Virgin Media lose 40k Subs But Changes Ahoy

Virgin Media lose 40k Subs: Changes AhoyThe latest results results from Virgin Media, Q2 2007, show that they’ve lost 40,000 cable TV subscribers. The most likely reasons – the loss of Sky TV programming, following their spat with Sky. To rub salt into the wounds, Sky gain 90,000 TV customer over the same period.
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iPlayer: BBC To Enter Computer Games Market?

BBC To Enter Computer Games Market?The BBC is set to unveil a “significant” move into the videogames market, according to a report in The Scotsman.

The Corporation – still smarting from the humiliation of being caught out ripping off viewers taking part in TV phone-ins – is expected to unveil their new gaming strategy next week at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival.
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Retouching Service Turns Pageant Children Into Plastic Freakshows

Retouching Service Turns Pageant Children Into Plastic FreakshowsWe’ve seen some mighty weird things on the Internet over the years, but this American- based Profes- sional Pageant Photo retouching site easily has to be one of the spookiest things to appear on our screens for a long time.
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24-7 Football: Sky Offer To Mobile UK

24-7 Football: Sky Offer To Mobile UKAs we’re not fans of football, we’re constantly amazed at how keen people are to watch the game that involves people kicking a pig’s bladder around an oblong section of grass. Ho, Hmm.

Never one to not take the opportunity of cramming more football into people lives, Sky TV has teamed up with a load of other ‘newspapers’ owned by media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, to create 24-7 Football.

It’s a new on-demand service that will offer video highlights and goal clips from the Barclays Premier League and UEFA Champions League on mobile phones.
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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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Tape 2 PC: Ion USB Cassette Deck: First View: UPDATED

We popped off to the Firebox “Xmas in July” do last week and we saw loads of goodies that they’ll be bringing out between now and christmas.

Tape 2 PC: Ion USB Cassette Deck: First View

The first that we’ll bring to you is the Ion Tape2PC. We all know about the Ion Audio USB turntable and how popular they’ve been.

Not one to stay still Ion have now moved on to capturing other digital media.
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Wikipedia Founder Launches Google Rival Wikia

Wikipedia Founder Launches Google Rival WikiaJimmy Wales, the founder of the hugely popular online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, has outlined his plans for a new search engine service to rival Google.

Wales’s new start-up firm Wikia has bought up a web crawling technology called Grub from LookSmart, and released it under an open source licence. Like the famous SETI project, Grub relies on users donating their personal computing resources as well as human editors.
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