One in three mobile internet tasks and one in seven voice calls attempted on commuter train routes in UK gets failed, new research claims. According to a recent study conducted by Global…
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Tim Berners-Lee calls for ‘Magna Carta’ to ensure users’ privacy and internet freedom
Tim Berners-Lee: I want a web where I’m not spied on, where there’s no censorship.
Facebook drones for universal internet connectivity by 2017
If all goes according to plan, Facebook will be testing its drones next year to bring internet connectivity to places that are yet to be connected with Google already in the race…
Tim Berners-Lee: Internet has grown huge to include over 1 billion websites
Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web: Recently passed a billion websites by their count.
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook ready to spend even billions to bring internet to the entire world
Mark Zuckerberg: What we really care about is connecting everyone in the world. Even if it means that Facebook has to spend billions of dollars over the next decade making this happen, I believe that over the long term its gonna be a good thing for us and for the world.
Central London businesses face loss of £37m annually due to slow broadband, research claims
Central London based businesses are currently losing around £37 million a year worth of business and more than 50,000 working days all because of broadband issues including slow speeds, new study claims….
Three out of four Brits enjoy shopping online, new study affirms
However, one in eight Brits have admitted that they never use internet!
Ofcom: Internet and smartphones are ‘essential’ for Brits
6 in 10 Brits admit mobile or landline service to be essential, while around 5 in 10 Brits think personal internet access as an integral part of their life.
Free Wi-Fi rolled out across Glasgow in a Scottish first
The network has been delivered by BT giving people access to 24-hour internet across major parts of the city.
Government proposes £90 million upgrade of onboard Wi-Fi on trains
Trains into London from Bedford, Brighton, Kent and Portsmouth as well into Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield are likely to get upgraded Wi-Fi.
BT apologises for broadband outage that left Brits without Internet for hours
The outage, presumably with company’s DNS services, left Brits without access to sites like Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, PayPal, eBay among others.
Open your home network to strangers, Open Wireless Movement says
Do this kind deed of sharing a little internet bandwidth of yours today and you shall receive the same sometime in future!
Brits confused by new TLDs, survey indicates
95 percent of Brits are unaware about the different phases involved with new Top-Level Domains (TLDs) claims Sedo.
Google plans $1B investment on satellites
Google keeps looking towards the sky!
DARPA turns old Drones into hotspots
Besides Google and Facebook, DARPA is testing the waters to set up aerial high speed wireless networks in remote areas using the old RQ-7 shadow drones which were used for surveillance in…