Posts tagged with 'Broadband'
The Spam Cube is a piece of anti-spam hardware which is being launched through Amazon in the UK, designed to sit between a broadband modem and your PC/laptop, scanning incoming email for unwanted messages.
This hardware will retail at around £100, but the real question is why internet users should have to pay for hardware to deal with this problem. Isn’t this a problem which could be dealt with some other way? You know, ISPs, that sort of thing...?
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by Graham Charlton
23 October 2006 15:51pm
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A new survey has shown that consumers are generally happy with the quality of home internet services, but also revealed a high level of dissatisfaction over customer service.
In Point Topic’s latest Broadband Consumer Survey, 91% of broadband customers said they were happy with the quality and reliability of their internet service, and 82% are satisfied with download times.
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by Graham Charlton
17 October 2006 14:55pm
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BT hopes to take a lead in the battle against the scourge of spam on the internet by introducing a new system designed to filter out spam before it reaches their customer’s PCs.
BT’s Content Forensics system, devised by StreamShield Networks, will scan millions of emails every day, alerting them to the location of spam related problems on its network.
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by Graham Charlton
13 October 2006 11:15am
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Carphone Warehouse has announced an agreement to purchase AOL’s UK internet access business for £370m.
The retailer is believed to have fought off competition from BSkyB for the ISP, whose sale forms part of AOL’s refocus from subscriptions onto ad revenues.
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by Richard Maven
11 October 2006 10:22am
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New research predicts rapid growth in UK broadband coverage over the next two years, with broadband penetration reaching levels of up to 90% in some areas.
Point Topic's forecast uses data from each of the 222,000 Census areas in the UK, allowing them to paint a geographical picture of broadband take-up around the country.
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by Graham Charlton
10 October 2006 18:12pm
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Sony BMG has struck a deal with BT to offer on-demand access to music videos through the telco’s upcoming IPTV service, BT Vision.
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by Richard Maven
04 October 2006 10:02am
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Mobile operator Orange has pulled out of the bidding for AOL’s UK internet access unit, according to a report in
The Times
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The move will see BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse going head to head for the division, the newspaper said.
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by Richard Maven
21 September 2006 09:18am
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Sky Sports has announced its digital Champions League plans ahead of tonight’s group games, including live online coverage of matches for the first time.
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by Richard Maven
12 September 2006 15:15pm
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The owners of the Daily Mail have expanded their web presence with the £22m purchase of Simply Energy Limited.
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by Richard Maven
29 August 2006 14:38pm
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Often marketers complain that ‘IT’ are too inflexible, too difficult to work with, and don’t understand marketing. But marketers too can be guilty of not understanding, or appreciating, what they deem ‘IT’.
A website’s technical infrastructure is a case in point. I believe it is a marketing issue, and marketing responsibility, not an ‘IT’ one.
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by Ashley Friedlein
17 August 2006 19:25pm
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