By: L33tdawgFor those of you lucky enough to have fast internet connectivity as well as live in a country that has access to the iTunes store, buying an Apple TV to bring content from your desktop into your living room makes perfect sense - but what if you’re like me; living with what barely passes [...]

D-Link India and McAfee have teamed up to provide their customers a safe high speed internet access solution. Customers buying select D-Link Broadband routers will now come with 90 days free McAfee VirusScan Plus.As part of SAfe-Link initiative, D-Link has simultaneously introduced a new ADSL2/2+ Router - GLB-802C so that buyers can immediately capitalize on [...]

UK ISP Virgin Media, in a joint partnership with the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), has thus far sent out 800 letters to file sharers to inform them of the consequences should they continue. Packaged in envelopes that said, ?Important: If you don?t read this, your broadband could be disconnected,? the letters seeks to dissuade users [...]

A new study suggests that attitude rather than availability may be the key reason why more Americans don’t have high-speed Internet access. The findings from the Pew Internet and American Life Project challenge the argument that broadband providers need to more aggressively roll out supply to meet demand.Only 14 percent of dial-up users say they’re [...]

BT has made available to consumers the iPlate, a device that it claims will boost internet speeds for ADSL lines. According to the telecoms giant, electrical equipment such as microwave ovens, faulty television power supplies and even Christmas lights interfere with broadband connections and affect its reliability. However, BT claims the iPlate, which was first [...]

Sweden may be better known for cars and couches than computers, but when it comes to access to broadband and cellular networks, it’s tops. The Scandinavian country leads the world in “technological readiness,” according to the World Economic Forum.To rank high on the list - one of 12 included in the WEF’s annual Global Competitiveness [...]

INTEL IS teaming up with Saudi Arabia?s King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) to build a wireless mobile services R&D lab in the country.Based in Riyadh, the labs purpose will be to provide the Arab parts of the Middle East, Turkey and Africa with Wimax broadband networks as well as services for wireless [...]

Federal Communications Commission Chair Kevin Martin’s campaign for a free, smutless, wireless, national broadband service for the people opened a new chapter on Friday with the release of a public comment cycle on the plan. The agency’s Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNOPR) advocates “public access to free, nationwide, high-speed wireless broadband Internet services using [...]

Are you fed up spending hours on hold to your broadband provider’s overseas call centre every time you inexplicably lose your connection? A dongle could be the answer - and it could save you money too.Dongles are plug-in-and-go devices that look like USB memory sticks and work like mini-modems. You can buy one from a [...]

France is to press ahead with its campaign to bar surfers who download files illegally from accessing their broadband accounts.Under new laws which were introduced by Culture Minister Christine Albanel, a new state agency to be called the High Authority for Copyright Protection and Dissemination of Works on the Internet, or Hadopi, will be set [...]

Caught A Virus?
If you’ve let your guard down–or even if you haven’t–it can be hard to tell if your PC is infected. Here’s what to do if you suspect the worst.
Heard this one before? You must run antivirus software and keep it up to date or else your PC will get infected, you’ll lose all [...]

A Web Standards Checklist, How to make a proper website
A web standards checklist
The term web standards can mean different things to different people. For some, it is ‘table-free sites’, for others it is ‘using valid code’. However, web standards are much broader than that. A site built to web standards should adhere to standards (HTML, [...]