Deadline met for wireless broadband licences sale

The government's attempt to sell licences to provide wireless broadband services across the UK has finally succeeded, with all 15 licences snapped up before yesterday's deadline. Hong Kong based Pacific Century Cyberworks (PCCW) snapped up 13 licences, which will enable it to provide broadband connectivity to homes and businesses via the 3.4GHz radio spectrum. ...more

freedom2surf plugs in to UK-wide Wi-Fi network

Freedom2surf has introduced a new version of its Hotspots wireless Internet package that provides access to 1,300 Wi-Fi access points across the UK. Pay-as-you-go access to BT's Openzone network costs just 10p a minute - which freedom2surf notes is half the price that BT itself charges. Minutes can also be block-bought in advance, starting at ?4. ...more

Hard disks hit 250

LaCie has announced new 250Gb and 200Gb hard drives, built with the digital video and server markets in mind. Both FireWire drives provide data throughput of a maximum 35Mb/sec but the 200Gb version is especially designed for the digital video streaming with an enlarged 8Mb data buffer that enables it to provide sustained throughput at this speed. The 250Gb drive with a 2Mb buffer is more suited to tasks that are not streaming dependent, such as back-up and server storage. ...more

2006 - The most popular news stories

We present the news stories that drew the greatest traffic across the course of the year, month by month. They might not have been the most significant or insightful stories, but they were the ones that were the ones that garnered the most clicks, according to the stats ground out and sifted by our hosting company's very own super computer. January 1. ...more

Kenwood's Keg shrinks music collection to 79g

If you like your gadgets small, take note of the matchbox-sized Media Keg HD10GB7, which is claimed to be the world's smallest disk-drive-based MP3 player. Kenwood's 10GB hard drive, which is being sold for ?399, measures (h x w x d) 44 mm x 62 mm x 17 mm. (Compare and contrast with Apple's flash memory-based iPod shuffle, which measures 27mm x 41 x 10. ...more