Virus phone scam being run from call centres in India
The scam always starts the same way: the phone rings at someone's home, and the caller – usually with an Indian accent – asks for the householder, quoting their name and address before saying "I'm calling for Microsoft. We've had a report from your internet service provider of serious virus problems from your computer." Dire forecasts are made that if the p...full article >>
Legislation progresses on cost-sharing set out in the Digital Economy Act
The government have set out secondary legislation (a statutory instrument to introduce law that has been made possible, in this case, by the Digital Economy Act) to tackle online copyright infringement which will see the cost-sharing parts of the Digital Economy Act be debated by both Houses of Parliament. "The Digital Economy Act sets out to protect our creative economy from onli...full article >>
What is IPv6?
Whether you connect to IPv6 natively through a Teredo tunnel, 6to4 or natively, having IPv6 connectivity will become a necessity in the near future. Below is an informative guide courtesy of Think Broadband. What is IPv6? IPv6 is the successor to IPv4, the Internet addressing protocol which has been used for many years since the early days of the Internet. When the Internet was firs...full article >>
Wi-Fi operator The Cloud expected to be bought by BSkyB
BSkyB are looking into competing with BT on Wi-Fi are reportedly expected to announce a deal to buy Wi-Fi operator The Cloud, later this week. The Cloud are a direct competitor with BT Openzone, BT's Wi-Fi service which has over 2 million hotspots across the UK. The vast majority of these are BT users who have their BT Home Hub or BT Business Hub enabled as an Openzone hotspot. Around 3,900...full article >>
BT announce 41 market towns to benefit from super-fast broadband
A further 41 market towns have been announced today to receive access to BT's next-generation fibre-to-the-cabinet broadband service which will deliver broadband speeds of up to 40Mbps from Spring 2012. This will enable a further 300,000 homes and businesses to get online using this new faster technology from BT. Topography of market towns means that not everyone in an area will get acc...full article >>
Suffolk Online Email Server Changes
Suffolk Online, hopefully within the next 2-4 weeks, will be making some pretty major changes to it's back-end email services. We have indentified that over the past few weeks that the email service at times has been not at the level of quality that we would want it to be. Because of this we have taken the decision with our engineers that the best option is to move these services to new...full article >>
Suffolk Online Articles - keep an eye!
Please keep an eye on our dedicated articles section which you can see on the main home page under the Suffolk Online Helpdesk section and our Service Status. We often post informative articles about the latest things happening with broadband and new technologies and also new offers from Suffolk Online and new technical and service developments relating to Suffolk Online. These get updated ...full article >>
Facebook still top of the search terms
Once again, the social networking site Facebook has blitzed the search terms for 2010; as it did in 2009 according to data collected by the Hitwise, part of the Experian Marketing Services group. Hitwise analysed the top one thousand search term over the year and found that the once again it is Facebook that tops the table accounting for just over two per cent of all searches. In fact,...full article >>
XP still holds over 50% of the OS market
It seems no matter what the competition does in the operating system market, Microsoft are still the masters of the OS holding a combined ninety per cent of the market, while the other hunt around for ten per cent of the scraps. Here are the latest figures for the operating system market in per cent; Windows XP(56.7%), Windows 7 (20.9%), Windows Vista (12.1%), Mac O...full article >>
BT Race to Infinity: Winners Announced
At the beginning of October, BT announced its 'race to infinity' campaign, to gauge demand for super-fast broadband from communities that weren't currently scheduled for a fibre upgrade. Over 360,000 votes were cast in the competition and six exchanges have been announced as winners, are: Baschurch, Shropshire Blewbury, Oxfordshire Caxton, Cambridgeshir...full article >>
