Bournemouth is on course to become one of the best-connected broadband hotspots in the country. By the beginning of 2011 it is going to see an explosion in super-fast broadband connections run on fibre-optic cables that will see its residents benefit from broadband speeds of up to a whopping 1Gbps. The development is all down to Fibrecity, the company that is providing the fibre-optic ...

Virgin Media has introduced another feature that is sure to cement it as one of the best broadband providers in the UK. It has now launched a collection of internet travel passes that customers can use to access mobile broadband and the internet whilst travelling anywhere in Europe. There are four di...

The price of home broadband has been gradually falling since it replaced dial-up connections as our main means of getting online. The question is, how low are broadband prices likely to go? Plusnet's recent decision to offer 4 months free on its standard value package meant the cost of their home broadband package is just £4 a month over the course of a 12 month contract. This is lower than t...

TV-on-demand services are becoming increasingly popular these days – just look at the success of BBC iPlayer. Now another new service has just been launched which provides thousands of hours of content – all completely free. Seesaw streams over 3,000 hours of content to users without them having to pay a fee. The content currentl...

Slow broadband speeds across the UK are preventing SMEs (small to medium enterprises) from taking full advantage of new technologies including cloud computing. This is according to Matt Yardley, a partner in Analysys Mason. He was speaking at the Westminster eForum Keynote Seminar about cloud computing, and said that faster speeds were essential for businesses if they were to take adva...