Broadband reaches 80 per cent of homes

BT Wholesale announced yesterday 80 per cent of UK homes are now connected to an ADSL broadband enabled exchange. Not all of these will be able to get broadband as they will be too far from the exchange. However the confirmation that the extended reach programme will go live on 24 September - increasing the maximum distance over which ADSL can be provided from 5. ...more

IDF, Fall 2005: AMD demos dual-core mobile chip

AMD has taken advantage of the Intel Developer Forum to reveal a working sample of its mobile dual-core processor. 'We are already the first manufacturer to bring dual core technology to the notebook,' said Bahr Mahony, the division marketing manager of AMD's mobile business segment, referring to the dual-core X2 inside Voodoo's Envy Heavyweight laptop. Although the X2 is a desktop part, its lower power demands make it far more suitable to notebooks than Intel's Pentium D. ...more

Sun goes to a Java Rave

Sun has revealed details of Project Rave, which it describes as a tool for 'corporate Java technology development'. What this means in practice is that Sun is trying to widen the user Java base and incorporate those who have previously restricted themselves to VBA and other macro programming for Microsoft products. With the drag-and-drop creation of user interfaces, the use of components, and simplified access to databases, Project Rave is intended to aid the creation of corporate apps. ...more

Dell and IBM see revenue growth for the server market

The global value of the server market was $12.3bn in the last three months of 2002, according to the latest figures from IDC. Although this represents a year-on-year decline of 5. ...more

Carphone Warehouse launches broadband TalkTalk

Carphone Warehouse has launched a new TalkTalk combined broadband and landline phone service that costs ?20.99 per month. Available to around 70 per cent of the UK population, the package comprises unlimited local and national landline calls, 24 hours a day; unlimited international landline calls to 28 countries, 24 hours a day; and up to 8Mbps broadband access. ...more