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We Are The Future – hideous marketing promo backfires spectacularly

Wednesday, Feb 23, 2011Wednesday, Feb 23, 2011 - by mike s

PHD Global, a self styled “global media network” thought it would be a whizzo idea to show off their marketing prowess and insider know-how by creating a video called, “We …

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business / web

Daily Telegraph set to follow the same pay-to-view model as Murdoch’s Times

Tuesday, Feb 22, 2011Tuesday, Feb 22, 2011 - by mike s

The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) – publishers of the Tory-lovin’ UK newspaper, The Daily Telegraph – is reported to be readying a pay-to-view website model.

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business / mobiles

Mobile network coming to London Underground – Huawei offer London a freebie

Monday, Feb 21, 2011Monday, Feb 21, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

The FT is reporting that privately-held Chinese Mobile phone manufacturer Huawei is all set to sign a deal with London Underground to install a mobile network on the London’s underground …

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audio / business

Here’s what the death of the music industry looks like

Friday, Feb 18, 2011Friday, Feb 18, 2011 - by mike s

People can talk about the death of the music industry and throw figures around, but nothing brings its demise into sharp focus more succinctly than this graphic plotting sales over various formats from 1973 to 2009.

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Apple / business / Google / web

Google One Pass trumps Apple with a far more flexible subscription model

Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Slammed down on the table just 24 hours after Apple launched its controversial App Store subscription service, Google has announcing a similar service for its Android platform.

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business / mobiles

o2 hike up broadband charges, make it sound like they’re doing us a favour

Thursday, Feb 10, 2011Thursday, Feb 10, 2011 - by mike s

Back in the days when businesses spoke something approaching normal English, they’d apologise to you when they had to put up their prices.

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Blackberry / business / iPhone / mobiles

BlackBerry outsells iPhone and grabs #1 UK smartphone sales crown

Monday, Jan 31, 2011Monday, Jan 31, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - 4 Comments.

We have to admit we’re having a little bit of trouble believing this one, but according to industry stat-shufflers, GfK, RIM’s BlackBerry range reigned supreme as the most successful smartphone …

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business / portable

Amazon’s ebook sales overtake paperbacks for the first time

Friday, Jan 28, 2011Friday, Jan 28, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

The future is here: Amazon has announced that digital Kindle ebook sales are now greater than their total sales of paperback print editions in the US.

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business

O2 WiFi to offer FREE Wi-Fi hotspots for everyone

Wednesday, Jan 26, 2011Thursday, Jan 27, 2011 - by mike s - 3 Comments.

UK network has announced plans to roll out ‘O2 Wi-fi’, a system of Wi-Fi hotspots located in retailers and public spaces around the UK – and they’ll be free for …

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business / video / web

Amazon buys LoveFilm for £200m

Thursday, Jan 20, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - 1 Comment

Amazon has bought up the DVD and online movie rental business, LoveFilm. In a slightly complicated turn of events, LoveFilm first bought Amazon’s UK and German DVD rental business back …

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business / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

Guardian shuns Android and slams down iPhone subscription charges

Wednesday, Jan 19, 2011Wednesday, Jan 19, 2011 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

UK newspaper the Guardian continues its love affair with all things Apple, and has launched a shiny  new version of its newspaper app  for the iPhone and iPod Touch platforms, while ignoring the …

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Apple / business

Steve Jobs takes another medical leave of absence

Monday, Jan 17, 2011 - by mike s - 1 Comment

Apple head honcho and leading light Steve Jobs has announced that he is taking medical leave of absence again so that he can ‘focus on his health’.

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business / hardware

Martha Lane Fox offers £98 used PCs to get tardy Brits online

Monday, Jan 17, 2011 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

Brit ‘UK Digital Champion’ and Lastminute.com co-founder Martha Lane Fox is promising super cheap computers to entice the remaining nine million Britons to get their non-digital asses online.

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business / iPhone / mobiles

first direct launch iPhone App for ‘convenient banking on the go’

Friday, Jan 14, 2011 - by Lee J.

first direct, the self-styled ‘online and 24-hour telephone’ bank’ with an annoying all-lower case name, has become the first UK bank to serve up what they’re describing as a “true …

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business

Press release claims to be ‘The Most Amazing Press Release Ever Written’

Wednesday, Jan 12, 2011Wednesday, Jan 12, 2011 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

We get sent loads of press releases every day, but we have to say that none are as awesome as this one from Mitch Delaplane of PitchPoint Public Relations. Self …

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