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£68m 'snooping' database: Little impact on serious crime
News D is for Dial-up E is for Education As of last September telecoms providers must keep all text and phone call records between six months and two years under an EU directive, and this is to be rolled out to include all online traffic by 2009 at the... [13 Aug 2008]
Greek island gets wireless mesh network
News But today it plays host to Negroponte who owns a holiday home on it and has long had an interest in bringing internet access to the island, setting up local dial-up internet service provider 12Net in the 1990s. [24 Jul 2008]
Brits still dissatisfied with broadband speeds
News D is for Dial-up E is for Education The survey also found nearly a third (30 per cent) of consumers now watch TV or video online.uSwitch added that international broadband rankings put the UK's 4Mbps average to shame, with Japan boasting an average... [14 Jul 2008]
Skype touts biz credentials
News D is for Dial-up E is for Education Karen Hollands, founder of online language school Toniks, has built her business around Skype to link pupils to language tutors based across the world. According to Skype research, 30 per cent of its 309 million... [02 Jul 2008]
ISPs face fresh threat from file-sharing laws
News D is for Dial-up E is for Education The government has renewed its threat to introduce laws to force ISPs to control online music and film piracy and file-sharing. A music industry survey this week found that the average teenager's MP3 player... [18 Jun 2008]
Thin clients switch on digitally excluded
Case Study D is for Dial-up E is for Education It's not necessarily that families cannot afford the hardware to get online - although that certainly can be a factor; but there are many technical barriers to entry, such as selecting an ISP and setting up and... [17 Jun 2008]
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment D is for Dial-up E is for Education Ofcom's take on the digital divide being a 'town vs country' affair glosses over the real cracks in the digital nation - which are based on factors such as income, ethnicity and education. [23 May 2008]
Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010
News D is for Dial-up E is for Education He said: "The surge in online content is at the centre of the most dramatic changes affecting the internet today. The BBC has come under fire from service providers, such as Tiscali, which claim that its iPlayer... [21 Apr 2008]
Europe embracing speedy fat pipes
News D is for Dial-up E is for Education Other challenges include boosting tech research through EU-funded projects, further encouraging the use of online technologies and promoting more cross border cooperation - such as electronic signatures. [18 Apr 2008]
Tesco to launch iTunes challenger
News D is for Dial-up E is for Education Tesco is launching an online music service next month with more than three million tracks available to download and more content to follow. Tesco Digital will initially offer all of the tracks in Window Media... [15 Apr 2008]
Berners-Lee bigs up the 'semantic web'
News D is for Dial-up E is for Education He gave the example of combining online bank statements and photos with a desktop calendar, allowing people to work out what they were doing when they took a particular photo. [13 Mar 2008]
Tennis federation rallies web presence
Case Study D is for Dial-up E is for Education The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has beefed up its website to improve availability and speed for millions of tennis fans following the scores of Davis Cup matches online. [12 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer
Cheat Sheet D is for Dial-up E is for Education Not quite.iPlayer is actually the BBC's online on-demand TV service. The BBC is working hard to build up its online and digital presence and iPlayer plays a major part in this. [05 Mar 2008]
Local gov't adopts web-savvy interaction
News D is for Dial-up E is for Education The number of local government websites offering transactional services - such as online council tax payment - has increased by 36 per cent. But the survey also found some council online services still suffer... [04 Mar 2008]
LinkedIn CEO on 'grown up' social networking
Comment D is for Dial-up D is for Dial-up E is for Education E is for Education Online business network, LinkedIn has almost 20 million members worldwide and recently opened its European office in London. Dan Nye: LinkedIn and Facebook are very different... [28 Feb 2008]
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