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May 30, 2008
by David Allen
As with many broadband services, Virgin Media have been advertising their services as being with no download limits.
Yet as with many other services Virgin Media has found that it is now time to clamp down on those users who tend to use the internet a little more than the average user does.
To this end they have found it necessary send a letter to some of the customers ...
by David Allen
It has become well known recently that broadband services in some rural areas are almost non existent and the solutions are not very fast in coming forward, especially as the main priority for the providers is to upgrade the urban networks.
But help may have come from an unexpected place. It seems that one thing that virtually all rural areas have is a church and of course every church ...
by David Allen
As from next week the Carphone Warehouse will be launching a huge new advertising campaign which will see them offering free laptops to anyone signing up for their broadband service.
It can be expected that there will be a huge marketing campaign using the press, TV and other media outlets, but the retailer is also spending out on the staff, as they are currently going though the company wireless ...
by David Allen
The recent work done on the BBC website appears to have gone slightly over budget, even with a budget of £81.6 million they still managed to squeeze out another £36 million by the year's end in March 2008.
There were signs early on in the year that they would be going slightly over budget and so an estimate of around five per cent was offered, but the actual figure ...
May 29, 2008
by David Allen
With so many different set top boxes available to digital TV viewers and also having the ability to skip adverts, there is a need for agencies and businesses to make an advert worth watching in order to get their message across.
Tonight, during the first ad break of the food programme “Come Dine With Me!” at 20.10 pm, there will be UK television history being made, with the first ...
by David Allen
Last year BSkyB ran an advertising campaign which clearly attacked BT’s products and services.
A complaint was lodged with The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), as BT believed that the adverts that BSkyB was using at time were wrong and did not offer a true representation of BT.
The background to the adverts were to do with the prices of their services and how BT had apparently increased their charges ...
by David Allen
BT is to expand the Irish mobile operator 3 Ireland’s network after winning the contract valued at around £35 million.
The mobile operator is looking to expand its network and at the same time make it faster for their subscribers.
By investing into the development of the network infrastructure it is thought that not only will they be able to offer a faster connection speed, but also increase the ...
by David Allen
The BBC are pulling out all of the plugs this summer as they prepare for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and are sending hundreds of staff over to China.
But the corporation are going to have to splash out on some pretty spectacular promos, just in case there is anyone in the UK who doesn’t know that the Olympics are on this summer.
Out of all the musical talent ...
May 28, 2008
by Janet Harris
Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system, the successor to Vista, will feature a multi-touch interface, with the technology available in late 2009.
The news was announced this week at The Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, California.
A demonstration at the event showed how the technology allows a user to use their fingers to draw on screen, ...
by David Allen
So far the digital switchover has been hailed a success, however a survey conducted by the price crunching site Uswtich, has found that over twenty five per cent of digital viewers are not very impressed with what they are seeing.
It is estimated that around £4.2 billion has been spent on these services through Sky, Virgin Media and Freeview.
The latter is being regarding so far as the best ...
by David Allen
As the bidding has finished for the Italian based telecom firm Tiscali, there is still no clear news as which way this is going to go.
It is believed that Vodafone made the highest offer, but this has since been rejected by the main shareholder and founder of Tiscali, Renato Soru.
Currently the share price is around 2.4 euros, this values the shares at 1.4 billion euros.
The feeling ...
by David Allen
With so many users turning to mobile broadband as either a primary or secondary internet connection, there are some people who would still prefer to be wireless or in the case of mobile broadband dongleless.
A new piece of kit from Billion is set to change the way that some mobile broadband user use their connection.
The BiPAC 7402GXL is a device which allows a USB dongle to be ...
by David Allen
When the communications regulator Ofcom released a report stating that the take up of broadband in rural areas has overtaken that of the city dwellers, there must have been quite a few internet users who live in rural areas scratching their heads.
These claims of a rural bliss have been dismissed by the Country, Land and Business Association (CLA). They say that the report offered by Ofcom has some ...
by David Allen
The Wireless Broadband Innovation Awards is an independent organisation which has been set up to recognise the innovation and leadership the field of wireless technology. Every year there is an award for the “best of” and they judged by a panel of independent industry experts, writers and academics.
WBI Awards 2008 WINNERS
Best WiFi Product or Service
Moovbox M Series Mobile Broadband Gatewayby Moovera Networks
Ekahau RTLS by Ekahau Inc.
Ulwazi e-Learning ...
by David Allen
In recent times there cannot have been a rivalry to match that of BSkyB and Virgin Media within the TV sector and yet could this dispute be coming to end? The people at BSkyB say no, but there could be a reason for that, are they planning to take over Virgin Media and end this dispute once and for all?
The rumour mills are churning and the talk is ...
May 27, 2008
by David Allen
That is what Google are predicting as media giant Viacom decide whether legal action would be appropriate against the Google owned video website YouTube.
Viacom are claiming that Google and YouTube are responsible for the content on their sites and that they have virtually nothing at all to prevent any copyright infringements.
Google have hit back saying that they will not find a compromise as they are willing to ...
by David Allen
Orange UK are once again using their unique Spot the Bull competition, where the winner will be getting tickets, there are over a 150 free tickets to won.
The competition revolves around “Winston” he is a real life bull and lives in field at a secret location in the UK.
All the entrants have to do is guess where Winston will be standing at precisely 3.00 pm every day ...
by David Allen
It may seem strange, but despite the fact that England are not even playing the Euro 2008 Championships being held in Austria and Switzerland in June, the BBC is still planning to send out over a hundred staff to cover the games.
One of the latest recruits to get paid to comment on the games is former England manager Steve McClaren, who actually failed to get his team to ...
by David Allen
It has been estimated in a recent report that the mobile broadband market is set to soar, making this a serious growth sector for the broadband providers.
As this growth occurs the networks still have to deliver their services in way that the users want.
It’s a question of speed and coverage or a mixture of the two, but the networks are getting better, although some people would say ...
by David Allen
The anti spam software producer, Clearmymail has been doing a lot of research recently into who are the ISPs most targeted by spam, virus infected and phishing emails, not necessarily in that order, but all serious to the end user.
However many ISPs maintain that they take their customers' security very seriously, but spam is obviously still a serious problem.
The results were as follows:
1. Orange = 96% average spam ...
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As with many broadband services, Virgin Media have been advertising their services as being with no download limits.
Yet as with many other services Virgin Media has found that it is now time to clamp down on those users who tend to use the internet a little more than the average user does.
To this end they have found it necessary send a letter to some of the customers ...
With so many different set top boxes available to digital TV viewers and also having the ability to skip adverts, there is a need for agencies and businesses to make an advert worth watching in order to get their message across.
Tonight, during the first ad break of the food programme “Come Dine With Me!” at 20.10 pm, there will be UK television history being made, with the first ...
Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system, the successor to Vista, will feature a multi-touch interface, with the technology available in late 2009.
The news was announced this week at The Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, California.
A demonstration at the event showed how the technology allows a user to use their fingers to draw on screen, ...
