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Starlink Should be ‘Fully Mobile’ by the End of the Year
I have to admit to being a very big supporter of ‘Project Starlink‘. For those of you unfamiliar with it, utilizing SpaceX launches, Elon Musk is looking to provide the entire world with fast internet access. With it already available in America, and also in the UK and Europe (with…
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Global Chipset Shortage Now Claims Routers!
With the ongoing global chipset shortage, it’s one of the biggest reasons why supply levels of CPUs, GPUs, and pretty much anything technologically based is in such low levels of quantity at the moment. Following a report via TechPowerUp, however, it seems that this issue may be now set to…
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Yahoo Answers to Shut Down Permanently!
Launched back in 2005, Yahoo Answers represented the internets first major Q&A forum. Admittedly, most of the time, the questions were pretty bad, and, more often than not, the answers were worse. It was, however, undoubtedly popular in its day, and it surely has to be respected for that if…
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Microsoft Edge Overtakes Firefox in Browser Market Share
Since its release in January 2020, Microsoft’s updated and Chromium-based Edge browser has, slowly but surely, been winning over more and more desktop PC users. Even many of us here at eTeknix have been made converts to it (I’m using Edge as I write this now). And, it should be…
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BT to Massively Expand Full-Fibre Internet – With a Catch!
Although the UK is currently undergoing a general upgrade to internet speeds via the continued expansion of full-fibre connections, I think many would agree that it’s taking a lot longer than we perhaps might have liked. Well, those of you who don’t yet have access to it yet at least.…
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Starlink Confirms UK Beta Internet Expansion!
Late last month it was confirmed that the SpaceX-based Project Starlink internet service was now available to pre-order within the UK. A very tasty proposition for those languishing with exceptionally slow connection speeds. – Well, following the latest update, Starlink has now confirmed that with further expansion already having been…
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Starlink Applies to Bring Internet to Trucks, Ships, and Planes!
Elon Musk’s SpaceX-based Starlink internet service has certainly managed to capture the attention of many consumers. Particularly those who are currently languishing with sub-par connections eagerly eying up the potential speeds of up to 250Mbps. With it currently available in many countries now (albeit, at a prohibitively expensive price), it…
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Google Confirms Chrome Updates Will Out Come Faster
Google Chrome is, by a pretty significant margin, the most popular desktop PC internet browser. With it having around a 66% market share, the next closest is Edge or Firefox with both sitting at around 10%. As such, with such huge market domination, Google is clearly keen to ensure that…
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Starlink is Taking Internet Pre-Orders for UK Customers!
For quite a long period of time now, I have anxiously watched Elon Musk’s Project Starlink with more than a little casual interest. I mean, for those of you unaware of what it is, for the last few years as part of the SpaceX platform, hundreds of satellites have been…
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Google Chrome to End Support for Old AMD/Intel CPUs
With Google Chrome currently having a market share of around 66% with desktop PC consumers, it’s clearly (and by a huge margin) one of the most popular browsers around. If you are, however, using it on what could politely be deemed somewhat antiquating PC hardware, then you might want to…
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Tucows Shuts Down its Once Iconic Download Website
Being a relatively early user of the internet (and by proxy regularly annoying my Dad as he picked up the phone to only hear the dial-up crackle), it’s pretty hard to describe to someone younger these days just how mad a place the online world used to be. Oh, don’t…
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Netgear Unveils its WAX204 Dual Band WiFi 6 AX1800 Wireless AP
Netgear, a leading provider of networking products that power businesses of all sizes, has today announced the availability of the new WAX204 WiFi 6 Access Point, adding to the company’s portfolio of WiFi 6-enabled business products. The WAX204 joins an existing Business Essentials family of high-performance, yet economical WiFi Access…
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New UK Law Bans Providers Locking Mobile Phone Networks
Many people choose to ‘purchase’ their mobile phone directly through a provider as, rather than paying several hundreds of pounds, you get your new smart device automatically ‘paid for’ as part of your monthly bill. This does, however, usually come with a pretty notable caveat. Namely, that the mobile phone…
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Zyxel Unveils its Armor G5 AX6000 12-stream WiFi 6 Router
Zyxel Networks, a leader in delivering secure, AI- and cloud-powered business and home networking solutions, today announced the launch of Armor G5 AX6000 12-Stream Multi-Gigabit WiFi 6 Router (NBG7815). Armor G5 delivers the high efficiency, fast throughput, and excellent wireless range required to support the increased network performance and bandwidth…
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Old TV Found to Be Consistently Killing a Villages Broadband
There’s nothing quite so frustrating as having a problem with your internet service that, in so far as you can tell, has absolutely nothing to do with you or your technology. For the residents of a small Welsh village, however, each and every day they found that their internet was…
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