Street Broadband

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, promised that London will be covered with Wi-Fi networks by the Olympic Games 2012. Speaking at the conference ‘Google Zeitgeist’ in Hertfordshire Johnson stated that access points will be deployed at every lamp post and at every bus stop. He also said that it’s only the beginning and in [...]

Mary Meeker, an analyst working for Morgan Stanley, aka “Queen of the Net” (1998) according to Barron’s magazine, presented the last report about development of the Net, containing among other things, projections for the future.  According to this document, the overall Internet market will be affected by two powerful trends in the near future — [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]