It's no secret that internet service providers are considering broadband caps to cut down costs. However many U.S. consumers dislike the idea and will gladly change carriers if their current BSP implements the restrictions. Read more
A deal that would have enabled US broadband Internet companies to provide cable service on a nationwide scale, broke down in Congress on Friday. Substitute legislation proposed by a key House committee chairman, would change the language to make cable TV providers the key providers of nationwide ISP service, competing with existing cable companies in every single municipality. Read more
Qualcomm expects the second generation of EVDO wireless broadband solution to be commercialized within two years and offer substantially more bandwidth than today's DSL and cable broadband offerings: Professional EVDO solutions will reach 73.5 Mb/s while consumer solution may hit 14.7 Mb/s download speeds. Read more
A major increase in broadband subscribers worldwide, along with the popularity of wireless- and voice-over IP (VoIP)-enabled equipment, is resulting in customer premises equipment (CPE) market growth of nearly 20 percent in 2005, reports In-Stat. Read more
Cyberpower sent us a factory-overclocked Phenom II X4 955 system wielding two Radeon HD 4890 cards in CrossFire. We pit the formidable rig against our previous System Builder Marathon Core i7 machine to see if AMD can deliver a viable gaming alternative. Read more
The latest 2 TB hard drives are still expensive, but 1.5 TB disks provide low power consumption at a better cost-to-capacity ratio. We look at offerings from Samsung and Western Digital to determine the value of taking a step down from the flagships. Read more
When a new paradigm like cloud computing or a new platform like Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) comes along, it’s smart to ask tough questions. Read more
With 36 lanes of PCIe 2.0, 3-way SLI could be the X58 chipset’s biggest challenge. If that turns out to be true, is Nvidia’s nForce 200 controller hub, which multiplexes the platform's connectivity, a solution? We compare three configurations to find out. Read more