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August 28, 2008
by David Allen
In a recent survey, it has been found that around seventy per cent of UK broadband users are paying too much for their service, while their ISPs are just sitting there raking in the money and saying nothing.
The people who are going to be more affected are those who signed up for broadband around two years ago.
In this time period prices have been really shaken up, ...
by David Allen
The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has put the thumbs down on the iPhone TV advert following complaints from members of the public.
The complaints were about Apple's claims that the iPhone can access all parts of the internet as if you were on a PC.
However this is not possible because the iPhone does not support Flash animations or Sun’s Java.
In its final decision the ASA said that it ...
by David Allen
Music fans will be in for a treat when BBC Worldwide launch their ad supported, online music store, where both free and paid for music content will be available from the vast archives of the BBC.
Over the years the BBC has produced some of the most groundbreaking music programmes, such as
Top of the Pops and the Old Grey Whistle Test, not to mention the amount of concerts ...
by David Allen
Mobile users in the US have been quite slow on the uptake of browsing the internet from their mobile phones.
However, over the last couple of years this has been changing and it will not be long until the US overtakes the UK for mobile phone browsing.
According to Bango, the top five countries accessing the mobile web in July 2008 were:
UK at 19.35%
US at 18.88%
India at 10.82%
South Africa ...
by David Allen
Microsoft has moved the new Internet Explorer 8 into the second phase.
The first phase was meant for developers, but phase two is where Beta testing gets really interesting because anyone can have a look around.
The IE8 Beta 2 will be available for 32 & 64 bit edition of Vista, XP, Server 2003 and Server 2008 and is also available in several different languages.
What this will mean for ...
by David Allen
The e-Player had been initially developed for use by Virgin Media to show football highlights from the UEFA Cup on their website.
However, this is now being revamped in order for third party media owners to add more content to their sites using the Perform rights portfolio.
The content provided through Perform will include darts, rugby, golf, tennis, cricket and basketball.
This system is currently being used by the ...
August 27, 2008
by David Allen
The huge take up of mobile broadband has taken everyone by surprise. At first it was treated as something that would disappear after a while, but the figures of mobile broadband subscribers speak for themselves.
In fact, on some networks, data traffic exceeds that of voice traffic.
This is beginning to throw up some questions as to whether or not the mobile broadband network can actually stand the test ...
by David Allen
Some places get all of the luck, and Shoreditch would appear to be one of those places, as BT is going to be introducing the residents of the borough to the BT Fon Service, which will cover the entire area with a free for all Wi-Fi network.
The network is being created in conjunction with shoreditchwifi.com to give away around a thousand free wireless routers, which are colourfully named ...
by David Allen
We have been expecting changes to happen at the Carphone Warehouse and really things have taken a bit of time to get going, but recently there have been a flurry of announcements and plans that show behind the scenes there is a lot going on.
Now it seems that TalkTalk plan to offer Carphone Warehouse customers the opportunity to become one of the many mobile broadband users in the ...
by David Allen
As Orange UK prepare for a re-launch of their broadband service they have suffered a bit of a set back, with a report from the consumer people Which?, who have placed Orange broadband on their “Don’t Buy” list.
However, as Orange is offering this service for free, it would seem to be a bit of a contradiction from one of the parties.
Orange will be offering, from next month, the ...
by David Allen
It is a well-known fact that in certain parts of Europe Sky and BBC TV can be received without the need for the subscribers to pay Sky anything or the BBC either.
However, this has all come to end in Spain as the authorities have raided the offices of the Telmicro Levante Company and the signal was turned off.
The company operated a microwave distribution system. This is where ...
by David Allen
A survey has found that fifty six per cent of UK households have some sort of broadband package; this is compared to fifty one per cent last year.
This means that according to the survey of 1,200 people by the Office of National Statistics, around sixteen and half million homes have access to the internet. This equates to around sixty five per cent of all UK homes.
These figures ...
August 26, 2008
by Janet Harris
The launch of serversdirect.co.uk provides a one stop shop for UK small businesses seeking server and network technology, supported by installation, data migration and ongoing management services.
The new website also promises the lowest prices and next day delivery across the UK.
serversdirect.co.uk is part of Easycom group, an online retailer of multi-brand electronics.
Nick Glynne, MD of Easycom said: “For far too long, servers have been sold by ...
by David Allen
This is third year of the Mozilla Extend FireFox contest; this is where the corporation decides which are the best add-ons for the FireFox browser. This is interesting because there were more than a hundred entrees into the competition this year.
Because this year’s competition was launched in March this means that FireFox 3 was the centre of attention, making the add-ons more relevant for the users of today.
This ...
by David Allen
The government is being accused of not doing enough to work within the framework of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive, which has been put into place to prevent the tons of computer waste being dumped on the shores of third world countries, like Ghana in Africa.
The waste has a value to these poor people, because computers do contain some precious, semi precious and other metals, ...
by David Allen
There is one thing that really gets to customers apart from service interruptions is the service that they receive from the various provider’s customer service departments. This comes from the numerous surveys that often have customer services at the top of the complaint list.
In fact, many customers actually choose their phone, mobile or broadband providers on the quality of the customer services offered. For example, around forty-eight per ...
by David Allen
As from the middle of September the BBC will be adding series stacking to their online programme sites, this will include the iPlayer. The introduction of this will mean that viewers will be able to view any episode from a series up to a maximum of thirteen.
Originally, when the iPlayer was introduced the viewers were only able to view programmes from the last seven days, but now with ...
by David Allen
A row has started over the role of men at the BBC, when the top interviewer and university challenge host Jeremy Paxman opened up at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. He mentioned that for someone who is white, male and middle class who wants to get into television the BBC is not the place to start.
Jeremy Paxman was responding to a question that suggested television had actually become ...
by David Allen
Be Broadband has been working hard recently to increase their presence and by offering services that their customers want and not what they want to offer their customers.
With this in view they have teamed up with the gamin website Enemy Down to launch their won gaming service, which is going to be named Be Gamer and will be free to all of the ISP’s users.
By using this particular ...
by David Allen
In order to demonstrate their high speed internet Virgin Media are planning to use the Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt, who won two gold medals in the recent Beijing Olympic Games.
The plan would be so show how the Virgin Media 50 Mbps broadband service is twice as fast as anything thing else on the market, a bit like the sprinter himself.
Virgin Media are not new to using famous people ...
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In a recent survey, it has been found that around seventy per cent of UK broadband users are paying too much for their service, while their ISPs are just sitting there raking in the money and saying nothing.
The people who are going to be more affected are those who signed up for broadband around two years ago.
In this time period prices have been really shaken up, ...
The launch of serversdirect.co.uk provides a one stop shop for UK small businesses seeking server and network technology, supported by installation, data migration and ongoing management services.
The new website also promises the lowest prices and next day delivery across the UK.
serversdirect.co.uk is part of Easycom group, an online retailer of multi-brand electronics.
Nick Glynne, MD of Easycom said: “For far too long, servers have been sold by ...
