it would appear that the company are likely to consider any offers that come ...
by David Allen
There has been word about other countries considering the banning people who are caught persistently downloading files of music and films; France in particular springs to mind as they were one of the first countries to consider this as a way of combating illegal downloading.
But this type of punishment is coming to the UK, and it is something that all internet users should ...
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Mozilla has released the latest upgrade to its browser - Firefox 3 Beta 3.
The release is designed for developers and testers and offers a host of improvements.
Security has been improved with better presentation of website identity. The browser now supports Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates and includes malware protection, stricter SSL error pages, and anti-virus integration in the download ...
Nanochip, a Fremont, US-based company, has raised $14m to develop a new array-based memory technology which could provide an alternative to flash and hard drives.
The technology is expected to provide greater storage capacity than flash memory and cost savings will be achieved on the manufacturing process compared with the hard drive manufacturing process.
The first Nanochip memory prototypes will have ...
