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Watchdog Condemns Broadband-speed Claims
News The average speed of an 8Mbps broadband connection is just 2.7Mbps, according to a survey released on Thursday by Which? Apart from calculating the average speed, it said that the slowest download speed it found was a paltry 90Kbps.
[August 3, 2007, 11:50]
Be Rapped Over Broadband Speed Claims
News We considered that some consumers would reasonably expect to achieve speeds in the range of the headline speed [24Mbps] and might feel misled if they could only achieve speeds of around 8Mbps," said the ASA in an adjudication published on its...
[January 25, 2007, 11:47]
IBM Drops Claims To Speed Case Against SCO
News In a court filing on Thursday, IBM said it dropped the claims to speed the case and try to curtail the number of depositions SCO seeks, and added the potential monetary rewards are slim. IBM has dropped its three remaining claims of patent...
[October 10, 2005, 9:25]
Samsung Claims Memory Chip Speed Breakthrough
News Samsung Electronics claims to have developed a prototype fusion memory chip that can speed data transfers by up to five times. The 133MHz, 512Mb device sharply increases data-transfer speed between processors, the company said.
[December 14, 2006, 15:23]
HP Claims Photo Printer Speed Breakthrough
News HP is conscious of the expense of the cartridges — it claims that the new ink delivery system in the 8250 is "unlike any other system on the market", featuring a "recirculation technology which minimises the need for priming — and therefore any...
[July 25, 2005, 14:00]
AOL Claims Speed Crown
Talkback The article fails to mention netrocket.biz, which beats propel and more compatible.netzero= horrid dialer aol: force browser with no bandwidth management proper: slow proxconn: slow netrocket: tad slower than netzero, but fast and compatible
[December 14, 2003, 17:56]
AOL Claims Speed Crown
Talkback aol broadband will not work on apple imac os x they need to correct this.
[March 14, 2004, 19:15]
IBM Drops Claims To Speed Case Against SCO
Talkback IBM dropped the patent counter claims, but not all the counterclaims. SCO was arguing they needed yet more time/depositions to deal with these specific counterclaims, so IBM dropped them to speed things along.
[October 10, 2005, 10:00]
IBM Drops Claims To Speed Case Against SCO
Talkback The article itself was in fact correct, but you are right in pointing out the shortfallings with the headline. We've since modified it to reflect more accurately the contents of the story.
[October 10, 2005, 13:05]
IBM Drops Claims To Speed Case Against SCO
Talkback Sco win? IBM has only put this to one side because SCO has no assets to go after SCO was using them to delay the inevitable. IBM has dropped them to bring this case to trial ASAP something IBM and I are looking forward to - and SCO are not
[October 10, 2005, 10:30]
IBM Drops Claims To Speed Case Against SCO
Talkback Glad you made the headline change. I nearly left a negative comment about it early this morning, but I'm pleased to have left it to someone else.
[October 10, 2005, 13:58]
AOL Claims Speed Crown
News The study, conducted by researcher VeriTest, compares the respective services that employ Web page caching software to speed up downloads. The result showed that AOL 9.0 Optimized, which includes a caching feature called Top Speed, completed a...
[August 19, 2003, 10:50]
IBM Claims Server-speed Victory Over Intel
News An IBM Unix server using the company's own Power processors has beaten an Intel Itanium system in a widely watched server speed test, Big Blue announced on Tuesday, the opening day of an Intel processor conference.
[February 18, 2004, 9:45]
Rival Wi-Fi Standard Claims More Speed
News A second group of companies has submitted a proposal for the next wireless networking standard -- this one aiming to quadruple data transfer speeds. TGn Sync announced on Monday that, like rival consortium WWiSE, it has filed a presentation...
[August 17, 2004, 15:50]
NEC Gives A 4x For DVD Writer
News NEC has launched a faster DVD writer which, it claims, is the first to author both DVD+R and DVD-R rewritable formats at 4x speed. This doubles the previous speed at which DVD+R discs could be written, allowing an hour of DVD video to be burned in...
[October 2, 2002, 14:09]
Nortel Pushes Super 3G To New Heights
News Nortel claimed on Friday to have reached a new milestone for Super 3G by demonstrating a data connection at a speed of 3.6Mbps. Super 3G, or high-speed data packet access (HSDPA), is an enhancement to today's 3G networks that offers the promise of...
[December 23, 2005, 11:15]
Intel Faces Patent Suit Over Pentiums
News In the suit, All Computers alleges that Intel's Pentium processors violate an All Computers patent related to the way high-speed microprocessors operate. Patriot alleges in the letters and the suits that the companies are violating a patent for...
[May 21, 2004, 16:50]
Pentium 4-M Chills Out In Notebooks
News The new P4 includes 55 million transistors, a good 25 percent more than the PIII-M, and includes a range of features designed to protect battery life while delivering what Intel claims is a 43 percent performance increase over the PIII-M.
[March 4, 2002, 13:03]
Secure IE Makes The Internet A Better Place
News The software claims that it accelerates Web browsing by tuning your browser for dial-up or broadband usage, and that it can speed up your Web experience by up to 500 percent by using 10 simultaneous sockets instead of the standard two.
[March 28, 2003, 20:34]
