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December 31, 2008
by David Allen
Glastonbury in the West Country is well known for the world famous music festival and the new age travellers who have made it their home.
Therefore, the local authority thought it would be brilliant idea to spend £35,000 on a wide area Wi-Fi system to encourage business and tourism to the area.
In May this project was installed and began providing a service.
Now it seems that the local new ...
by David Allen
Although pay as you go (PAYG) is an accepted concept in the mobile broadband and phone industry, when it comes to computers it is virtually unknown.
Yet the mighty Microsoft has applied for a patent which is basically a PAYG concept.
This process will see the consumer paying for the software and hardware they use, by meter.
This would be for either or both the software and the hardware, ...
by David Allen
The internet service provider Plusnet has been analysing internet traffic to see which sites came out on top with its customers over the festive period.
The top four remained unchanged for both Christmas day and Boxing Day.
Rank - Christmas Day
1 Google
2 Facebook
3 BBC
4 Amazon
5 iTunes
6 YouTube
7 eBay
8 MSN
9 Bebo
10 Microsoft
Rank - Boxing Day
1 Google
2 Facebook
3 BBC
4 Amazon
5 eBay
6 YouTube
7 iTunes
8 Argos
9 ...
by David Allen
It looks as if cyber criminals are targeting people through Google Calendar in an attempt to phish some information out them.
Emails are being sent to users of Google Calendar, saying the standard things like the user's account will be deleted if they do not submit their username, password and date of birth.
These emails appear to come from Google’s own, ‘Customer Verification’ department and are sent from the unlikely-sounding ...
by David Allen
In Italy, subscribers of the broadband and telecom provider Tiscali have just been told that they will no longer be receiving the Tiscali IPTV service, as from the end of the month (today!).
There are around fifty thousand IPTV subscribers in Italy, who all received the news by letter through the post.
The company will be refunding the final month IPTV subscription, however, as of yet there has been no ...
by David Allen
The Post Office, who are still trying to find their niche, not only in the broadband market but in the high street too, are bringing out an Internet Buddy Guide designed to help those who are new to the internet, and other users too, get to grips with the technology.
Their research into the matter found that families who try to teach each other about the finer points of ...
December 30, 2008
by David Allen
It looks as if computer games will be the next product to offer 3D, with characters jumping out of the screen and grabbing the user by the throat, or at least appearing to do so.
Developers are said to have been busy working towards introducing the system into the PS3 some time during 2009.
In the UK, developer Blitz Games Studios is working on the creation of a 3D engine, ...
by David Allen
It looks like Orange has been busy developing its HSPA network.
The company has just completed an upgrade of over seven hundred and sixty sites in Northern Ireland and Scotland, which has given the network an improvement of twenty per cent for both mobile and data services.
These upgrades mean that Orange can now claim a UK coverage of ninety four per cent for 3G, while for 3G+ they have ...
by David Allen
The communications regulator, Ofcom, has further clarified the situation regarding hidden charges, which it feels is causing big problems for customers of broadband, telecom, digital TV and mobile communications providers.
To put more pressure on these providers, Ofcom has given them until April to make these hidden charges much clearer to customers.
Hidden charges can include all manner of fees, sometimes for services that some customers have no idea ...
by David Allen
In a move that is bound to stir up the emotions of many internet users, the UK's Culture Secretary, Andy Burnham, is looking to create a child safe internet by censoring websites and giving them age ratings like those on computer games and films.
Not only that, he is also proposing to get together with the incoming US government in order to thrash out an agreement on the rules ...
by David Allen
According to report in the Guardian, the campaign against piracy could be moving in a new direction if the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) gets its own way.
In a proposal to stop the illegal copying and downloading of music and films from the internet, BERR is going to make it the responsibility of the internet service providers to stop their customers from visiting unlicensed sites ...
by David Allen
The UK is still celebrating the introduction of super fast broadband services, even though this is going to be limited to specific areas.
However this progress is not fast enough, because the UK is still in danger of lagging behind the rest of the world, according to Professor Christopher Bishop, chief scientist at Microsoft Research Cambridge.
This failure to keep up with the rest of the world as broadband ...
December 29, 2008
by David Allen
The mobile provider is going into the New Year with a new deal for customers signing for their brand of mobile broadband.
Customers signing up for a twenty four month long contract at a cost of £25 per month will be able to pick up an Asus EEE PC904HD laptop with a free USB modem stick, 3GB monthly fair use amount, 200 free texts and Wi-Fi hotspot access completely ...
by David Allen
Once again, eBay was a big winner this Christmas.
They have seen the same pattern emerge over the last couple of years - all of a sudden, on the big day, strange, single items appear in their listings.
The items can include anything from jumpers to socks, saucepans to scarves and slippers.
These are all unwanted gifts that people have received from friends and family which are seen as a ...
by David Allen
The good news is that four million broadband users will be able to connect to the super version of broadband within five years, according to a report by Point Topic.
The bad news is, what about the other sixteen million broadband users?
It would seem feasible that as whole sections of society are taken off the network, as they are converted to fibre, the speed could get faster for ...
by David Allen
New customers could be packing themselves a bargain if they sign up for Sky TV before the 5th February 2009.
Anyone doing so will able to get three months free broadband, free line rental and free evening weekend calls all thrown into one bundle.
This means that with a starting price of just £17 per month new customers could be getting more than they bargained for.
The basics ...
by David Allen
Broadband in Wales has been making a bit of an impact recently both in terms of the technology being employed and the amount of the people who are able to use the product.
In a recent survey for BT it was found that in the counties of Pembrokeshire, Conwy, Ceredigion and Anglesey, in Wales, there are more customers on broadband than those who are not connected to high speed ...
by David Allen
It looks as if fans of XP will be able to get a new computer with the operating system for some time to come, even though the cut off point for computer manufacturers to obtain Windows XP licences was going to be the end of January.
This date has been extended once more, allowing makers to get licences right up until the end of May.
It is almost ...
by David Allen
With almost everything in decline, there is still one thing that is on the up and by a significant amount too - mobile web browsing has seen a huge, ninety four per cent increase in use, and that is just in the UK.
In the UK, Facebook heads up the list for social networking site visits, and it is also placed number two, in front of Yahoo in the ...
by David Allen
All the major broadcasters in the UK offer mainly free catch-up services through their websites, yet in a recent study it has been found that over seventy per cent of the UK public do not use these video on demand services.
The study found that it is parents who are least likely to use these services as they have little time to spare.
The group most likely to use ...
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Glastonbury in the West Country is well known for the world famous music festival and the new age travellers who have made it their home.
Therefore, the local authority thought it would be brilliant idea to spend £35,000 on a wide area Wi-Fi system to encourage business and tourism to the area.
In May this project was installed and began providing a service.
Now it seems that the local new ...
It looks as if computer games will be the next product to offer 3D, with characters jumping out of the screen and grabbing the user by the throat, or at least appearing to do so.
Developers are said to have been busy working towards introducing the system into the PS3 some time during 2009.
In the UK, developer Blitz Games Studios is working on the creation of a 3D engine, ...
