Archive for the Category ‘INTERNET’
Virgin Media has announced that it will publish its average broadband speeds for all of its packages for everyone to see, as it joins the campaign for greater honesty in the way that speeds are advertised by consumers. With Ofcom now also publishing its results , it is increasingly obvious that the ‘Up to..’ services that are run by most ISPs show a huge disparity between what customers think they are getting and what they actually achieve on average. Virgin Media, which has the luxury of a fibre optic network that leads to higher average speeds which Ofcom’s research showed were much closer to advertised, is now going to publish its own average speeds at www.virginmedia.com/speedhonesty for all to see.
September 2, 2010 | Posted in
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News Corporation-owned MySpace is now offering its users the option to sync with rival social network Facebook and micro-blogging site Twitter. Members can now post their status updates and shared content to Facebook and Twitter, in a move that is pretty much a tacit admission of the old maxim: “if you can’t beat ‘em, join em.” Span the networks The move takes the recently revamped ‘stream’ design of MySpace profiles and plugs in Twitter and Facebook’s application program interfaces (APIs) to allow easy syncing across the networks. The syncing applies both to individual MySpace users, as well as bands and celebrities
August 31, 2010 | Posted in
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If you’re anything like me, you saw Google’s new Gmail voice calling service and thought this: voice calls? How quaint! The Gmail users who use the new service will be making voice calls, but they won’t really be voice calls: like Skype, Google Voice uses Voice over IP to send voice data in much the same way servers send Web pages, MP3s or emails. It’s not a voice service; it’s a data service whose data just happens to be voice
August 26, 2010 | Posted in
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One of BT’s infamous ‘Adam and Jane’ adverts has been banned, with the Advertising Standards Agency upholding claims that it was likely to mislead customers about the speed of its ‘up to’ 20Mbps service.
August 25, 2010 | Posted in
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Channel Five has rejoined Project Canvas following its takeover by Northern & Shell. Five dropped out of Project Canvas a matter of weeks ago, with the BBC-backed IPTV scheme proving to be too expensive for the struggling broadcaster. However, following the takeover of Five by Richard Desmond, the decision has been taken to jump back in.
August 24, 2010 | Posted in
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Intel’s announcement of agreeing to pay £4.9 billion for McAfee caught everyone by surprise for a number of reasons. It seems odd that a chip maker would shell out that kind of money for an anti-virus company, despite its vast portfolio of home and enterprise products.
August 20, 2010 | Posted in
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Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley has responded to the news that Facebook is taking on location tagging with Facebook Places, insisting that a redesign and new features will keep people checking in. Facebook Places offers many of the kind of features that has made Foursquare a hit, but Business Insider received an email from Crowley insisting that Facebook users were already well served. “We’re still a platform for location, specifically around sharing locations though check-ins, surfacing interesting things around you and using game mechanics to encourage and reward for certain actions and/or behaviours,” wrote Crowley
August 20, 2010 | Posted in
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Voting has opened in .net magazine’s annual Awards – a celebration of the very best in web design and development. The .net Awards website ( http://www.thenetawards.com ), in association with Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, is open now for voting across 16 wide-ranging categories.
August 20, 2010 | Posted in
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WikiLeaks has signed a deal which will see the whistle-blowing website hosted on servers owned by the Pirate Party. Both factions are based in Sweden so it makes sense that the two have combined to “to take real responsibility” for changing the world.
August 18, 2010 | Posted in
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There will be 22 billion web-connected devices in the world by 2020, according to a new study by IMS Research, with internet connectivity set to surge.
August 18, 2010 | Posted in
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