The FCC has voted to redefine 'broadband' to apply only to connections with a minimum download speed of 25Mbps - a considerable increase from the previous definition of 4Mbps or more.
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UK Culture Minister Jeremy Hunt has decided that he wants the country to be blazing the trail for internet speeds in Europe by 2015, offering super-fast connections to at least 90% of its populace.
Akamai released a State of the Internet report for each quarter of the year. Their most recent report for Q4 of 2009 is now available. It shows that the average broadband speed in the US...
More rumors pointing to a next generation iPhone have come out, this time pointing to the iPhone 3G's questionable 3G speeds. According to Business Insider, the next generation iPhone will (when inevitably released) feature faster...
Yet another lawsuit is filed against Apple and AT&T claiming that the iPhone fails to live up to 3G speeds, and claims that the AT&T's infrastructure cannot handle the overwhelming 3G signal in comparison to...
A complaint lodged by BT about the speeds of Virgin Media's broadband service has been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority. The challenge centred around its advertisement "Hate to Wait?", which ran in the...
AT&T announced today that it is boosting speeds for some of its AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet customers and offering AT&T broadband customers access to free Wi-Fi hotspots across the country. AT&T says that more...
The "SuperSpeed" USB Promotions Group was announced Tuesday at the Intel Developer Forum. The promotions group will get together with contributors over the next year to finalize a USB 3.0 spec that will, they hope,...
Panasonic has introduced a write-once Blu-ray disc with a 4x writing speed, faster than any other high-definition disc, available in 25GB and 50GB (dual layer). The consumer electronics company plans to release the former this...
The U.S. is lagging behind other industrialized nations in the availability and use of high-speed broadband connections, according to a report released today by the Washington-based Communications Workers of America. The report, based on aggregated...
Ubuntu Linux's next release will appear on Thursday, sporting fresh virtualization features and installation management tools, according to project sponsor Canonical. The release supports kernel-based virtual machine, a relatively new virtualization technique that allows certain...
Until now, 200GB 2.5" hard disk drives have only been available with a 4200rpm motor speed. Samsung Electronics has announced a new lineup of 2.5" hard disk drives that includes a model with 200GB capacity...
Intel Corp. says it has rushed introduction of a new quad-core chip originally scheduled for next year to Monday to meet demand from server manufacturers for the processor. Intel is shipping the Xeon 5335 processor...
Neowin's own Linux distribution, Shift, is just about to hit version 0.3 and those of you who are that way inclined will be able to grab the ISO download in the next few days. The...
ATI's new 64-bit graphics drivers will accelerate the beta version of Microsoft's upcoming operating system. ATI Technologies introduced new 64-bit graphics drivers for speeding up the performance of the beta 1...
Taiwanese hardware maker Giga-byte Technology has stumbled upon a faster way to boot up PCs based on Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. Giga-byte's IRam is a PC add-in card with four DDR DRAM (double data...
An international standards group has approved a new DSL standard that claims it will increase DSL technology's upstream and downstream speeds to as much as 100 megabits per second, 10 times faster than the DSL...
AOL UK have announced that they are doubling the speed of thier broadband service to all thier UK customers at no extra cost. Current subscribers will have to wait upto 6 months for the upgrade...
Researchers at IBM have come up with a new approach to building transistors that could lead to faster, more energy-efficient chips in a few years. The company has managed to combine both strained silicon and...
Apple Computer on Monday introduced faster iMacs and larger-capacity versions of its iPod digital music player. The two new iMacs boast speeds of up to 1.25GHz, up from a top speed of...
GLAXIS Enables Retailers, Insurance Companies, Distributors and Manufacturers to Connect In Record Time With Its Automated and Integrated Software Solution Built on BizTalk Server Microsoft Corp. today announced that GLAXIS, the...
At its European Tech-Ed user event in Barcelona this month, Microsoft demonstrated the latest build of its upcoming Automated Deployment Services (ADS) software for faster set-up of server operating systems and applications. In a...
PC makers have begun beefing up their notebooks with a trio of new mobile processors from Intel. The chipmaker on Wednesday launched a new 2.5GHz Pentium 4-M processor and two new Celerons running at 2.2GHz...
ATI's upcoming contender for the graphics chip performance crown is a clear winner over Nvidia's latest offering, according to new tests from ZDNet Labs -- at least where it comes to top-end features. ATI and...
BROADBAND CHIPSET MANUFACTURER Centillium Communications has launched a new ADSL chipset that will make the Net fly. The company's new Palladia 210 chipset for ADSL modems can reach speeds of up to 20Mbps. It will...
Cisco used this week's Broadband DSL Forum in Berlin to promote fibre-based Ethernet access as an alternative, far faster broadband technology for homes and businesses. It lined up telcos and ISPs from...
ANYONE WHO DOUBTS that plans for the release of AMD's Hammer are not far advanced need look no further than a release from SUSE Labs. The labs said that 2.4.19pre4 based X86-64 linux kernel snapshot...
Sun Microsystems Inc. upgraded its Cobalt Qube server appliance line Monday, adding new security and management software along with faster processors to its hardware targeted at small and medium-sized businesses. Just larger than...
