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Access to the internet makes us smarter. Agree or Not?

alexandra — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:59:46 +0000

How users can affect the Internet speed?

alexandra — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:11:03 +0000

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 (does your hardware work in a proper way? )
settings of your network card driver;
external network equipment (router, etc.);
the type of your connection (wireless Internet (Wi-Fi) or wired internet access);
quality of the “last mile” access.

So check these points trying to speed up your uploads and downloads from the Internet.

Interplanetary space vehicles will have high-speed internet

alexandra — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:06:10 +0000

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 Martian vehicles, for example.

NASA representatives say that they cooperate with several telecommunications companies and the next generation of the space systems will appear in 5-6 years.

No internet broadband — no prospects of good work

alexandra — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:23:30 +0000

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 of digital civilization, though £1 billion will be invested in rural broadband.

Absence of high-speed internet broadband can put those people at a disadvantage in the workforce market, because today more and more employers are applying home working models.

The first LTE-Network was deployed in the UK

alexandra — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:51:41 +0000

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 as successful, LTE-network will appear in other parts of the country.

4G-technology was developed to replace the networks of the third 3G generation. Theoretically, a system based on LTE can provide internet speed up to 326 Mbps downloads and to 86 Mbps uploads.

According to Matt Hatton’s words (an analyst from Analysys Mason), many companies are developing now phones with LTE support. Apple is working at its 4G iPhone, and Nokia, the Finnish mobile giant, does believe that LTE is the future of mobile communications.

How Christmas tree can cause problems with broadband connection

alexandra — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:56:39 +0000

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 internet services can be impacted by Christmas things. Remember that flashing lights can generate RF interference that can affect broadband ADSL and enjoy festive period.

Welcome to life beyond beta, Gmail!

maksim — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:44:02 +0000

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, the beta label would still prohibit many companies to use it on a professional level. With this milestone Google will take a serious approach to targeting businesses for its Apps suite.

In fact, Gmail had been in beta for so long I wondered if it was part of its logo. Clearly, the beta tag doesn’t mean as much as it used to back in 2004, so if you feel nostalgic, you can stick back the “beta” label for your account. Just for old time’s sake.

British newspapers of 19th century now on the Internet

maksim — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:26:41 +0000

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.

Google and BBC Discuss iPlayer on YouTube

maksim — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:30:49 +0000

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 iPlayer platform supported by Google owned YouTube.

Microsoft to sell Windows 7 in Europe without IE

maksim — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:22:10 +0000

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 “IE 8 pack” that allows them to add the browser back in, ship another browser or ship multiple browsers.