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  • Review: devolo MicroLink dLAN Highspeed Starter Kit

    12 March 2006, 01:17

    The ideal digital home would have a network port next to every mains socket - and with develo's MicroLink dLAN Highspeed networking kit, that's what you get

  • Wireless USB revolution set to kick off

    23 January 2006, 13:32

    WiFi and USB are set to come together in the next few months with Wireless USB – a technology that promises to give wireless access to self-powered USB devices, including ...

  • Review: WiFi & broadband. The solution to aging-population problem. Oh, really?

    13 December 2005, 18:54

    For sure, Intel's chairman Craig Barrett is a hugely intelligent man. Otherwise, he wouldn't be heading up the giant chip-making firm. But in our experience intelligence often doesn't equate to ...

  • Free web telly from AOL

    15 November 2005, 10:04

    ISP behemoth AOL yesterday announced plans to introduce a free online television service in 2006.

  • SCAN International launches TalkScan VoIP services

    1 November 2005, 20:48

    Respected UK technology e-tailer SCAN International has today launched its own VoIP service, TalkScan.

  • Wireless Security

    14 September 2005, 00:00

    WiFi is a wonderful thing. You can take your laptop anywhere in your house and access the Internet, or access your network from the garden. However, it does introduce the ...

  • IDF August 2005 :: HomePlug

    24 August 2005, 00:00

    Within the digital home Intel still state that a wired 'hard' backbone is important. Whilst using the powerlines within the home is not a new idea, the Homeplug alliance is ...

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  • IDF August 2005 :: 802.11n - Next Gen Wifi

    24 August 2005, 00:00

    Whilst at IDF you hear a lot about the future technologies as the current 'new' technologies have just been deployed.

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  • Intel creates Wi-Fi community initiative

    19 August 2005, 00:00

    Intel has setup a new 'Digital Communities' initiative, which involves 13 pilot schemes to help communities create wireless network connectivity for various purposes.

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  • Internet could widen rich/poor divide

    17 August 2005, 00:00

    Websites created to inform users about particular neighbourhoods could lead to greater levels of segragation, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation warns.

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  • Dispute over IP phone and 911 rules

    16 August 2005, 00:00

    VoIP is taking off, but there are concerns over whether it is a suitable replacement for traditional phone systems given the current way 911 calls are handled.

  • WiFi – Wireless networking explained

    15 August 2005, 00:00

    Home networking lets you do great things that aren't possible with standalone PCs. Printers can be shared between PC, so there's no need to buy one for each machine; data ...

  • How should Cisco have dealt with their security flaw?

    1 August 2005, 00:00

    Last week an ISS employee left his job and had a restraining order request filed against him as he made a presentation on exploiting a security flaw in Cisco routers. ...

  • Port Forwarding

    26 July 2005, 00:00

    Let's imagine you're trying to play a game over the Internet that needs to receive a UDP connection from the other player. UDP connections aren't initiated, they're just sent in ...

  • Wireless broadband borrower brought to justice

    23 July 2005, 00:00

    A UK man has been fined £500 and given a sentence of 12 months conditional discharge for the sinister crime of accessing somebody else's broadband connection using Wi-Fi.

  • Typhoon kills Taipei comms

    21 July 2005, 00:00

    HEXUS has also learned that communication links are affected, making it difficult or impossible for companies to communicate with their Taiwan offices. At the time of writing, Taipei based Digi ...

  • Computex 2005: Skyping made easy with ORtek

    1 June 2005, 00:00

    The problem with VoIP is that if you want some privacy during your call, or your lappy isn’t equipped with a built in mike, you’ve got to lug a headset ...

  • IDF Spring 2005: Silicon Photonics as true Interconnects

    1 March 2005, 00:00

    What is the fastest traveler known to science? Light. And the fastest defined speed? The speed of light. So what would be the ultimate interconnect over a number of platforms? ...

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  • IDF Fall 2004: DTCP/IP

    7 September 2004, 00:00

    Paul Otellini's keynote speech touched on DTCP/IP as a means to getting protected digital content into the home without fuss. Close after, Netgear announced their first DTCP/IP devices that allow ...

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  • IDF Spring 04: R&D Briefing - Silicon Photonics

    16 February 2004, 00:00

    IDF does not offically start until Tommorow however Intel today decided to spend time with the press going over current RandD projects. The first is that of Silicon Photonics, the ...

  • Highway to Hell

    27 November 2000, 00:00

    Home Highway (hereafter HH) is a package that has been around for ages from BT. It is their consumer level ISDN product, as opposed to ISDN 2e which is aimed ...

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  • HOME PC NETWORKING

    27 September 2000, 00:00

    HOME PC NETWORKING

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  • Modem Guide

    27 September 2000, 00:00

    Alternatives to modems are still quite expensive in the UK. Even though modems should be old news they're still with us and with quite a bit of verity. To get ...

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  • Building a Hardware Modem

    27 July 2000, 00:00

    Once upon a time, I had a softmodem in my PC. It sucked CPU time, but I didn't mind too much. When it came to sharing the Modem, I had ...

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  • Which ISP?

    25 May 2000, 00:00

    Nildram, with fast games servers and a great network, with free dialups and 0845 access, this is definitely a venture worth using. They have Quake2/3/UT servers and some counter strike ...

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