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BT has announced the 41 market towns that will benefit from the next phase of BT’s super-fast fibre broadband deployment, serving around 300,000 businesses and consumers across these areas (see list below). Customers in these areas will be able to access super-fast broadband speeds of up to 40Mb/s from Spring […]

Google has announced it is dropping support for H.264 In Chrome in the next couple months. Writing on the Chromium Blog Mike Jazayeri says: “We expect even more rapid innovation in the web media platform in the coming year and are focusing our investments in those technologies that are developed […]

The results from 491 respondents to ISPreview.co.uk’s latest survey have revealed that 45% of UK consumers are unhappy with their current Internet Service Provider, with almost one third (31%) planning to switch ISPs in 2011 (another 32.5% were undecided). Most of the problems appear to stem from displeasure at broadband […]

Google have introduced DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) for their Apps customers to help curb spam. “Today, we mark another notch in the spam-fighting belt: we’re making it possible for all Google Apps customers to sign their outgoing messages with DKIM, so their sent mail is less likely to get caught […]

Skype has announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Qik, a provider of mobile video software and services that enable individuals to capture, instantly share and preserve great moments on video from anywhere. Qik has 60 employees, and is headquartered in Redwood City, California and has an office […]

Twitter for Mac has launched today as part of the Mac App Store. This app gives Twitter users another fast and convenient way to stay connected to what they care about the most. Tweets appear in real-time (using our streaming API), and the app auto-shortens URLs and has lots of […]

Drupal 7.0 is now available with lots of new features. Announcing the launch, Drupal said, “We are proud to present to you our best work yet – Drupal 7, the friendly and powerful content management platform for building nearly any kind of website: from blogs and micro-sites to collaborative social […]

The People’s Daily, the government’s official newspaper reports, the Chinese regulator has declared that only China Telecom and China Unicom will be allowed to provide Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services in China, leaving Skype, UUCall and other similar services unavailable in China. Skype is a software application that allows […]

Mozilla has announced the eighth beta release of Firefox 4. There is also a beta update for Android and Maemo mobile phones. Firefox 4 beta 8 has more than 1,400 bug fixes, some improvements to the new add-ons interface, better syncing and more hardware-accelerated WebGL support. Streamlined Firefox Sync Setup […]

Allot Communications and Openet, suppliers to companies including AT&T and Verizon showed off a new product, which included a PowerPoint presentation showing how it is possible for your wireless provider to monitor everything you do online and charge you extra for using Facebook, Skype or Netflix. “For instance, in the […]

Microsoft has released Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) 2.0 adding Windows Firewall integration and network traffic inspection. Microsoft Security Essentials is a free download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the […]

Dropbox 1.0 the file-sync tool, has been released with many bug fixes, vastly reduced resource usage, Dropbox 1.0 (“Rainbow Shell”) also offers support for extended attributes, selective sync, and a shiny new installation wizard. “1.0 is a milestone for us, and with it we want to communicate our confidence that […]