Apple have still not announced details of UK iPad pricing despite the fact that the product is due to launch this month. Apple’s website currently says the WiFi iPad will be available in ‘late March’ with the 3G product following in April.
While the lack of a 3G product price may be down to negotiations with mobile networks there seems little reason for Apple not to have announced a UK price for the Wifi version. Perhaps they are counting up the US pre-orders to see if they can make the next price-break…
There is another secret Apple are keeping from us – how did they author the iPad product announcement page so badly that it slows even faster computers to a crawl? Whatever you do, don’t bother looking at it with a puny Atom powered netbook or you’ll be there forever.
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Some customers are bypassing action by their ISP to block troublesome protocols, such as P2P, by subscribing to foreign VPN (Virtual Private Network) services. Others are routing their internet traffic via a free VPN, using the advertising-supported Hotspot Shield – software designed to protect users of low-security free wifi connections. The software provides users with a VPN link into the USA.
VPNs are primarily used by companies to allow secure communications between home or mobile workers and the company servers. They encrypt and pass traffic securely over the open internet. If the end point is not a company server but an internet access point in a foreign country, people can tunnel their internet traffic past ISP and national monitoring equipment, which only records that the customer connected to the VPN server. This is likely to be a major challenge to UK government plans to log the times, dates and addresses of the websites people visit, as well as the addresses, times and dates of emails they send.
According to a survey on the industry website computing.co.uk, 78% believe “the surveillance state is getting out of control”. The increasing popularity of foreign VPNs seems to suggest many may be putting their money where their mouths are.
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