Lines linked for 8Mbit broadband

Nildram is the latest ISP to announce that it will be offering a bonded ADSL service that can provide a maximum speed of 8Mbit/sec. Bonding works by tying together up to four ADSL lines to create a single connection: 8Mbit, for example, would be achieved by bonding four 2Mbit lines. It is a process that will be familiar to ISDN users, which uses two lines to provide its throughput. ...more

DRM lobbyists cry foul over BPI p2p win

UK digital rights campaigners have reacted with disappointment to the news that two file sharers failed in their attempts to defeat music industry lawsuits. Earlier today Judge Justice Lawrence Collins rejected the two men's defences and awarded damages and costs to the BPI without a trial. 'It's very disappointing that Judge Lawrence Collins saw fit to throw both cases out of court, handing summary judgments to the BPI without giving either defendant the opportunity of a trial,' said Suw Charman, executive director, Open Rights Group. ...more

Apple issues new OS patch

Apple has issued a new update to OS X. The new point release 10.4. ...more

Expanding digital universe drowning in data

The digital universe is set to expand to 988bn Gigabytes of data by the year 2010, according to a study. The IDC report, sponsored by the storage company EMC, claims that last year the world's data users created a piffling 161bn Gigabytes (161 exabytes), but is set on a path of 57 per cent compound growth year on year. The largest slice of the pie was accounted for by the 250bn or so images shot by digicams and cameraphones, not to mention medical scanners and the like. ...more

Intel tops out server range with data-crunching Itanium chips

Intel has updated its heavy-duty Itanium 2 server range to include chips with 9MB of cache and clock speeds of 1.6GHz. The new processors comprise 1. ...more