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Orange jumps on flat-rate data bandwagon

News Orange has introduced flat-rate mobile data bundles for the first time. The bundles make Orange the latest operator to adopt a flat-rate approach to its mobile-data pricing. Vodafone, T-Mobile and 3 already offer flat-rate pricing.

8 May 2007, 9:00

Vodafone launches flat-rate mobile data

News Extra data will be charged at its standard rate of £1 per day. Vodafone has finally launched data bundles which take it into competition with rival mobile operators. Like Orange, the operator is relatively late in introducing significantly sized...

4 June 2007, 10:41

Plan lets users rate their own vulnerability

News A plan to make it easier for companies to determine how hard they could be hit by security flaws is ready for prime time, according to its backers. The Common Vulnerability Scoring System plan calls for a unified approach to rating vulnerabilities...

19 September 2005, 10:31

News.blog: Students rate iPods higher than beer

News iPods are more 'in' than beer across American college campuses, according to the Student Monitor. Seventy-three per cent of the 1,200 students surveyed by the US college market researcher rated iPods as an 'in' item or activity.

9 June 2006, 10:19

Porn sites shut down by UK regulator

News The UK's premium rate phone services regulator has fined and barred two online porn providers. The promotional material repeatedly referred to sexual acts involving children, while the dialler software used to access the companies' websites at...

22 October 2002, 14:15

Automated call company hit with £100,000 fine

News Premium-rate regulator Icstis has issued a £100,000 fine to a company accused of making unsolicited recorded calls promising exotic prizes. A recorded message advised 'winners' that time was running out to claim their prize and encouraged them to...

20 September 2005, 9:51

Canon announces new high-end SLR

News Among the camera's new features are a higher shooting rate, a new image-processing chip, a live display, a more sensitive image sensor and a self-cleaning sensor. To cope with the high frame rate, though, the 1D Mark III has two Digic III chips.

23 February 2007, 8:50

Broadband take-up tipped to level out in 2008

News Broadband adoption will settle at a rate of 60 per cent in Western Europe and other advanced markets within two years, according to Datamonitor. Consumer broadband adoption is increasing so rapidly the market is approaching maturity already and is...

28 November 2005, 9:50

New tech takes the blur out of LCD TVs

News Cranking up the refresh rate alone does not solve the blurry image problem, he said. A new technology refreshes TV images at 100 to 120Hz, or 100 to 120 times a second, versus the 60Hz rate of typical LCDs (liquid crystal displays).

21 November 2006, 10:51

Firefox downloaded for the 100 millionth time

News After a somewhat higher download rate immediately following its release, the browser has settled into between 200,000 and 300,000 downloads a day, said Asa Dotzler, the Mozilla liaison to the SpreadFirefox community.

20 October 2005, 10:14

Laptops to trounce desktops by 2011

News PC shipments worldwide rose only 7.3 per cent in the fourth quarter, compared with a 15 per cent growth rate for the same period last year. IDC, however, notes that the release of Microsoft's Windows Vista is likely to lead to a temporary boost in...

21 March 2007, 9:13

Skype signs up first 3G mobile partner

News The company has agreed to a partnership with German mobile operator E-Plus, which will offer its customers free use of Skype's voice over IP (VoIP) service as part of its flat-rate data subscription package for 3G data card users.

5 September 2005, 9:49

Mobile broadband boosts fibre diet

News The rapid take-up of mobile broadband could help spur the arrival of super-fast fibre broadband networks in the UK, according to telecoms regulator Ofcom, which has set out plans for a pro-investment regulatory framework that will guarantee...

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7 July 2008, 10:32

iTunes IM worm drops adware

News It was first discovered on 14 July and isn't currently spreading at a high rate, Bruce Hughes, a senior antivirus researcher at Trend Micro, said on Wednesday. It isn't infecting people at a high rate," he said.

21 July 2005, 9:57

Microsoft security chief bitten by rogue dialler

News Rogue diallers are malicious applications that hijack an Internet connection and redirect it to a premium rate number, often based abroad. Gibson later revealed that he had attempted to contact ICSTIS, who regulates the premium-rate number industry...

7 September 2005, 10:25