Wireless broadband expands with massive funding

PCCW is embarking in the next phase of its wireless broadband, with ?21mn to be invested in new hot spots across the UK. The Hong Kong-based company has 13 of the UK's 15 licences to provide broadband over the air and introduced the first Netvigator services in the Thames Valley in May. PCCW indicated that it would implement the service across the entire UK, but doubts have been cast on this in the past week, despite the latest cash injection. ...more

Kaspersky speeds Anti-Virus 5.0

Kaspersky has announced version five of its antivirus software, claiming greater efficiencies and performance boosts as well as a more user-friendly environment. The Russian company has integrated new file processing technologies it calls iChecker, iStream and iCache. These optimise the way in which the software talks to Windows so that it can determine the integrity of files and avoid wasting resources scanning files that are known to be clean. ...more

GeForce 8800 GTX blows away graphics card rivals

We've been warning against buying a top-end graphics for a few months now, and the GeForce 8800 GTX is the reason why. In the latest issue of PC Pro, on sale 16 November, we test it against the previous holder of the performance crown - the GeForce 7950 GX2 - and see frame rate increases of up to 250%. The breakneck speed comes from a totally new GPU architecture, based around the capabilities of Microsoft's forthcoming DirectX 10, and the new Shader Model 4. ...more

Intel signals computation at the speed of light

Intel scientists have claimed a breakthrough in the development of optical switches made of silicon. The company says it created a transistor like optical device which switched at over 1GHz. The Intel team began by splitting a beam of infrared light into two. ...more

Nineteen new broadband dates announced

A further 19 exchanges have been given broadband upgrade dates by BT, bringing to 256 the total number to be ADSL-enabled since BT began its broadband registration scheme. The exchanges and their service dates are as follows. ? 28 May: Diss. ...more