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April 18, 2008
by David Allen
The Carphone Warehouse has announced that is will be making some changes within the organisation.
The most spectacular change being, that the Carphone Warehouse and its landline and broadband business Talk Talk, will soon be operating as separate businesses.
This move will create two large companies which are not entirely reliant on each other, but will still be under the umbrella of a ...
by David Allen
Another mobile broadband supplier is in the news today, 3 are cutting the prices of their mobile broadband packages, but only for those who are already on an existing 3 contract. It makes sense for them to expand their customer’s obligations now, rather than leave them to go elsewhere for the same services at a later date.
The lowest price mobile ...
by David Allen
It has taken some time for them to get their act together, but O2 the mobile service provider who is owned by Telefonica, will today begin to sell their version of the mobile broadband service. This will be just in time to take advantage of the huge demand for this type of service.
O2 will be offering their 3 Gb HSDPA enabled service ...
April 17, 2008
by Janet Harris
Major computer vendors are now starting to ship servers featuring AMD's quad-core Opteron processor, code-named Barcelona.
The chip seems back on track after suffering production delays and the discovery of a bug in 2007, which led to a 50% drop in AMD's stock price.
Dell has announced the availability of five servers based on Quad-Core Opteron - the PowerEdge ...
by David Allen
It was last year when UKTV G2 was re-branded as simply “Dave” which has been a great success, especially as it was made available to Freeview users. But now UKTV will be either re-branded or possibly replaced by a completely new channel, an announcement will be made in the summer of this year.
However despite all of the secrecy that surrounds ...
by David Allen
By the end of the month BT engineers will be starting on a significant upgrade of the UK’s telephone exchanges. Once completed, speeds of three times the current 8 Mbps can be expected, however this will still depend on the users location from the exchange.
BT will be using ADSL2+; this can transmit data at twice the current frequency as ADSL2. But how this ...
by David Allen
As Five Life prepares to take on Channel Four and BBC Three for a slice of the youth market, their re-branded name Fiver is set to be launch in late April. This will then give the competition a clue as to whether or not they have got it right.
Following the lead of BBC Three, Fiver has signed up some young ...
by David Allen
Around the world there are cities such as Paris in France who have used the sewers that travel underneath the ground to lay the new super fast cables quickly, safely and without causing serious disruption the roads and traffic.
Ofcom believe that this should be the way to go, and would bring the cities of the UK up to the same standards as ...
April 16, 2008
by Janet Harris
Software company, Six Apart, has launched 'Blog It', an application for Facebook which allows members to manage their blogging, messaging, networking, and media applications.
Users can post to six blogging services simultaneously, directly from within the Facebook interface.
Users can then choose to automatically share the post via Twitter and Pownce, and a summary is included in the Facebook newsfeed.
Blog It ...
by David Allen
For customers of BT Broadband who use the BT Home Hub as their wireless router there is some bad news regarding the Home Hubs security?
Following a warning from a group of so called ethical hackers, it has been announced that they were able to simply reverse engineer the router to obtain the default settings; this means that if the user leaves the Home ...
by David Allen
In what could only be described as a slight reshuffle of the popular news services from the BBC, the two main services have been renamed.
From the 21st April BBC News 24 and BBC World will be renamed to BBC News and BBC World News. There is not much of a change there just the slightest difference which may not even be ...
by David Allen
The news coming out of Italy is that Tiscali have put a deadline for initial bids for the company, this has been set at the 5th May, where all non binding offers for the business should be made, which clearly tells everyone that the company is up for sale.
This news has boosted the companies share price by around ten per cent on ...
by David Allen
If internet users forget what they are told about internet connection speeds and simply tested them for themselves it seems that they would be in for a big surprise.
This has become such a sore point with the regulator and customers that the whole issue of connection speed and advertising speed is being explored.
Broadband Expert has been testing 41,230 internet connections throughout the months ...
by Rohan Parker
According to the Commercial Times, a Chinese newspaper, Intel have recently made moves to set up a regional office for WiMAX in Taiwan. The paper says that Intel are planning to work with companies like Acer and with the Development Fund of Taiwan's Executive Yuan to establish between one and three companies which will make WiMAX investments by taking up ...
by Rohan Parker
Chinese newspaper, Economic Daily News, has reported that both first quarter revenues and shipments for ASRock, who are a second tier motherboard manufacturer, have dropped by around 50% from this time last year. ASRock brought in around NT$1.68 billion (US$55.5 million) for the first quarter and shipped around 1.2 million units.
ASRock have claimed that they are more than ready ...
by Rohan Parker
According the a Chinese newspaper, Economic Daily News, Flextronics International, the EMS provider based in Singapore, and Micro-Star International (MSI), a first-tier motherboard manufacturer based out of Taiwan, have together won orders from Dell for Desktop PCs.
The collaboration of MSI and Flextronics will see the former working on designs for PCs, whilst the latter will be manufacturing chassis. This ...
by Alan Harten
As a further step towards total world domination Tesco is to face off with another mega company, Apple.
You local grocery giant is to start to offer a download service for Digital music.
set to launch next month.
Tesco’s music download service will initially offer in excess of three million tracks to teen boy band fans and aging rockers. One ...
April 15, 2008
by Janet Harris
IBM and its development partners have announced a new material known as 'high-k/metal gate' or HKMG, which is less prone to power leakage problems than traditional manufacturing techniques.
The company has used the new material on 32nm technology evaluation circuits, significantly enhancing performance by 30%, compared with 45nm circuits operating at the same voltage, and reducing power consumption by between 30% ...
by David Allen
Some governments in Europe have been pushing plans on how to handle the problem of people who download and share pirated software, music and films. Initially there was talk of a three strikes and you are off the internet policy. Virgin Media even became the UK ISP to talk about bringing in this policy.
But when this proposal came up against the Euro ...
by David Allen
It has been a disappointing forth quarter for the Carphone Warehouse and this happens despite some good efforts from the company in the beginning of the year.
This final quarter has meant that they have also changed the outlook for the future, as costs begin to increase. As a result the company’s shares prices had fallen nearly ten per cent.
The management of the Carphone ...
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The Carphone Warehouse has announced that is will be making some changes within the organisation.
The most spectacular change being, that the Carphone Warehouse and its landline and broadband business Talk Talk, will soon be operating as separate businesses.
This move will create two large companies which are not entirely reliant on each other, but will still be under the umbrella of a ...
Major computer vendors are now starting to ship servers featuring AMD's quad-core Opteron processor, code-named Barcelona.
The chip seems back on track after suffering production delays and the discovery of a bug in 2007, which led to a 50% drop in AMD's stock price.
Dell has announced the availability of five servers based on Quad-Core Opteron - the PowerEdge ...
Software company, Six Apart, has launched 'Blog It', an application for Facebook which allows members to manage their blogging, messaging, networking, and media applications.
Users can post to six blogging services simultaneously, directly from within the Facebook interface.
Users can then choose to automatically share the post via Twitter and Pownce, and a summary is included in the Facebook newsfeed.
Blog It ...
