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  • Sky Content To PSPs

    Sky Content To PSPsSky have announced, in the presentation of their final year accounts, a joint venture with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe to offer PSP owners in the UK and Ireland a content download service.

    Saying that PSP-owners can “turn their devices into personalised on-demand video libraries,” will be a big boost for the PSP UK-side, where Sony claim that there’s 2 million of the blighters.

    The start date has been pencilled as “early 2008,” making it the first in Europe. With delivery to the handheld via wireless or PC-connection, it’s that expected content such as “sports, entertainment, movies, music and animation,” will be available, interestingly from “both Sky and 3rd party channel partners.”

    Sky is being really prolific in distributing its content (apart from Virgin customers :) ), arguably better at it than the BBC – whose have a specific remit to do so.

    Financial terms were not disclosed.

  • iPhones Take Out WiFi Network

    iPhones Take Out WiFi NetworkiPhone’s appear to be taking out chunks of the wireless network at Duke University in the US.

    We won’t get all technical on you by delving in to the tech-laden reasons as to why it _might_ be happening – they still don’t know how it is happening for sure – but the upshot of it is they think the iPhones are generating up to 18,000 requests per second.

    Barrages like this are crippling the WLAN kit, as it tries to deal with and make sense of each of them.

    Duke have been in touch with Apple about the problem, but so far the communication with Apple has been “one-way.”

    Given the number of tech mad loonies that have bought iPhones in the US, it is a little strange that no other sites have recorded the same problem.

    For the details on the story, trot over to Network World

  • London Gets Free Riverside Wi-Fi

    London Gets Free Riverside Wi-FiA new Wi-Fi network has been launched in London called Online- 4-free.com, covering around a 13.6 mile stretch of the River Thames, running through the centre of the capital.
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  • 40Gbps Internet Connection For Swedish Lady, 75

    40Gbps Internet Connection For Swedish Lady, 75While the lucky ones in the UK feel excited about getting broadband connections running up to 24Mbps and BT tell everyone how very lucky they are to get up to 8Mbps, one 75 year old in Sweden has blown the whole world away by getting a 40Gbps connection to her house.
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  • Digital SwitchOver: The Rubbish Dump Awaits! UK MPs

    Digital SwitchOver: The Rubbish Dump Awaits!: UK MPsWhile the UK Government is keen as mustard for the Digital Switchover of TV in the UK, there’s now discussion of the impact that disposing of the analogue kit will bring on – that of further waste generation.

    The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive) was under discussion yesterday at Westminster Hall by UK MPs.
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  • LiveEarth Registers ‘Most Ever’ Online Views

    LiveEarth Registers 'Most Ever' Online ViewsMSN is claiming that their live streams of last weekend’s LiveEarth gigs attracted the “most ever” online viewers.

    By 8pm last evening, MSN said that it had whipped up more than 10 million video streams, earning it the crown of being the most simultaneously viewed online event ever.
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  • 4 Digital Group Gain 10 National DAB Licenses

    4 Digital Group Gain National DAB LicenseThe champagne corks have been popping in the 4 digital group offices this morning, as they hear from Ofcom that they have been successful in their bid to gain 10 national DAB radio licences.

    The group, lead by UK TV network Channel 4, has the ambition of providing a serious competitor to the dominant national BBC radio services, to provide a “distinctive and different experience of radio.”
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  • Children Risk Becoming Social Outcasts With Internet Access: Report

    Children Risk Becoming Social Outcasts With Internet Access: ReportOfCom’s Consumer Panel has released a report, Children and the Internet, based on recent research whose findings state that children who do not have an Internet connection at home can become socially disadvantaged.

    By way of illustrating how key the Internet is to the younger people in the UK, the report found that “From about age ten, most children believe that Internet access is a ‘must have’.”
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  • ATM / Cashpoint 40 This Week

    ATM / Cashpoint 40 This WeekWith the fortieth anniversary of the first ATM, or cashpoint as it’s known in the UK, the BBC has an interview with the man who came up with the idea, 82 year old John Shepherd-Barron (pictured).

    He recounts that the original idea for the dispenser was chocolate bars – true currency in some people’s minds – but this was replaced with the far more profitable idea of dishing out money.
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  • PlusNet Launches Polish’d Broadband Service

    PlusNet Launches Polish'd Broadband ServiceInteresting move by PlusNet, as they release a version of their broadband service tailored specifically towards Polish speakers.
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