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Broadband In A Box To Hit The Shops
News Freeserve's "broadband in a box" will go on sale from 24 April. No one better understands how to shift consumer electronics products than Dixons, and so the 'broadband in a box' concept sold in their stores plays beautifully into Freeserve's hands...
[April 18, 2002, 17:43]
Wireless Broadband ISP In A Box Bridges Gaps
News Wireless equipment vendor Alvarion believes it has the answer to closing Britain's broadband divide -- a wireless ISP in a box. The "ISP in a box" system will run in the 2.4GHz band, and should give each customer a connection of up to 1.4Mbps.
[May 2, 2003, 13:06]
AOL Broadband-in-a-box Hits The Shops
News Carphone Warehouse also recently signed a broadband-in-a-box deal with AOL rival Telewest, which supplies high-speed access over cable in certain areas of the UK. Thereafter AOL Broadband costs £27.99 per month subject to a 12-month contract.
[December 24, 2002, 9:18]
BT Enlists Broadband Supporters With 'campaign In A Box'
News Described as a "campaign in a box" Web site, www.bt.com/broadband now lets people order promotional leaflets and posters. This Web site provides them with an online 'campaign in a box' toolkit to build a strong campaign, which will help speed up...
[April 15, 2003, 10:07]
Telewest Moves Into Home Wireless
News The access point will plug directly into the customer's cable set-top box, creating a wireless link between the set-top box and a desktop PC or laptop, using the 802.11b standard. Telewest is hoping to tempt users to make the leap to wireless...
[August 5, 2003, 15:30]
Mesh Networking Goes Industrial
News Wordsworth Technology, a UK supplier of supplier of industrial computers, has developed a ruggedized mesh networking box based on software from Locustworld, the UK company pioneering mesh networking. Wordsworth's new node, called the Pack Box, is...
[February 1, 2005, 12:25]
Juniper's Sub-£500 'hot Spot In A Box'
News In a few weeks, the company will begin selling a "hot spot in a box" bundle, targeted at telephone, broadband and cell phone service providers that offer public Wi-Fi access. Major telephone and broadband providers are expected to spend even more...
[May 21, 2003, 9:45]
BTopenworld, NTL Top Complaints Charts
Talkback Upon my return on 9th December I found the set top box to be working but with only a handful of channels (13 in all). This time I was transferred to another operator in a different department who asked me again to switch off my set top box wait for...
[January 9, 2006, 16:30]
BT Lures Consumers With Free Wi-Fi
News Openzone-in-a-Box includes everything required by a broadband-equipped small or medium-sized organisation to set up a Wi-Fi hot spot. In order to achieve this target, the company has reduced the cost of Openzone-in-a-Box from £400 to £250.
[January 5, 2004, 13:55]
BT Pokes Toe Into VoIP Market
News Broadband Voice consists of a box that plugs into an Ethernet router, modem or cable set-top box and transmits voice traffic over the Internet. But a cable user without a router wouldn't be able to have their Broadband Voice and the broadband PC...
[December 9, 2003, 15:25]
Opera Powers Broadband TV Decoder
News In Plat'C2's Broadband Terminal Box, Opera will act as middleware, presenting all applications and menus in HTML, Java and CSS (cascading style sheets). The Opera browser will be used in an interactive TV box from Plat'C2, a player in the Japanese...
[March 28, 2003, 12:53]
Satellite Broadband From Freebox
News Unlike the set-top box service, this service will not be free. Freebox also announces that the £10 registration fee for its multimedia set-top box has been waived. Freebox plans to make money from content deals but IDC analyst Jason Armitage is not...
[November 3, 2000, 11:44]
Survey: One In Four Has Downloaded An Illegal Film
News One in four people online has illegally downloaded a feature film -- and it's cutting into box-office and DVD sales, the Motion Picture Association of America said in a study released on Thursday. Nearly 60 percent of the population has reportedly...
[July 9, 2004, 10:05]
X-Box Delays And Extra Costs For Europe?
News The X-Box won't ship with a modem either, because it is aimed mainly at users with broadband Internet access. British gamers could face delays in getting an X-Box console, and many will have to fork out extra for a peripheral modem, it emerged at...
[March 10, 2000, 16:24]
Cable Firms Launch Wireless Broadband Home Networking Kit
News This kit plugs into the cable set-top box or cable modem to create a wireless broadband network that can link PCs, laptops and other home electronics equipment to each other and to the Net. Users will be given a Pace "Gateway Expander", which plugs...
[January 30, 2002, 16:40]
Wednesday
Blog For a box that doesn't exist yet? There's the usual blather about ultimate gaming experience, massive multiplayer environments and so on, but no idea what's inside the box or what software it'll run. But it still shows that the biggest buzz in the...
[January 24, 2003, 16:44]
Freebox To Open Phone Lines Monday
News From Monday, it will be possible to phone up and order an application form for a free set-top box that will provide access to digital television and the Internet. Freebox did not release the technical specifications of the box, but said it contains...
[October 6, 2000, 14:09]
Ethernet Promises Cheaper Broadband
News The Ethernet uplink from the DSLAM can be run on a spare fibre or, using a separate wave division multiplexing box, on one already in use by the ATM network. It has shrunk from a chassis to a box, to a single board that slides into the main...
[November 27, 2002, 9:18]
AOL Time Warner Could Tap Music, Video Wealth
News Assuming consumers have a broadband connection--either through your computer or cable box--you will be able to download the music, the movie or maybe use your cable box as a telephone. He also predicted that consumers will be able to buy a co...
[January 12, 2001, 10:25]
XMax In Pictures
News That smaller box contains XG's crown jewels, the still-secret receiver that can distinguish xMax's very weak signals from among a welter of much stronger transmissions - and do it well enough to provide broadband over exceptional distances and low...
[November 4, 2005, 11:30]
