Nildram joins SDSL trial

Nildram is the latest ISP to join BT's SDSL broadband trials, and is looking for businesses that may be interested in the service. Symmetric Digital Subscribers Line (SDSL) broadband differs from ADSL in providing equal upstream and downstream speeds. To a home user this is generally unimportant, as most of the data transfer is downstream, from the Internet to the computer. ...more

The Cloud has a silver lining for Vista users

The Cloud, which operates Europe's largest number of Wi-Fi hotspots, is offering UK-based Vista users a month's free wireless access. Until 30 April 2007, all Vista users who register with The Cloud will be able to connect to its 7,500 hotspots nationwide, located in coffee shops, hotels, train stations, pubs and airports. This is in addition to the 'hotzones' that provide coverage within the city centres of Birmingham, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham and Oxford, plus the City of London and the boroughs of Camden, Islington and Kensington. ...more

Toshiba announces world's first 128Mbit Pseudo SRAMs

Toshiba has became the first to roll out Pseudo SRAMs (PSRAM) at 128Mbit densities, providing lower power consumption for use in advanced mobile phones and PDAs. The two devices in the new series were fabricated with 0.175-micron CMOS process technology, have a standby current of 250 microamperes and support access times of 70 or 75 nanoseconds (ns). ...more

Patent spat casts shadow over RIM results

Settling patent litigation has hit RIM - maker of the Blackberry push email device - in the pockets. The Canadian company has announced fourth quarter results that disappointed Wall Street with a dent in profits. For the three months ending 4 March, revenue was $561. ...more

Virgin Trains extends trial for Internet on the move

Get online while you wait for your train. This is the promise of wireless Internet access at train stations, currently being trialled by Virgin. And given what we know about rail punctuality, you could be doing to do a lot of browsing. ...more