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A third of Americans are turning to free ad-supported TV (FAST) streaming

Paul Hill — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 20:56:01 +0000

A third of Americans are relying on free ad-support TV streaming services, according to a new report. FAST services like Freevee saw good growth year-over-year while Netflix and others struggled. Read more...

Here's what's fixed, improved, and still broken in Windows 10 build 18277

Abhay V — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 18:26:38 +0000

Microsoft today released Windows 10 build 18277 to the Fast ring of the Windows Insiders Program. As always, there are a bunch of fixes and known issues along with the few new features. Read more...

First ISP tests 10 Gbps speeds on existing network in the UK

Paul Hill — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:26:01 +0000

A UK ISP, Hyperoptic, has tested a 10 Gbps broadband connection over its existing network infrastructure. The company has heralded the achievement as a UK first. No launch date for 10 Gbps was stated. Read more...

UK: Public consultation launched into state of mobile

Paul Hill — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 17:46:01 +0000

Politicians in Birmingham, UK, today called for urgent action to ensure that country remains up to speed, on mobile, with other developed countries going forward or risk lagging behind. Read more...

UK: 60% of people only have line rental for internet connectivity

Paul Hill — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 02:26:01 +0000

A new study carried out in the UK shows that many customers only buy line rental for the sake of getting online. Those that buy line rental to solely use the internet was put at 60% in the study. Read more...

Akamai: Asia and Europe lead the way in terms of fastest average internet speeds

Paul Hill — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 17:18:01 +0000

Akamai has released its latest State of the Internet report, for the second quarter of 2016. The report shows Asian and European countries leading the way in terms of average connection speeds. Read more...

Review: Tronsmart's Chocolate is great for wireless fast charging, just don't eat it

Robbie Khan — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 10:40:01 +0000

Tronsmart know power. I am amped to bring you their latest offering into the Qi wireless fast charging arena, the bizarrely named Chocolate. Let's see how it stacks up against Samsung's chargers. Read more...

Firefox 3.7 will be fast, really fast

Benjamin Rubenstein — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:35:56 +0000

Chrome and IE8 both support multiple processors. In addition, both browsers run each tab as a separate process, thereby isolating crashes and improving overall speed. Firefox, unfortunately is lacking in these departments, but fear not:... Read more...

1st AutoRun Express 3.1: create autorun CD fast, now run several docs at once

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:52:33 +0000

Let your CD or DVD automatically open your documents or display a menu when your disk is inserted into the user's computer. Create autorun disks in a few clicks, no design or programming required! All... Read more...

How do Apple's designs affect consumers?

Sam Symons — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:05:58 +0000

Apple has always been a company known for design; not just design, but even the most loathing Apple hater will have to admit at some time that the company does make some pretty well thought... Read more...

MS offers $1.2 Billion to acquire Fast Search & Transfer

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:35:33 +0000

Microsoft Corporation is offering 6.6 billion NOK (or approximately $1.2 billion USD) for the acquisition of Fast Search & Transfer, a leading provider of enterprise search solutions. FAST's board of directors has unanimously recommended that... Read more...

Silicon Motion expects SSD market to grow fast in 2H 2008

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:17:16 +0000

The solid state drive (SSD) market will grow faster than expected in 2008, with the SATA interface promising to become the mainstream for notebook-use SSDs in the future, according to Wallace Kou, president and CEO... Read more...

Fast broadband goes underground

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:55:04 +0000

While politicians and network providers work out how they can afford to provide the UK with a network capable of delivering super-fast broadband speeds, one company is already doing it - via the sewers. H20... Read more...

NVIDIA GeForce 8800M: Fast DX10 Mobile GPUs Finally Arrive

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:05:23 +0000

It has been more than a year since NVIDIA released their GeForce 8800 GTX graphics chip for desktop computers - a chip that remains to this day the fastest gaming GPU (if we include the... Read more...

Solid State Drives: Fast, Rugged, and Really Expensive

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:20:19 +0000

Are solid state drives becoming a reality? Loyd Case over at ExtremeTech published an article this morning concerning the current state of SSD with a comparison between a Samsung 64GB SATA and a Super Talent... Read more...

Vista: Whatever happened to fast boot?

Steven Parker — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:16:53 +0000

Anyone else remember when Microsoft used to talk about making Windows Vista (or Longhorn, as it was then known) a fast-booting operating system. Fast, as in cold boots that were 50 percent faster than those... Read more...

Fast, Cool Intel Chips Ahead

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:26:07 +0000

While AMD prepares its next set of processors--a multicore design code-named Barcelona and due this summer--Intel has already demonstrated samples of its more-advanced Penryn chip. It's manufactured in a 45nm process that uses hafnium-based high-k... Read more...

New Notebook Battery Offers Fast Recharge Times

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:46:24 +0000

Boston-Power, Inc. and HP have developed a next-generation notebook lithium-ion battery line, dubbed Sonata, which will feature the world's fastest recharge time along with a matching lifespan to current notebooks and enhanced safety features. The... Read more...

wxDownload Fast 0.5.4

Razvan Serea — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:02:13 +0000

wxDownload Fast (also known as wxDFast) is an open source download manager. It is multi-platform and builds on Windows(2k,XP), Linux and Mac OS X. Besides that, it is a multi-threaded download manager. This means that... Read more...

Microsoft: Fast start for Vista in businesses

Steven Parker — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 13:05:14 +0000

Microsoft is predicting that Windows Vista will be adopted by companies at twice the speed as its predecessor, Windows XP. Twelve months after the release of Vista, Microsoft expects that usage share of the oft-delayed... Read more...

Fox Fights Back at DVR Fast Forwarding

Christopher Vendemio — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 04:57:10 +0000

Fox is running a 30-second television spot with just one static image in an effort to reach viewers who fast forward through ads using digital video recorders like TiVos. U.K. advertisements for Fox's new drama,... Read more...

PowerUser.TV e49: Net Neutrality, Fast Gaming Memory & More!

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:30:12 +0000

Microsoft is hit with a second lawsuit over their "Windows Genuine Advantage", meanwhile OS X is phoning home too. A new challenger to YouTube arrives on the scene and offers to pay people for their... Read more...

Intel's Quad-Core Microprocessors' Ramp Will Not Be Fast

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:15:01 +0000

As a result of not very fast adoption rate of dual-core processors by new software that still does not take much advantage over the dual-core chips, as well as increased complexity of quad-core processors, the... Read more...

Putting Vista in The Fast Lane

Mon, 08 Aug 2005 16:50:02 +0000

Microsoft hopes to tackle an age-old problem with the next version of Windows: How to keep PCs running like new. With Vista, the new client version of Windows due next year, Microsoft... Read more...

AT&T Wireless Begins Selling Fast Data for Mobiles

Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:17:13 +0000

Never thought I'd see this. Today AT&T announced high-speed Internet service for mobile phones. Don't get to excited this service is only available in San Francisco, Seattle, Phoenix, and Detroit. Though plans are underway to... Read more...

NTL Ireland moves into the digital fast lane

Sun, 06 Jun 2004 10:31:36 +0000

NT[hel]L is to blow €100m (Â£66.6m) to upgrade its cable network in Ireland so that its punters can hook up to broadband. By the end of the year NTL Ireland will be able to deliver... Read more...

Cisco to Finally Unveil Its 'Huge Fast Router'

Fri, 21 May 2004 19:10:11 +0000

Cisco Systems Inc. next week will show off its long-awaited advancement in router technology and make the case that it has returned to networking's cutting edge, a place where Cisco has been challenged of late.... Read more...

Phoenix to Give Notebook Users Fast Access to Outlook Data

Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:27:54 +0000

BIOS vendor Phoenix Technologies Inc. on Thursday said it had developed a utility technology that will let users check their Outlook data on a notebook computer without needing to boot the machine. The Phoenix FirstWare... Read more...

MydoomB follows fast on MydoomA

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:35:41 +0000

KASPERSKY LABS warned it had detected a variant of Mydoom, the worm which wreaked havoc worldwide earlier this week. The anti virus firm said that it believes that Mydoom B is using machines infected by... Read more...

Intel's LGA 775 to displace socket 478 fast

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 10:58:55 +0000

ALTHOUGH INTEL will only have a small proportion of Socket T LGA 775 chips available when it launches in the second quarter, by the end of this year those chips will account for 40% of... Read more...

Fast Web browser to be commercialised

Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:52:59 +0000

The controversial winner of last year's Esat BT Young Scientist competition, Adnan Osmani, says his 'mega-browser' will be ready for commercialisation soon. Patents for the Xwebs mega browser should be filed... Read more...

Fast Lanes Bowling demo

Marcel Klum — Sun, 11 Jan 2004 13:00:52 +0000

Enlight has released a playable demo of Fast Lanes Bowling, allowing you to try out this recent bowling sim developed by LAB Rats Games. The demo lets you play in 'Open Play' mode with one... Read more...

MS Releases New Fast Home Networking Products

Tom Warren — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:41:57 +0000

Ratified and Wi-Fi-Certified, the Wireless-G Lineup Includes The Only First-Party Solution for Wireless Xbox Gaming Microsoft Corp. today unveiled Wireless-G, an innovative Wi-Fi®-certified 802.11g wireless networking solution. Utilizing powerful security technologies, the... Read more...

Intel puts Tri-Gate transistor on fast track

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:18:50 +0000

Intel says that its Tri-Gate transistor, a futuristic transistor that will let electricity flow more freely inside chips, is moving closer to reality. The Tri-Gate transistor, one of the tools that may let Intel continue... Read more...

UK News: How fast is 'high-speed' broadband?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 30 May 2003 10:00:54 +0000

The debate over how to define high-speed internet services continues to cause confusion across the industry. NTL, currently advertising a 150Kbps service as 'high speed', is challenging the ruling of the Adverstising Standards Authority (ASA)... Read more...

How to unlock your AMD processor fast

Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:32:16 +0000

LOST CIRCUITS claims it has come up with a five second modification to unlock AMD processors which is absolutely risk free. Well, it says it is absolutely risk free but then there's a disclaimer which... Read more...

Fastest PCs Just Not Fast Enough

Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:46:14 +0000

When is a computer with a 1.5-GHz processor and 1 GB of RAM just not good enough? Apparently, when you're trying to play the latest version of SimCity. PC gamer Nicolai Fuhrman... Read more...

Windows XP Patch: Fast User Switching issue

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 18:42:38 +0000

Quick Info File Name: Q811009_WXP_SP2_x86_ENU.exe - Download Size: 352 KB - Date Published: 2/5/2003 - Version: Q811009 Overview This update resolves the Fast User Switching issue on WindowsXP Media... Read more...

Nero Fast CD-Burning plug-in enhances WMP9.0 burning

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:02:34 +0000

Ahead Software, the makers of Nero, the technology leader in CD/DVD recording, today announced a powerful plug-in for the Windows Media Player 9.0 Series. This exciting Nero plug-in provides full-speed recording and Nero reliability, all... Read more...

Viewsonic intros fast 17-inch LCD monitor

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:11:08 +0000

MONITOR AND peripheral maker Viewsonic said that a €599 17-inch TFT-LCD monitor it has introduced today has a 16ms response time. The VG170m includes dual bezel integrated speakers and it claims could be used as... Read more...