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Gateway unveils new sub-$1000 notebook
News Like its latest low-price desktops, Gateway's M305 and M350 notebooks have fixed hardware configurations, meaning customers cannot upgrade processors, hard drives or memory, but rather must step up to the next model in the line.
[August 22, 2003, 15:35]
MPs urge more action on wireless broadband
News We need some imagination from the providers of fixed line networks, who are in a position to encourage or discourage wireless rollout. Wi-Fi groups aren't allowed to feed all their traffic down one ADSL line, so BT could come up with an innovative...
[March 26, 2003, 8:05]
One True Piefecta
Blog Plus a semi-liquid content centre column that has a max-width for legible line length and a min-width to maintain the structure of the page. For Operation Cleanup on the intranet, I needed a 3 column CSS layout, and I opted for One True Layout to...
[June 19, 2008, 18:03]
Ofcom urged to make BT more transparent
News Regulation of the fixed line market on its own is simply not relevant anymore. Convergence is coming and consumers will soon make no distinction between fixed and mobile services for their voice calls, emails, text messages or use of the Internet.
[June 22, 2004, 16:35]
Voice over IP gateways review
Reviews The simplest of all VoIP applications, long-line extension gateways can fall foul of firewalls and NAT routers, so fixed IP addresses are recommended. Also referred to as 'long-line extensions', the remote phones can be used just like those...
[May 6, 2005, 12:50]
Orange customer fights £800 roaming bill
Talkback Compared with other fixed broadband pricing of services would it be deemed “reasonable” for teleco charges to be in-line with the public pricing of other public providers of broadband services? Private and the younger generation (16-24) expenditure...
[November 2, 2005, 12:08]
Operators want fewer new mobile masts
News T-Mobile recently announced it was investing in Ubiquisys, a UK-based company that makes femtocells, which are mini-base-stations that can be installed in homes and offices to route cellular data onto fixed-line networks.
[March 6, 2008, 14:38]
CPU roadmap: 2008 and beyond review
Reviews An error in the design of the higher-end models kept the release limited to two lower-end chips, although AMD has since fixed the problem and just launched a revitalised line of Phenoms. During this time, AMD was getting rave reviews with its dual...
[April 22, 2008, 16:07]
Bulldog given ASA reprimand
News The complaints centred around details of the deal, which saw new customers obliged to pay an extra £10.50 per month for a Bulldog phone line in order to take up the £9.75 deal. It said: "Because [the phone line] was bundled, Bulldog's offer...
[March 31, 2006, 17:15]
HP Color LaserJet CP2025n review
Reviews A small two-line backlit LCD screen shows alerts and toner levels. The front control panel houses a small two-line backlit LCD for alerts and toner level graphics, a left and right directional pad, a cancel button and two LEDs to alerts users of...
[April 20, 2009, 9:51]
Will open source be a Real success?
News From a general perspective, we get bugs fixed," said Rhonda Stratton, senior product line manager for QuickTime. In some cases, according to Real, that meant getting in line to wait for the company's developers to catch up with demand.
[July 30, 2002, 14:24]
Apple quiets beeping G5s
News The Power Mac line has had some noise issues in the past. Apple Computer confirmed this week that there was a noise issue with some of its dual-processor Power Mac G5 models and said the issue has been fixed for new machines rolling off the...
[March 4, 2004, 7:55]
Rupert Goodwins: "IT's Like This..."
News It was the original digital access technology -- a digital phone line that worked ten times faster than the best modems of the day. There is a variety of installation and rental options, none of which is remotely as cheap as a single analogue line.
[August 26, 1998, 13:39]
IE8 beta 2, feature complete. Launch event, best deleted.
Blog Comment I don't think I got a response from MS then, the problems weren't subsequently fixed, and the only times I can remember getting much attention from the company since in such areas have been when we said something that went so much against the...
[August 29, 2008, 9:22]
Egg admits to flaw in security measures
News Although this is just the latest in a long line of concerns over Egg's security measures, Pete Marsden, director of information technology at Egg, does not see this problem as a major concern. The problem was fixed Thursday, according to Egg.
[December 10, 1999, 16:45]
Bulldog: Problems are over. Users: No they're not
News A line fault resulting. That they are not technically competent enough to make a simple 4Mbps ADSL line work reliably given six months to resolve issues never ceases to baffle me. I have called the customer help line many, many times and when I do...
[November 7, 2005, 13:40]
Analysis: MS will survive -- intact
News And the bottom line remains: It won't take drastic measures to remedy Microsoft's actions. The 'pattern' here may be egregious, but none of the individual wrongs require a break-up to get fixed. The "pattern" here may be egregious, but none of the...
[November 8, 1999, 10:13]
The 'dirty little secret' of business intelligence
News So we created this product line which is a suite of products and a stair-step approach of increased functionality as you increase from one product to another. The second thing we did was, we launched a product line specifically developed for the...
[October 22, 2007, 11:46]
Intel outlines its ultrawideband position
News We do generate more [than the other proposal] in this one case but it’s only when, for example, the transmitter is right in line with the satellite dish. This high-speed, low-power method of wireless connectivity has the potential to revolutionise...
[November 13, 2003, 11:25]
Watch for top Linux/Unix threats
News U7 Line Printer Daemon (LPD) It's depressing for security professionals to see just how many of the vulnerabilities on the new SANS/FBI Top 20 List have CVE numbers in the 1999-xxxx range -- meaning that they were identified and fixed years ago on...
[October 22, 2002, 8:29]
