After a very annoying end of last week where a relatively simple BB upgrade turned into a bit of a snafu I’ve now got my nice, shiny new Linksys By Cisco N-Router fired up and connected…speeds were dire yesterday and I considered vaping the upgrade and reverting to my fixed speed 1Mbps service but I’m [...]
Have been tracking the IE8 release cycle for a bit now and am thoroughly underwhelmed by it’s lack of innovation. Then along comes Google’s Chrome with almost no fanfare and re-writes the browser paradigm. JS virtualisation in the app, threading in web apps presented as tabs…this is nothing more than an OS in a browser [...]
Sigh…here’s the reason I hate flash ! Got into a huge scrap at work with a colleague arguing our customer-facing offering needed to be Web2.0 and RIA and that flash was the way to go as AJAX wasn’t ubiquitous yet etc etc and I politely pointed out that I personally, on all the browsers I [...]
This post from well known and respected UK ISP Zen has to set alarm bells ringing ! Hot on the heels of the news that the UK’s BT Home Hub is borked comes the news that the chipset used globally by a third of all ADSL router integrators ’causes intermittancy’ Yikes…this could run and run [...]
Surprise surprise…people in the UK still aren’t getting what they thought they would when ordering Broadband. I do sympathise with the ISP’s to some degree here…they’re selling a 2nd rate product over a third-world POTS copper network which in much of the UK predates WWII. Technology being used in the BT backhaul is ‘just’ keeping [...]
Blogged from ThinkBroadband. Will downloading DVD quality films replace rental? With the rise of postal DVD services like lovefilm.com and others, one wonders how high street rental shops are doing. Japan is going one step further and one broadband provider (KDDI) is offering its customers the option to download a DVD image for [...]
It’s been suggested by Mr. Timms (Head geek if ever I saw one!) that there may be some mileage in the Gov’t intervening in the British broadband market and make 21CN a reality sooner rather than later.Currently BT the encumbent (recumbent shurely ! – Ed) primary wholesale Telco in the UK is the only group [...]
Well this site’s the one for you…a little bit of ajax and some scripting and lo and behold your search terms from both Search giants can be seen in parallel on screen. And it’s very interesting what disparities become evident when this kind of parallel comparison takes place. I like the simplicity of mash-ups like [...]