Radiohead have long been known as a band who like to do things differently, and their approach to selling their long-awaited seventh studio album certainly breaks new ground, with fans invited to pay whatever they like.
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Radiohead Tell Fans: “Pay What You Want”
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?
(more…)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.
(more…)SlingPlayer Mobile For S60 Symbian Phones
Those who have Nokia Nseries and Eseries phones will be able to buy software, SlingPlayer, to play the video content from their homes to the handsets, wherever they are, from their Sling Boxes.Quick resume on Sling Box: plug one into your TV at home and any programmes that you can watch can be viewed remotely, either on a computer, or portable device. Not only can you change channels remotely, but control the DVR functions.
(more…)24 London: Interactive Bar Get London Launch
You know what it’s like when you want a drink at a busy bar – it can take ages to get yourself served sometimes. Often because the bar tender doesn’t know you’re waiting.Those behind new bar, twentyfour London, claim that this is all in the past. Alongside a whole host of interactive and technology whiz bangs, this bar helps you get served.
(more…)Ferrari 360 Modena Stretched Limo Does 170mph! Videos
A Ferrari 360 Modena has been turned into a Ferrari Limousine with huge 110″ motorised gull wings doors, eight seats and capable of 170mph.Moving away from the normal stretched limo with neon-drenched bar and tacky accessories, this baby goes for the stripped-down approach.
(more…)FILMOBILE Event Recap
The first international platform for the discussion of mobile technologies, mobile art and mobile moving-image practice was launched in London in the end of June. It’s called FILMOBILE.Max Schleser gives us an overview of the event, split over a few episodes.
(more…)1 Million TVs To Sell Over Christmas: Digital UK
Digital UK estimates that over one million TV sets will be sold in the UK this Christmas.Electronic retailers and TV manufacturers will be licking their lips at the prospect.
Xmas is traditionally a time when lots of people buy a new TV – whether it’s because they want to make sure that they get at least one decent chrissy present, or that they have nothing to say to the people who will be coming around, and therefore need a new TV isn’t clear.
(more…)Facebook Friends ‘Aren’t Real Chums’
You may well have screenfulls of grinning online buddies spanning a host of social networking sites, but new research shows that when it comes to the real world, you don’t have any more close friends than the rest of us.Will Reader, an evolutionary psychologist at Sheffield Hallam University headed up a team studying Facebook and MySpace users and found that, “weak ties are (more common) but there is no difference in the number of close friends people have.”
(more…)UK Public Slow To VaVaVoom VoIP
Phone services offering freebie calls over the Internet are still only being used by a niche following according to new research.A study by Ofcom has discovered that Voice- Over-Internet- Protocol (VoIP) services – like those offered by Skype, BT and Tesco – have failed to fire the public imagination.
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The BBC is to bolster multi-platform commissioning. “Again?” I hear you cry.
The Cloud, Wi-Fi providers in the UK, are launching a new service for iPod Touch users across the country.
Those who have Nokia Nseries and Eseries phones will be able to buy software, SlingPlayer, to play the video content from their homes to the handsets, wherever they are, from their Sling Boxes.
You know what it’s like when you want a drink at a busy bar – it can take ages to get yourself served sometimes. Often because the bar tender doesn’t know you’re waiting.
A Ferrari 360 Modena has been turned into a Ferrari Limousine with huge 110″ motorised gull wings doors, eight seats and capable of 170mph.
The first international platform for the discussion of mobile technologies, mobile art and mobile moving-image practice was launched in London in the end of June. It’s called FILMOBILE.
Digital UK estimates that over one million TV sets will be sold in the UK this Christmas.
You may well have screenfulls of grinning online buddies spanning a host of social networking sites, but new research shows that when it comes to the real world, you don’t have any more close friends than the rest of us.
Phone services offering freebie calls over the Internet are still only being used by a niche following according to new research.