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Aug 2008 |
O2 customers who buy a £20-a-month mobile broadband package will receive the 'up to' 8Mbps home service free for a year, plus a wireless router.
The company claims it is "the first established broadband player to offer customers high-speed internet access inside the home and on the move" in a combined package.
The offer is open to people signing up to O2 Mobile Broadband between 1 August and 31 October who live within range of the O2 Home Broadband network. Customers outside the network will get a dis... |
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July 2008 |
Google is the sleeping giant when it comes to advertising in video games. While the company dominates search advertising, it has yet to make a big splash in video games. That could change soon, as the company has been quietly testing its “AdSense for Games” product for months.
Sources close to the matter said that the company has developed an in-game advertising technology that allows it to insert video ads into games. In demos of the technology, a game character can introduce a video ad, saying somethin... |
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July 2008 |
Wireless broadband revenues will multiply by a whopping 24 times by the year 2015, according to a telecoms analyst firm.
Analysys Mason said in a statement, the global wireless broadband industry is predicted to generate some US$784 billion in service revenues by that year, bolstered by service and pricing options that will evolve around expected developments in the technology.
The report predicted the number of wireless broadband customers will hit 2.1 billion by then, with developing regions expecte... |
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July 2008 |
T has said is switching on the full capability of its next-generation network in Ireland.
Describing it as a "radical move", the decision could bring broadband speeds of up to 24 mbps to households and businesses across the republic.
The latest announcement follows the January of up to 8 mbps broadband in selected areas in Dublin, Kildare and Limerick
BT director Emer Kennedy said the next-generation network enables the telecoms giant to "radically shake up" the market by trebling broadband speeds ... |
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July 2008 |
AT&T will end the contract of any of its customers caught using peer-to-peer (P2P) software on mobile phones, the operator told the FCC.
Robert Quinn Jr., senior vice president in charge of federal regulation issues, wrote in a public letter to the FCC that “AT&T does not use network management tools to block the use of P2P applications by its mobile wireless broadband customers. However, AT&T’s terms of service for mobile wireless broadband customers prohibit all uses that may cause extreme network ... |
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July 2008 |
In an interview with Om Malik of GigaOm, Dell was asked about the company's plans in the smartphone industry. At first he gave a vague answer: "We are certainly looking at the whole smartphone category, but I wouldn't expect anything anytime soon." But when Malik pressed him about whether his company was more interested in a Symbian or Android OS for any potential handheld device, Dell was slightly more informative.
"We're not ready to publicly disclose our plans there...we're kind of working on that," h... |
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July 2008 |
Cable provider Virgin Media has revealed that it plans to offer shockingly fast broadband speeds of up to 200Mb by 2012 (28-07-08).
“We are setting ourselves a vision of households using 200Mb per second by 2012,” Howard Watson, the provider’s chief technology officer, told Reuters news agency. “The current technology that we’re investing in to roll out the 50Mb per second over the next 12 months has inherent within it that extra capability.”
"We are setting ourselves a vision of households using 200Mb ... |
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July 2008 |
Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system. She believes her latest invention is even more valuable - only this time it's not for sale.
Patterson instead intends to upstage Google, which she quit in 2006 to develop a more comprehensive and efficient way to scour the Internet.
The end result is Cuil, pronounced "cool." Backed by $33 million in venture capital, the search engine plans to begin proc... |
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July 2008 |
Comcast, the nation’s leading residential broadband Internet provider, and video game pioneer, Nintendo, have teamed up to offer an exclusive deal available to new Comcast Triple Play customers. From today until August 17, 2008, those who sign up for Comcast Preferred Plus or Premier Triple Play package* will receive a complimentary Wii™ system, merging together the joy of a super-fun video gaming experience with the power of super-fast Internet speed.
The partnership between Comcast and Nintendo will gi... |
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July 2008 |
Just a week after AT&T dropped a stink bomb -- a pitifully low 46,000 new broadband subscribers adds in the second quarter -- Verizon said it grew its subscriber base by a grand total of 54,000 broadband subscribers. (As it turns out, the company lost 133,000 DSL subscribers during the quarter, but added 187,000 FiOS internet subscribers.)
Hey, at least the subscriber base is growing, but that's certainly not brag-worthy growth. To provide a little perspective: The company added 266,000 new subscribers i... |
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July 2008 |
The Internet is too slow for Google and the nation's telecom and cable companies are to blame. At least that's how Google sees it.
In an interview with journalist Tom Foremski at the Fortune Brainstorm conference in Half Moon Bay, Google VP of engineering and chief Internet evangelist Vint Cerf slammed AT&T, Verizon, and the cable companies for failing to invest in network infrastructure.
"It's like little kids in a tantrum," he said. "'I'm not going to build this system unless you give me three scoop... |
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July 2008 |
A deep rift is already emerging between the ISPs and music industry bodies who have agreed to clamp down on illegal file sharing.
Yesterday, Britain's six leading ISPs, the British Phonographic Institute and the Government signed a Memorandum of Understanding in which they pledged to "significantly reduce illegal file sharing".
However, there's still a massive divide between ISPs and the BPI over how to punish repeat offenders, with the Carphone Warehouse telling PC Pro it would walk out on any deal w... |
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July 2008 |
There were 253 million Chinese internet users as of June 30, compared with 223.1 million in the United States. The web is widely used for business, shopping, and education, but above all to receive news that is often censored by the authorities. Strict control by Beijing, which arrests those who criticize the government and blocks unwelcome news.
Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) - With 253 million internet users registered at the end of June, China has surpassed the United States as the largest online communi... |
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July 2008 |
It's a pity the National Security Agency can't talk about its computational challenges, because it's leaving a lot of the boasting rights to Google.
In a blog posting on Friday the company shared some detail about the challenges of one aspect of its search operation, the Web indexing and processing that must take place before the results are delivered to users. The short version: Google has no choice but to think big.
First comes surfing. "We start at a set of well-connected initial pages and follow e... |
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July 2008 |
The small town of Monticello, Minnesota seems an unlikely spot for a battle over city-owned fiber-to-the-home. The town, which is a distant commute to Minneapolis, thought it could better attract residents and business by building its own fiber-optic network. After a couple years of due diligence, the town held a referendum; 74 percent of voters agreed to fund the $25 million scheme. The city sought the needed municipal bonds, but the day before it closed on them, the local telco filed suit to stop the plan... |
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