Category Archives: Computers and Internet

According to their Press Office Virgin Media will lower the price of their flagship 50Mb Broadband service to £28 a month when taken with a phone line or £38 as a standalone product. Also Virgin are trailing 10Mb upload speeds … Continue reading →

This afternoon Virgin Media came round to “install” their 50Mbps Broadband service. This means that this website will now load a bit faster due to a 1.65Mbps upload speed rather than the meagre 768kbps upload that I had before. Also … Continue reading →

This was first reported yesterday evening on both the VMWare Community forums and on DeployLinux.com. From what anyone can tell, there is a bug in the VMWare License Management code and it is causing any system that is running ESX … Continue reading →

The 31 Days of the Dragon is a promotion between 31 participating web sites, with the sponsorship of HP. HP is working with those websites offering 31 prize packages – one a day for 31 days during a period from … Continue reading →

A row about who should pay for extra network costs incurred by the iPlayer has broken out between internet service providers (ISPs) and the BBC. ISPs say the on-demand TV service is putting strain on their networks, which need to … Continue reading →

Microsoft has apologised for the glitches that hit its Xbox Live online game system during the Christmas break. The software firm said it was "disappointed" with its performance and promised a free downloadable game to all users as recompense. It … Continue reading →

The browser that helped kick-start the commercial web is to cease development because of lack of users. Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 February 2008, the company has said. In the mid-1990s the … Continue reading →

One of the most important changes of the last 30 years is that digital technology has transformed almost everyone into an information worker. In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to … Continue reading →

Swiss researchers say they can log keystrokes from Microsoft’s wireless keyboards from up to 50 metres away using special radio equipment, and are close to being able to control affected computers remotely. The protocol for securing some of Microsoft’s wireless … Continue reading →

Prime Minister Gordon Brown tried to reassure Britons their personal details were safe Wednesday after the one of the biggest security breaches in the country’s history left millions of people exposed to identity theft and bank fraud. Two computer disks … Continue reading →