How did a Norwegian electricity company become the biggest fiber-to-the-home provider in the country? By adopting an innovative business model, offering faster speeds at identical prices, and?most unusual of all?letting customers save a few hundred bucks by digging their own fiber trenches through their backyards. We spoke to the company about the willingness that Norwegians [...]
South African mobile group MTN has finally acquired a 60 per cent stake in Kenyan corporate communications solutions firm UUNET, whose holding firm is also South Africa-based.
Senior officials at the Uganda subsidiary of the telecom giant confirmed the transaction, but referred us to the group?s head office in Johannesburg, South Africa, for details. MTN Uganda [...]
Microsoft Monday said users testing Vista should abandon that effort for the Windows 7 RC candidate.
Bill Veghte, senior vice president for the Windows business, said during his keynote address at the annual TechEd Conference that Windows 7 RC should be the platform for users planning a client operating system migration.
Veghte said users that are already [...]
After keeping its lips zipped for months, Microsoft is finally giving a bit more clarity to Windows 7’s release date. The company will release the new version of its flagship operating system in the fourth quarter of 2009, Microsoft said Monday.
Microsoft isn’t yet publicly setting an exact release date, but it’s clear it expects Windows [...]
‘Noob’ could well be the millionth word in the English language – a milestone set to be reached within the coming weeks.
The news comes directly from the Global Language Monitor that estimates the millionth word in the English language is set to arrive on June 10th, 2009 at 10:22 am, British Summer Time.
Approximately!
A number of [...]
Spammers in China are being offered a great deal - just $700 (?460) to use a server that allows the sending of as much spam as they want. It’s called bulletproof hosting, and to the people who fight spam and cybercrime it’s becoming a big problem.
Cybercriminals use these services not just to host servers, [...]
A recently introduced cyberbullying bill could land us all in jail?that is, if you have ever used an electronic medium to troll someone. HR 1966, the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act, is named after the high-profile “MySpace suicide” victim Megan Meier. It’s meant to prevent people from using the Internet to “coerce, intimidate, harass, or [...]
Qwest has rolled out free WiFi to its fixed high-speed Internet customers. The company is offering free access at 17,000 hotspots nationwide operated by AT&T. The move comes as other broadband providers are successfully using free WiFi as a customer acquisition and retention tool.
AT&T, which purchased hotspot provider Wayport last year, offers its broadband customers [...]
The communications regulator has proposed a cut in the price Eircom can charge rival operators for local loop unbundling (LLU).
This is the process which enables rivals to use the connections between the local exchange and customers’ homes, and is usually used to provide broadband services.
ComReg is proposing a cut of more than 25% in the [...]
If Microsoft and Intel can shell out the big bucks for TV ad spots, why not Google?
The search engine giant announced Friday that it will be running TV ads this weekend that advertise its Google Chrome browser.
The new ad was initially developed by the Google Japan team as an instructional video to demonstrate the simplicity [...]