Nominet revamps Whois

The UK national registry of .uk domain name holders, Nominet has updated its Whois service. People who own a . ...more

Watchdog clamps down on Wanadoo broadband ad

The Advertising Standards Authority has told Wanadoo to remove the 'full speed' claim from advertisements for its 512Kbps broadband service. The ASA ruled that, 'consumers would understand "full speed broadband" to mean the maximum speed available for a broadband service. Because broadband was available at the faster speeds of 1Mbps and 2Mbps, the Authority concluded that to claim 512Kbps was "full speed broadband" was misleading. ...more

UPDATED: IBM does IM with Yahoo!, AOL and Google

IBM has announced a series of deals with some of the world's major instant messaging suppliers to connect to its Lotus Sametime IM product. Big Blue has announced deals with Yahoo!, AOL to communicate with each other IBM's deals with Yahoo! and AOL means that users of Lotus Sametime 7.5 can interact with Yahoo! Messenger, AOL's AIM and ICQ and the Apple iChat services. ...more

.uk domain registrations hit 5m

In this season of drought and standpipe fears the flood of domain registrations in the UK continues unabated. According to .uk domain registry Nominet, the five millionth such domain was registered earlier this month. ...more

Bulldog broadband bounds ahead with 16Mbps launch

Bulldog is the latest ISP to begin offering ADSL2+ based broadband connections with speeds in excess of the 8Mbps maximum of most services. However unlike other ADSL2+ providers, Bulldog is not advertising services at the very highest speeds of 20Mbps or more. Instead it will offer up to 16Mbps, rather than the 22 or 24Mbps advertised by other providers, with upstream speeds of up to 1Mbps. ...more