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iPad, this much-talked-of latest Apple creation, will be connected to the Internet. TalkTalk, the UK broadband provider, plans to offer such a new service.
The expansion of new tablet PCs didn’t pass unnoticed by different internet providers, so mobile broadband through the Apple iPad can be considered as the future trend.
Nevertheless such companies as Orange, O2 [...]

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 company, UK internet service provider, has conducted a new research to determine how technologies have influenced business companies this year.
The results show that mobile internet has caused increase in efficiency in almost 50% of small businesses in the UK. So 44% of respondents think that high-tech devices (e.g. iPhones) and mobile broadband technologies [...]

Google Netbook

A Google netbook based on Chrome OS may be as real as a much-talked-of Google smartphone based on Android OS. So this new gadget should be considered as the best product for support of the first PC operating system that was developed by Google programmers.
According to the rumors that appear in different online-communities of [...]

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 [...]

The Huawei Technologies company claims that i-Mo is the smallest wireless modem in the world. This gadget has become available to customers in Q2 2009, but still none of high-tech companies hasn’t tried to contest its superiority.
i-Mo helps people to use high-speed Internet anytime and anywhere allowing to transfer data at speeds of up to [...]

Philips, the company that always shows concern for comfort, has developed a new cooling stand CushionSpeaker for laptops. This unusual accessory combines a laptop cooler, a soft cushion and portable speakers with excellent sound quality.
Smooth surface of this gadget provides favorable conditions for laptop ventilation system. Thanks to special covering your laptop or netbook won’t [...]

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 [...]