Simon Perry

  • Blog Post Leads To London Major Advisor Resigning

    Blog Post Leads To London Major Advisor ResigningCitizen 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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  • Firefox 3 Launch: 8.3m Downloads

    Firefox 3 Launch: 8.3m DownloadsWell done to Firefox on the successful launch of the third version of their browser, Firefox 3.

    They’d been hoping to go for the world record of the most amount of downloads of a browser in a single 24 hour period, or a day as it’s commonly known.

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  • YouTube Screening Room: ‘Serious’ Content For YouTube

    YouTube Screening Room: 'Serious' Content For YouTubeYouTube Screening Room has officially been released following a couple of rumours knocking around about it.

    YouTube’s stated intention is that they want to give the opportunity to the “tens of thousands of films” that are produced every year to be seen by a wider audience.

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  • Top Gear: The Mobile Game Coming

    Top Gear: The Mobile Game ComingThe 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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  • Asus VW223B: First DisplayLink certified USB monitor

    Asus VW223B: First DisplayLink certified USB monitorAsus has today released the first-ever DisplayLink certified monitor.

    The 22-inch monitor, VW223B, uses the DisplayLink DL-160 chipset to connect to computers using USB2.0 and has a native 1680×1050 wide-screen resolution and a 3000:1 contrast ratio.

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  • Optoma Pico Projector: Handheld Midget

    Optoma Pico Projector: Handheld MidgetProjections company Optomo has announced a pocket-sized video projector.

    A long time back, Texas Instruments, or TI as it’s commonly referred to as, made the decision that they’d be a big player, if not the largest, in the world of video projectors.

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  • British Music Rights Survey On Teenage Kicks

    British Music Rights Survey Shows Teenage KicksIt 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 the music industry.

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  • YouTube Introduce Video Annotation

    YouTube Introduce Video AnnotationWe were putting a video up yesterday (Virtual Mirror) and we saw that YouTube had introduced a new function – allowing video publishers to add annotations to their pieces.

    Hurrah – we’ve been waiting for a feature like this for a long time and had it as a ‘one day’ project for ourselves, for the last five or so years.

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  • BMW: Flexible Skin On The Z8: The Future?: Video

    BMW: Flexible Skin On The Z8BMW are thinking differently about cars. They’ve been busying themselves for the last six years with an under wraps project called GINA – “Geometry and functions In ‘N’ Adaptions.”

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  • House Of Lords YouTube Channel Launches

    House Of Lords YouTube Channel LaunchesThe UK House of Lords, is to launch it’s own YouTube channel.

    Previously seen by some as a stuffy, rather stiff institution, it seems like the House of Lords , or The Lords as it’s normally abbreviated to, is trying to update it’s image and become more accessible to the people. All good stuff that should be supported.

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