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More and more, we are being told that the more bandwidth we have, the better are online experience will be, But what exactly is bandwidth, and how does it affect you?

The Windows 7 ‘black screen of death’ is being blamed on malware.
The problem arises when users are confronted by a totally black screen when they log on to their computer.
Initially it was thought that Microsoft’s own security update could have caused the problem but that has now been ruled out.
The company that made the suggestion [...]

The EU is encouraging its members to occupy the same airwaves for mobile broadband In an attempt to reach its 2013 target of 100% broadband coverage.
As members change from the traditional analogue to the new digital broadcasting method, the spectrum will be made available.
The change will make it much simpler to use devices “across borders” [...]

The internet is all set for the onset of what is seen by many to be the “biggest change” since its invention 40 years ago, according to regulator Icann.
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) announced that coming to the conclusion of plans to allow non-Latin characters to be used in website addresses as [...]

Thursday, 22 October sees the highly anticipated arrival of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system, with many believing that the future of the world’s largest software company will depend on its success.
The enormous scale of Microsoft’s grip on the market becomes clear when told of the 90% of computers relying on its Windows operating system, and [...]

T-Mobile has had to withdraw the Sidekick in America, after being made aware that customers could lose personal data through its server.
The designer of Sidekick’s software, Danger (a subsidiary of Microsoft), confirmed the fault, with the mobile phone industry condemning the issue as one of the biggest failings in recent years.
Microsoft are also coming out [...]

The future of DAB is in the balance as sales of the technology have been recorded to have slowed through 2008 according to figures recently released.  Unfortunately for the DAB technology sales in the digital radios fell by 10 per cent through the final three months of 2008 in comparison to 2007, marking the first [...]

The Pope is feeling a little left out as YouTube chugs on growing more and more popular, so the Vatican have decided to join in on all the fun.  The Vatican is expected to announce today that they have indeed made a deal with Google to create a channel on YouTube devoted to the Pope.
The [...]

186k, the broadband provider, have been cut off by Tiscali, as the two companies get enthralled in a legal fist fight.  Although it is not certain how many customers have been affected by the move, 186k have attempted to make it clear to their users that they are not closing down and everything should clear [...]

It seems as though the Isle of Man have their own ideas on how to tackle illegal file sharing, and other such methods of downloading copyright content as the Isle of Man’s government has announced that they don’t mind if their citizens take up the act, as long as they pay a blanket tax in [...]