Virgin Media is testing in Cambridgeshire, UK, an 8Gb/s cable service to a small subset of subscribers. (Currently, the trial supports eight households, but can extend to 50 over time).…
Whatever happened to Blackberry?
A few years ago, you couldn't move in London on the Tube for businessmen checking and answering email on their Blackberry device. Now they have disappeared, being replaced by Apple…
Microsoft adds Blackberry to phone stable?
AMicrosoft having recently acquired the Nokia phone stable as platforms for Windows Phone are still rumoured to be looking at adding the Blackberry platform as well. In January of Samsung…
Happy anniversary – Android is 4 years old
I can't quite believe that the android platform is already four years old. (well I can, since the recent Android 4.0 (Ice-Cream Sandwich) announcement.) Google were expected to make an…
Will the Thailand floods prompt a move to SSDs?
With ASUS announcing that it will run out of hard disks at the end of the next month , since new ones are not being produced in enough numbers to…
All change on the mobile front: LiMo becomes Tizen, Meego no more.
The LiMo and Linux Foundations have announced Tizen, a new operating platform for internet connected devices and phones. “LiMo Foundation views Tizen as a well-timed step change which unites major…
Google says “Hello, Moto!” for acquisition
So Motorola Mobility is to be acquired by Google . Motorola Mobility is the mobile phone business that was finally spun out of the Motorola parent organisation in January 2011,…
The Future is Forever, with World IPv6 Launch Day
So today (June 6 2011) was World IPv6 Day, the day on which several major players in the Internet field turn on, and enable IPv6 for testing for the day.…