Despite trying to make broadband speeds fairer in advertising Ofcom and the ASA have inadvertently made things much more confusing for UK consumers, says Broadbandgenie.co.uk. New rules which came into force on 1 April mean ISPs can no longer claim ‘up to’ speeds which cannot be achieved by at least 10% of customers. However the [...]
The latest poll results from consumer website Broadband Genie have revealed that just eight per cent of respondents intend to ‘definitely’ buy a budget tablet PC in 2012. The poll asked, ‘Will you buy a tablet or iPad in 2012?’ Of more than 1,000 respondents, more than half either weren’t interested at all or already [...]
With just a week of the year to go, Samsung looks set to be 2011’s top UK smartphones manufacturer at leading comparison website Broadband Genie. Samsung has held off stiff competition from HTC, with other contenders trailing in their wake. Broadband Genie MD Ciaron Dunne said: It’s been a great 2011 for both manufacturers. We’re [...]
With the Olympics just nine months away, the UK’s mobile broadband 3G speeds are still in the dark ages, says Broadbandgenie.co.uk – and things don’t look like improving in time. Using data from thousands of speed tests run through its website, Broadband Genie has found that average mobile broadband speeds are still around 1-2Mb across [...]
24/7 Uptime, leading UK high availability and disaster recovery specialists, are providing high availability hosting for a new online security awareness training service. STeducate from Secure Thinking is designed to help both private and public sector organisations to raise awareness of information security and properly manage threats by educating their staff. The systems runs on [...]
24/7 Uptime, the UK’s leading high availability experts, offer 247host high availability hosting solution to keep web and online server environments running 24/7. Today’s businesses must be available 24/7 and that includes critical web sites and applications. Organisations invest a considerable amount of time, effort and cash in ensuring in-house technology is available and kept [...]
Despite EC law forcing UK mobile operators to cap data roaming bills at 50 Euros (£45), holidaymakers travelling outside the EU are still in danger of running up massive charges reaching to thousands of pounds, warns Broadbandgenie.co.uk. Mobile broadband roaming prices in the EU can still be very high, at anything up to £3 per [...]
OK, you’re backing up your data online and you’ve got the best deal around. It’s cheap – really cheap. In fact you might even be paying in dollars or another currency to backup your data in the cloud because that’s the cheapest option you can find. You’re with one of the ‘big boys’ so you’re [...]
The SNOWi app has been a huge success so far and we are very grateful for all the feedback we have been receiving. SNOWi has been making guest appearances in different places of late but we are particularly happy to announce that SNOWi has been published on the official how dowebsite as well as the Greater Manchester Chamber [...]
24/7 Uptime is supplying meat processing company Dunbia with high availability software to protect factory production lines across its estate. Dunbia is a leading supplier of fresh meat products to many of the UK’s largest retail supermarkets and operates in a fast moving, high pressure retail supply chain environment. The company has selected Marathon everRun [...]
