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For October, 2011

Oct 28

Thai floods results in rising hard drive prices

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Component manufacturer serves 80 per cent of market

Hard drive prices have already begun to rise as analysts warn of significant shortages following floods in Thailand which have disrupted a number of manufacturers.

Thailand is the world’s second largest exporter of hard drives and both WD and Toshiba have stopped hard drive shipments due to their factories being affected.

We have seen prices more than double in the last 24 hours, as suppliers stock starts to fall and they are unable to replenish these stocks.  No doubt PC suppliers and other component suppliers will jump  on the price increase band wagon!

Oct 04

BT suffers huge broadband failure across much of UK

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Birmingham has seen huge numbers of BT Broadband customers across the UK cut off.

The company said those affected numbered into the hundreds of thousands – about 5% of its total customers.

Business users were particularly badly affected, with many reporting considerable lost revenue as a result.

BT said the service has now been fully restored, advising customers to “turn their hub or modem off and on again”.

The first reports of lost connections began to appear at about 13:00 BST.

By 15:00 many customers on consumer packages reported being able to gain access, but business customers had to endure longer delays.

In a statement, the company said: “We can confirm that, as a result of a power failure at one of our major exchanges, some customers may have experienced loss of broadband service for a brief period this afternoon.

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We have been doing our very best to keep customers informed.”

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“All services have now been restored, with the majority of BT’s consumer broadband customers’ service being restored within just one hour.

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