BT fibre broadband cable UK rollout accelerated
Telecoms provider BT is accelerating its fibre broadband rollout. It now plans to offer "super-fast" internet speeds to two-thirds of UK premises by the end of 2014. The target is a year ahead of its original plan. The firm says its main product will offer maximum download speeds about 10 times faster than at present, at 70-100Mbps on average. That will help it compete aga...full article >>
Use your knowledge of the internet to help others
Digital Inclusion and helping those who want to get online but face obstacles is very much part of the remit for broadband in the UK, and Martha Lane Fox as the UK Digital Champion is working Race Online 2012 to encourage all the 30 million daily internet users in the UK to help another person get online. This is not a call for donations or money or hardware, but rather an idea that since t...full article >>
Apple flat-screen TV rumor rises yet again
A perennial Apple rumor is making the rounds yet again: that Cupertino is preparing to launch its own flat-screen TV. If you've been reading The Reg for any amount of time, you have heard that prediction before – and the source has often been Piper Jaffrey analyst Gene Munster Well, Munster is back with another Apple-branded television prediction, but this time he has a new so...full article >>
Email Issues Last Week
Email Issues - Last week To all Suffolk Online subscribers we are writing to apologise for the issues you will probably have had on Wednesday and Thursday, with sending and receiving email through your Suffolk Online email address. Unfortunately, during Wednesday afternoon (19th October) there was a major hardware failure with our suppliers email server equipment and the onlin...full article >>
Gigaclear to mark completion of first fibre village
Gigaclear and Hambleton are evidence that those in an area where enough people want fibre and are willing to pay for it that it is possible, and in a timescale that is much shorter than the current BDUK schemes. This Saturday will see GigaClear and Rutland Telecom celebrate the delivery of the network with a party in the fibre village. Hambleton with its small population and unusual geograp...full article >>
Blackberry boss Stephen Bates answers your questions
One week on from when Blackberry services crashed for a second time we've put your questions to the managing director of RIM UK, the company behind Blackberry. Speaking to Newsbeat, Stephen Bates defended his firm's handling of the outage but admitted mistakes were made. Tens of millions of people around the world were left without services like BBM, email and internet for three...full article >>
Android shows Ice Cream Sandwich
Google has unveiled the latest version of its industry-leading Android smartphone software. Ice Cream Sandwich adds a range of new features and a redesigned interface. The system was launched in partnership with Samsung, whose Galaxy Nexus handset will be the first to use it. Android's main rival, Apple, released an update to its iOS software last week, although many owners were...full article >>
Apple's iOS 5 breaks internet traffic records
The difficulty of predicting and coping with bandwidth demands is highlighted by the release of iOS 5 which created unprecedented levels of traffic demand, with BT Operate reporting that within BT's UK broadband network that peak usage exceeded previous massive events. The spike was in fact twice the size of the previous largest event, an England World Cup match that took place during busin...full article >>
WHSmith launches e-book reader rivals to Amazon Kindle
WHSmith will next week launch against Amazon's Kindle with a pair of e-book readers of its own. The UK newsagent will begin selling the Kobo reader from the Canadian company of the same name on 17 October. Kobo has e-book stores in Canada and Australia, and the WHSmith deal will bring its 2.2m - of which 1m are freebies: out-of-copyright classics and the like - to UK high streets. ...full article >>
iPhone 4s - The Stephen Fry review
Apple's loss last week was enormous. I wrote all that I felt I could in the blog farewell on my websiteto a man I was lucky enough to know a little and admire a great deal. Most are probably now profoundly sick of hearing either how much he was under or overestimated as a man and as a figure of his times. I never knew of any human beings whose achievements were exactly estimated....full article >>
BlackBerry service crash affects BBM messaging for millions
Tens of millions of BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa have been unable to receive or send emails and messages through their phones, following an outage at the server systems of parent company Research In Motion (RIM) in Slough, Berkshire. The outage, which occurred at about 11am BST on Monday, was still affecting users more than four hours later with no time given...full article >>
Internet providers offer parents bar on web content
Four leading web providers are to offer customers the option to block adult content at the point of subscription. BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin will offer the protection for smartphones, laptops and PCs. It comes as David Cameron is set to meet industry representatives amid concern over sexualisation of children. The prime minister will also launch Parentport - a website to help pare...full article >>
