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...BT has selected the six towns that will get
...these cables and weaving them into a fibre backbone--a completely new
...named 41 more market towns that will be able to receive the
...service to half of the UK by the middle of 2012. The
The uptake of fibre-based broadband packages is increasing in the UK, contributing to a rise in the overall speed of connections, but the issue the rural-urban divide remains Read more
2 February, 2012 by Ben WoodsA University of Southampton-led project has won £7.2m in funding to find ways of boosting the amount of data carried by a single fibre and raise broadband speeds a hundredfold Read more
31 January, 2011 by Ben WoodsBT should cut its wholesale costs by between 10 and 14 percent in rural areas, where there is no wholesale broadband competition, according to the regulator Read more
20 January, 2011 by Ben WoodsComputers priced at £98 will be provided to low-income Britons through Remploy's E-cycle scheme, and will be made available from more than 60 computer training centres in the UK Read more
18 January, 2011 by Ben WoodsBT's plans to introduce super-fast broadband exchanges in the Brighton and Hove area have met with resistance from local conservationist groups Read more
6 July, 2010 by Ben WoodsPeople on 30Mbps or higher broadband packages will see their downloads limited to 50 percent of the top speed if they go beyond a set usage allowance Read more
2 April, 2012 by Ben Woods...is in the pipeline and may appear in 2011. These two new
In blog last year, I had a bit of a pop at SSDs following a failure. I do not as a rule draw general conclusions from... Read more
4 January, 2012Where are the sub-2Mbps users? And which city has the highest take-up of fat pipes? Ofcom takes a look... Read more
7 July, 2011 by Natasha Lomas
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Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary
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Leslie Satenstein : Where have you ever seen Mozilla even mention this? Firefox is the most popular browser in the GNU/Linux OS, so I don't see...
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2 days ago by PatrickG on Windows 8 could speed multi-monitor uptakeMozilla has threatened to stop supporting Linux. I guess that UBUNTU is going with another browser. I indicated that if Mozilla stops supporting...
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@openhgs Windows users have had multiple desktops since Linus started writing Linux. They just haven't shipped as standard because not enough...
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3 days ago by Jack Schofield on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT You guys have no idea what is going on at Autonomy. Autonomy could have been a much more profitable organization. The sales operations at Autonomy...
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How does this impact on dual or multi booting? Seems to me to more or less prohibit this, from Windows 8 anyway. Will Grub 2 recognise Windows 8,...
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