Ofcom orders further LLU broadband price cuts

Ofcom has ordered further cuts in BT's LLU charging, following the completion of its review into the ADSL wholesale market. The UK telecoms regulator has concluded that, with more up-to-date cost data to hand, voluntary cuts made by BT in September are no longer sufficient. BT has invested in automated processes that it says have 'significantly' reduced LLU costs. ...more

Telephone numbers become your domain

Telcordia Technologies and VeriSign Global Registry Services are working on the first large-scale test of an emerging technology called ENUM that integrates telephone numbers with Internet domain names. They will jointly develop an ENUM directory and carry out an open system trial based on the proposed ENUM standard (it is currently being considered as a standard by the Internet Engineering Task Force). ENUM lets an end user type a telephone number into his Web browser and pull up the corresponding email address, URL or IP address. ...more

Dell beats Apple in Adobe speed tests

A Dell PC has soundly beaten a Power Mac in a series of speed tests of Adobe applications. The tests were carried out by Digital Producer Magazine, but the results have been reproduced by Adobe on a Web page entitled, ominously, as 'pcpreferred'. Digital Producer Magazine compared a single-processor Dell 2. ...more

NME to pilot peer-to-peer radio service

NME is to pilot a peer-to-peer radio service under the brand MyNME Radio. Based on technology provided by partner Mercora, the beta service will allow users to access each other's music files and stream them across the Internet. Users will also be able to access and listen to their own music collections remotely, simply by logging in on an Internet-connected computer. ...more

Bulldog announces sub-?16 broadband

Bulldog has cut the price of its capped 512Kbit broadband service to ?15.99 per month until the end of April. PrimeTime 500 follows the pattern of Bulldog's other PrimeTime services in that full 512Kbit/sec downstream speeds are only available outside office hours (designated 8am to 6pm, when the speed is halved) and at weekends. ...more