Posted by Simon Perry on 6 March 2008 | Tagged as: Distribution, Europe, UK, Networking
You know the dilemma. You need a network at home. You find WiFi doesn’t cut it and CAT-5 cabling is a major pain to install.
En-Twyn, a company from London, have a prototype unit showing at CeBit on the Intellon stand (it uses the latest generation of Intellon Powerline chips).
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Posted by Simon Perry on 5 March 2008 | Tagged as: Europe, UK, Content Deals, Music
Warner Music is making its music catalogue available on music service 7digital in MP3 format, without no content protection.
Having a peruse of the 7digial site, we see that they’re also banging out albums for £5/€6.99 — for a limited period — which for a track-filled album like Hatful of Hollow by the Smiths can be […]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 17 December 2007 | Tagged as: Europe, Mobile, Cellular
It may not getting the fanboys squealing, but the Viewty is proving a hit with the public.
Posted by Simon Perry on 13 December 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Government, Europe, Web, Legal
Multi-platform Web browser company Opera have filed a complaint with the European Commission citing Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
The approach is two pronged - abuse of Microsoft’s dominant position in tying its browser to the Windows operating system and, second, hindering interoperability by not following accepted Web standards.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 5 December 2007 | Tagged as: France, Services, Search
Do you remember back in the early Web days when everyone wanted to start their own search engine? You couldn’t move for people starting search engines, then Google hit and everyone - bar Microsoft, their huge cash pile and their Live search - backed away.
FranceTelecom have now launched their search engine, Le Moteur - The […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 3 December 2007 | Tagged as: Europe, Mobile, Cellular, Software
It’s a good thing that we’re all becoming aware of the impact of our actions on the world as a whole. One of the problems is being able to know what the impact different types of actions make.
To that end, the European Commission (EC) has launched an application, mobGAS, that you run on your mobile […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 13 November 2007 | Tagged as: Germany, Platforms, Mobile, Cellular
Got 0.25 million Euros rattling around in your pockets and looking for a new mobile phone? KMD-edition will be more that willing to help you out.
They’ve just released a range of phones that are certainly not for the average man in the street, and not just because of the cost.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 12 October 2007 | Tagged as: Sports, Revenue raising, Shift to Web delivery, Europe, UK
Jalipo, an online video service, has announced that they will now be carrying televised sporting events.
As opposed to the more usual way of paying for the pleasure of watching sports events - on a subscriptions or pay-per-view basis - Jalipo will be charged on a pay-per-minute basis.
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Posted by Mike Slocombe on 8 October 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Europe, Vodafone, Broadband
Mobile giant gets its hands on broadband networks in Italy and Spain.
Posted by Simon Perry on 5 October 2007 | Tagged as: Gadgets, Germany, Content, Open Source, Input devices, Music, Control Devices
We’ve all see Wii-motes being used for all sort of strange purposes, well this one is useful.
A bunch of students at University of Potsdam, Germany have written a programme that lets you use your Wiimote and nunchuck to trigger sounds, such as drums and cymbals on a Mac. It’s not just drums that can be […]
