A laptop that ‘even your granny’ is supposed to be able to use and which comes with broadband and support for just under £35 per month became available today in a bid to get more silver surfers online.
Andrew Holmes, co-founder of The Broadband Computer Company claims its Alex laptop (named after Alexander Graham Bell, inventor [...]

The increasing need for bandwidth as companies of all sizes conduct more business through cloud computing lies behind Easynet Connect’s launch this week of a £15k per year uncontended 100Mbps fibre service, according to its Managing Director, Chris Stening.

 
The new service is limited to within the M25 area at the moment but the company is [...]

Vodafone will see in the New Year with a concerted push to encourage pay-as-you-go customers to use data to coincide with its launch of the iPhone.
Although the network has not announced a date when it is allowed to start selling the iconic smartphone, it is widely believed to be from the first week of January [...]

Businesses are driving fibre deployment across Europe at a far greater rate than governments. In fact, corporations and public institutions could even hold the key to widening the UK’s next generation footprint.
That is the conclusion of Lee Myall, UK Regional Director for Interoute, a telecommunications company which claims to have more than 57,000km of ‘lit’ [...]

More than 50 free Wi-Fi hotspots are due to be switched on in not-spot areas by a company based around the premise there is more to the technology than fleecing businessmen in airport lounges.
The locations, which include remote Scottish Islands, will be named next week. They won a competition run earlier this year by Freerunner, [...]

It is not only campaigners who are concerned by the anti-piracy measures included in the Digital Economy Bill, legal experts are also at a loss to explain how the government can sanction giving future ministers seemingly limitless powers.
Patrick Gardiner, Media Partner at international law firm, Eversheds, believes that Lord Mandelson is probably trying to ‘future-proof’ [...]

WiMax will not be the wireless broadband saviour for the digital have-nots, according to CI-Net Managing Director Graham McLean.
The ISP has recently expanded its RedKite WiMax service but at £3000 per year, it is targeted at businesses which require a stable back up option to fixed line connections. It has been operational for four years [...]

Free home broadband and three months Sky Mobile TV are the baits O2 is to use this Christmas to defend against having to share the iPhone with Orange (and then Vodafone early next year).
The much-loved mobile handheld device has been exclusive to O2 for two years but now the mobile operator finds itself fighting two [...]

Business ISPs who rely on selling internet access alone are not in a good position to tap in to future growth, warns Andrew Saunders, Head of Product Management and Marketing at Zen Internet.
While many have realised that growth is more likely to be enjoyed in selling services down the lines they provide rather than relying [...]

Getting a deal to put Sky Player on its IP Vision’s Fetch TV set top box is a coup which its Business and Marketing Director, Peter Cox, believes will show it is doing what Canvas is talking about, only right here and now. In essence, he jokes, it is like having a canvas, only theirs [...]

Sky appointed Ruth Barnett as the UK’s Twitter correspondent in April to mixed reactions. While many fans of the micro blogging site saw the move as a masterstroke there were some voices which suggested the move might have been a token stunt.
However, Barnett is insistent that the channel is a vital means to build up [...]

The merger of Orange and T-Mobile is almost certain to cast further doubt over the speed of mobile broadband roll-out plans and further delays are possible if 3 were also bought.
That is the conclusion of Matt Hatton, Principle Analyst at Analsys Mason. He has been looking at the current consolidation in the UK mobile market [...]

Broadband writer Bill Thompson’s excitement over where Digital Britain is headed has swung from anxiety to mild optimism back to anxiety, all within a year.
Having worked for Pipex and then headed up the Guardian’s new media business in the ‘90s before going freelance for the likes of the BBC, he has had hands-on experience of [...]

The Ashes approaching and then reaching a dramatic climax at the same time as the Premier League season got underway has given Sky a record number of new customers for its Sky Sports and News mobile television package as well as its 24-7 football goals and highlights service.
The surge in interest is bound to put [...]

Chris Stening believes success in the business ISP market is different from the consumer sector, relying far more on quality and service than price alone.
While he claims Easynet Connect, where he is Managing Director, will always be competitive in price, he is adamant that value is only one of the three success factors for a [...]

Any company that allows online users to publish comments and interact with one another via their brand will be keeping a close eye on Economist.com from the autumn onwards.
Its publisher, Ben Edwards, is in the middle of drawing up plans to take the interest and interactivity that has accompanied the Web 2.0 revolution and build [...]

Lonely Planet may well have cracked a problem which is vexing all media companies – how to make money online without cannibalising offline sales.
The company is arguably the country’s known publisher of travel guides but very few will realise that it has been at the vanguard of monetising content online ever since it decided, two [...]

Project Canvas, if approved, could be the starting point for ITV to begin charging for access to exclusive clips, archived shows, behind the scenes footage and star interviews, according to Carolyn Fairbairn, Group Director of Development and Strategy.

The possible new revenue stream is opened up by the proposed internet television platform being open to all [...]

Privacy campaigners are often concerned about the amount of knowledge Google has on web users and so plans for its beta behavioural targeting platform, Interest Advertising Based, to go live before the end of the year will soon be big news.
However, the Senior Product Manager responsible for the service, Clay Bavor, is keen to point [...]

Mobile broadband has turned out to be a contentious issue since the publication of Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report. While many broadband experts and campaigners claimed there was too much of a reliance on wireless, Julian McGougan from Arquiva claims there was not nearly enough.
The company is the country’s largest independent provider of mobile cell [...]