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  • Win Tickets For A Private Screening Of Friday’s England Rugby Match – On Top of BT Tower!

    Win Tickets For A Private Screening Of Friday's England Rugby Match - On Top of BT Tower!We’ve teamed up with BT Total Broadband to offer four pairs of exclusive tickets for a private screening of England versus South Africa rugby match this Friday, 14 September, 2007.

    The winners will enjoy a prime view of the action of the world cup match with a private screening at the top of BT Tower with VIP hospitality.

    What sort of VIP treatment? The prize includes a drinks reception, Wine Tasting, South African and English themed menu, interview with Celebrities, the live screening and a post-match analysis from experts. Pretty good bundle eh?
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  • MyGeek Subscription Service Offers 24/7 Remote Home PC Help

    MyGeek Subscription Service Offers 24/7 Remote Home PC HelpYou probably know the feeling. It’s 4am, there’s a vital deadline approaching in the morning, your PC’s just gone on the blink and that techie mate that you normally rely on to help you out has fallen asleep in a pool of lager.

    Normally, your only option is to break out the booze cabinet and drink the deadline away, but there is now another option.
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  • Japan Fund Google Rival: Are They Joking?

    Japan Fund Google Rival: Are They Joking?Japan has stuck €89m-€95m in to a research project to try and build a search engine to rival Google, reports the FT.

    10 Japanese companies are pooling their talent, as they’ve just noticed that hardware isn’t selling so well, South Korea and Taiwan are making and selling just what Japan is – but much cheaper. Oh, and that software services are growing.
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  • Microsoft Stumble On Open Doc Standard

    Microsoft Stumble On Open Doc StandardThere’s been general surprise at Microsoft’s failure to secure their ‘Open XML’ interchangeable document standard to be accepted by the ISO – International Standards Committee – and the IEC – International Electronic Commission.

    It is important to Microsoft as Governments around the world are looking to allow simple document interchange between all of their systems.
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  • Ofcom Report: Internet & Mobile Usage Up. TV, Radio & Phone Down

    Ofcom Report: Internet & Mobile Up. TV, Radio, Phone DownToday Ofcom have released their yearly Communications Market report, covering fixed and mobile telecoms, TV, radio and Internet use.

    It’s a massive collection of information and statistics running to 332 pages, covering the habits and preferences of the UK population during 2006.
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  • Scrum.com Bought By ESPN

    Another week, another purchase of a Web-based service by a TV broadcaster.

    US, sports-mad ESPN have announced that they are buying UK scrum.com, a site that, not surprisingly is about rugby.

    Founded nearly ten years ago, in 1997, they take pride in their ability to break stories faster than “conventional media.”

    There’s been a number of moves of late by broadcasters to buy Web sites that focus on, what to broadcasters, are small niches – such as Discovery buying Treehugger.com, Cricket site, Cricinfo, which was also bought by ESPN and most recently cycling.tv by JumpTV.

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  • Wal-Mart Launches DRM-Free MP3 Download Service

    Wal-Mart Launches DRM-Free MP3 Download ServiceRetail titans Wal-Mart have started offering digital music downloads on its Web site free of the copy-protection technology inflicted on most MP3 web sites.

    Boasting thousands of albums and songs from major record labels like Universal and EMI Group, Wal-Mart’s service will let users download tracks free of any digital rights management.
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  • BBC Worldwide/ O2 Mobile Content Deal

    BBC Worldwide/ O2 Mobile Content DealBBC Worldwide has knocked out another content deal, this time to UK mobile company, O2.

    The deal, initially covering 300 individual pieces of content, includes video clips, wallpapers and ringtones from popular BBC TV programmes such as The Office, Little Britain, Doctor Who, I’m Alan Partridge, and League of Gentlemen. The various digital bits will be available, for purchase, from O2.

    Peter Mercier who recently joined as Head of Mobile at BBC Worldwide shook with excitement, “O2 is the largest UK operator by subscriber numbers so this is clearly a great deal for us in terms of getting our content in front of consumers,” he continued that it showed to “in-house and indie production partners how BBC Worldwide continues to innovate in the digital media sector.”

  • Record Breaking Growth For UK Internet Sales

    Record Breaking Growth For UK Internet SalesWith shoppers driven indoors and online by the miserable weather, UK online sales soared past £4bn in a month for the first time ever, according to latest figures from IMRG.

    The online retail body reported that Internet sales have exploded over the last year, with this July’s figure of £4.2bn up a hefty 80 per cent from £2.34bn in July 2006.
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  • 1&1: The Worst Hosting Company In The World?

    1&1: The Worst Hosting Company In The World?Phew … A huge sigh of relief.

    After having suffered under a truly appalling service from the travesty that they call 1&1, we have successfully moved hosting company to Exonetric.

    Exonetric are the exact opposite of leviathan 1&1, a small, dedicated team of knowledgeable people who are keen to help out.

    The service we experienced with 1&1 is, with no exaggeration, the worst we have ever come across in over 20+ years of experience. They’re driven by answering your query as quickly as they can, without bothering to read what the query was in the first place.
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