H2O Networks, of Merseyside UK, have got an interesting idea for providing high speed Internet access to homes and businesses – by running fibre optic cables through the sewer.
This apparently initially grubby idea isn’t new – we first wrote about the concept back in December 2001, when a company called CityNet was talking about the idea (we notice that their Website has disappeared in the intervening time).
It’s good to see that it’s actually happening in the UK.
Vodafone Board feels that their shares are undervalued at present, so to build the share price up again, they’ve just sanctioned the self-purchase of up to £1 Billion of their own shares.
The publication of this decision comes the day after a Vodafone’s shared dropped almost 14% over the day, the largest single-day drop in its history.
A UK Judge has banned a 23 year old man from boasting of his crimes on the Internet.
Andrew Kellett has received an Asbo (anti-social behaviour order), normally used for ban people from specific geographic areas.
Samsung today launched the NV100HD, a compact digital camera with a bonkers 14.7 Mpx resolution.
It sits at the top of their style-led NV range and has a 28mm Schneider Kreuznach wide-angle lens onboard.
It’s not just a still-shot beauty, 720p resolution video can be recorded at up to 30 frames per second – and then be watched, via an HDMI cable, on an HD TV.
We’re still recovering from last night’s alcohol-laden launch of their new Home Hub 2.0, but BT aren’t making life easy for hungover journos, rubbing fresh steaming hot news in our bleary faces this morning.
Continue reading BT Announce Super Fast Fibre Optic Broadband
We’re really pleased to see that Steve Kennedey’s, Euro Tech News blog has been short-listed for the ComputerWeekly.com IT Blog Awards 08, which have recently been announced.
Computer Weekly describe the selected sites as “this year’s must-read blogs for IT professionals in the UK,” which is a great accolade for Steve – quite rightly too.
Steve Kennedy really knows his onions — why else would we ask him to write for Digital-Lifestyles? — and has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the comms and tech world.
His experience is extensive and oh so very deep. As the old phrase goes, he’s forgotten more about comms than most people will ever know.
Massive knowledge aside and on the personal side, he’s also a really nice bloke.
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O2 Broadband and Be Broadband have put on their Billy Whizz boots and surged past their competitors in the broadband speed charts, providing average download speeds over twice the national average.
The figures come from broadband analysts at broadband.co.uk, with spokeschap Edd Dawson commenting, “Such is O2’s dominance in the average download speed charts that they are an incredible 47% faster on average than their nearest rivals Virgin Media.”
Continue reading O2/Be Broadband Twice As Fast As National Average
CD and DVDs sales may be going down the dumper, but downloads of DRM-free music are going through the roof.
MP3 download site 7digital.com is reporting that sales have rocketed since they introduced DRM-free music from major labels Warner and EMI, with the site now riding high as the UK’s second biggest digital music retailer, after iTunes.
A Manchester- based IT consultant returned from a holiday in Portugal to find something worse than the dull northern weather to greet him in the shape of a hefty £31,500 telephone bill.
Finding himself dissatisfied with the entertainment on offer in Portugal, Iayn Dobsyn had elected to download an episode of Prison Break and a load of MP3s by using his mobile phone as a modem.
Continue reading Vodafone Customer Slapped Down With £31,000 Data Roaming Charge
Remember when we broke the story of the USB tape deck?
The latest bit of USB kit for digitising your media from Firebox is a USB VHS machine.
Continue reading VCR2PC: USB VHS Player For Digitising Your VHS Tapes