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November 21, 2008
by David Allen
The BBC's plans to expand into a network of local websites, had appeared to be a threat to the local press - and when the BBC were talking about investing £68 million of public money into the project it showed that they meant business.
However, there have been some high profile words, including those of ministers, who feel that this is a move too far by the BBC and ...
by David Allen
North Wales will be getting super fast broadband early on in 2009; this is down to the work of an open network operator Fibrespeed.
They have built a fibre network capable of delivering broadband speeds of up to 100 Mbps.
To celebrate the launch of this new network on the 27th November, the company will be announcing that they have managed to entice the support of nine internet service ...
by David Allen
New customers wanting to sign up for the Tiscali TV and broadband service will be able to do so in the High Street at stores owned by DSCi.
Not only that, they will be able to walk out of the store with a brand new Tiscali+ digital recorder set top box for free.
Tiscali+ offers the buyer the ability to pause and record live TV, and record two channels ...
by David Allen
Disney is to launch the HD version of their top of the range film channel Cinemagic during December.
This channel will be initially on Sky+ HD, but will only be available to SKY customers with a movie channel and also an HD subscription.
Throughout the first month and into the New Year, Sky subscribers can expect to see some of the producer’s best works such as, Tinkerbell, Sleeping Beauty, The ...
by David Allen
As expected, it is the Americans who spend more time online than anyone else does in the world, but according to research the UK is catching up, and fast.
These are the findings of the recent Third Annual International Communications Market Report, which looks into the state of the global telecom, internet and TV market, carried out by the regulator Ofcom.
Internet usage has risen the fastest in the UK, ...
by David Allen
The spread of digital TV is moving faster than in a lot of other countries like the US, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan, according to a recent report from the regulator Ofcom.
The study also releases some interesting figures such as the fact that around eighty six per cent of the households in the UK can now receive digital TV and, not surprisingly, the regulator feels that the ...
November 20, 2008
by David Allen
Last week there were some concerns among the shareholders in BT, who were unhappy with the capital outlay needed to roll out the super fast fibre broadband network during the current financial situation.
However, while the shareholders in BT need a reasonable return on their investments, creating a fibre network would add value to the business and therefore the company too.
A spokesperson from inside BT has let it be ...
by David Allen
It seems that BT is asking for trouble as it has banned any discussion about the Phorm, or as they call it Webwise, issue on any of its customer forums.
Not only that, all threads that relate to the targeted advertising system have been deleted going to back to February of this year.
Many of BT’s customers have spoken out about the company’s plans to introduce Phorm onto their ...
by David Allen
The BBC were the first channel from the UK to put their content on iTunes, and now it seems that the trend has been followed by the BBC’s commercial division BBC Worldwide, as they are to become the first UK broadcaster to offer content on the iTunes site in France.
BBC Worldwide will be offering some of the most popular programmes made by the BBC to be bought and ...
by David Allen
The BBC will be broadcasting their channels live over the internet starting next week. Programmes from BBC 1 and BBC2 will then be able to be viewed anywhere on a computer connected to a broadband service.
However while this may be a good thing for the BBC’s viewers, there are some critics who believe that this action throws the question of the TV licence into the open once again.
After ...
by David Allen
For two hundred lucky households in Warrington, super fast broadband that can reach a speed of 50 Mbps is being trialled by Virgin Media.
It is unknown as to why the product is limited to two hundred, but it is believed that there are other trials planned which will use the same figure.
The Virgin Media XXL service has become known as one the most talked about broadband services around, ...
by David Allen
Both new and existing customers of Virgin Media will be able to add a broadband boost to their packages.
This new addition to the Virgin Media menu is something special though, as it will allow users of the up to 8 Mbps ADSL broadband to boost their connection speed at no extra cost.
Not only that, Virgin Media have played around with their titles and from now on the ...
November 19, 2008
by Janet Harris
Microsoft Corporation held its Annual Shareholder Meeting today and CEO Steve Ballmer said that Azure and the Azure Services Platform will play a key role in Microsoft's future.
Azure is a cloud-based operating system, which means it runs on Microsoft's own data centre, rather than in-house servers.
Although hosting applications on the internet isn't a new idea, Azure will make it easier for developers to create applications.
Azure ...
by David Allen
The government are planning to publish a league table of internet service providers, but this table, and we know how this government likes a league table, will be for naming and shaming purposes.
Those ISP’s which fail to remove offensive material will be featured on the table.
This comes from the Culture Minister, Barbara Follett, with a helping hand from her opposition counterpart, Ed Vaizey.
The plan is that if, ...
by David Allen
Internet security experts warn anyone using the internet next Monday, that this day is believed to be the worst day of the year for computer attacks.
These experts have been looking into the data collected from viruses and worms that have been found on nearly half a million computers from all around the world.
This data has been studied and it seems that everything points to the 24th November ...
by David Allen
There is nothing worse than a personal video recorder (PVR) that has a fan running all of time, but this is what some owners of Humax’s PVR 9150T and PVR 9300T have been putting up with.
Fortunately the makers have been listening and will be issuing a software fix for the problem.
This software will be downloaded over the air, but will only install once the unit is in ...
by David Allen
It would seem that the cost of broadband has been falling over the past year, according to research carried out by the Money Supermarket, and not only that, it seems that some customers could be missing out on savings too.
On average, the price of broadband has fallen by almost fourteen per cent, which is quite considerable, but the saving that some customers are losing out on could be ...
by David Allen
While there has been an apparent slowdown in the take up of fixed line broadband in the UK, one provider has found some pace in their customer base development and has increased their new customers by sixteen per cent on the previous quarter.
O2 have recently reported that their customer base has grown by over seventy thousand new subscribers. This goes against the current trend within the industry where ...
by David Allen
The satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting is planning to raise additional funds through a bond issue. This will be directed at institutions and other major investors.
BSkyB are looking to raise around £400 million from this bond issue, which will assist in refinancing the company’s debt, and give them the cash they need in order to look at further acquisitions.
Just recently BSkyB have been linked with the purchase of ...
November 18, 2008
by David Allen
The broadband TV service, which has become known as Project Kangaroo, looks as if it is going to be ready to jump the gun in January.
The video on demand joint venture between the main terrestrial broadcasters, ITV, Channel Four and the BBC, will be getting a test run in early January; this is going to be well ahead of the ruling that will be made by the ...
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The BBC's plans to expand into a network of local websites, had appeared to be a threat to the local press - and when the BBC were talking about investing £68 million of public money into the project it showed that they meant business.
However, there have been some high profile words, including those of ministers, who feel that this is a move too far by the BBC and ...
