BlackBerry services went down on Monday and, apart from a brief period on Tuesday morning, have been down since then. Last night there were reports that users in the United States, Japan and Singapore were having difficulties getting online. The firm is facing growing calls for compensation from users all over the world. European, Middle [...]
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28th September 2011
The £300m cable that will save one millisecond in transmission time
With the world of the mobile ‘phone and the high speed internet it is hard to believe that people still communication by a cable joining them together, but it is the case, especially went comes to trading and hedge funds. The first cable across the Atlantic was laid in 1858 from the Telegraph Field, Foilhommerum [...]
25th September 2011
HP offers partial refund to full-price TouchPad buyers
The TouchPad was on sale in Britain for just over a month and failed to make an impression on the market which has been dominated by the Apple iPad. HP is to refund hundreds of pounds each to customers who bought its failed TouchPad tablet at full price. The compensation programme means buyers who paid [...]
17th September 2011
Is the death of the music store near?
The question is an important one, particularly if you work in a music store because fewer of us are going to a specialist shop to buy a CD now when so many of us are migrating to buying music online. If you have been into one recently you will have noticed that CDs and actual [...]
4th September 2011
Will Tim Cook continue the trend at Apple?
The news that Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO at Apple came as no surprise to some people; he has not been in the best of health in recent years. However, the stock market has reacted predictably with Apple shares falling by 7% hours after trading began in the US with gains being made by [...]
28th August 2011
Dragons’ Den’s Peter Jones sells telecoms business
Dragons’ Den serial entrepreneur Peter Jones CBE has sold one of his telecoms businesses, Wireless Logic, to ECI Partners, the UK mid-market private equity firm, and management for £38m. This is the third telecoms business that the star of Dragons’ Den has sold in the last year. In the last twelve months alone he has [...]
26th August 2011
Don’t risk identity fraud on your Smartphone
There’s a good chance that if you shop on your Smartphone, scammers and hackers could steal your identity and personal information. This is because most Smartphone users store sensitive personal information on their phones, and then use unsecured public Wi-Fi networks to get online. It is thought that nearly 65 per cent of Smartphone users [...]
24th August 2011
New BBC iPlayer planned
The BBC has released an updated version of the iPlayer designed for televisions in a move that it’s hoped will broaden access to the catch-up service to those viewers who may be a bit less technologically minded. It is available from today on the PlayStation 3 games console, and is being adapted for an array [...]
17th August 2011
Google Chrome overtakes Firefox
It seems such a short time ago that Google Chrome was launched, it was in fact only three years ago, but now nearly one in four British internet users now use Chrome as their web browser. It is now the second most popular browser, overtaking Mozilla’s Firefox and quickly gaining ground on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer [...]
14th August 2011
Copyright law overhaul
Individuals will be able to legally copy music and DVDS they own on to digital devices such as iPods and computers, under sweeping changes Britain’s “archaic” copyright laws. This mat come a great surprise to the vast majority who had no idea that they were breaking any laws by using a CD which they had [...]