Virgin Mobile have launched a new ‘Liberty Sim’ mobile tariff, offering a Sim-only deal with monthly deals costing between £15 and £30.
Users aren’t tied to lengthy contracts – just a 30 day notice period – and they can keep their old number and phone (so long as they unlock it first).
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We wouldn’t normally cover something as apparently dry as this, but personal interest is a factor here.
Having space-shifted from London to The Isle of Wight just over three years ago, it’s really pleasing to see that the holder of WiMax license for the Island has applied to locate the WiMax aerial and kit in the town that we moved to – Ventnor.
Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has voiced his concerns over the future of the Internet, saying that consumers need to be protected against systems designed to track their web based activity.
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London still rules the roost when it comes to Wi Fi connectivity, with usage soaring 156 per cent and hotspot Harrys spending an average of 72 minutes online per session, according to iPass’s ‘Wi-Fi Hotspot Index’ which reports on Wi-Fi use for the second half of 2007.
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Computer giants Dell have announced that they will be offering their stylish XPS One all-in-one desktop PC in the UK.
Occupying a similar chunk of the market as the Apple iMac, the XPS has been doing well in the States, where it was released as far back as November 2007.
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Just when the BBC were pleased to tell everyone that they’d fixed the hole in their iPhone iPlayer service that let people download TV programmes without DRM – the very next day, the originator of the hack, Paul Battley, produced an update to get around the BBC’s fix, re-opening the whole.
Details of these two systems have been knocking about t’web for what seems like ages, but Sony have finally given a loud parp on their PR trumpet and officially announced their new range of Giga Juke home audio players.
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They may struggle to tell the difference between LastNinja and LOLcats and bang on and on about how they used to leave their front doors open at night, but when it comes to online security, it’s the old folks who are the most sussed.
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BBC iPlayer is coming to the Apple iPhone.
The BBC iPlayer service, that lets UK TV licence players watch selected piece of content that have been shown on TV in the proceeding fourteen days, is going to be usable and playable on the Apple iPhone and iPod touch using WiFi connections.
You know the dilemma. You need a network at home. You find WiFi doesn’t cut it and CAT-5 cabling is a major pain to install.
En-Twyn, a company from London, have a prototype unit showing at CeBit on the Intellon stand (it uses the latest generation of Intellon Powerline chips).
What makes their En-Compass product different is that all of the electronics are incorporated into the back of the socket. It fits into a standard mains back box and you don’t see anything hanging out of the front.