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News D is for Dial-up Thousands of children in England will receive free computers and access to broadband under government plans to bridge the digital divide. From February 2009, kids in Suffolk and Oldham... [22 Oct 2008]
'Mobile broadband is not the same standard as fixed'
News D is for Dial-up The objections centred around whether the fastest claim could be substantiated in light of other providers offering up to 24Mbps services and whether the data used by... [16 Oct 2008]
BT to plug fibre in London, Wales
News D is for Dial-up After having installed fibre to the premises in Kent's Ebbsfleet Valley which delivered speeds of up to 100Mbps, the telco now wants to "conduct pilots of a significant... [14 Oct 2008]
Pay per use software coming soon?
News D is for Dial-up Berryman said using a built-in hypervisor would allow Symantec to set up a buffer to screen and intercept code before it is run on the virtual machine on a user's... [08 Oct 2008]
BlackBerry Storms the touchscreen market
News Other wireless options include Bluetooth 2.0 with support for stereo Bluetooth headsets and dial-up networking and GPS but no wi-fi. On Tuesday night, RIM officially introduced the first touchscreen... [08 Oct 2008]
Go Solo at Orange to hook up with biz fat pipes
News D is for Dial-up According to the carrier, the deal will offer fair-use "unlimited" downloads and speeds of up to 8Mbps. Also on Tuesday, Moneysupermarket.com published its quarterly... [01 Oct 2008]
UK fat pipes sluggish from lack of fibre
News D is for Dial-up According to the latest silicon.com poll that asked readers what speed home broadband they'd signed up for, 50 per cent numbered themselves among the... [30 Sep 2008]
Cisco's collaboration launch squares up to Microsoft, IBM
News McConnell said: "With the Telepresence system installed, you hit speed dial, which integrates with the Contact Center and rounds up an expert to address questions. Cisco is busy this week introducing its... [25 Sep 2008]
Ofcom hatches plan to woo telcos to fibre
News D is for Dial-up Ofcom has said the rollout of fibre-based broadband - which could offer speeds of up to 100Mbps - should bring fast web access to communities previously unable to... [23 Sep 2008]
Broadband Britain: UK needs wireless patchwork
News D is for Dial-up The report also called on Ofcom, the telecoms regulator, to accelerate the release of radio spectrum that could be used for mobile broadband, such as that due for release under an... [12 Sep 2008]
Five reasons Chrome will take over the world
News These include the open source approach of Firefox; Opera's speed dial function, where a homepage presents thumbnails of your most visited sites; an "incognito" window for private browsing where nothing is recorded,... [02 Sep 2008]
Home broadband gives kids better GCSE results
News D is for Dial-up Having web access at home can make the difference between a pupil getting grade A at GCSE and grade D. The latest UK internet access report from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)... [28 Aug 2008]
Third of UK homes still without web access
News D is for Dial-up Of the homes that have internet access the vast majority (86 per cent) are getting their web love via fat pipes, while dial-up continues its lingering... [27 Aug 2008]
Supermarkets serve up varied pace online
News ASDA.com came top with an average response time of 7.8 seconds when tested by more than 40,000 PCs with different dial-up and broadband connections over seven days. Sign up for the R&L... [27 Aug 2008]
Ofcom: Copper capable of high-speed broadband
News D is for Dial-up When laying fibre from an exchange to a cabinet, BT may prefer to cable up the nearest cabinets - referred to as the 'best is first' scenario - as this would be... [22 Aug 2008]
