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Telecoms giants complete transpacific-cable project
News A crucial, undersea fibre-optic cable that will provide more internet capacity between the US and China was completed on Monday, according to reports. Six of the world's largest phone companies have finished building an 18,000km 'Trans-Pacific...
[September 30, 2008, 8:30]
Telewest rolls out cable modem Net access
News Cable company Telewest is to roll out cable modem broadband Internet access in 10 days' time, it inadvertently revealed on Wednesday. The high-speed Internet connection -- download speeds of up to 512kB/s make it up to 15 times faster than...
[March 15, 2000, 16:09]
3Com warns, discontinues cable, DSL
News 3Com issued a profit warning for its fourth quarter Thursday and discontinued its cable and digital subscriber line modem business. The network equipment maker, which has announced warnings for three straight quarters, said it expects revenue of...
[June 8, 2001, 8:52]
Currys £16.99 USB cable rip-off.
Blog Comment The point thats really being made here is the steep price for the cable, and also it displays the minset of an average person buying a printer.
[January 3, 2008, 15:04]
PalmPrint and BONUS print cable (Palm V/Vx series)
Downloads PalmPrint PLATINUM CERTIFIED by Stevens Creek Software at a specially reduced price with a BONUS HotPrint serial print cable for your Palm V series (see additional specials for Palm III & VII series).Download your software now and your cable will...
[September 19, 2001, 8:00]
Cable and Wireless on the ropes?
News There is mounting speculation that telco Cable and Wireless will have to make cuts following the imminent conclusion of a review into its operations. The stuttering telecoms market has meant C&W Global, which includes the former assets of web...
[October 28, 2002, 16:40]
Gates woos cable companies to Microsoft middleware
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, speaking at the opening session of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's annual trade show, outlined his company's new software for bridging cable television and interactive digital technology.
[June 10, 2003, 7:21]
Mass layoffs await at troubled Cable and Wireless
News Cable&Wireless is expected to announce major job cuts on Tuesday as the telco refocuses on large companies rather than smaller firms. John Pluthero has already warned staff that 485 positions have been earmarked for the axe.
[February 27, 2006, 14:50]
Google and Optus team up on cable project
News Google has joined Optus and four other carriers to build a new high-bandwidth submarine cable system between the US and Japan, in a move to address its broadband capacity needs. The cable system, called Unity, will cost $300m (£150m) and will span...
[February 27, 2008, 9:31]
Currys £16.99 USB cable rip-off.
Blog Comment Thanks David, I did realise that I was paying through the nose but really needed to get the printer up and running to make sure its Mac compatible claims were real - especially as I just upgraded to Leopard.
[December 5, 2007, 15:21]
ADSL routs cable in broadband take-up battle
Talkback Maybe the MPs who are constantly knocking BT ought to look at the figures here, where Telewest can address 45% of the population and yet still only get 9% of new broadband business. Why is any other organisation likely to do better.
[March 16, 2004, 9:00]
North promised broadband cable network
Talkback I was one of the first to subscribe to Omne 18 months ago in Lancaster. Dispite the company already in administration I believed all their promises of everything up and running in 6 months and was willing to stick with them till that time.
[July 11, 2004, 14:27]
Currys £16.99 USB cable rip-off.
Blog Comment oh - and thanks to Chris too - who would have thought Tesco would be the consumer's friend ;-)
[December 5, 2007, 15:24]
ADSL routs cable in broadband take-up battle
Talkback Had Telewest and NTL opened reseller channels to broadband providers BT would still struggle. Broadband providers rather deal with the impertinence of BT than not being able to offer broadband as a servidce to their customers.
[March 15, 2004, 14:25]
Currys £16.99 USB cable rip-off.
Blog Comment There are other, very good reasons not to shop at Tesco's of course.
[December 5, 2007, 18:04]
Currys £16.99 USB cable rip-off.
Blog Comment The worst cable has to be PCWorlds £14.99 USB 1.1 Cable that was a rip off, they only stopped that recently. One of the biggest problems with Dixon group stores such as curry's is that they make very little money on the PC sales on average...
[December 6, 2007, 10:30]
Currys £16.99 USB cable rip-off.
Blog Comment Still, £17 for a USB cable takes the biscuit. My personal worst example of this was from PC World, who wanted to charge me £15 for a VGA-DVI adaptor. Maplin sell them for £10 but even that seems excessive given that you can pick them up on eBay for...
[December 6, 2007, 9:24]
Cable firms launch wireless broadband home networking kit
Talkback I am trying to obtain information on wireless home networking and have tried three times this evening to connect to your link Home Networking News Section and have had "Error 404 Page Not Found, I would be obliged if you would try it yourself and...
[February 23, 2004, 19:23]
Cable Operators Can Deliver and Extend the Connected Life Via Complete Cisco Cable ServiceMesh Solution
White Papers Cisco Cable ServiceMesh solution wanted to create new revenue opportunities through the deployment of an outdoor wireless mesh solution that utilizes existing infrastructure to cost-effectively expand their service offerings and their market reach...
[November 17, 2007, 0:00]
Cable & Wireless launches broadband assault
News Cable & Wireless has unveiled an ambitious plan to challenge BT by offering its own wholesale broadband services from hundreds of BT's local telephone exchanges. C&W said on Thursday that it is committing up to £100m to the scheme, which follows...
[September 17, 2004, 17:20]
