The latest news articles selected by Octave Computing Limited that we believe may be of interest to consumers and businesses.
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On the 8th June 2011 the World IPv6 Day begins. Many major organisations will be taking part by enabling IPv6 on their main URLs for one day. Octave Computing Limited will be taking part. In fact we have been IPv6-connected on all services since our domain was registered. We welcome any progress towards restoring the end-to-end connectivity that made the Internet into what it was.
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Nokia Ovi Maps is now available for the Nokia E71 enterprise smart phone. This release provides free turn-by-turn satellite navigation.
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Google have updated their street view software to cover 95% of the UK. To give it a try, visit maps.google.com with Javascript enabled, search for your location, then drag the little orange man (at the top of the left-hand zoom bar) onto the map or zoom all the way in. Streets that are navigable will be shown in blue.
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Nokia Ovi Maps has been offered for free with certain handsets since January 2010. We will update you when this offer is extended to the older enterprise smart phones.
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Google have released their street view software for the UK. To give it a try, visit maps.google.com with Javascript enabled, search for London, then drag the little orange man (at the top of the left-hand zoom bar) onto the map. Streets that are navigable will be shown in blue.
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The Economist has an interesting article on the decisions you need to make when choosing a netbook computer. It is suggested that you use the bundled tuned operating system based on the Linux kernel.
By attempting to use MS Windows on the small, cheap netbook you need increasing amounts of resources such as more memory and a traditional hard disk drive. The cost of these upgrades increases the price of the netbook in line with a cheap notebook computer. Unfortunately the netbook's performance will suffer from having less memory and a cut-down processor.