Street Broadband

What factors have an influence on the speed of your Internet connection? Let’s consider those of them, which can be controlled and adjusted by the users themselves. So, the Internet speed depends on:

your tariff plan;
various viruses and other similar programs, as well as applications filtering traffic;
settings of your operating system and hardware [...]

New spacecrafts will be able to send and receive data at much higher speeds. It will be sufficient for real time video broadcasting. Earlier vehicles and landers transmited data back to the Earth at speeds that were comparable to the dial-up Internet. So scientist could spend several tens of hours to receive the video from [...]

People living in countryside can find themselves in a tight corner because of lack of high-speed broadband. This fact can have a direct impact upon their chances in the jobs market.
Charlie Brooks, a famous journalist writing for The Sunday and The Daily Telegraph, counted that 10% of people in England will appear outside the walls [...]

The O2 telecommunications company has deployed the first LTE (Long Term Evolution) network standard in Slough, Buckinghamshire.

The photo of Slough in 1950, quiet life without 4G and even 3G
Network deployment was put in charge of the Huawei Chinese company. Now inhabitants of Slough can enjoy high-speed mobile Internet. If the experiment is considered [...]

Plusnet warns its customers about possible “tree lights” troubles. It’s an annual topic of discussion, every December the British switch on their Christmas tree lights and those who placed “flashing miracle” near telephone cables suffer from internet connection faults.
So popular UK broadband provider decided to raise a question again and explain why quality of ADSL [...]

Finally Google announces beta tag removal in Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk. Well, they all look and behave the same way they did yesterday, as far as I can tell. If there are changes, they will be aimed specifically at businesses. It’s understandable that no matter how reliable a service may seem, [...]

Over two million searcheable pages of 19th and early 20th century newspapers have been put online by the British Library. The archive houses 49 national and regional newspapers including The Illustrated Police News which covered the Whitechapel murders. Searches are free and downloads are available on a pay-as-you-go basis.

The BBC is in talks with Google to launch an international edition of iPlayer. At present iPlayer only allows TV programs to be seen in the UK. BBC content is also available on YouTube, but in short clip format only. This step would mean BBC shows could be seen globally in their entirety on the [...]

Microsoft is planning to strip out IE from the next incarnation of Windows 7 in Europe, CNET News has learned. The inclusion of a browser in Windows – something Microsoft has done for more than a decade -was a likely violation of European antitrust law.
For computer makers that want it, Microsoft will offer a free [...]