Those with a BT Home Hub — and there’s a lot of them, as it’s currently the most popular DSL router in the UK — might be sleeping a little less soundly tonight following the claims of an ethical hacking group, GNUCitizen, to have found a way to past its Wireless security.
Rather than getting all hardcore and going into details of how it came about, we’ll give you the overview.
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The price of the UK 8GB iPhone has dropped by £100 to £169.
O2 — the network with the exclusive right to sell it in the UK — and Carphone Warehouse, have announced that this will be until 1 June.
Professional photographers, street shooters, keen amateur photographers and even mobile phone snappers seem to be suffering increasing hassle from The Man when it comes to exercising their right to take photos in public places.
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It appears that the success of mobile data has flourished since both the price of modem devices and the costs of using it have plummeted – quelle suprise.
3G network provider, Three, is reporting that there’s a seven fold increase in the amount of data that is being passed through their network since the introduction of the Skypephone.
English computing stalwarts, RM announced that they have the exclusive contract to distribute new HP 2133 Mini-Note PC to schools, colleges and universities in the UK.
A mere day before, HP global had announced the machine would be sold into education.
Continue reading RM Gets HP 2133 Mini-Note PC On UK Education Exclusive
Canon’s XL-1 camera range has been a fave with the prosumer video camera market for years … actually stretching as far back into the previous millennium.
Today they’ve announced an updated version, the XL-H1S and XL-H1A HD – both capable of shooting in High Def.
Continue reading Canon XL-H1S and XL-H1A HD Video Cameras Revealed
The tussle between Yahoo and Microsoft has gone through a couple of extra rounds of late. We thought we’d bring you up to date with the current state of play.
Back in Feb Microsoft offered Yahoo $44Bn. Yahoo said no thanks.
BBC iPlayer is further expanding the hardware platforms that it’s available on – the last was a troublesome iPhone launch.
The latest is the Nintendo Wii, announced today, bringing the advantage that the iPlayer content can be viewed on a ‘normal’ TV, rather than on a computer screen.
There’s no shock that Ofcom have today detailed new Broadcasting Code rules intended to control the once-bonanza income generating TV programmes using Premium Rate Services (PRS) phone lines.
The new rules make it clear that both radio and TV programmes cannot, as their primary focus, be encouraging viewers to call in using PRS. The focus should be editorial.
Continue reading Ofcom Proposes Restrictions On Cash Cow Participation TV
The Internet is on track to boot King TV off its throne as the biggest advertising medium in the UK by the end of next year, according to a report published yesterday.
The report by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), PricewaterhouseCoopers and the World Advertising Research Centre, claims that Britain has the most developed online-advertising market in the world, with the UK market notching up a mighty £2.8bn in 2007.
Continue reading Web Ontrack To Usurp TV As UK’s Top Advertising Medium