The odds are that you will be reading this via a broadband connection, and if you’re not then you are probably watching this screen slowly load as you repeatedly bang your head against your screen at the frustration and annoyance that slow internet speeds nowadays cause.
It’s safe to say that broadband internet connections are brilliant and I’m sure everyone that saves those valuable seconds loading a page would like to thank the people behind it, but they are far from perfect and this is a quick look into the world behind broadband and the problems that the false advertising by the providers is causing. Although, it’s also worth bearing in mind that broadband speeds might vary depending on the time of day.
Firstly a recent survey carried out by ICM that showed that 90% of those surveyed found the advertising done by broadband providers misleading and confusing, mostly with the use of the phrase “up to” which generally indicates the speed if you happen to live right next to a phone exchange box in the middle of London, and 10’s of times faster than you will get in Cumbria – this then raises the question of whether rural broadband should be publicly funded.
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There has been a lot of development of late surrounding Internet-connected TV’s, with more and more services such as Google TV tipped as the next big thing in home entertainment.
Head down to your local electronics store and you will no doubt find the shelves of budget headphones are more densely populated than an ant-hill, so it really does take a special pair to stand out from the crowd. It is an industry in which it is difficult to innovate products, and perhaps even more challenging to change the customer’s perception of a good product, but when we first heard about these 
As gadgets start to get more expensive, more abundant and more conspicuous the probability of something going wrong likewise increases, and in fact I expect the vast majority of you have at some point broken or lost your digital camera/mobile phone/MP3 player or in fact, had it stolen, and unsurprisingly this has become a bigger problem in recent years.
Archos: a company who have long been in the tablet industry with their range of popular MIDs, has it leapfrogged the major manufacturers, such as Samsung and LG, in the queue of tablets due to join the Apple iPad on store shelves.
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There was a lot of chatter when Dell released the Streak, their new Android device a few months back. Now, some of that chatter is starting up again, no doubt because the device has just been released over in the States (isn’t it lovely when us Brits get a product first?).
Here at Zath, we have looked at quite a few gaming headsets in the past such as the impressive Zowie Hammer and SteelSeries Siberia v2 but now one of the biggest names in the consumer electronics world have come up with their own two offerings for the gaming world: the Sony DR-GA500 and DR-GA200 Gaming Headsets.
Back in March we brought you the announcement of two new headphone releases from Sony: the Sony DR-350USB and DR-320DPV headsets and now after having had the chance to put them through their paces here is a more in depth look at the DR-350USB, and seeing as we had a look at the Sony MDR-570LP headphones not that long ago we’ll have a quick comparison with the two.
There has been talk of Apple preparing a 7″ model “iPad Mini” for release before the end of 2010, in time for Christmas sales at the end of the year. Doing so, however, would be a mistake in my opinion, and here’s why…