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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 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 [...]

Finland’s mobile phone giant Nokia is planning to sue Apple for their failure to pass on royalties from their sales of the immensely popular iPhone.
Apple are said to have infringed upon Nokia’s mobile phone technology patents when developing the iPhone.
How much Nokia will be seeking has not yet been confirmed, but expert analyst Gene Munster [...]

The brand new Windows 7 operating system (OS) is set to deliver “better battery life and quicker boot times,” according to Microsoft and Intel.
The statement was made during a press conference in San Fransisco, where engineers gave the new OS a stringent test.
Microsoft will be expecting Windows 7 to avoid the negative exposure generated through [...]

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 [...]

Microsoft finally have closure as the man behind the sales firm ITAC, Barry Omesuh, is sentenced to up to nine months in jail per sentencing and must pay £2.5 million in damages to Microsoft after an overwhelming battle against piracy.  The Manchester based distributor, ITAC, who are now out of business, were behind selling ‘grey’ [...]

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 [...]

BT shares have taken a harsh hit this morning as the company announces ongoing issues with their Global Services unit.  Shares in BT fell 15 per cent to 104.7p, causing BT’s market value to suffer a loss of £1.5 billion.
Between October and December of last year, BT’s Global Services unit was slapped with a £340 [...]