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BT plans to revolutionise the UK broadband market
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008BT has unveiled plans to deliver fibre optics to around 10 million UK homes by 2012. The phone corporations £500 million investment is said to be the first stage in a strategy to introduce the latest broadband technology across the UK. Customers are expected to benefit from broadband speeds in excess of 100Mps.
The massive broadband [...]
Porn Site forced to pay $500,000 to Facebook
Monday, July 14th, 2008A Canadian based internet porn firm has been forced to pay Facebook $500,000 during a lawsuit where it was accused of illegally hacking into the social networking giant’s computers. SlickCash, which is based in Ontario , settled the case in a US court. Under the settlement a number of individuals who are linked to [...]
Google’s Lively network set to challenge Second Life
Thursday, July 10th, 2008Giant Internet search engine, Google, has announced the launch of an avatar based social network that many analysts believe will rival Second Life. The network ,which has been named Lively, enables users to enrichen the social interaction experience by allowing others to view their virtual rooms which give indications about the user’s tastes as well as using [...]
Vodafone expands in Qatar and buys Danish networking site
Thursday, May 29th, 2008The world’s largest mobile phone provider has teamed up with the Qatar Foundation to expand its service in the Middle East. The partners have combined to pay a total of $2.1 billion for a wireless license in Qatar.
The Vodafone/Qatar Foundation partnership fended off competition from AT&T and Verizon Communications to land the license and is [...]