Monthly Archives: June 2009

With more and more people working from home and more and more people working for themselves we have seen a significant increase in the number of smaller businesses with online exposure, but are you making the best use of the World Wide Web?
The beauty of the Internet is fact that even the smallest companies, whether [...]

As the UK market continues to grasp the potential for broadband, with speeds of 2 Mb per second hopefully accessible across the UK over the next couple of years, the Korean market is grappling with 1 GB per second broadband speeds by 2012. While this broadband speed is literally light years away from the UK [...]

While the use of broadband to monitor and secure your home is something which has been around for some time, there have been significant developments in this particular field over the last 12 months with these services now affordable to the masses. It is now possible to remotely control and monitor your CCTV cameras in [...]

While there are many new and interesting uses for broadband, one which is catching the eye of many in the UK is the Sling Media Slingbox range of TV transmitters. These revolutionary devices allow you to connect your home TV to a broadband service and, using a Slingbox, give you total control of your home [...]

As we await official release of the Digital Britain Report there are already concerns that some proposals may well be unworkable in the short to medium term. The dispute between various mobile broadband companies continues with regards to the sharing of radio waves in the UK and how those forced to give up more bandwidth [...]

With rumours of behind-the-scenes fall-outs and disagreements The Times newspaper has revealed that Lord Carter of Barnes, the man in charge of the digital revolution in the UK, is set to leave the government in the summer. Having come from a background which saw a reported salary of £500,000 a year to a rather more [...]

In a bizarre experiment all eyes from the technology and broadband sector will be on Tasmania this week as the Australian state vies to become the first to offer nationwide Internet speeds of 100 Mb per second. The Australian government has invested substantial funding into its nationwide broadband network (NBN) and there is intense curiosity [...]

Zen Internet has revealed plans to offer free upgrades to its 20 Mb per second Internet broadband service for existing and new customers. While not all customers will be able to access the top speeds it has been shown that average speeds of between 9 Mb per second and 13 Mb per second are readily [...]

In the UK broadband consumer sector there are many options to choose from although in reality the only real sticking point for many is cost. However, this is not the same for the UK business broadband arena where reliability, broadband speed together with support services perhaps supersede the need to go for the cheapest option. [...]

In a move to pacify irate mobile broadband customers, the likes of O2, Vodafone, Virgin Media, 3, Orange and T-Mobile have spoken out as one voice via the Mobile Broadband Group (MBG). This is an industry association which includes the vast majority of mobile broadband providers in the UK and is in effect the mouthpiece [...]