2006 - The most popular news stories

We present the news stories that drew the greatest traffic across the course of the year, month by month. They might not have been the most significant or insightful stories, but they were the ones that were the ones that garnered the most clicks, according to the stats ground out and sifted by our hosting company's very own super computer. January 1. ...more

Bulldog to remain at master's side

Cable & Wireless' UK boss John Pluthero has scotched rumours that the company is about to sell the retail side of its Bulldog broadband service. Pluthero, who has just taken over as the head of C&W's UK business, said that the company is happy with the revenues from the LLU-based broadband provider. Bulldog has more than doubled its number of customers since August 2005, from 48,000 to 107,000, giving it around 30 per cent of the UK local loop unbundling (LLU) market. ...more

Second Life goes open-source

Linden Lab is taking its Viewer application of its popular online world Second Life open-source in order to push development. Second Life has become a high-profile example of the growing interest in participating in online worlds, yet with a development team of 50 or so programmers, there is pressure to expand and secure the platform. The source code will be licensed under the GNU General Public Licence version 2. ...more

Six new broadband dates announced

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IBM makes chip speed breakthrough

A new manufacturing technique developed by IBM could boost chip speeds by around 35 per cent. The new technology stretches silicon, the main building block of chips, so that the flow of electrons is increased. In the strained silicon, electrons face less resistance and can travel at speeds up to 75 per cent faster than in conventional processors. ...more