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  • Cycling.tv Sells For $5m To JumpTV

    Cycling.tv Sells For $5mCycling.tv, UK-based, Internet TV station that covers, not surprisingly, Cycling, has sold to Canadian online broadcaster JumpTV for $5m (£2.48m, E3.66), most of which is in cash.

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  • GMail: Pay For Increased Storage: UPDATED

    Google have quietly (as ever) introduced a pay for extra storage facility on GMail.

    GMail: Pay For Increased Storage

    I’ve come close to stop using Gmail over the last 6 months or so, after having heavily used it on a daily basis for over two years. It’s has all of my emails for my numerous accounts going through it.
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  • Vodafone Keeps Verizon Wireless Options

    Vodafone Keeps Verizon Wireless
    Early this morning, Vodafone released news that it had decided not to exercise it’s Put option to sell its $10Bn interest in Verizon Wireless to Verizon Communications.

    This is the fifth and last year that they had to exercise this option after Verizon Wireless was formed in 2002 when Verizon Communications and Vodafone decided to pool their US operations.

    Vodafone Chief Executive, Arun Sarin, recently said that he thought the currently value of the shared they hold to be $15 billion.

    It’s understood that Verizon won’t be particularly happy about this, as they’re keen to get their hand on the whole venture.

  • Pace Win Extra Sky Business

    Pace Win Extra Sky BusinessGood to hear that Pace Micro, veteran UK supplies of technology, have signed another deal to supply Sky with Set Top Boxes.

    Pace tell us that in their latest round of contract awards from Sky, Pace has won additional Digibox business for the 2007 financial year.
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  • Lenovo Announces Linux ThinkPads And £100 PCs

    Lenovo Announces Linux ThinkPads And £100 PCsFollowing in Dell’s footsteps, Lenovo has announced that it will start selling its ThinkPad notebooks with the open source Linux operating system preloaded.

    Commercial buyers and individual customers will now be able to specify SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 from Novell on Lenovo’s range of notebooks from the fourth quarter of 2007 – including those in the popular ThinkPad T Series.
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  • O2 i-Mode Scrapped, Bursting Their Bubble

    O2 i-Mode Scrapped, Bursting Their BubbleThe UK’s number one mobile company O2 has dumped its flagship i-mode mobile Internet service after failing to attract enough customers – just two years after launching the service.

    The ‘umbling turnaround came about after the company revealed that it had only managed to woo 546,000 customers to sign up to their i-mode service in the UK and Ireland. That may sound quite a respectable figure, but it only adds up to just 3 per cent of their 18 million customer base.

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  • Nokia Sign Up for Microsoft PlayReady DRM

    Nokia To Support PlayReady DRMNokia has signed a deal with Microsoft to put PlayReady on some of their handsets.

    Nokia say that they “plan to support PlayReady across a range of S60 and Series 40 devices starting in 2008.”
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  • BT Launch Winter Range In Style

    BT Launch Winter Range In Style
    Kudos to BT for putting on an impressive launch for their new range of techie goodies coming out for the winter season.

    The launch was 34 floors up near the top of London’s landmark building, the BT Telecom Tower (still known to old folks as the GPO Tower or the Post Office Tower), with the press launch taking place inside the revolving restaurant.
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  • Torchwood Sells to HDNet

    Torchwood Sells to HDNetThe BBC Dr Who Spin-off, Torchwood, set and shot in Cardiff, Wales, has been sold to US TV network HDNet.

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  • TreeHugger.com Sells To Discovery

    TreeHugger.com Sells To DiscoveryThe all-things-eco Website, Treehugger, has sold to US TV network Discovery.

    Treehugger and it’s UGC site, Hugg.com, will fit into Discovery’s initiative called Planet Green, which has committed over $50m to spread the Green message, including the aim to introduce the first 24Hr Green TV Channel.
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