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Euro video iTunes spring launch


It seems like an age has passed since Apple started offering music to the masses from their iTunes Music Store. If you’re a European like me, it seems like an even longer time between the launch of the iTunes Music Store and a more international offering, allowing Europeans to buy and download music, too.
The same [...]


Tomorrow’s World no longer yesterdays news?


According to a BBC News article: “Tomorrow’s World to return to BBC”, which would be good news indeed!
I grew up watching Tomorrow’s World, from teenager to young adult.
This and Equinox on Channel 4 and Horizon on BBC 2, both of which have disappeared and dummed down respectively.
“The BBC is bringing back the Tomorrow’s World brand [...]


Tech’ news in brief: BBC, Google and Nasa


BBC moves to file-sharing sites
“Hundreds of episodes of BBC programmes will be made available on a file-sharing network for the first time, the corporation has announced.The move follows a deal between the commercial arm of the organisation, BBC Worldwide, and technology firm Assures

The new deal means that users of the software will be able to [...]


New York Times to get with the times? Sounds like good news to me!


“New York Times Surrenders To Social News” I love that headline! There’s nothing like a good journalistic ‘the sky is falling!’ type dilemma to pull in the readers.
Is there any truth in the headline? Of course not, but I wish I was one visitor behind the Tech Crunch article with this article.
“The New York Times [...]


BBC, Yahoo! Reuters getting into social news?


Despite what the neigh-sayers are putting about, ‘blogging is taking its toll on news coverage.
Gone are the days of a 6 o’clock exclusive; this is the time when scoops are claimed in back-bedrooms after an internet conversation with drunken colleague tumbling out of a board meeting in different time zone, and from a bus window [...]