Internet speed record falls to Tokyo University

Both Internet land speed records have fallen. A team from the University of Tokyo has set a new mark for long-distance data transfer using the IPv4 protocol while researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and CERN in Switzerland broke the record for IPv6 transfers. The Tokyo team managed to send data at 7. ...more

Four in five UK homes ready for digital switchover - Ofcom

Almost 80 per cent of homes had some form of digital television at the end of 2006, with the popular Freeview service leading the sales, Ofcom said on Wednesday. Freeview proved the front runner. In total, 2. ...more

Sir Tim Berners-Lee punctures Web 2.0 hype

Tim Berners-Lee has debunked all the hype surrounding Web 2.0 insisting that what it purports to describe is exactly what he intended the Web to be when he first conceived it. Web 2. ...more

IBM takes rigorous approach with new ThinkPad laptop

IBM has unveiled a new model in ThinkPad range of laptops - the ThinkPad R50, featuring IBM's automatic hard drive protection system and longer battery life. Aimed at SMBs, the R50 is available with 14 or 15in displays and runs on a 1.4GHz Intel Pentium M processor. ...more

Open Source support industry to grow to multi-million pound market

Analysts at IDC reckon that public sector deployment of Open Source software will drive momentum in the enterprise, resulting in a booming market for support services. It says organisations in Europe already spend ?53mn on supporting Open Source software, with much of renewed interest stemming from public sector deployments that are the result of cost-saving initiatives. These in turn work as proof of concept demonstrations that larger enterprises can draw confidence from when considering using Open Source software in large-scale commercial environments. ...more