Here’s an interesting twist, melding old telecoms with new.
Voipfone, UK VoIP providers, have started offering a VoIP service on a ‘normal’ BT landline.
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Author: Simon Perry
Workbook Controls Company Facebook Use
We’ve heard of many companies cutting off people’s access to Facebook and other social networks – primary reason? Just too much time spent on them – frittered in the eyes of the company
Companies, being companies, also have other concerns, like their confidential data flying out of the company via postings to Facebook.
Audio Network Music ‘Blanket License’ Wins Tiscali Deal
Audio Network, a rights-cleared music library, has announced a deal with Tiscali, enabling the use of their 12,000+ music tracks to be used on Tiscali’s AV productions that will be distributed over their network.
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Skype Hits 100 Billion Free Minutes
Skype has passed a pretty significant milestone, serving over 100 billion (US billion) minutes of Skype-to-Skype calls, be that voice and video calls. Yes, that’s 100,000,000,000 free discussion minutes since Skype’s launch in 2003.
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BBC iPlayer: Making the unmissable, unaffordable?
We and other publications have been reporting that the BBC iPlayer has been taken up in large numbers by UK TV License payers.
We’ve experienced something that other individuals might, one that will have serious implications for the long term success of BBC’s heavily-promoted service.
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HD-DVD To Exit – Blu-ray Wins
As you no doubt now know and as everyone and their favourite carrot have been predicting, Toshiba has officially dropped out of the Next Gen disc format wars.
iPod Shuffle Price Drop. 2GB Added Too
Apple have dropped the price of the iPod shuffle and introduced a 2GB model.
The 1GB player had dropped down to £32 in the UK ($49 in the US), making it “the most affordable iPod ever” according to Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide iPod Product Marketing.
The soon to be released new 2GB model will be priced at £48 in the UK and $69 in the US.
Apple are ramping up the storage of their range, with the last models, the iPod touch and iPhone benefiting from this upgrade just over two weeks ago.
BBC TV Now on iTunes: At The Right Price?
A selection of BBC TV programmes are, from today, available to be bought on iTunes.
BBC Worldwide, the commercial side of the corporation, has penned the deal, which has been long anticipated.
Individual episodes will cost £1.89 with some available as a series bundle, an example being the Catherine Tate Show, selling at £9.99 for six episodes.
Guardian Savaged By Blog Comments
We’ve been passed over a link (thanks Mike) to a travel piece published today on the Guardian Web site.
The article — the first blog post of a 19 year old student, Max Gogarty, in his gap year, who ‘just happened’ to be the son of the travel editor freelance travel writer, Paul Gogarty — itself isn’t the main source of interest, but the masses of comments that followed it that are.
Clearly commenters are keen to share the love on this, Valentines day.
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Murdoch Interested In Yahoo?
It’s being reported that there’s ‘secret’ discussion going on between Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and Yahoo, apparently in an attempt to find an alternative route to Microsoft buying it.
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