Co-location is OK by Oftel

Cheaper and more competitive ADSL services could be on their way as Oftel confirms arrangements to allow operators to set up equipment in any operational part of an exchange. Impenetrably termed as co-mingling, operators now no longer need to physically separate their equipment by installing it in purpose-built rooms. Oftel has also published proposals to allow operators' staff and contractors unsupervised access to the exchanges. ...more

Dell recycles in the US

Dell has announced a recycling initiative that will mean its US customers can have their old equipment recycled or sent to a more needy home for $15. Dell Recycling will offer the service that picks up unwanted notebooks, desktops, monitors and other select computer equipment from the home for $15 per item. Michael Dell, Dell chairman and chief executive officer, said: 'Stewardship of our environment is becoming one of those [customer] requirements, and we take that responsibility seriously. ...more

Spring IDF 2006: Boot times cut in half

Intel unveiled some new technologies at this spring's IDF that could dramatically cut PCs' boot and application load times in the future. First, it demonstrated a PC with 256MB of NAND flash memory. This persistent memory is used as an intelligent cache, so that parts of the operating system don't have to be loaded from disk. ...more

Google extends its Maps service to the UK

Google has released a new search history tool and extended its Maps service to the UK. Unfortunately Google Maps UK does not yet include the satellite images which let you zoom in on detailed aerial photographs of anywhere in the US (go to maps.google. ...more

UPDATED: Apple tackles latest OS X security problems

Apple has released the latest security update for Mac OS X 10.2.8 and 10. ...more