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Switching your phone line provider can prove easier with some companies than others

A recent test showed that canceling phone service may not be as easy as we think. Random test surveyors were asked to sign on to the websites of all the United Kingdom’s leading home phone line providers and see if they could figure out how to cancel their contracts. The testers were also asked to [...]

Learning Photo shop is Easy With Learn Photo shop Videos Tutorials

Learning Photoshop can be a long and arduous task, yet gaining even a basic knowledge of the Adobe product can help any designer or webmaster create amazing graphics.
Photoshop Videos
Video Professor can help. You can learn all about Photoshop simply and in the convenience of your own home. Using books to learn complex programmes like Adobe [...]

PS3 Clock bug resolved

The clock bug that has annoyed millions of PS3 users has been resolved, according to official reports from Sony, although they are not revealing what caused the bug in the first place.

Opera 10.50 the fastest!

Opera Software has announced the release of Opera 10.50 on Tuesday, claiming it to be the fastest browser of Windows computers.
Opera.com, the company’s official web site, offers the new browser which runs off the Carakan JavaScript engine and comes complete with the Vega graphics library. According to Opera, users will not have to wait for [...]

A new way to check programme scheduling for Freeview and cable TV providers

Just twenty years ago if one wished to check out the upcoming programmes scheduled for the television, one either checked the newspaper or looked them up in a TV magazine. As print media has fallen by the wayside, most of us rely on the instant information offered by the internet. That resource has now expanded [...]

China create more restrictions on the internet

China has created more restrictions on internet use by adding more security measures for those wishing to create new websites. According to reports, to create a new website (and hence the .cn domain address) an individual most meet with a regulator and provide official identification and photographs of themselves prior to being granted a new [...]

100mb/s broadband soon to be offered by Virgin

Virgin Media has claimed that by the end of 2010, they will offer a 100MB/s broadband service. This is quite the jump from their current subscription plans, which offer only three variations: a ?20 per month plan that provides 10MB/s broadband, 20MB/s for?30, and a 50MB/s plan that will cost the subscriber?38 per month. All [...]

Lady Gaga a big help for Vevo

The new music video site Vevo has stated that almost 25% of the videos watched on their site are that of music icon Lady Gaga.

15 year prison sentence for Teenaged Facebook user

A 19 year old Wisconsin boy was sentenced to 15 years in prison, according to Associated Press reports, for using popular social networking site Facebook as a sexual weapon.

Hollywood attacks iiNet over copyright infringements

The lawyers of Hollywood’s biggest film studios have recently attacked iiNet, an Australian internet provider, over Copyright Theft.
Australian courts roundly rejected the claims, stating that the ISP provider did not “sanction, approve or countenance copyright infringement,” to the bemusement of Hollywood executives.

Crestview Technology Airpark construction to begin March 5

Bob Sikes Airport will be host to the new Airpark, which begins construction on March 5, after four years of red tape and delays. The 20-acre Airpark will be located just south of the intersection of Airport Road and John Givens Road, on airport property.

Are incentives like free laptop deals a sound reason to purchase broadband?

A new study released by popular consumer assistance for broadband website Broadband Choices points out that 33% of all mobile broadband customers make their decision on who to sign a long-term contract with based on free incentives. The perception that these items such as dongles and laptop computers are given completely free of charge [...]

Sky packages categories of digital TV programmes

Sky seems to be following the path of BT vision channels as it now offers its programme packs based upon categories rather than volume of channels. This continues the current trend in digital TV to assist United Kingdom television customers in avoiding the purchase of channels they have no desire to watch. Popular categories [...]

Mobile broadband coverage merges with WiFi

Many laptop computers that have been made available through free laptop deals offered by mobile broadband providers in the United Kingdom are now being delivered equipped with built in 3G mobile broadband ability. This feature comes in addition to the standard 802 megahertz WiFi as used in all laptops.
The built in mobile [...]

Playstation 3 Console Gets 22 Karat Treatment, as PS3 Goes Gold!

The world of luxury without aesthetic taste has no limits, we saw
portable consoles, iPhones, and lots of entertainment technology products and
coated with layers of gold, diamonds and other expensive things, but without
much sense or aesthetic value, now PlayStation 3 has been the umpteenth victim
of the new rich, and his passion for kitsch.
This is a PlayStation [...]

Why Cleaning Your Windows Registry Can Speed up Your PC And Internet…

Windows registry files can be thought of as a large database of info, data & settings for the various pieces of hardware and software on your computer.
The job of the windows registry is to hold the configuration data of the many software programs setup on your PC, as well as the hardware devices that have [...]

Car Drivers Love Gadgets, But Consider Breakdown Cover for Xmas, instead of a Sat Nav! – What a Comparison!

Let’s face it, most people these days love gadgets! – and car drivers are not usually an exception to this rule!
In the 1980’s it was those annoying little dashboard mounted sound devices that enabled sales executives to think that they were machine gunning or rocket grenading the car(s) in front, in the vein hope that [...]

Virgin media launches A new application for mobile customers – Get Social – Social Networking

Virgin media has announced that it has launched a new application called ‘Get Social’. This is geared towards its mobile customers and includes social networking and e-mail applications.
Get Social allows users to perform instant updates to twitter, Facebook, Google talk, Yahoo! Messenger and virginmedia.com. This enables people to stay in touch and up to date with their [...]

The year of the iPhone app but what lies ahead?

Nearly everything this year has been about applications, mostly the iPhone app store. The app store is far ahead of everyone else and has set the benchmark for all of the other competing manufacturers.  Apple boasts over 100,000 applications. This places them far ahead of the mighty Google with only 20,000 applications for Android. In [...]

Computer Game Sales Soar, While Game Advertising Spend Plummets – Is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Helping The Sales Figures?

Although computer game sales went up over the last quarter, spend on advertising by the computer gaming industry is thought to fall shorter than usual before Christmas, experts stated.
The well know computer games retailer, ‘Game’ has its figures showing that highly popular computer games, like ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2′ have worked to counter [...]

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