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March 27, 2008
by Lin Freestone
Ofcom has reported that, after switchover, commercial digital terrestrial multiplexes will cover about 90% of UK homes.
Under the plans, 93% of homes in England will be able to receive the commercial multiplexes but only 88% in Scotland, 73% in Wales and 75% in Northern Ireland.
SDN and National Grid Wireless, who run multiplexes one and two respectively, are aiming ...
by Lin Freestone
Cellcast, the parent company of Sumo TV, has sold its prime 144 and 145 EPG positions in a deal worth £1.4m. The proceeds from the transaction will be used by Cellcast for general working capital, and to repay a £500,000 facility from Headstart.
In addition to the cash sum, Cellcast exchanged the two entertainment positions for one ...
by David Allen
As the mobile broadband market heats up, naturally this is going to mean that there are going to be some great deals coming through. The mobile broadband provider 3 have shown their hand by dropping the price of their pre pay dongles in an attempt to attract new customers to the world of mobile broadband.
The dongles are very similar to USB flash drives, ...
by David Allen
The national broadband company of South Africa, Broadband Infraco has managed to secure some heavy weight partners for its undersea cable project. The cable will be running all the way from South Africa along the west coast of the continent up to the UK.
The agreement is due to be signed by Telkom, Neotel, Tenet, Tata Communications, Multichoice, Vox Telecom, Internet Solutions, ...
by Alan Harten
ABI research has released a report that HD-equipped and flat-panel TV's will still be the center of family entertainment, the PC will play what it refers to as an 'ever increasing role' in family entertainment.
The report say that “the PC will play an ever-increasing role in the management, distribution and playback of multimedia content in the home, ...
March 26, 2008
by Lin Freestone
ClusterSeven is a provider of strategic spreadsheet and Access Data management software to banks and other large, multi-national corporations. The company has launched its ClusterSeven ADM software product, designed to help organisations reduce operational risk by closely monitoring the activity and changes to data in their Microsoft Office Access databases.
ClusterSeven ADM enables ClusterSeven customers to comply ...
by David Allen
The BBC has just announced that they have just secured the rights to broadcast the Wimbledon Tennis Championship for another five years, this takes the BBC deal with Wimbledon up to 2014 and will allow the BBC to use TV, Radio, Broadband, HD and of no BBC deal would worth talking about without the famous iPlayer too.
This has been a very busy ...
by Rohan Parker
COM DEV International Ltd has embarked on a joint venture with EADS Astrium, to supply the new Eutelsat KA-SAT with multiplexer and switch equipment.
The contract awarded to COM DEV earns them US$4.7 million for their assistance in getting the comsat in the air by mid-2010. The Eutelsat KA-SAT is the keystone in a large-scale satellite infrastructure plan ...
by David Allen
A huge amount of television viewers tuning in to receive their daily fix of terrestrial television will be disappointed if they are located in the Lancashire and the South Lakes, as there is some work starting on the transmitter mast located in Lancaster. The work is being done to upgrade an aerial which will have something to do with the digital ...
by Rohan Parker
According to motherboard manufacturers, Intel is moving fast to ensure that AMD do not get the lion's share of the low-cost desktop market with their new Sempron processors, by reducing the cost of their entry level machines, the Atom 230 processor, down to US$29. This price is for thousand-unit tray quantities.
The same sources state that Intel should be ...
by Rohan Parker
Three large IPC manufacturers are making moves to expand operations in the Shanghai area, according to sources from within the industry. Advantech, ICP Electronics and Adlink Technology are up-scaling production capabilities, due primarily to the great demand in the market within China, rather than export opportunities.
Advantech, who currently has a design and manufacturing facility in the area, is ...
by David Allen
The fight for airspace continues around the world with a battle looming in South Africa between the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa and the free to air operator Free2View. Basically what is happening is the Authority has asked or some may say has told the UK based satellite company to stop broadcasting or they will be taken to court.
The satellite set ...
by David Allen
For thousands of BT customers accessing their email may have been slightly difficult recently as there has been a problem with some the broadband servers that BT is using. According to BT themselves there have been only a small number of customers affected by this fault for a few days. But other sources put the problem as affecting many thousands of ...
by Janet Harris
According to IGEL Technology, the use of thin clients, as an alternative to business desktop PCs, is helping to significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions in Western Europe.
A thin client is a model of computer networking where most of the function of the system is located in a central server. Users access programs and resources with only ...
by Alan Harten
It seems that the Chinese-language version of the site is still blocked. Users are directed to a page that states "the connection has been reset" when attempting to access pages, giving the appearance of a technical error with the BBC's site.
The BBC claims that users in China get by web blockades by using routing tools that hide their true location. Unfortunately ...
March 25, 2008
by David Allen
An MP is calling for a Government inquiry into the £200 million deal that BBC has made with the organisation behind Formula One. Jim Sheridan the MP for Paisley North, Scotland, has a motive behind his decision to call for this inquiry; he claims that the BBC would not pay £3 million for the Scotland International Football Games.
The Scotland ...
by David Allen
It may not be a surprise for some parents but according to research conducted by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) children in the UK are spending more than twenty hours per week surfing the internet.
Most of their time is being spent on social networking sites like Bebo, Facebook and MySpace, which it claims means that they are effectively ...
by David Allen
The BBC is on a roll at the moment when it comes to sport. But having lost the rights to screen live test match cricket to Sky Sports in 2004, they want some of it back. The deal that Sky Sports has with The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) expires at the end of the 2009 season. ...
by David Allen
There is a lot of confusion surrounding the mobile broadband services that are beginning to make an impact through mass marketing, in fact these days there are probably more adverts for mobile broadband than for broadband received through a landline. But the question that is being asked is whether or not mobile broadband is in fact broadband at all.
The problem is that we ...
by Alan Harten
For a couple of years executives in the movie industry have been singing the praises of Blu-ray. Not only because of its increased picture quality, but also because they believe that offers a high degree of copy protection.
But unfortunately the Blu-ray Disc Association’s latest attempt at protection has been beaten by hackers. According to reliable reports the latest copy protection system from ...
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Ofcom has reported that, after switchover, commercial digital terrestrial multiplexes will cover about 90% of UK homes.
Under the plans, 93% of homes in England will be able to receive the commercial multiplexes but only 88% in Scotland, 73% in Wales and 75% in Northern Ireland.
SDN and National Grid Wireless, who run multiplexes one and two respectively, are aiming ...
ClusterSeven is a provider of strategic spreadsheet and Access Data management software to banks and other large, multi-national corporations. The company has launched its ClusterSeven ADM software product, designed to help organisations reduce operational risk by closely monitoring the activity and changes to data in their Microsoft Office Access databases.
ClusterSeven ADM enables ClusterSeven customers to comply ...
