Neowin News Feed for: Speeds

25Mbps is the new 'broadband', as FCC votes in favor of defining new minimum speed

Andy Weir — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 21:08:01 +0000

The FCC has voted to redefine 'broadband' to apply only to connections with a minimum download speed of 25Mbps - a considerable increase from the previous definition of 4Mbps or more. Read more...

UK politician wants fastest broadband in Europe by 2015

Paul Ferson — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:09:19 +0000

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...

Average US broadband speed only 3.79Mbps

Brandon Boyce — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:44:01 +0000

Akamai released a State of the Internet report for each quarter of the year. Their most recent report for Q4 of 2009 is now available. It shows that the average broadband speed in the US... Read more...

Rumor: Next gen iPhone to feature much faster internet speed

Sam Symons — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:55:26 +0000

More rumors pointing to a next generation iPhone have come out, this time pointing to the iPhone 3G's questionable 3G speeds. According to Business Insider, the next generation iPhone will (when inevitably released) feature faster... Read more...

Apple, AT&T face lawsuit again regarding 3G speeds

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:07:10 +0000

Yet another lawsuit is filed against Apple and AT&T claiming that the iPhone fails to live up to 3G speeds, and claims that the AT&T's infrastructure cannot handle the overwhelming 3G signal in comparison to... Read more...

Virgin rapped on broadband speeds

Tom Warren — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:47:05 +0000

A complaint lodged by BT about the speeds of Virgin Media's broadband service has been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority. The challenge centred around its advertisement "Hate to Wait?", which ran in the... Read more...

AT&T Announces Free Wi-Fi, Faster Speeds for Some Customers

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:43:56 +0000

AT&T announced today that it is boosting speeds for some of its AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet customers and offering AT&T broadband customers access to free Wi-Fi hotspots across the country. AT&T says that more... Read more...

USB 3.0 To Boost Peripherals to Multi-Gigabit Speeds

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:37:02 +0000

The "SuperSpeed" USB Promotions Group was announced Tuesday at the Intel Developer Forum. The promotions group will get together with contributors over the next year to finalize a USB 3.0 spec that will, they hope,... Read more...

Panasonic Speeds Up Writing To Blu-ray Discs

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:24:59 +0000

Panasonic has introduced a write-once Blu-ray disc with a 4x writing speed, faster than any other high-definition disc, available in 25GB and 50GB (dual layer). The consumer electronics company plans to release the former this... Read more...

Study: US Lags Behind in Broadband Speeds

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:34:29 +0000

The U.S. is lagging behind other industrialized nations in the availability and use of high-speed broadband connections, according to a report released today by the Washington-based Communications Workers of America. The report, based on aggregated... Read more...

Ubuntu Speeds VMware Support

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:41:27 +0000

Ubuntu Linux's next release will appear on Thursday, sporting fresh virtualization features and installation management tools, according to project sponsor Canonical. The release supports kernel-based virtual machine, a relatively new virtualization technique that allows certain... Read more...

Samsung Speeds Up World's Highest Capacity 2.5" Drives

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:36:50 +0000

Until now, 200GB 2.5" hard disk drives have only been available with a 4200rpm motor speed. Samsung Electronics has announced a new lineup of 2.5" hard disk drives that includes a model with 200GB capacity... Read more...

Intel speeds up introduction of quad-core chip

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:18:14 +0000

Intel Corp. says it has rushed introduction of a new quad-core chip originally scheduled for next year to Monday to meet demand from server manufacturers for the processor. Intel is shipping the Xeon 5335 processor... Read more...

Neowin's Shift Linux Speeds Ahead

Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:02:26 +0000

Neowin's own Linux distribution, Shift, is just about to hit version 0.3 and those of you who are that way inclined will be able to grab the ISO download in the next few days. The... Read more...

ATI Speeds Vista Graphics

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:48:09 +0000

ATI's new 64-bit graphics drivers will accelerate the beta version of Microsoft's upcoming operating system. ATI Technologies introduced new 64-bit graphics drivers for speeding up the performance of the beta 1... Read more...

IRam Speeds Windows XP Start Up

Thu, 02 Jun 2005 14:37:45 +0000

Taiwanese hardware maker Giga-byte Technology has stumbled upon a faster way to boot up PCs based on Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. Giga-byte's IRam is a PC add-in card with four DDR DRAM (double data... Read more...

New DSL Standard Promises 10 Times Faster Speeds

Thu, 02 Jun 2005 00:32:05 +0000

An international standards group has approved a new DSL standard that claims it will increase DSL technology's upstream and downstream speeds to as much as 100 megabits per second, 10 times faster than the DSL... Read more...

AOL UK Double Broadband Speeds

Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:44:47 +0000

AOL UK have announced that they are doubling the speed of thier broadband service to all thier UK customers at no extra cost. Current subscribers will have to wait upto 6 months for the upgrade... Read more...

IBM combination technique speeds PC chips

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 16:41:57 +0000

Researchers at IBM have come up with a new approach to building transistors that could lead to faster, more energy-efficient chips in a few years. The company has managed to combine both strained silicon and... Read more...

Apple speeds up iMac, bulks up iPod

Mon, 08 Sep 2003 18:01:44 +0000

Apple Computer on Monday introduced faster iMacs and larger-capacity versions of its iPod digital music player. The two new iMacs boast speeds of up to 1.25GHz, up from a top speed of... Read more...

GLAXIS Speeds Up Supply Chain With BizTalk Server

Tom Warren — Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:54:51 +0000

GLAXIS Enables Retailers, Insurance Companies, Distributors and Manufacturers to Connect In Record Time With Its Automated and Integrated Software Solution Built on BizTalk Server Microsoft Corp. today announced that GLAXIS, the... Read more...

Microsoft Speeds Up Server Set-Up

Wed, 09 Jul 2003 04:06:39 +0000

At its European Tech-Ed user event in Barcelona this month, Microsoft demonstrated the latest build of its upcoming Automated Deployment Services (ADS) software for faster set-up of server operating systems and applications. In a... Read more...

Intel speeds up Pentium 4-M, Celerons

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:04:34 +0000

PC makers have begun beefing up their notebooks with a trio of new mobile processors from Intel. The chipmaker on Wednesday launched a new 2.5GHz Pentium 4-M processor and two new Celerons running at 2.2GHz... Read more...

Radeon 9800 Pro speeds past GeForce FX

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:41:03 +0000

ATI's upcoming contender for the graphics chip performance crown is a clear winner over Nvidia's latest offering, according to new tests from ZDNet Labs -- at least where it comes to top-end features. ATI and... Read more...

New ADSL chipset enables speeds of 20Mbps

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:38:15 +0000

BROADBAND CHIPSET MANUFACTURER Centillium Communications has launched a new ADSL chipset that will make the Net fly. The company's new Palladia 210 chipset for ADSL modems can reach speeds of up to 20Mbps. It will... Read more...

Cisco touts fibre-based Ethernet at 20xDSL speeds

Sat, 02 Nov 2002 08:52:41 +0000

Cisco used this week's Broadband DSL Forum in Berlin to promote fibre-based Ethernet access as an alternative, far faster broadband technology for homes and businesses. It lined up telcos and ISPs from... Read more...

Linux OS support speeds up for AMD's Hammer

Sun, 31 Mar 2002 17:00:15 +0000

ANYONE WHO DOUBTS that plans for the release of AMD's Hammer are not far advanced need look no further than a release from SUSE Labs. The labs said that 2.4.19pre4 based X86-64 linux kernel snapshot... Read more...

Sun speeds up Cobalt Qube, adds security tools

Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:12:40 +0000

Sun Microsystems Inc. upgraded its Cobalt Qube server appliance line Monday, adding new security and management software along with faster processors to its hardware targeted at small and medium-sized businesses. Just larger than... Read more...