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O2 Customers To Get Free London Underground WiFi
08/04/2013 | Nicholas GriffinO2 have today announced that they have signed a new deal with Virgin Media that will allow them to offer free WiFi for their customers when traveling on the London Underground, joining both EE and Vodafone, leaving Three the only … Read More
The British Library To Archive Web Pages From The UK
05/04/2013 | Nicholas GriffinThe British Library have announced their latest plan to capture the digital universe, capturing the entire UK web domain from April 6th, which will allow six major libraries to “collect, preserve and provide long term access to the increasing proportion of the … Read More
Online Music Royalties Passes Those From Radio for the First Time in the UK
04/04/2013 | Nicholas GriffinRadio is a huge thing, especially in the UK, but it seems that online music services may be starting to pass it in terms of royalties earned from digital music services last year in the UK, after it was revealed … Read More
Rdio Launches Vdio Movie and TV Streaming Service
04/04/2013 | Nicholas GriffinThe music streaming service, Rdio have today decided to expand their services a little further, launching a new video streaming service, imaginatively called Vdio.
At the moment the service is only available to those who are currently Rdio subscribers, and … Read More
Tesco Adding BBC Worldwide to Clubcard TV Service
03/04/2013 | Nicholas Griffin
Tesco have today announced that they will be bringing BBC Worldwide to their Clubcard TV streaming service, adding a set of their popular cookery, comedy and drama programs with an ad-supported service.
These new channels will be available to … Read More
Amazon Acquires Goodreads Book Recommedations Site
28/03/2013 | Nicholas GriffinAmazon have just announced that they have acquired Goodreads, which is a website for book recommendations, sort of a social network for book worms. The likely use for the site would be to improve the current recommendations that Kindle users … Read More
The UK Government Plan To Stop Hackers By Building A Social Network for Sharing Cyber Security Secrets
27/03/2013 | Nicholas GriffinNews broke earlier today, that the UK government hope to make the internet a safer place by building a new social network for those who wish to share cyber security secrets where around 160 private companies have already been invited to … Read More
Hyperoptic to Offer 1GBs Fibre Optic Speeds in the UK
27/03/2013 | Nicholas GriffinA new ISP has recently come to light, named Hypersonic the new start-up aims to bring 1GBps speeds to homes across the UK, already installed in 20,000 homes across London, the service offers 10 times faster speed than BT or … Read More
Microsoft and The Cloud Team Up To Offer Free Unlimited Wi-Fi Access At Train Stations
25/03/2013 | Nicholas GriffinThe Cloud and Microsoft announced earlier today that they have teamed up to bring free and unlimited Wi-Fi access to a number of Network Rail train stations across the UK. which is currently only available in a free but limited form, most … Read More
Now TV To Over Sky Sports On Demand Service Subscriptions
19/03/2013 | Nicholas GriffinThe Sky owned service, Now TV have today announced that they have added a new Sky Sports on-demand service to their subscriptions list, allowing anyone to pay £9.99 for 24 hours of access to the service.
The subscription service will … Read More
Superdrug Adding Free Wi-Fi Access To High Street Stores
19/03/2013 | Nicholas GriffinYup, the high street is about to get one more place where you can access Wi-Fi whilst doing your shopping, Superdrug the UK based cosmetics store have today announced that they have made a deal with The Cloud to bring … Read More
Spotify Announces 6 Million Paid Subscribers Worldwide
13/03/2013 | Nicholas GriffinSpotify have today announced that they now have 6 million paid subscribers worldwide, bringing over $500 million in revenue for the company from over 24 million active users across 20 countries.
This comes after Spotify released their latest web based service and … Read More
