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Sept 2008 |
Research has found a growing number suffer from increased stress when they are unable to get an online 'hit'.
A new word to describe the phenomenon has even been coined - 'discomgoogolation'.
It is defined as a "feeling of distress or anxiety when unable to gain immediate information access".
A poll of 2,100 people found 76% of Britons admitted that they could not live without the internet.
Nearly 45% of those polled said they felt frustrated and confused whilst unable to get online and more tha... |
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Sept 2008 |
Asia-Pacific is a region of superlatives when it comes to information and communications technology (ICT) with the total number of telephone subscribers at more than two billion, acording to the Asia-Pacific Telecommunication/ICT Indicators 2008 Report.
With China and India, the world's two fastest-growing countries leading the pack, the region is home to almost half the world's fixed telephone subscribers and has 42 percent of the world's Internet users.
"With 1.4 billion mobile cellular subscribers,... |
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Sept 2008 |
An IT businessman who uses the BT business broadband has claimed that BT is limiting his internet access at certain times of the day.
Sam Oliver, an IT professional from Shrewsbury, had his doubts when he found that although he had no problems accessing normal websites he found that when accessing streaming media his connection slowed to a crawl. He stated “The speeds for using the BBC iPlayer get very slow and unusable essentially,” With the use of an independently provided piece of hardware supplied by... |
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Sept 2008 |
Incumbent operators maintained their share of the retail broadband market across Europe with some 47pc of all connections – a figure that has remained static for two years running – raising questions as to whether competition is actually working.
Across Europe, incumbents actually increased their retail market share, particularly in Ireland, France, Austria, Belgium, Finland and Greece.
According to the latest broadband scorecard from the European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA) – w... |
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Sept 2008 |
Some Ugandans who think they have a broadband Internet connection have actually only purchased broadband equipment and not the service, according to Edward Nsubuga, managing director of Data Fundi, an ICT consulting and systems integration company.
At least that is the case if one considers the true definition of broadband, Nsubuga said.
"The quality of access to broadband Internet is poor," he said. "In my office, we get 2M bits of broadband, but this still falls far below the minimum speeds of true ... |
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Sept 2008 |
Invented by American computer scientists during the 1970s, the Internet has been embraced around the globe. During the network’s first three decades, most Internet traffic flowed through the United States. In many cases, data sent between two locations within a given country also passed through the United States.
Engineers who help run the Internet said that it would have been impossible for the United States to maintain its hegemony over the long run because of the very nature of the Internet; it has no... |
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Sept 2008 |
About 40m Europeans could be forced to abandon their mobile phones if a controversial reform of the telecoms industry is pushed through by the European Commission, Vodafone has claimed.
The world's largest mobile operator by revenue has launched a ferocious attack on a plan by Viviane Reding, European commissioner for telecoms.
Ms Reding wants to see a steep cut in the charges that mobile phone operators levy on each other for connecting calls to their networks because of concerns that the companies m... |
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Aug 2008 |
The beautiful thing about the Internet is its simplicity. If you want to go to a Web site, you open your browser and type in the address. If you want to see a picture of a cat, but don’t know a Web site that has one, you just go to a search engine and type in “cat,” and you have 962 million options. However, the simplicity of the Internet doesn’t go much further than that, especially when it comes to companies whose business models are the Internet.
The three largest Internet Service Providers in the cou... |
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Aug 2008 |
It looks like Google is prepping another underwater comms cable.
In February, the search giant finally admitted it was partnering with five Far Eastern outfits to stretch a cable from the US to Japan. And now, says a comms-happy research outfit dubbed TeleGeography, Eric Schmidt and crew are planning a second cable system that would connect Japan to Guam, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore.
As you can see, the research outfit is calling this the Southeast Asia Japan Cable (SJC). Natur... |
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Aug 2008 |
Deutsche Telekom AG aims to offer DSL broadband connection to almost all of Germany's households by the end of the year with a particular focus on rural and remote areas.
"Thanks to investments totaling 600 million euros ($887 million) in 2007 and 2008 ... at the end of 2008, we will be supplying 96 percent of all households with DSL," board member Timotheus Hoettges said on Thursday in Berlin ahead of the IFA consumer electronics fair.
"In concrete figures, this means that 400,000 more households wil... |
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Aug 2008 |
Verizon Communications, which posted a net loss of 133,000 DSL lines in the second quarter, is looking to fire up interest in the copper-based broadband service with a promotion offering six months free to customers who also subscribe to its voice service.
Through the end of October, Verizon will make DSL service at 768 Kbps, 3 Mbps or 7 Mbps available to new high-speed Internet customers, whether they have landline service now or order the two together, free for the first six months.
Prices range fro... |
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Aug 2008 |
A third of homes in Britain, around eight million, still do not have internet connection.
The majority of those have not embraced the world wide web because they either do not understand how it works, "do not need it" or cannot afford a computer.
However, the remainder told interviewers from the Office for National Statistics that they were actively shunning the internet.
Almost 16.5 million homes are now online, an increase of 1.2 million since 2007, the latest research shows. This represents clos... |
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Aug 2008 |
Telco iPrimus has launched what it claims is Australia's first capped-price mobile broadband service that slows the connection speed when the 6GB of monthly data allowance is reached.
The iPrimus Speedster plan starts at 6GB for $39.95 per month with a free modem being offered on a 24-month contract as a special for September.
When a customer's monthly data allowance is reached, the connection is rate shaped for the remainder of the monthly billing period and the charging meter is stopped, according t... |
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Aug 2008 |
Mobile network operator Orange has admitted a cap on the speed of its French 3G network.
The cap, which was in place to ease the load on the company’s 3G network, limits data transfer speeds to 384kbps, a fraction of what other network operators are offering.
Orange is the official iPhone network in France, and the low speed of Orange’s 3G broadband came to light when users of the new 3G iPhone realised that users in other countries were achieving much faster download speeds.
iPhone users in German... |
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Aug 2008 |
| UK customers are paying 70% more than they need to for their broadband connections despite the credit crunch. Masses of broadband customers (70,000 in fact) on 8Mbps broadband packages have been interrogated by Broadband Expert to find out how much they pay for their connections. Compared to the deals currently available on the market, it’s no surprise th... |
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