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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 of the... Read more

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. Read more

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 onwards. It will then become... Read more

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... Read more

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, a business... Read more