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UK residents have seen broadband speed increases in the last year.
Feb 2, 2012 By Clare MuskerThe broadband download speed for UK residents has increased since May last year. It is up on average 0.8Mbps. This increase will not reduce the download time for a film by anything significant but will allow users- especially those with multi- connections in a household a far higher level of...
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Profits increase steadily for Symantec
Jan 27, 2012 By Clare MuskerSymantec an IT company specialising in anti- virus protection which boasts 100% SLAs and a solution for your organisation which will secure and manage the information you hold internally has shown steady profits this quarter. Recent reports show that there is really nothing threatening...
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Internet users see the first stages of the response to the Megaupload arrests
Jan 23, 2012 By Clare MuskerIt has been suggested that the unwelcome legislation a current example being that from the SOPA acts has come about as the current file sharing industry has shown that it is unable or unwilling to react to piracy and illegal actions in commonplace on their sites. The arrest of the two...
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PIPA and SOPA support vanishes as scale of Wednesdays protest is felt
Jan 20, 2012 By Clare MuskerAn estimated 7000 websites joined the blackout on Wednesday 18 th January 2012 including giants such as Google and WordPress. Since this point only 2 days ago, at least 8 key lawmakers have withdrawn their support for the acts and the American President has declared concerns regarding their...
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Nationwide broadband downtime result of a routing hardware issue
Jan 18, 2012 By Clare MuskerFor the 5 million customers of Virgin Media broadband an as of yet undefined number experienced a loss of internet between 5pm and 8pm on Tuesday 17 th January 2012. It was during this time that a national outage was experienced. The IT company noted a broadband service blackout last...
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12 atom magnetic memory- a look into the future
Jan 13, 2012 By Clare MuskerTo store a single bit — the most basic piece of information a computer understands – a disk drive needs one million atoms. The IT company IBM has had a team working to dramatically reduce the size of this storage. The resarch has shown that information can be stored on a little as 12 magnetic...
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Wearable computer- soon to be on sale in China
Jan 11, 2012 By Clare MuskerChina has closed the gap between science fiction and real life with a new ‘wearable’ computer. The prototype is already in use and plans are in place to have the computer on sale to the consumer market in March. Small portable computers which can be attached to our bodies littered the market...
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Google Chrome web browser exhibits new ways to speed up browsing
Jan 10, 2012 By Clare MuskerIn an attempt to speed up browsing, a new technology has been announced which will allow for some web pages to appear almost instantly. The plan is to have several pages in the background that are partially rendered before the final page is selected cutting the loading time of the chosen page. ...
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New Year brings large scale security patching
Jan 9, 2012 By Clare MuskerJanuary is looking to be a busy month with regards to patching with 3 large IT companies announcing updates to be released. Oracle, Adobe and Microsoft have all announced a patching schedule for January. Adobe has announced a timetabled quarterly update, which will go live on the 10...
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UK details plans to catch up with other countries in public WI- Fi access
Jan 6, 2012 By Clare MuskerThe concept of free internet to the masses is not new. It has already been implemented in New York- in public parks and recently throughout subway stations and Paris where public areas have been connected. The London plans have been released to coincide with the Olympics. The system will be...
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