3G iPad’s ‘Unlimited’ Data Plan Survives Torture Test
Data hogs, rejoice: The 3G iPad’s unlimited data plan appears to be truly unlimited. A tech blogger put AT&T’s network through a “torture test” by downloading a huge amount of data, and he faced zero obstacles. Know Your Cell blogger Zach Epstein used an app called Download Lite to download test files to suck up a whopping 31GB of data in just two days with the iPad over AT&T’s 3G connection
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3G iPad’s ‘Unlimited’ Data Plan Survives Torture Test
Plusnet has announced the launch of a four months free broadband offer that is exclusively available online at the plus.net website. The online offer applies to the Plusnet Value and Extra broadband packages and is available till the 18th May. Plusnet Value Broadband, with download speeds up to 8Mb is the company’s entry level broadband package usually costing from £6.49 a month
If your Bell-supplied Mi-Fi cellular Wi-Fi modem died yesterday, here’s why: The batteries in some MiFi 2372 units are swelling and causing malfunctions. Bell Canada is recalling units (an envelope is likely already on its way to you) to replace both battery and battery cover. This will take from six to eight weeks, so in the meantime you’ll be given a Novatel U998 Turbo Stick – a USB 3G dongle – to tide you over (not so good if you’re using the MiFi with a non-USB equipped gadget, like an iPad or iPod Touch)
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Bell Canada Remotely Kills, Recalls MiFi Routers
Tripod-maker Induro has tried to combine the quick-adjusting ball-head and the slow-but-accurate pan-tilt head into the new PHQ-series of tripod heads. While these two new heads don’t quite manage this feat, they pack in enough smart gimmicks and features to make your old head look positively primitive. The idea of these pan heads (there are two, identical in features but different in size) is to get your camera level, fast, and then let you pan smoothly or shoot panoramas.
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Quintaxial Tripod Heads Twist Five Ways
If Ikea made an iPod dock, it would look like the Hohrizontal 51. Resembling nothing as much as the Lack floating shelf the Swedish furniture-as-crack super-chain, the Hohrizontal combines iPod dock, amp and speakers into a minimalist block. Unlike anything from Ikea, it costs around $660
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Floating Shelf Hides iPod Dock, Speakers
Microsoft’s multi-touch tabletop display called Surface has a competitor as Sony gets ready to start selling a 35-inch, full HD touchscreen table. The table will track gestures and even discern emotions, the makers claim. The table is made by a Swiss company called Atracsys, which has partnered with Sony for the technology
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Sony Promises Emotion Detecting Touchscreen Table
With the Palm acquisition, HP is clearly taking a path that is away from Microsoft but not toward Google. While this is part of a general trend, started by Apple and Microsoft, to vertically integrate their businesses in a seeming return to the world before the PC, it also reflects on the relative size and power of HP and Microsoft.
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HP and Palm: The Explosion that Will Rock the Computer Industry
O2 ( www.o2.co.uk/laptops ) has added two new laptops with built in mobile broadband to its range of mobile broadband free laptop packages. Exclusive to O2, the two new laptops with embedded SIM cards are the Samsung N150 netbook, which is available online now and the Asus UL30A laptop which will be available in May. The Samsung N150 netbook is a great starter laptop or second device and comes well specified with a 250GB hard drive, 1GB RAM, 10.1″ screen and 6 hour battery life.
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O2 Add Laptops With Built In Mobile Broadband
Triple play provider Sky ( sky.com/freeunlimited ) has commenced a 6 months free broadband offer on its Unlimited up to 20Mbps broadband speed package. Sky Broadband Unlimited is Sky’s premium broadband package that is perfect for downloading music & uninterrupted online gaming.
In what appears to be “News of the Weird,” HTC today licensed Microsoft patents for its Android products. It isn’t unusual for a hardware manufacturer to license code from Microsoft or to use Android for one of a variety of new devices such as tablets or smartphones.
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Microsoft’s HTC License for Android: Why the Microsoft/Google War Shifted to Microsoft
TalkTalk ( talktalk.co.uk/springsale ) has launched a Spring sale on its broadband and phone Essentials package that saves new customers £50. Usually costing £6.99 a month, new customers switching online to the TalkTalk Essentials package can get their first 3 months free, saving themselves £20.97
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TalkTalk Broadband & Phone Spring Sale Saves £50
We own our notebook for a long time, so we all found that sometimes the dell laptop battery power icon that gives us on our laptop is not as specific as to how much battery time is left to keep us off. Then we will lose data or information we have open at the time
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Introduce of BatteryCare to Monitor Laptop Battery
T-Mobile ( t-mobile.co.uk ) has been rated the UK’s best mobile broadband provider on the move following a 350 mile train trip test of the UK’s six biggest mobile broadband providers. The test, conducted by Broadbandgenie, involved dongles from the 6 providers being tested for network download speeds, upload speeds, connection stability, network coverage and dongle software. Everyday tasks like streaming audio and video via YouTube and Spotify were measured as well as downloading BBC podcasts
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T-Mobile Broadband Rated Best On The Move
Sky ( sky.com/free ) is to offer new and existing Sky TV customers free Sky Broadband speeds up to 20Mbps from the 1st June. As part of the revamp, Sky will be offering two broadband packages to choose from, Sky Everyday Lite and Sky Unlimited. Sky Everyday Lite Broadband will be free to new and existing Sky TV customers who take or have the free Sky Talk package.
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Free Sky Broadband To Have 20Mbps Speeds
BE Broadband ( bethere.co.uk ) has confirmed that its £7.50 per month BE Value Broadband offer will end tomorrow, the 27th April. New customers wishing to take advantage of this offer and save themselves £75, must order the BE Value package online at the bethere.co.uk website before midnight, after which the monthly price will return to £13.79. Providing broadband speeds up to 8Mbps with a 40GB monthly usage allowance, BE Value Broadband also includes upload speeds up to 1.3Mbps and a free wireless router.
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BE Broadband £7.50 Offer To End Tomorrow
Saying Apple uses inferior parts is likely flame bait, but I started thinking about this topic after forwarding a tweet on an Inquirer article by Clive Akass on the talk by leading patent lawyer Andrew MacKenzie. In this piece, titled “How Apple cashes in on ‘inferior hardware,’” MacKenzie is reported as pointing out that Apple makes money by selling old — not used, just out-of-date — hardware as new and for a premium price. This is because, also according to MacKenzie, it is the solution that is innovative (and owned by Apple), not the pieces
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How Apple Uses ‘Inferior’ Parts to Build Superior Products
TalkTalk ( talktalk.co.uk ) has continued its promotion of its popular broadband and phone Essentials plan following a series of advertisements in the national media. The TalkTalk Essentials plan costs just £6.99 a month for which new customers can receive broadband speeds up to 24Mbps together with unlimited phone calls to UK landlines during the evening and at weekends. Calls to 0845 and 0870 numbers are also included
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TalkTalk Broadband Promotes £6.99 Essentials Plan
New report indicates that the combination of the ZeuS crimeware kit, and the tremendous increase of malicious PDFs seen in 2009, play a crucial role in the growth model of the cybercrime ecosystem.
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Report: ZeuS crimeware kit, malicious PDFs drive growth of cybercrime
When it comes to Green IT a lot of attention is paid to energy efficiency inside the building, from cooling and heating the servers, to how the servers operate through software enhancements such as virtualization and energy efficient low voltage…
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Nation’s First LEED Certified Data Center Turns Five
TalkTalk ( talktalk.co.uk ) has launched a new broadband help and advice service as part of its new Customer Experience Centre that opened in Soho, London on Monday. Located in Broadwick Street, the company’s first physical street presence offers a ground-floor drop in service for anyone who wishes to talk about their broadband service to one of TalkTalk’s ‘Broadband Experts’. Non TalkTalk customers are welcome and can sign up to a TalkTalk package should they choose to, whilst also trying new online products.
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TalkTalk Broadband Help & Advice Centre Opens