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   10 seconds - tick tick
According to a survey by Packet Exchange (A London peering point) mose than 70% of surfers will give up on a website if they have to wait more than 10 seconds for it to appear. Additionally, .....

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Thu 31st May 2007 09:08Source: Packet Exchange


   Nildram introduces Traffic Management to its ADSL offering
Pipex owned Nildram has joined the ever increasing list of ISPs implementing some form of Traffic Management to their Broadband subscribers and applied it, without warning, from Monday 21st May, .....

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Thu 24th May 2007 10:38Source: Nildram FAQ


   PlusNet report into the webmail hack released
If you remember a week or so ago, hackers made it into PlusNets network via their webmail service and took their database of email addresses for all customers (past and present), anoyone emailed by th.....

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Thu 24th May 2007 10:34Source: PlusNet


   AOL increases prices and contract length
Carphone Warehouse owned, AOL has increased the price of its Broadband service to those not covered by the "Ralk Talk" LLU footprint to £24.99 for AOL Broadband Silver and £39.99 for AOL Br.....

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Wed 23rd May 2007 15:46Source: AOL website


   Google pulls ads for essay writing services
Bowing down to pressure from the Universities, Google has added essay writing services to its list of banned products from its AdWords scheme. Others include prostitution and tobacco. This c.....

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Wed 23rd May 2007 10:15Source: Press Release


   Are Wi-Fi Networks dangerous to health?
In a programme to be broadcast tonight (21st May) BBC Panorama is reporting that Wi-Fi equipment emmits upto three times the radiation of mobile phone masts - and should not be used in schools:

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Mon 21st May 2007 09:44Source: BBC Panorama


   Pipex offering 6 months free broadband
From the 17th of May for 1 month, Pipex are offering six months "free" broadband to customers who sign up for their pipexmini+ anytime service. The broadband service includes a free mo.....

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Fri 18th May 2007 10:05Source: Pipex Website


   Internet censorship growing globally
The level of government based Internet censorship is growing around the world according to a new survey by the Open Net Initiative. They assessed website availablity via 120 ISPs in 41 countr.....

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Fri 18th May 2007 09:55Source: Open Net Initiative


   Young women dominate UK internet scene
Young women are now the most dominant group online in the UK, according to new research from net measurement firm Nielsen/NetRatings. The research shows that 18% of online Britains are women .....

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Thu 17th May 2007 11:24Source: Nielsen/NetRatings


   PlusNet pulls its webmail service
PlusNet today have pulled their webmail service, @mail from use by its customers with immediate effect. As a result 160,000 customers can nolonger access their email via a webmail service - PlusNet ar.....

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Wed 16th May 2007 15:34Source: PlusNet forums


   PlusNet`s customer email database stolen
PlusNet today announced that their customers email database had been stolen and used by spammers to target previously little used email addresses. The database was taken via a vunerability in their we.....

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Tue 15th May 2007 14:21Source: PlusNet forums


   Pipex to close Bulldog call centres
Struggling ISP Pipex has issued the "out-sourced" Bulldog call centre operations with 90 days notice that their services are nolonger required. Pipex when questioned on this has stated:

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Tue 15th May 2007 14:14Source: The Register


   Latest ADSL Broadband User Number announced
Most of the "big 5" providers have now released their latest User numbers - the results are as follows: BT Retail - 3.6 million users (up 200,000) Virgin - 3.4 million users (.....

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Mon 14th May 2007 13:20Source: Press Release


   BT Openreach to drop Cease charge
Various other news websites are reporting that BT Openreach are to drop the ADSL Line Cease Charge from the 1st June 2007. There is currently no information on why this change has taken place.

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Thu 10th May 2007 09:21Source: Other News Website


   UK consumers loyal to .UK domains
UK Internet users when looking for information via an Internet search engine are six times more likely to choose a .uk rather than .com address. In a YouGov survey of 2,324 Internet users - .....

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Wed 9th May 2007 10:09Source: YouGov Survey


   PM Tony Blair`s YouTube debut
Tony Blair has become probably the first World Leader to post a video clip onto popular video sharing clip site YouTube. In the 2 minute video Tony Blair congratulates the new French p.....

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Wed 9th May 2007 09:32Source: YouTube


   UK has 13 million Broadband Connections
Ofcom has released its latest quarterly Telecommunications Market Data Tables. This gives a breakdown of total number of residential and small business broadband connections in the UK to the end of De.....

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Tue 8th May 2007 14:16Source: Press Release


   Netservices Wholesale Division sold to 186k
NetServices announced this morning that it has sold for £1 million its consumer broadband wholesale business to 186k Limited. The sale includes 173 reseller accounts, 23,000 end users, .....

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Tue 8th May 2007 09:17Source: Press Release


   IPTV for deaf people takes off
The BBC is reporting the launch of VeeSee TV which airs news and other programmes in BSL (British Sign Language) and is available 24 hours a day. The channel can be viewed on a.....

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Mon 7th May 2007 17:13Source: BBC News - Technology


   Virgin to cut Heavy Downloaders Speeds
Virgin Media (NTL:Telewest) has stated a Traffic Management System to reduce the downstream speed of customers of "Heavy" downloaders will be implemented at peak times. Virgin states that:

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Mon 7th May 2007 17:07Source: Press Release


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