Virgin Mobile has started restricting mobile data connections to around 2Mb, reducing the maximum download speeds on offer to 3G phone users to help give everyone a workable level of service. Read More >>
Featured comment by minignong:
"re Facebook's "no internet connection" error... if that's on Android, I see that problem anyway with the latest versions of the app, even on wifi. So ..." More »
Here's an interesting move from BT. While most others are complaining there's an issue with the amount of data we're all rapidly consuming, enforcing traffic shaping and data caps on us, BT says there is no problem, and its put its money where its mouth is. Now you can get "Totally Unlimited" broadband even on the cheaper end -- no data caps to be seen. Read More >>
RIPE NCC, which handles the complicated business of internet registry for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Asia, is down to its last packet of IP4 internet addresses. It's time to start panic-buying strings of numbers. Read More >>
Google has multiplied its Android Market app size limit by a huge factor, taking maximum game and app sizes up from their current 50MB limit to a whopping great 4GB potential total size. Read More >>
Featured comment by emmanuel.makris:
"Thanks!
Now it makes even less sense, for different reasons. Why limit the devices if they have the capacity?" More »
The rise of data-hungry smartphones is seeing more and more people hit with surprise bills for breaching their download allowances, leading the Communications Ombudsman to ask networks to do more to warn users of the dangers. Read More >>
Featured comment by Darrell Jones:
"saying "smart-phones are not inherently data hungry – if they are not synced and are used purely as a dumb-phone would be" is like saying "four whee..." More »
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