Posted on 14 July 2010. Tags: Bulletins, Group, guardian, Last.fm, media, News, Spotify, We7
The fantastic browser-based music steaming service We7, have announced that they have teamed up with the Guardian Media Group to offer their listeners integrated news bulletins between songs. We7 is very similar to Spotify and Last.fm, allowing users to make their own radio station playlists from a library of literally millions of tracks – We7 [...]
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Posted on 26 March 2010. Tags: News, spam, twitter
Twitter looks to have taken on spammers and have won with latest figures showing that the popular microblogging site has slashed the amount of spam tweeted down to a meager 1 per cent. This is compared to an 11 per cent spam rate eight months’ ago. Twitter’s success is down to the site’s education on [...]
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Posted on 14 October 2009. Tags: domain problems, funny, News
We’re all guilty of making typos now and then (anybody pwned?) but usually they just make us look a bit daft instead of dropping an entire country off the interweb. By missing a dot in the .se domain name, all Swedish sites disappeared from the internet, causing a dramatic reduction of pictures of blond people [...]
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Posted on 15 September 2009. Tags: bbc, Fast Flip, google, google labs, Internet, News, newspaper, NY Times, Washington Post
Will the Internet ever replace the humble newspaper? Falling sales in printed newspapers is certainly one sign that it will, but I have to admit it is nice to sip my tea while flipping through the daily paper. But that could all be about to change with Google’s Fast Flip.
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Posted on 19 January 2009. Tags: administration, bankrupt, empire direct, liquidation, News
Empire Direct has announced that it will be going into administration today, by closing all 14 of its UK stores. It’s yet another reputable retailer who has shocked the UK and has said that it’s seen a significant drop in sales since the middle of last year. For those customers that are awaiting products to [...]
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