Looking round the Computer world

There seems to be a lot of news about at the moment. BT have just announced pilot trials of 8Mbps Broadband, and within days Wanadoo have done the same. Don’t get too excited, our area won’t be getting it for a couple of years, but it shows the trend. It is amazing how quickly one gets used to 2Mbps and wants more speed. LloydsTSB announced a pilot to test having a little keybob secure random number generator to try and reduce e-banking fraud and keep your money safe, as the number of phishing e-mail scams continues to rise. The company I work for uses such a device for when I access their network from home and it works well. The Nano iPod is here and the video iPod is round the corner. Digital camera become better and cheaper it seems each week and the mobile phone  is something many children get by the time they are aged ten. So if you think that we have reached the end of the advances, you better think again.

As some completely different (yes I loved Monty Python) next month, rhere will be a quiz for you all with a worthwhile prize to the winner. Entry or course will be via e-mail, as you might expect. So when you are bored at the end of next month, you can get on-line and hunt the answers. Remember http://www.lordjohn.demon.co.uk/theboffin and e-mail to theboffin

John Kimberley

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