Sprint Nextel Monday reported losing nearly 1.1 million wireless customers in the first quarter, marking the sixth time in the last seven quarters that the company has lost postpaid wireless customers. Overall the company reported a net loss of just more than $500 million for the quarter. Sprint says one major reason for its net loss was the poor performance of its wireless business, which saw a...

With just a few days from its official release, the Windows XP Service Pack 3 is already receiving a large numer of post-instalation complaints.Apparently, the update causes a series of problems, from random blue-screens to continuous reboots. Jesper Johanson, a former program manager for security policy at Microsoft, who now runs a Windows blog, explained the situation in one of his recent blog...

Prior to the start of the biggest wireless spectrum auction in US history, Google took credit for convincing the FCC to impose an open access rule for the winning bidder. Now the company is urging the Commission to enforce that rule.A petition filed by Google last Friday with the US Federal Communications Commission (PDF available here) urges the agency to write a specific order requiring Verizon...

Washington—Congress should refrain from adopting a network neutrality law because cable operators are managing their broadband networks in an open manner and do not engage in anticompetitive conduct, National Cable & Telecommunications Association president Kyle McSlarrow plans to say in testimony Tuesday on Capitol Hill. "Congress should resist calls to interfere with broadband providers’...

LONDON (Reuters) - Newspapers seeking to compete with the Internet are likely to become free and place greater emphasis on comment and opinion in the future, a survey of the world's editors showed on Tuesday. The report, conducted by Zogby International for the World Editors Forum and Reuters, revealed that newspaper editors were still optimistic about the future of their publications but...

A US court report on wiretapping shows that the phenomenon is up by 20 per cent on last year, reaching its highest ever level, with not even a single surveillance application turned down in the whole of 2007. The report notes that last year alone, 2,208 wiretaps were authorised by the courts, most having been requested by US state authorities, with only 457 being requested by Federal Agencies....

Introduction The Travel Mate 292XC is a part of the 290 Series laptops from Acer. There is a large range of models within the 290 series with different specifications, some Centrino based, and others just Pentium M. This particular model being reviewed, the LX-T3505.455, is a Celeron M 330 processor version and it is a very well priced for its specifications. This model was purchased for about $599.99 CAD and has the following specs: Processor: Intel Celeron M 330 Processor...

Introduction D-Link was founded in 1986, and since then has catered to both consumer and SOHO users. D-Link is already a well known name in the home networking market, however in the past D-Link products have been considered inferior to those of their competitors such as Linksys (Cisco) and Netgear (Bay Networks). Recently this stigma has begun to disappear with D-Link taking a large portion of the home and SOHO markets. The D-Link DI-524 is one of the company's new series of Wireless-G routers,...

Introduction Compex is an established, yet forward-thinking company in the networking, wireless and telecommunications industry. The company was founded in 1987 and focuses on designing, development and manufacturing a complete line of networking products for the home, SOHO, broadband, and WLAN market needs. The NetPassage 26G is a notable addition to the wireless wave of broadband routers that is sweeping the current home/SOHO market. It comes with a...

Netgear is well known in the networking market.  Originally a consumer-oriented subsidiary of Bay Networks, they have since been spun off to become their own company.  Some of the first consumer routers came out of Netgear, and they have been a major player in the home networking scene.  Their latest line of products sports a new sleek look, a major change of the square purple boxes for which they were known.  Personally, I was a fan of the old box, but then again, not everybody wants a...