The average broadband speed across the UK is 6.2Mbit, where as the average advertised speed is 13.8Mbit, so most people are getting less than half the speed they are paying for. However, in some other European countries the average speed people are getting is over 16Mbits; in Germany and in Holland they are getting over…
Read MoreAs of 31st of March 2011 the amount of people using the internet passed the 2 billion mark (2,095,006,005 to be exact) or about 30.2% of the world population. Asia makes up 922 million with Europe the next closest at 476 million and North America at 272 million. North America may only have 272 million…
Read MoreDid you know that ripping your CD’s to a MP3 player is currently against the law in the UK? That’s what Hargreaves review is trying to sort. “The Hargreaves Report was requested by David Cameron amid concerns that current legislation was outdated in the internet age.” BBC New Website – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13429217 Also this report allows…
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Orange and Barclaycard have just announced a joint venture whereby you can use your Orange phone to purchase items up to a maximum of £15 per transaction just by waving your phone over a special device at the till. However, there is only 1 phone you can use at the moment and that has only…
Read MoreYou expect the latest laptops, phones and a few desktop PCs to have Wi-Fi, but manufacturers are starting to make more and more devices with Wi-Fi built-in to make our lives easier. Things like printers and scanners being Wi-Fi make it easier to all use the same printer on different PCs or Apple Macs. HP…
Read MoreHaving used Apple Macs for over 16 years, today was the first time I have ever seen a Mac infected with malware!
Read MoreAn illustrated repair guide on popular Tech site Toms hardware has appeared giving people help on repairing their computer. As we are your friendly PC PAL Engineers we thought we would share this guide with you… see the link below: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/the-oatmeal-how-to-fix-computer,12618.html Did any of your find that helpful… NO… I didn’t think you would so…
Read MoreLOL (laughing out loud) has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. The term LOL has been used for more than 20 years as a geek-speak term and has since gone mainstream. Now I come to think of it I have a couple of mates who speak the word in replacement of laughing…. I for…
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This year at The Gadget Show Live there were a lot of companies showing off their latest 3D products, almost all of which required you to wear glasses; only the Nintendo 3DS didn’t. Wouldn’t have minded seeing some 3D TVs that dont need you to wear rechargable glasses. The other area that seemed to get…
Read MorePacket loss occurs when one or more packets of data (a web page, an email…) travelling across a computer network (the Internet, home network…) fail to reach their destination. Most online gamers will have come across this at sometime, high pings and packet losses tend to show up more in online games. There can be…
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