Broadband TV company expands outside London

Broadband TV company Homechoice is planning to expand outside London for the first time. The company uses local loop unbundling to supply fast broadband connections to 34,000 subscribers, up from 15,000 at the start of the year. They pay between ?14 and ?18 to receive ADSL up to 8Mbps, as many as 55 digital TV channels, as well as video on demand and telephone services. ...more

LaCie announces faster back-ups

LaCie has announced a new AIT tape drive capable of backing-up or archiving 200Gb of compressed data onto one tape. The AIT3 drives have twice the capacity of existing AIT2 drives and double the transfer rate, reaching a maximum of 24Mb per second. The drives are back-compatible with AIT1 and AIT2 media, so no existing back-ups will be redundant. ...more

Intel puts hand in pocket to fund digital home networking

Intel has dipped into its recently created Digital Home Fund to invest in four companies working in the field. The beneficiaries of Intel's commitment to home networking are Digital 5 (networking music and video content), Staccato Communications (ultra-wideband technology), Trymedia Systems (content distribution management) and Wisair (high performance wireless communication chipsets). 'The Intel Digital Home Fund investments we're announcing today support Intel's initiatives to enable people to enjoy digital content - including music, games, photos and video - on multiple devices in the home and beyond,' said John Miner, Intel Capital President. ...more

HP intros high-speed DVD burners

HP has introduced three new high-speed DVD burners. The dvd1040i and its external equivalent dvd1040e, plus the internal dvd1035i, which all support 20x write speeds on DVDR media. They also read/write to DVDRW (8x write speed), DVD-RAM (12x) and CD. ...more

Seagate builds in security controls to hard drives

Storage hardware maker Seagate has taken the wraps off its DriveTrust, technology which it claims will protect data at the hardware level of the hard drive. A drive protected by DriveTrust will require anyone accessing it to de-encrypt its data with a password or key. Without a password, a hard drive would be useless, says the manufacturer. ...more