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TalkTalk and Tiscali pay £2.5m refunds for bogus bills

submitted on Monday 28th February 2011 at 1:46 pm by

Two telecoms firms, TalkTalk and Tiscali, have repaid nearly £2.5m to customers who were billed for services that had been cancelled. The regulator Ofcom received more than 1,000 complaints but estimated some 62,000 could have been affected. The customers had typically complained about aggressive demands for the payment of bills they did not owe. TalkTalk blamed a new billing ...full article >>

Apple brings multi-touch, full-disk crypto to latest OS X

submitted on Friday 25th February 2011 at 11:25 am by

Apple has released a developer version of its next-generation Mac operating system, which the company says brings many of the features found in the iPad to its popular line of desktop and laptop computers. The preview of Mac OS X 10.7, aka Lion, is available from the Mac App Store now to members of the Mac Developer Program and will ship to customers sometime around the third qua...full article >>

Light Peak - Light Peak is a new high-speed optical cable

submitted on Thursday 24th February 2011 at 9:53 am by

Light Peak is a new high-speed optical cable technology designed to connect your electronic devices to each other. Light Peak delivers high bandwidth starting at 10Gb/s with the potential ability to scale to 100Gb/s over the next decade. At 10Gb/s, you could transfer a full-length Blu-Ray movie in less than 30 seconds. Optical technology also allows for smaller connectors and longer, thinner, a...full article >>

Is your computer dirty as this?

submitted on Tuesday 22nd February 2011 at 10:03 am by

Well, you lovely people, it's time to pour yourselves a stiff brandy before entering the circus of horrors that is Ventblockers II. We have just found the most brilliant link to some of peoples most dirtest computers Good work by all those readers who sent in evidence demonstrating that it really is a good idea to keep your computer spick and span. The consequences of poor PC hygiene ...full article >>

Only 40% of cabinets may get enabled in a BT fibre broadband area

submitted on Monday 21st February 2011 at 11:56 am by

BT's roll out of fibre broadband is well publicised with lists of exchanges to receive the new fibre technology often published on our news, much to the delight or dismay of our readers at news that their area is or isn't to be enabled. The information that is not published by BT, and is perhaps equally important, is the number of cabinets that will be enabled in a fibre-to-the-cabinet ...full article >>

Google unveils One Pass system for online content

submitted on Thursday 17th February 2011 at 9:32 am by

Google has launched a new payment system that allows users to subscribe to online content for a 10% commission fee. The move comes after rival Apple was criticised over its payment system which takes 30% of the sale price. One Pass will work on tablets and smartphones, as well as Google-related websites. One Pass will launch initially in the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Sp...full article >>

Innocent People chased to pay for illegal porn downloads

submitted on Tuesday 15th February 2011 at 3:43 pm by SOL Support

Thousands of people around the UK were sent letters by a controversial law firm, accusing them of allowing their computers to be used for illegal downloading but a whistle-blower claims not everyone who was sent a letter was guilty. When "Sharon" opened her letter from a law firm, which came on bland, official-looking headed paper, she was shocked by its contents. Sharon - not...full article >>

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 web browser goes live

submitted on Tuesday 15th February 2011 at 12:24 pm by SOL Support

Microsoft has said the latest version of its internet explorer web browser puts it ahead of competitors like Google and Firefox. The software giant, which is losing market share, made the bold claim as it unveiled what is known as the release candidate of IE9. This is the final test drive for the new browser - a chance to catch any last-minute bugs before its debut. IE9 has been dow...full article >>

Why universal broadband is important

submitted on Tuesday 15th February 2011 at 12:10 pm by

Many of us in towns and cities often take broadband for granted, not realising how reliant we all are on this vital communications service. Our lives are often so connected, that a significant part of society arranges their social lives online. Others use the Internet for work, something the government is keen to promote. As of this year, most businesses, including all new businesses, are r...full article >>

Government encouraged to invest in broadband for farms

submitted on Tuesday 15th February 2011 at 12:09 pm by

A new report from the Commons environment audit committee has claimed that providing faster broadband services to farmers would help their businesses and encourage young people to stay and work on the farm. A fast Internet connection is vital to farmers to aid them in running their business as paperwork such as VAT returns needs to be submitted online. "Government must ensure farm ...full article >>

FTTH Council Europe reveal 3.9m FTTH Subscribers in Europe

submitted on Thursday 10th February 2011 at 11:21 am by

At the Fibre to the Home (FTTH) Conference today in Milan, the FTTH Council Europe have announced that there are now nearly 3.9 million FTTH subscribers in Europe, an 18% increase in just six months. Including Russia in the figures increases this to 8.1 million (adding 895,000 subscribers in six months). The top 5 countries remain unchanged in their order with Lithuania still out in front, foll...full article >>

15% off all Suffolk Online Website Design Services - Ends April 30th 2011

submitted on Tuesday 8th February 2011 at 2:31 pm by SOL Support

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Mozilla plans four Firefoxes in 2011

submitted on Tuesday 8th February 2011 at 9:17 am by

Mozilla is planning to release four new versions of Firefox this year, shortening the browser's traditional release cycle considerably. To date, the open source outfit has released a new version of the browser every 12 to 18 months or so. Presumably, the proposed move is a response to Google, which now releases a new version of Chrome every six to eight weeks. According to a draft o...full article >>

AOL Huffington Post deal is latest media merger

submitted on Monday 7th February 2011 at 9:46 am by

US internet firm AOL has agreed to a buyout of the Huffington Post online newspaper. The $315m (£222m) deal will create an internet media group with 270 million users, including 117 million in the US. The purchase price - $300m of which will be in cash - will be paid to co-founders Arianna Huffington and Kenneth Lerer and a few minority shareholders. Ms Huffington - currently ...full article >>

Silent calls face threat of £2m fine, says Ofcom

submitted on Tuesday 1st February 2011 at 11:23 am by

Companies that use automated telephone calls that leave householders hearing nothing can now be fined up to £2m. So-called silent calls often occur when firms dial several numbers at once but then fail to have a staff member lined up to speak when a call is answered. Ofcom has fined nine businesses for making such calls, with Barclaycard receiving the biggest penalty allowed under...full article >>

BBC cuts online budget

submitted on Tuesday 1st February 2011 at 10:37 am by

The BBC will be cutting its online services budget by twenty five per cent from the current £137 million to the lower figure of £103 million by February 2013. This may appear to be good news for public spending cutbacks, but it will result in the loss of around three hundred and sixty jobs and the closure of around a hundred and eighty websites! According to the director gen...full article >>

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