The Archers, a BBC radio soap-opera that has been running for over 50 years, has now become the latest podcast from the BBC.
There will be gasps of shock echoing around the UK at this news.
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Skype High Quality Video Released In Beta 3.6
The latest version of Skype, currently in Windows beta, 3.6, has High Quality Video.
It makes sense that as capabilities of equipment and bandwidth improve, so should quality.
Don’t get too excited yet, because currently it only works with two of Logitech’s High Quality Video webcams – the Logitech QuickCam Pro for Notebooks and Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 (See below to purchase from Amazon).
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Google GPhone Rumours Continue – OS Only?
There’s been endless rumours, denials and loud speculation on the web about the existence of Goggle’s GPhone project, but a report today in the New York Times seems to confirm that the search engine giants are indeed about to release their own mobile operating system and possibly a handset.
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Vodafone Scoops Up Spanish And Italian Broadband Firm
Mobile mega-company Vodafone has waved its enormous wad in the direction of Europe and acquired the Italian and Spanish assets of telecoms firm Tele2 AB for an eye-watering £537 million.
The Swedish-owned Tele2 enjoys a big presence in Italy, offering fixed-line and Internet services to more than 2.6 million users, including 400,000 broadband customers.
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Video Adverts on YouTube Homepage
We know that Google is driven by advertising, right?
Well, since buying YouTube, they haven’t plastered the site with advertising, as a less savvy company might do, but they have played around a few times with raising revenue including adding promotions, supposedly linked to the video playing, at the bottom of the video, but above the playing controls.
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Sony Drive XEL-1 OLED TV: 3mm Thin!
Blimey. We’ve seen thin TVs before but Sony’s new Drive XEL-1 OLED TV makes most of them look like pie scoffing gorillas at a lard-fest in comparison.
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Lonely Planet Bought By BBC Worldwide
Big surprise today as BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, announce their purchase of Lonely Planet, the well-know publisher of travel guides.
The purchase sum was not disclosed and the two founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler will retain a 25% holding in the company.
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BBC Vision Goes Multi-Platform. For Real This time?
The BBC is to bolster multi-platform commissioning. “Again?” I hear you cry.
Do you remember back as far as 2002 when Ashley Highfield, then Head on New Media at the BBC, was telling everyone who would listen … or write about him … that the BBC wouldn’t commission any new programmes unless they had an interactive media element built into them?
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Cloud Unlimited Music Service For iPod Touch Coming
The Cloud, Wi-Fi providers in the UK, are launching a new service for iPod Touch users across the country.
Never slow to innovate, The Cloud is offering the service for £3.99 a month from 1 October, with no minimum contract.
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Unlocked Apple iPhones To Be Trashed?
Punters looking to use their shiny new iPhones on different networks might want to think again after Apple released a statement warning that unlocked phones will “most likely” become “permanently inoperable”
Although iPhones are currently exclusively tied into AT&T’s network in the States (and O2 in the UK), several unofficial hacks swiftly appeared on the web offering to unlock the phones to work on any network.
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