30 Jun 2010 | 08.25 Europe/London
More than half of the new people to come on line in the past year are over 50 years old according to the latest research from internet audience measurement service UKOM/Nielsen.
28 Jun 2010 | 13.55 Europe/London
The Obama administration has announced the radio spectrum available to mobile broadband providers will more than double over the next ten years.
25 Jun 2010 | 10.23 Europe/London
Project Canvas has finally been given the go-ahead by the BBC Trust, although the first set top boxes are unlikely to now appear within 10 months or a year.
24 Jun 2010 | 15.35 Europe/London
The FCC has just launched a public consultation on net neutrality and today Ofcom is following suit in the UK.
24 Jun 2010 | 12.49 Europe/London
The traditional queues outside Regent Street’s Apple Store this morning signalled the arrival of the iPhone 4.
23 Jun 2010 | 11.35 Europe/London
The UK’s Chancellor, George Osborne, who delivered his austerity budget speech to the House of Commons yesterday, has confirmed that the previous administration’s proposed 50p per month landline tax has now been officially scrapped.
22 Jun 2010 | 15.24 Europe/London
Herve Maurey, the French minister in charge of broadband development has suggested that plans for a tax to support faster broadband are likely to be put before Prime Minister, Francois Fillon, before the end of the month.
21 Jun 2010 | 12.03 Europe/London
The UK is 12th and the USA 15th for subscribers per 100 inhabitants in the latest OECD statistics. The revised numbers quote fixed line connections of 256k or faster downstream and cover the OECD's 31 member countries as at December 2009.
21 Jun 2010 | 08.35 Europe/London
The FCC has begun a public consultation process on three options to give the body, what is describes as, the necessary framework to provide affordable, high quality, competitive and innovative broadband services.
17 Jun 2010 | 14.28 Europe/London
While the World Cup will dominate this summer’s sporting activity across the globe, for BBC Sport's Head of Interactivity, Ben Gallop, it is a ‘stepping stone’ to the main event on the corporation’s calendar; the London 2012 Olympic Games.
14 Jun 2010 | 17.16 Europe/London
The FCC is to consult the American public on Thursday over proposed new rules which will allow it to govern broadband provision.
09 Jun 2010 | 13.04 Europe/London
The European Court of Justice has backed the EU’s cap on mobile data, texting and voice roaming charges.
09 Jun 2010 | 12.49 Europe/London
Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, yesterday announced that the coalition government is to set up three trial rural broadband projects to ascertain how far flung communities can enjoy fast broadband.
04 Jun 2010 | 14.48 Europe/London
The number of broadband users in France is still increasing, but the majority of new connections are made over copper rather than fibre, according to preliminary figures from French telecoms regulator ARCEP.
03 Jun 2010 | 19.12 Europe/London
The European Commission has approved a proposal from Ofcom that would allow BT to provide virtual rather than physical access to its new fibre infrastructure, which includes both fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) and fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) networks.
03 Jun 2010 | 17.52 Europe/London
Long time visitors to SamKnows will notice that we’ve made some changes to the site. Whilst we don’t have much of a reputation as designers, our intention with the new layout is to make the site simpler, so that we can cram in more information and features.
