Posted: 24th Nov 2011
The telecoms regulator Ofcom has published new guidelines for internet service providers today, telling them that they must make the small print of their contracts more understandable for customers. Ofcom is particularly concerned about traffic management policies. Most ISPs have some sort of system in place which prioritises certain data, or will restrict access to [...]
Posted: 23rd Nov 2011
Laptops are great, but one of the reasons so many people are turning to tablets like the Apple iPad or ASUS Eee Pad Transformer is the extended battery life these low power machines offer. There’s little more frustrating than getting on a train for an hour and a half journey and finding out that your [...]
Posted: 20th Nov 2011
With all the wireless devices in use around us every day, it won’t surprise you to learn that the airwaves are getting pretty crowded. Radio interference at the frequencies used for wireless networking are common, and increasingly a big problem at home. Apart from the fact that you’ve probably got phones, tablets, games consoles, laptops [...]
Posted: 19th Nov 2011
Whether you need to stay on top of household chores or organise a team at work, there are loads of online services that can help you Get Things Done or GTD! The difference between these and traditional to-do lists, that might be stuck on your fridge or written on sticky notes around your monitor, is [...]
Posted: 18th Nov 2011
The number of adults who have never used the internet has fallen by 300,000, according to a new report by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) released yesterday. The figures bring the total number of UK adults who have been online to 41.62 million, or 82.9% of the total population. The research, which is updated [...]
Posted: 16th Nov 2011
One of the more interesting features of the new iPhone 4S and the iPad 2 is their ability to use Airplay to send video streams directly to a TV. It can turn your iPhone or iPad into the ultimate entertainment centre: download songs and movies via iTunes, then play them back on the big screen [...]
Posted: 14th Nov 2011
Computer chip manufacturer Intel has today launched a new range of high end processors, known as the second generation Core i7 Extreme Edition. Three new CPUs will be available as of today, featuring in the very best PCs money can buy. The three chips being launched are the Core i7-3960X, the Core i7-3930K and the [...]
Posted: 12th Nov 2011
With all the talk of cyber warfare in the news of late and yesterday’s news about Steam, you might be forgiven for thinking that there’s a hacker just around every corner waiting to get hold of all your data. There’s a lot you can do to protect yourself online, though, and one of the key [...]
Posted: 11th Nov 2011
Seattle’s Valve Software have announced some disturbing news about their Steam digital download and game authentication system. In a post on the company forums, CEO Gabe Newell has explained to gamers that their servers were attacked last weekend, and hackers gained access to databases containing encrypted passwords, purchase histories and encrypted credit card information. Steam [...]
Posted: 10th Nov 2011
The chances are you’ve probably heard your techie friends talking about “the cloud” lately, and as you may have guessed it’s nothing to do with skies and Wordsworthian rhyme. Essentially ‘the cloud’, also known as cloud computing, means running programs and services on web servers rather than on your own computer. The cloud is the [...]