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Ofcom smears 3G across spectrum
900, 1800MHz approval in August
Ofcom has finally proposed the use of 3G technologies at 2G frequencies, slipping the amendment into a bundle of updates and tweaks that should get approval come August.…
Posted on 12 March 2010 | 12:13 pm
Light bulbs inspire boffins to find fast data transfer trick
Many lights make bytes work
Switch a lightbulb on and off fast enough, and you can transmit data without giving everyone in the room a headache.…
Posted on 12 March 2010 | 10:37 am
Light bulbs inspire boffins to find fast data transfer trick
Many lights make bytes work
Switch a lightbulb on and off fast enough, and you can transmit data without giving everyone in the room a headache.…
Posted on 12 March 2010 | 10:37 am
Steve Jobs Flash rant put to the test
CPU hog Adobe v HTML5
When Steve Jobs badmouthed Adobe Flash to The Wall Street Journal, he said it was buggy, littered with security holes, and a "CPU hog". It's hard to argue with the first two, but a new study claims the Apple cult leader was wrong about the hog bit.…
Posted on 12 March 2010 | 12:00 am
BT rolls out new, 'competitive' consumer deals
That's competitive as in really expensive
UK infrastructure owner BT has today announced its new consumer bundle offerings following relaxation of Ofcom competition rules. The headlining £7.99-a-month anytime calls plus broadband is reasonable - but lasts for only 3 months, followed by a 15-month lock-in at an unimpressive £15.99.…
Posted on 11 March 2010 | 5:08 pm
BBC might pay for Tory broadband promises
Superfast broadband needs super funding
Mandybill minister Stephen Timms has attacked Tory promises of "superfast broadband" as "hopeless" and lacking in funding.…
Posted on 11 March 2010 | 3:31 pm
Virgin signals start of telegraph pole broadband test
Stringing up rural communities
Virgin Media is to see whether it can string up extensions to its fibre-optic network to Britain's telegraph poles in a bid to explore ways of bringing high-speed broadband to rural communities.…
Posted on 11 March 2010 | 12:59 pm
Tablet maker threatens, then robs Apple
The non-iPad iPad clone
The publicity whores at China's Shenzhen Great Loong Brother tablet-PC maker are at it again.…
Posted on 10 March 2010 | 6:02 am
Dell intros restyled biz laptops
Vostro 3000 line debuts
Dell has introduced a set of new Vostro notebooks, pitching the products as "a range of new thin, lightweight and durable laptop computers".…
Posted on 9 March 2010 | 5:29 pm
Acer said to be readying glass-lidded laptop
Frameless in the name of thinness
Acer is preparing to release a very skinny - and, dare we say it, incredibly fragile - notebook with a glass-backed frameless display.…
Posted on 8 March 2010 | 12:48 pm
3 tries to tempt mobile broadband buyers with MS Office
Free Office 2010 upgrade included
Mobile phone network 3 today said it will offer its mobile broadband customers a copy of Microsoft Office Home & Student 2007 for a penny less than £60.…
Posted on 8 March 2010 | 12:23 pm
Pixel Qi sunlight-readable colour e-paper inbound
Mod-your-netbook kits in your hands in Q2
Pixel Qi - the 'Qi' is pronounced 'chee' - the company behind a type of e-paper that's not only colour and able to cope with video but is also claimed to be fully readable in bright sunlight, will be making screens available to hardware hackers by the end of June.…
Posted on 8 March 2010 | 10:46 am
Gartner says world will buy 10.5m tablets in 2010
Dons rose colored glasses for PC forecast
The global PC business is apparently bouncier than the analysts at Gartner had been projecting only a few months ago, and now, they're predicting that PC shipments will rise by 19.7 per cent in 2010 to 366.1 million machines.…
Posted on 5 March 2010 | 7:06 pm
E-book buyers favour iPad over Kindle and co.
Owners wished they'd waited for the Apple offering
Punters out to buy an e-book reader seem set on Apple's iPad, a survey of 3171 US consumers has revealed.…
Posted on 5 March 2010 | 4:37 pm
Apple revises iPad ship date
For Americans only - Brits will have to wait
Apple has missed its deadline. The iPad will go on sale in the US not in "late March" but early April, the company has admitted.…
Posted on 5 March 2010 | 2:14 pm
Sony serves up Mothers' Day e-book reader deal
By your ma a viewer, get free books
Looking for a Mothers' Day gift for your literature-loving mum? Sony has a suggestion: a special edition e-book reader ready to be loaded with a female friendly digital library.…
Posted on 5 March 2010 | 10:52 am
YouTube: Auto-captions for everyone
All toe they donuts work prefect Lee
Google is now letting anyone use its new auto-captioning feature for YouTube videos.…
Posted on 5 March 2010 | 7:02 am
Real Networks rolls over to Hollywood
Will kill RealDVD, pay $4.5m
RealNetworks has agreed to destroy all traces of its short-lived DVD-duplicating software, RealDVD, to appease the Hollywood heads that brought legal action against it.…
Posted on 4 March 2010 | 11:39 pm
More doubt tossed onto iPad numbers
Apple manufacturer denies claims
A second report has surfaced claiming Apple is experiencing spotty overseas production of the iPad, due for release later this month.…
Posted on 4 March 2010 | 9:27 pm
T-Mobile to slash international call rates
PAYGers get up to 75 per cent off
T-Mobile will next week slash the cost of making calls to overseas numbers - if you're one of its pay-as-you-go customers.…
Posted on 4 March 2010 | 3:51 pm
