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I recently upgraded my home network from 100 Mb/s to 1 Gb/s by replacing the switches. The main house switch is an unmanaged 1U rack-mounted switch, with a second desktop switch. Out of pure interest, I took the opportunity to do a little bit of speed testing to see how much of a difference upgrading the switches made in terms
Taiwanese Edimax has been making steady inroads at the cheaper end of the market with a range of products which typically undercut the market leaders on price. As with its Chinese sibling TP-Link, I've always been a bit wary of their products but recently I had the opportunity to try out the Edimax 3G-6200n, a 3G 11n wireless router and
OpenSuSE 11.4 was released back on 11 March so this weekend I took the plunge and upgraded my main PC from 11.3 to 11.4. And less than two hours later, I had the best ever SuSE running on my PC. Here's how I got on... SuSE offer two methods of upgrading, the first being an on-line update and the second
Britain's The Telegraph was one of a few organisations to be given early access to the iPad before its launch and Tim Rowell, Director of Mobile Product Development at the Telegraph, reports on some of the thinking that went on as the team developed the first apps for it. Initially, it appears that the plans were for a "all encompassing
In a press release yesterday, The Carphone Warehouse announced that it had sold one million Android handsets in Europe with a year-on-year growth of 2000%. The Carphone Warehouse has been a strong supporter of Android with exclusive arrangements on handsets such as the Samsung's Nexus S and a similar deal on the forthcoming Motorola Xoom tablet.
The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism has released its eighth annual of State of the News Media 2011, a fascinating review of the news media over the past year, showing that news has reached a tipping point (if it hasn't already tipped) with more news read on-line than in print. In the last year alone, on-line news reading grew
Internet Explorer 6, that is. In 2011, IE6 will be 10 years old and to celebrate, Microsoft has decided to kill it off. Not before time frankly. Surprisingly, IE6 still has a worldwide market share of 12%, though this fell in the last year from 21%, so Microsoft's target is to get IE6's share down to 1% or less. And