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Patchy internet problems, Google role uncertain
Blog There are reports that Google users are having some problems with Google services, and that there are packet losses in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Australia, France, China, and other places. Gmail is also having problems, according to...
[May 14, 2009, 17:20]
Competition hots up between 3G and Wi-Fi
News He said: "3G is patchy and will stay patchy. The battle between 3G and Wi-Fi for dominance of the wireless internet world will all come down to which offers the broadest benefits to individual users, analysts have predicted.
[June 19, 2007, 13:57]
Leading Belgian Telco Provider Tackles Performance Problems and Enhances Customer Satisfaction With Symantec
White Papers The leading Belgian telecommunications company Belgacom was challenged with patchy performance from its Oracle database. Valuable time was lost while attempts were made to identify the problem. Step forward VERITAS i3 for Oracle.
[August 29, 2006, 0:00]
O2 takes the mobile network indoors
News Patchy indoor mobile coverage could be consigned to history by O2, which is evaluating two new ways of extending its mobile network. FMC allows both cellular and Wi-Fi radios to be built into a single handset, eliminating the problem with patchy...
[November 16, 2006, 11:50]
VoIP: Not just about free calls
News In America, though, the appeal is that wireless VoIP can let users make calls in places where GSM coverage is patchy but a Wi-Fi network is available. There is a transatlantic split over attitudes to wireless VoIP services, according to one Dublin...
[April 22, 2005, 11:45]
Open source - feel good, but work better.
Blog Comment > While it is certainly true that open source software isn't perfect and support can be patchy, it is just as true for the stuff that comes in boxes. Absolutely. Every now and again I'll install Windows XP for a friend on an old PC and I'm amazed...
[May 5, 2009, 10:28]
HotBot Deskbar review
Reviews Unfortunately, we got patchy results from our email and file searches, and HotBot's weak help files were of little use (click here for our full review of HotBot Desktop's indexing capabilities). We had no trouble installing the HotBot Deskbar...
[January 7, 2005, 14:25]
Legal worries led Massachusetts to open standards
Talkback What I find funny, is that OOo 2.0 beta 2 supports MS XML (on top of 'original' MSO 97/XP formats) - it might be patchy, long to load/save, but it does seem to work with MSO 2003 XML formats; since OOo exploits all of OASIS XML document formats...
[September 6, 2005, 16:21]
Orange ready to join 3G Christmas battle
Talkback The phone wasn't too bad, the service was patchy (if you are interested in 3G services) but voice calling was excellent. I had an NEC e228 phone from 3 for less than 2 weeks before I returned it. My gripe was with the battery life.
[December 2, 2004, 13:58]
School's a good place to start
Talkback Schools seem to have gone some way towards using OpenOffice but it's patchy and it's almost non-existent in FE Colleges. Exam boards need to stop specifying Microsoft products in their course criteria and use more generic terms.
[March 6, 2009, 16:59]
iPhone 3G reception problems: your information, please
Blog Comment I haven't had time to try out the Filed Test Mode yet - maybe later today - but just based on watching the normal signal strength indicator, 02's coverage is definitely patchy. Hey Rupert I was sat in cafe yesterday afternoon - actually reading...
[July 23, 2008, 11:25]
Symantec admits to customer support woes
Talkback IT Man is right, support in the other areas is fairly patchy as well - we even get some issues classed as "undocumented features":) The support issues were apparent before the takeover. One can only wonder why a much bigger company cannot bring it...
[May 25, 2006, 8:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Microsoft's latest IE patch is patchy. Wednesday 4/2/2004 So users tell us -- the magic to stop information hiding in URLs past the @ sign only works if you haven't got much else installs that uses Internet Explorer.
[February 6, 2004, 15:10]
Internet World: WAP industry grapples with security concerns
News The wireless Internet industry pooh-poohed concerns over mobile data security Wednesday, downplaying the seriousness of an existing hole and patchy implementation of secure technology. Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) transmissions are designed...
[May 25, 2000, 9:05]
Broadband black spots hit urban firms
News The UK's patchy broadband coverage is preventing significant numbers of both urban and rural businesses from upgrading to a high-speed Internet connection, the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC) reported on Monday.
[September 1, 2003, 16:00]
Oxford Tube goes Wi-Fi
Blog His 3G connection was notoriously patchy (especially for our VPN) - let's hope Wi-Fi does the trick. The Oxford Tube - aka the coach between London and Oxford - is now Wi-Fi-enabled. I can't help thinking that our former news editor, Graeme Wearden...
[April 24, 2007, 9:31]
3G for business: Orange takes a bite
News As Orange announces its own third-generation datacard, hot on the heels of Vodafone, mobile workers have some more substantial but expensive alternatives to the patchy coverage offered by Wi-Fi. After years of hype around 3G, mobile operators are...
[July 2, 2004, 12:15]
Product that doesn't work as decribed
Member Review The 3G service is unreliable and patchy. Being one of the first users, I've experienced all that is bad with a phone product and service provider.s support is useless. Motorola have also produced a phone with advertised features that don't work on...
[March 10, 2004, 18:04]
SatDrive review
Reviews However, we think that SatDrive has a lot to recommend it as long as the provision of terrestrial broadband services remains in its present patchy and urban-biased state. You pay a pretty hefty installation fee for SatDrive (up to £450 inc.
[December 13, 2002, 12:32]
Bumpy road ahead for Wi-Fi roaming
News In reality, wireless LAN (WLAN) hot spots in many cities are a patchy network without a common billing system or access settings. At the launch of the Centrino-based notebooks last week, Intel proclaimed its "Unwired" vision -- that all mobile...
[March 18, 2003, 10:58]
