Neowin News Feed for: Speed

Western Digital brings their highest-performing drives up to 4TB

Paul Ferson — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:15:00 +0000

If you need a ridiculous amount of storage space, Western Digital can say that they more than have you covered. The company has brought its top-tier hard drives to a monstrous 4TB capacity. Read more...

UK politician wants fastest broadband in Europe by 2015

Paul Ferson — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:09:19 +0100

UK Culture Minister Jeremy Hunt has decided that he wants the country to be blazing the trail for internet speeds in Europe by 2015, offering super-fast connections to at least 90% of its populace. Read more...

SpeedFan 4.46

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:43:46 +0100

SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures. Read more...

Virgin Media begins free broadband speed upgrades

Andy Weir — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:18:32 +0000

Six weeks after promising to double the speeds of its broadband customers free of charge, Virgin Media's upgrades have begun, with a new website for customers to find out when their upgrade is due. Read more...

SpeedFan 4.46 Beta 4

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:47:59 +0000

Virgin Media doubles broadband speeds free of charge

Andy Weir — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:14:15 +0000

Virgin Media customers have been given a New Year treat, with the news that their broadband speeds will be doubled (or even tripled) free of charge, with the fastest connections soon reaching 120Mbps. Read more...

SpeedFan 4.44

Steven Parker — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:54:57 +0100

How Microsoft's Hotmail was made 10 times faster

John Callaham — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:58:02 +0100

Microsoft's Hotmail web based email service is still extremely popular and recently the service got a small makeover with a number of improvements. One of the improvements is increasing the speed and performance of Hotmail.... Read more...

Android browser 52% faster than iOS Safari in browsing speed test

Tzvi Friedman — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:23:20 +0000

Browser speed has always been a talking point in the never-ending mobile OS war(a war we hope doesn’t end anytime soon). According to Blaze, a website optimization company, Android’s native browser blows iOS’s Safari out... Read more...

Wi-Fi 802.11ac draft due in 2011, promises 1Gbps

Tzvi Friedman — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:59:17 +0000

Just when you thought you were finally getting used to 802.11n Wi-Fi, those rascals at the IEEE are at it again, this time adding another letter to the now almost ubiquitous Wi-Fi certification symbols. This... Read more...

20-line patch to Firefox 4 that makes startup on Windows up to 2x as fast

Brad Sams — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:54:30 +0000

In the world of browser wars, speed is everything. All the top vendors love to show off how fast their browser is and why it is better than the competition. So, when a user comes... Read more...

Virgin Media increases upload speeds for all customers [UK]

Tom Warren — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:50:03 +0100

Virgin Media today announced a free upgrade for its broadband customers. Calling it an 'adrenaline shot', Virgin is aiming to boost upload speeds for customers across its range of broadband speeds. The upgrade has begun to... Read more...

FCC: US broadband customers getting half of advertised speeds

Tzvi Friedman — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:13:55 +0100

According to a report released by the FCC this week, US broadband consumers in 2009 were getting half of the download speeds advertised by their service providers. In 2009, the median advertised download speed for... Read more...

Gmail gets one click Microsoft Word previews, gives glimpse into future

Owen Williams — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 23:14:43 +0100

According to ReadWriteWeb, Google just announced a small, but much needed feature update to Gmail - One-click previews for Microsoft Word documents. Previously the one-click preview service only covered PDF, TIFF and Powerpoint files which... Read more...

Comcast to offer 105Mbps to residential customers

Tzvi Friedman — Wed, 26 May 2010 17:21:54 +0100

One wonders how such a thing would be useful to the average home user, but Engadget reports that Comcast may be preparing to offer cable speeds up to 105Mbps downstream 10Mbps upstream. According to information... Read more...

Need For Speed leaves virtual reality

tiddlie — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:20:54 +0000

EA, the publishers behind the Need For Speed series of games, have announced that fans of the popular series will be able to act out their car fantasies in real life in June 2009. Over... Read more...

Micron, Intel speed up flash memory

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:27:14 +0000

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Breaking the speed barrier of traditional flash memory, Intel and Micron Thursday announced a new flash memory architecture that increases the data transfer rates in consumer electronics by cutting the bottlenecks affecting conventional NAND flash... Read more...

Virgin Media announces broadband speed boost

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:28:10 +0000

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Broadband ISP Virgin Media has announced its plans for upgrading customers' broadband systems. Beginning late February customers with a 4Mbit/s service on Virgin Media's 'L' tier package will be upgraded free to a 10Mbit/s service.... Read more...

Nero CD-DVD Speed 4.7.7.15

EL1TE — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:59:50 +0000

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Nero CD-DVD Speed is a program for testing optical drives and media and is part of Nero Toolkit. A free CD-ROM/DVD benchmark which can test the most important features of a CD-ROM drive. Tests... Read more...

Broadband claims mislead on speed

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:33:55 +0100

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There is a huge gap between advertised broadband speeds and the actual speeds users can achieve, new research from consumer group Which? has shown. A survey by the organisation found that broadband packages promising speeds... Read more...