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Wireless Bandwidth - Not Necessarily As Advertised
White Papers Picking up an 802.11g wireless access point and wireless adaptor, you would probably expect to get a bandwidth availability of 54mbps. But this may not be so. In this paper you will learn why the bandwidth you would expect disappears into thin air.
[January 7, 2008, 23:00]
"Dell Laptop No Good" Says Dell Sales Advisor!
Forum I just tried to buy a laptop from Dell, as advertised in today's Daily Mirror (3 April 2006). I told the (Indian) sales advisor that I wanted the laptop at £299 as advertised. He told me it has no LAN card and is therefore just a typewriter and won...
[April 3, 2006, 16:45]
Dell Axim Mis-pricing Sparks Customer Furore
Talkback On November 24, Dell advertised an Axim X3i PDA for $79. Shortly after (around an hour), the product was put back on the Dell web site with the advertised price of 79$. I purchased two of such PDA's and used my credit card to send the order.
[November 26, 2003, 19:16]
100Mbps Broadband A Reality By 2007
Talkback i just upgraded to 10mbps on blueyonder ive been on 4mbps and the speeds have been great about 90% of the advertised speed but since they upgraded me to 10mbps i am only getting about 50% of the advertised speed about 500kB/sec never saw more...
[October 16, 2005, 15:34]
Microsoft Faces Lawsuit Over Vista Branding
News A lawsuit, filed in the US, alleges that the company advertised systems as "Vista capable", when in fact the systems were not able to run Vista properly. However, the suit alleges that it was not clear from Microsoft's advertising and marketing...
[April 4, 2007, 14:25]
IT Vacancies Fall But Demand For Some Skills Remains
News A survey of IT jobs advertised in business magazines, recruitment web sites and national and regional press showed there were just 52,000 vacancies in the final quarter of 2002, compared to 151,000 at the beginning of the year.
[February 28, 2003, 14:08]
Dell Customers Get Snappy At Pricing Error
Talkback I feel that if they do not ship the advertised product for the advertised price that they are opening themselves up for a major law suit, regardless of their double toungue standards of not being held for anything but the moon falling from the...
[December 13, 2004, 22:48]
Watchdog Condemns Broadband-speed Claims
News surveyed 300 people who had signed up to broadband services advertised as being "up to" 8Mbps in download speeds. It is, therefore, very rare for a user to attain the advertised speeds, but Which? has questioned the way in which those speeds are...
[August 3, 2007, 11:50]
EBay Con Artists Convicted
News The couple used up to 12 aliases and advertised products from cars to concert tickets George Titar, who collected the payments from money transfer shops, admitted the same charges and was also sentenced to two and a half years in prison.eBay users...
[October 31, 2005, 10:20]
Pricing Blunder Hits Apple Online
News A number of customers shopping for a great bargain in the January sales thought they had found just that when they saw an Olympus digital camera advertised for £98.70 on Apple's online Education store.
[January 5, 2006, 8:20]
Amazon Hit By Pricing Error
News Due to apparent pricing error, the company has cancelled all orders for a Samsung LNR409D 40-inch LCD TV advertised and sold for $1,899 (£1,071) on 4 October. In any brick and mortar store, you'd pay the advertised price and walk out with the...
[October 7, 2005, 10:35]
Palm Sued Over Colour Claims
News Although Palm had advertised the device as capable of supporting that many colours, the company admitted last week that the device displays only 4,096 colours per pixel and apologised to customers last week.
[August 28, 2002, 8:19]
Do Not Buy The Inspiron 8600
Member Review First it took about 20 working days to deliver the computer, nothing compared to the J+10 advertised. Nothing compared to the J+1 advertised on their site. I bought an Inspiron 8600 about two weeks ago.
[January 26, 2004, 9:21]
Metered Broadband Back On The Menu?
Talkback So is it right to moan\whinge when people are using it for the purpose that it was advertised for? I can't understand to the life of me why people sell a product and when people use it as advertised they talk about slapping restrictions.
[November 18, 2003, 8:41]
Internet Fraudster Deceives Many
News According to one source, the company advertised with some legitimate companies across Australia, including Prime TV in Queensland. Free Internet Forever advertised extensively around Australia, and always used a different number.
[December 8, 2000, 9:13]
UK Shortage Of IT Skills Continues
News Within the report, a survey by Computer Weekly and SSP of advertised ICT vacancies shows that with just one exception, the top ten technical ICT skills sought by employers have remained the same throughout the past year.
[May 30, 2002, 10:23]
Bulldog Users Bite Back Over Poor Service
Talkback Why should a customer first have to spend weeks on hold with Bulldog, tracking complaints, amassing ticket numbers, collecting call center rep names, filling reference numbers, reverting to dial up, borrowing their neighbour's broadband, simply to...
[September 12, 2006, 21:30]
Broadband Prevails For UK Internet
News Information collected from internet service providers shows nearly half of connections — 49.2 percent — had an advertised maximum speed of more than 2Mbps. It does not, however, make clear how many matched the advertised speeds or how close they came.
[November 21, 2007, 7:48]
Handhelds Are The New Targets For Viruses
News In August, Palm owners had to watch out for the Liberty Crack Trojan, a program advertised as a way to circumvent -- or crack -- the popular Liberty program for playing Nintendo Game Boy titles on the Palm.
[March 20, 2001, 9:29]
Acer Clarifies Position On Linux PCs
News On Tuesday ZDNet.co.uk reported that a laptop — the Aspire 5710Z — was being advertised in Singapore with Ubuntu, a Linux distribution, as its operating system. The situation is further complicated by the claim, made by a salesperson at the...
[August 2, 2007, 17:25]
