Articles Posted on 16 December 2008
UK's Top Five Broadband Internet Packages
News Hardware
Virgin Media and Be are both currently vying for the top spot of fastest internet service provider in the country. Both companies launched broadband services that should provide punters with speeds in excess of 30mbps. The...
Apple Desktop Sales Hit By Global Economic Downturn
News Hardware
November was a bad month for Apple sales. Research by NPD Group showed that sales of desktop Macs fell by a jaw-dropping 35 percent, pulling Mac sales down by 1 percent year on year. PC Sales fared better with a 2 percent rise...
New Apple Mac Mini Coming at Macworld 2009, Built by Asus?
News Hardware
Online website Wired has been tipped by an insider at Apple that a new version of the popular Mac mini desktop will be unveiled at next year's Macworld Expo which will be held in San Francisco. Although Apple has kept mum about...
Chip Sector To Face Tough Conditions In 2009 Warns Gartner
News Software
The semiconductor industry could experience another bad year in 2009 as it sees the second decline in gross revenues according to research firm Gartner. Worldwide semiconductor revenue in 2009 is expected to shrink to $219.2...
Be Combines Two 24mbps Broadband Lines To Deliver 48mbps service
News Hardware
Be There looks set to launch a 48mbps ADSL2+ broadband service by combining two separate 24mbps lines in a process called line bonding after a three month trial in the Paddington Basin in London proved successful. Back in...
£125.09 Seagate FreeAgent 1.5TB External Hard Drive USB - Retail Silver
News Hardware
Store all your photos, music, videos, and documents with the powerful yet simple Seagate FreeAgent Desk storage solution. The FreeAgent Desk storage solution includes easy-to-use software that helps keep your information...
GBP105.06 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB HDD SATA 3Gb/s NCQ 32MB Cache
News Hardware
Seagate has a proven track record of consistently delivering reliable products in volume, and the new Barracuda 7200.11 family is no exception. Designed with up to four platters and the only second-generation perpendicular...
UK Broadband Subscriptions Grind To A Halt
News Hardware
The growth of broadband subscriptions in UK has slowed down dismally to just 0.5 percent in the third quarter this year, according to a new research study. A research study from Deloitte revealed that the adoption of new...
Rumour Mill : 200mbps Internet Now Available From Virgin?
News Consumer
Virgin's 50mbps modem supports four-channel bonding. This should - in theory - allow two or more lines to be combine for more redundancy or increased throughput. Filthy rich Geeks could therefore, potentially have 200mbps...
46 million Smart Meters To be Deployed in UK Households
News Consumer
Most of the major telecoms and technology players in UK are geared up to seize the multi-billion pounds contract for manufacturing and installing “smart electricity meters” for all 26 million households in UK by...
5 Things To Do with Virgin's 50mbps Broadband Service
News Hardware
Virgin Media's 50mbps broadband service is unlike anything you can experience in the UK right now. Unless you use expensive bonding services, you are unlikely to come even near that speed. Obviously, using such a fast line...
Phorm Shares Rise On BT Announcement
News Security
Shares in Phorm have surged by more than 40 percent after the company has successfully completed the trial of its focused advertising technology, with the telecom giant BT. The duo has completed the successful trial of...
Orange Opens UK "Technocentre" R&D Base
News Hardware
Orange is all set to launch a UK-based research and development facility to rev up its offerings in mobile and broadband services in the upcoming New Year. The new R&D facility, dubbed as “Technocentre”,...
Internet Explorer 7 Records Huge Increase In Hacking Attacks
News Security
Microsoft Corp. has tipped off its users of a “huge increase” in hacking attacks exploiting a critical unpatched vulnerability in some versions of its flagship web-browser Internet Explorer (IE), and notified that...
Mobile Sector in 2008 : The Winners
News Hardware
Who has shone in the mobile sector in 2008. Apple of course, but also the BBC. The iPlayer (with a lot of help from the iPhone 3G and the high speed networks) has turned mobile TV from an abject failure to a success story....
Chrome Browser Comes Last In Password Security Test
News Web
Google and Apple's browsers, which both share the same Webkit root, came out last during a test aimed at evaluating the security levels of mainstream browsers currently available. Security specialist Robert Chapin wrote in a...
Diamond HD 4870 1GB CrossFire Video Card
News Hardware
In the event that you’re done looking for gifts this Christmas season it’s still a great time to purchase, as nearly anything tech related is going to be on sale trying to draw customers in. With the media daily...
Lexar Shoot-n-Sync Wi-Fi Memory Card
News Mobile & Telco
These days, almost everyone from young to old has a digital camera. For the tech savvy taking the pictures and getting them onto the computer or the internet is a piece of cake, but for others it is a little more complicated. For...
Website-Watcher 5.0.2 Beta 1
News Business & Government
WebSite-Watcher checks an unlimited number of web-sites for updates and changes with a minimum of time and online-costs. ' When changes in a website are detected, it saves the last two versions to your hard disk and highlights...
UK consults on copyright reform
News Hardware
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is asking whether laws on copyright exceptions and the current system for rights clearance are too complicated. A consultation on reforming the regime was published today. Four questions...
