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March 31, 2008
by Janet Harris
Dell has included an HD player in its Inspiron 1525 laptop, for a total price of just £729. The laptop marks Dell's entry into the High Definition market.
Along with the Blu-Ray drive, the Inspiron 1525 features a 15.4-inch screen at 720p resolution, an HDMI port to connect it up to a HDTV like a standalone player, an integrated ...
by Lin Freestone
Virgin Media is planning to take action against subscribers who illegally download copyrighted material.
As part of an initiative that will be implemented during the next few months, Virgin will work with the British Phonographic Institute, together with television and movie studios in a voluntary scheme.
Details of users believed to be breaking the law ...
by David Allen
Should the conservatives win the next General Election, they are talking of sharing out some of the proceeds from the licence fee with commercial television channels. This would take place through a new fund which would be overseen by an independent commission, the members of which would be picked by MP’s.
Naturally the BBC will still be getting the bulk of ...
by David Allen
Five have reached a milestone in their broadcasting history as figures recently released show that the channel now has a national coverage of 96%, this is enough for the channel to seek listed status. This listed status is only for channels which achieve over 95% coverage, but in the long term can mean so much more the channel and the viewers too.
Ofcom have ...
by David Allen
Two pub landlords have found themselves in deep trouble after they were found using a domestic Sky TV card to screen live Premier League football matches in their bars for all of their customers see. This is against the Sky regulations and has lead for the two pub managers to being prosecuted.
Patrick Gawley of the Alexandra, Wood Street, Barnet, was fined £4,000 and ordered ...
by David Allen
There are some suggestions that consumers are being guiding by price alone when it comes to choosing their preferred broadband supplier according to an industry expert. However the experts do suggest that this may not be the best way to choose a product like this and maybe looking at the package as a whole may be the way to go.
As anyone ...
by Alan Harten
Travellers who want to make a phone call, while flying the skies of Europe will soon be able to use their mobile on commercial flights across the continent.
Ofcom, the UK regulator has finally given its approval for the use of mobile phones on aircraft registered in the UK, while flying in European airspace.
There are other problems that will ...
March 29, 2008
by Alan Harten
Ofcom, the British television regulator has been forced to reveal that 250,000 UK households will be unable to receive any time of terrestrial TV signal once the analogue TV service is terminated. Experts believe that the actual number may be considerably, higher.
The regulator also said that approximately 0.3% of UK households, or around 75,000 homes will ...
March 28, 2008
by Rohan Parker
AMD has circulated a press release today, which lists the details of a group of new Phenom-based CPUs from the company. Included is the triple-core Phenom X3 8000 series processor, which is an energy efficient desktop model, the Phenom X4 9100e processor as well as the quad-core X4 9000 series processor.
According to the release, the Phenom X3 8400, ...
by Janet Harris
Hitwise, the online competitive intelligence service, recorded a 178 per cent increase in UK traffic to online video Web sites, between February 2007 and February 2008.
However Hitwise analyst, Robin Goad, who carried out the research, believes that this is a conservative estimate, and the real increase could be closer to 200 per cent.
For the purposes of the research, ...
by Rohan Parker
According to sources from within the industry, Intel is expected to set back their launch of the P45 chipset from the original time of May to mid June.
Those sources cited incompatibility issues between the P45's PCI Express x16 port and graphics cards as being the cause of the delay, but that Intel had assured them that ...
by Rohan Parker
According to industry sources, Abit, the second tier motherboard manufacturer is going to sign on to only sell Nvidia GPU-based graphics cards.
Nvidia already has similar joint ventures with first tier mobo makers, Elitegroup Computer System (ECS) and Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry).
Though Nvidia makes quite the profit and do have high demand for their products, other first tier graphics ...
by David Allen
The new multi channel video on demand service initially named Project Kangaroo is set to be launched in August this year. Although there has been no name released for this channel yet, it will prove to be a fantastic opportunity to provide all of the best programming from the BBC, ITV and Channel Four.
The launch in August will see the channel first on ...
by David Allen
Although having a very shaky start Virgin Media has quickly found its feet and is now providing some really attractive programming. Living which is part of the Virgin Media group has won the exclusive rights to the US hit series, Private Practice which is a spin off from the even more popular Greys Anatomy from ABC.
In the series there will be ...
by Lin Freestone
The latest figures from Ofcom indicate that 86.7% of UK homes were receiving digital television by the end of last year.
The proportion increased by 1.6% during the final three months of 2007, largely as a result of record sales for Freeview. Approximately four million Freeview products were sold in the quarter, including 243,000 ...
by David Allen
With all of the bad news coming out of the new Terminal Five building at Heathrow, British Airways must be pleased that are able to provide some good news for a change. In a partnership between British Airways, British Telecom and Oneworld Alliance, travellers using BA will soon be able to use a free Wi-Fi service.
This new Wi-Fi service will provide over 25 ...
by David Allen
Even without knowing anything about the magazine, the title simply says it all. Nuts TV has been planned out to cover four key genres and the programming will be based around this plan. Clearly this is going to be a male orientated channel and everything about it including the marketing campaign will no doubt reflect this.
The marketing campaign itself will be ...
March 27, 2008
by Janet Harris
Adobe Systems has launched a beta version of Photoshop Express, a Web-based application for editing, organising and sharing images.
The free application is designed for the consumer market. It can be accessed from Flash-enabled browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari, and an account includes 2GB of storage.
Photoshop Express can connect and share photos with other online destinations, including social networking site ...
by David Allen
Following the release of data from the regulator Ofcom, it has been found that the last thee months of 2007 saw an unprecedented rise in the sale of digital TV equipment. With over four million units being sold, proving that people are not just sitting around waiting around for the switch over after all.
Integrated digital TV made up more than ...
by David Allen
Over 250 illegal digital TV set top boxes have been found in house raided by the police in Wigan.
This followed a police operation that attended the Wigan Computer fair, where they arrested a man who was selling the set top boxes.
These were standard free to air set top boxes which had been modified so that they could pick up ...
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Dell has included an HD player in its Inspiron 1525 laptop, for a total price of just £729. The laptop marks Dell's entry into the High Definition market.
Along with the Blu-Ray drive, the Inspiron 1525 features a 15.4-inch screen at 720p resolution, an HDMI port to connect it up to a HDTV like a standalone player, an integrated ...
