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VCR2PC: USB VHS Player For Digitising Your VHS Tapes

Remember when we broke the story of the USB tape deck?
The latest bit of USB kit for digitising your media from Firebox is a USB VHS machine.

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Email Dis-ease Increasing

The mania for email in and around UK Plc is multiplying, causing an every increasing expectation of the high speed response to email enquiries.

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TheyWorkForYou: Now with Video!

TheyWorkForYou, the Web site that takes what is said in the UK Parliament and makes it accessible to the citizens of the Web, has added a new feature, synchronising the video broadcast with the MP’s speech.
Jolly good it is too.

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Kangaroo Caught By OFT Inquiry

Oh dear, the day before Ashley Highfield takes up the position of CEO of Project Kangaroo, the Internet-delivered TV joint venture between UK companies BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4, we learn that the OFT has referred the whole shebang for further inquiry.

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Digital Tick TV Scheme “A Mystery”: MPs

With the 2012 date of switch off of UK analogue TV drawing ever closer, British MPs have been hearing about the current levels of adoption of Digital TV.
The UK Parliament Public Accounts Committee heard that many TVs that were still being bought, were not Digital ready, with those purchases, totaling millions of pounds, arguably being […]

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Highest Popping Toaster: Exclusive Video And Slow Mo Of World Record

You may have heard about the Highest Popping toaster in the world and the intention to get it into the record books.
We were at the RCA yesterday when the devices creator, Freddie Yauner, 26, launched himself (sorry, couldn’t resist the pun) into the Guinness Book of Records with his bonkers over-powered toaster.

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Blog Post Leads To London Major Advisor Resigning

Citizen Journalism site, The-Latest, has been told by the Press Association that they are the first UK citizen journalism site to force the resignation of a public official.
Marc Wadsworth from The-Latest carried out an interview with James McGrath, until recently Boris Johnson’s deputy chief of staff and political advisor.

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Top Gear: The Mobile Game Coming

The BBC is to continue to open up paths to make money from it’s car TV programme, Top Gear, via its commercial wing, BBC Worldwide.

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British Music Rights Survey On Teenage Kicks

It looks like someone in the music business has taken a hard swallow and commissioned some research giving the true view of UK 14-24 year olds. Potentially refreshing.
Not only that, but it appears that they’ve swallowed even harder and decided to actually listen to what those surveyed are actually saying - perhaps a first in […]

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Orange Mobile Recharging Tent For Glastonbury

Branding opportunities ahoy as Orange unveil their eco-charging tent.

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