SmartLabs deploys SmartTUBE for Comstar IPTV

SmartLabs LLC announced today that it took part in new TV user interface deployment for COMSTAR IPTV service STREAM. During this project, SmartTUBE service delivery platform has been deployed, and from.. more

Toshiba TG01 4.1-inch touchscreen smartphone

Over 110,000 blog posts have already been written about the Toshiba TG01, so if you haven’t yet heard of it you must have been hiding in an internet free zone. Features.. more

ZTE builds low-cost solar-powered handset

Digicel Group has unveiled the world’s first low-cost solar powered handset. Manufactured by ZTE, the Coral 200 Solar has an integrated solar charger. Digicel says the handset – which will cost.. more

Apple planning multi-touch keyboard

Is Apple plotting the end of the keyboard, as we know it? The development of a multi-touch keyboard could mean that in the not too distant future this could replace the standard keyboard and mouse. Apple has already switched from buttons on their iPhone and.. more

“Netbook” belongs to Psion

The term “Netbook” has become synonymous with small laptops specifically designed to work with mobile broadband dongles and is used in the marketing of this product. But recently there have been some issues over the term “Netbook” as it turns out that Psion actually registered.. more

BBC’s iPlayer shortlisted for IPTV award

The IPTV market will once again celebrate the best in the business with the IPTV World Series Awards 2009. These awards have been created in order to recognise those businesses within the industry which have excelled during the past twelve months. In the section headed.. more

BT adjusts total broadband FUP

As from the 1st April 2009, the Fair Usage Policy (FUP) used by BT to make sure that none of the customers abuses the system, is going to change. These changes will affect all BT customers who are subscribed to capped broadband products. If they.. more

Cable contractors go unpaid

Work on the £30 million high speed broadband service to North Wales could be at risk. It has emerged that sub contractors on the project are owed money for work that they have already completed. The project, paid for by the Welsh Assembly, involves laying.. more

iPlayer may offer tailored service

When the BBC launched the iPlayer, nobody could have predicted that it would be the great success that is has become. Yet throughout the country, there are users of this service who are finding that their experiences with the iPlayer vary according to their location... more

Satellite hacker has seen it all

A satellite hacker, who has been monitoring live satellite feeds for that past ten years or so, will be sharing with the public what he learned through this monitoring. Adam Laurie understands that any content transmitted through the Sky Network is anything other than secure... more