Archive for April, 2009

From today’s edition of Silicon Republic : Cable broadband player UPC Ireland is planning to introduce 120Mbps broadband in the coming year under a project codenamed Fibre Power. UPC CEO Robert Dunn revealed the plan at a Dublin conference, and said the company’s next-generation network (NGN) is being built. “We are building an NGN and launching NGN services...
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If you liked the free Pandora streaming music service but are no longer able to tune in then this article is for you. Pandora is a music service much like Last.fm but it is more faithful in playing artists and genres that the listener may be interested in. In short, Pandora is more compelling. When Pandora...
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The launch of Symbian’s Zoom OMAP34x-II MDP development platform signals that the open source OS will power some high-end smartphones. By Marin Perez,  InformationWeek April 15, 2009 URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216500914 The Symbian Foundation is looking to bring in more developers for the upcoming open source Symbian, and it has created a new development platform based on Texas Instrument’s OMAP...
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Below is the text of an article that appeared in the New York Times regarding High Speed Broadband. The U.S. company Liberty Global is examined, which you likely know is the parent company of Chorus, aka NTL, aka UPC, the dominant cable operator in Ireland. What caught my eye is the fact that Liberty Global...
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