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  • HomeCamp Event: Andy Stanford-Clark’s View

    We really, really wanted to get along to the first HomeCamp event – which covered the now-realistic world of automating your home.

    Due to a change of circumstances on our side, we couldn’t make it. Much to our relief IBM Master Inventor and Distinguished Engineer Dr Andy Stanford-Clark (who you may know from his house that Twitters) said he’d cover it for Digital-Lifestyles’ readers. Thanks Andy!

    HomeCamp Event: Andy Stanford-Clark's ViewA couple of Saturdays ago I went to the first “HomeCamp,” at Imperial College in London.

    HomeCamp was an “unconference” (a conference where the participants decide what form and content it should have, on the day) to look at areas of home energy monitoring and home automation.

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  • 100 Mbps Internet Coming To European Cable

    100 Mbps Internet Coming To European CableCable subscribers in France, Spain, Finland, the Netherlands and Belgium are in for a treat.

    Cable Europe, the self-described body representing leading Cable operators in Europe, have announced that they will be bring 100 Mbps Broadband services to their customers.

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  • Interplanetary Internet Network Underway

    Interplanetary Internet Network UnderwayVinton Gray “Vint” Cerf, co-founder of the Internet, Google vice president, extreme boffin and the owner of a natty white beard/tash combo is now looking towards the final frontier.

    The Internet egghead is reported to be busy working on new protocols for a strong space-communication network, similar to the system employed by us Earthlings.

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  • Developer / Startup Match Making In London On Wednesday: Register Quick!

    Developer / Startup Match Making: Hurry UpUPDATED:Ben has been in touch to tell us the first event has sold out (Well done!). There have been expressions of interest in doing more of them, so stay tuned and we’ll keep you informed.

    Here’s a quick note to the London software developers out there.

    There’s an event this coming in London on Wednesday, 29 October, which is bringing together Developers and Startups – two sets of people who don’t normally socialise with each other, outside work dos.

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  • UK Fibre Optic Broadband Network Could Cost £30bn

    UK Fibre Optic Broadband Network Could Cost £30bnThe price of connecting every UK home to a super=fast fibre-optic broadband network could be set at a cool £30 billion according to the government’s broadband advisory group.

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  • Rock The Net CD: UK Release 25 August

    Rock The Net CD: UK Release 25 AugustIndi Music Worldwide Fights For Net Neutrality. UK release of Rock The Net CD designed to bring attention to the cause.

    Net Neutrality
    We’ve been covering Net Neutrality for over two years now.

    We think it’s essential that the Internet is free and open. It’s vital that the speed of arrival of each data-packet that travels over the Internet is not dependant on if the ISP makes the decision to slow down its arrival.

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  • Orange Mobile Broadband: Asus Eee 900 And Modem Free: £25/month

    Orange Mobile Broadband: Asus Eee 900 And Modem Free: £25/monthThe battle for Mobile Broadband is heating up in the UK.

    At the weekend, Orange launched their latest offer to try and entice UK must-have-data freaks onto their network.

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  • UK File-Sharer Has To Pay £16,000: Historic Background

    UK File-Sharer Has To Pay £16,000An unnamed woman in UK has been ordered to pay £16,000 after having been found guilty of sharing a game, Dream Pinball 3D, on P2P networks.

    The initial default judgement was made against her was at the London County Court on 27 May.

    Subsequently the Patents County Court in London handed down damages of £6,086.56 plus costs and disbursements of £10,000.

    Recent UK actions
    Davenport Lyons, a UK law firm, has been instructed by Topware Interactive, a video game company started in Germany, to pursue UK residents who have been sharing their games on P2P network.

    We all know that law is a slow moving beast, but as far back as March, 2007 there was discussion on P2P sites about letters that had been received from Davenport Lyons, which had targeted 500 people at that point.

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  • Ofcom Gives BT OK For Ebbsfleet Fibre Trial Line Rental Discounts

    Ofcom Gives BT OK For Ebbsfleet Fibre Trial Line Rental DiscountsOfcom are altering the very grandly named, “Universal Service Condition 1,” to let BT provide discounted connections to people on their Ebbsfleet Fibre optic trial, which plans to provide network connections of up to 100Mbps.

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  • H2O Networks: Fibre Though The Sewer

    H2O Networks: Fibre Though The SewerH2O 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.

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