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April 30, 2008
by Janet Harris
Israel-based Web 2.0 company, WorkLight Inc, has secured $12 million in venture capital funding, which will allow it to expand in North America, Europe and Asia.
The funding round, which was led by Pitango Venture Capital of Israel, attracted further investment from Genesis Partners, Index Ventures and Shlomo Kramer, the CEO of Imperva.
Worklight will now be able to expand its Web 2.0 tools, which allow enterprises to utilise ...
by Grant Draper
Sharp has released its new home cinema system, the HT-DV50H, at £399, with a lower grade system available for £299
The system is built from RMS 250W speakers and a 100W sub woofer, which use Audistry technology, which allows volume control and a bass enhancer.
As well as the above, the new system also offers HDMI output; DivX enabled technology, a five-mode pre-programmed electronic ...
by David Allen
Five Download is to be re-branded and re-launched as “Demand Five" with the changeover due to take place by the end of May.
Before then there is going to be a marketing campaign that will leave no part of the media untouched as they attempt to get the message out.
The new service, Demand Five, will offer the feature of being able to track back thirty days for the ...
by David Allen
As if it was bad enough with advertised broadband speeds not being what they are claimed to be, it now seems that the same could apply to the mobile broadband advertised speeds too.
In a recent survey of mobile broadband users, it was found that the average speed obtained is only 1.46 Mbps, which is less than half of that achieved through a landline.
But when it comes to ...
by David Allen
It may not be the first time that this cult series has been rumoured to be remade, but this time there is too much speculation for it to be ignored.
But with so many remakes topping the TV ratings it would seem that whoever remakes this show would have a ready made audience.
ITV have confirmed that they are looking into the prospect of remaking the cult series that ...
by David Allen
The BBC has agreed terms with Virgin Media, who will now be able to offer the iPlayer catch up service to their subscribers.
But unlike other users of the iPlayer they will not have to download the device, as they will be able to watch the programmes on their own TV.
This is a unique service that Virgin Media customers will be getting; all they need to do is ...
April 29, 2008
by Janet Harris
Microsoft has decided to delay the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3, which was due out today.
Before SP3 can be released, Microsoft has to resolve a compatibility issue between Microsoft Dynamics RMS and both XP SP3 and Vista SP1, which has just come to light.
Microsoft Dynamics RMS is a retail-chain-management software, designed for SMBs.
Microsoft released Windows Vista SP1 ...
by David Allen
The peer to peer application which is the base of Zattoo has been in the news for all of the wrong reasons recently; many channels have complained and in fact consulted legal teams because their content is being shown at the same time that it is being broadcast.
But despite the complaints, Zattoo are also planning to add BBC1, BBC2 and ITV to their line up, that already includes ...
by David Allen
As the market for mobile broadband heats up, the high street retailer Woolworths is set to become the first retailer in the UK to offer its customers a pay as you go mobile broadband dongle. But although it is early days, the sale of these devices has been slow.
However the market is still growing for this type of broadband access, which means for the store that they have ...
by David Allen
Whenever there is an election due, all candidates can use those five minute slots on the main TV channels to try and put their points across.
Naturally some of these points are going to vary and not everyone is going to always agree with them, which could be the reason why the Christian Choice candidate is taking BBC and ITV to court.
Alan Craig has told the Christian Legal ...
by David Allen
As the media regulator Ofcom winds up their inquiry into the phone fiasco that ITV created, when it was found that many of the expensive phone calls for competitions and vote lines were a waste of the viewer’s money, simply because the winner had already been chosen, the prospect of a large fine looms for the channel.
In one particular show, Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, it has ...
April 28, 2008
by David Allen
The BBC iPlayer has been under attack from the boss of BSkyB, James Murdoch.
The son of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has been voicing his opinions on the development and launch of the hugely successful iPlayer from the BBC.
Sky TV have their own On Demand service called “Sky Anytime” but James Murdoch feels that the iPlayer is in danger of crushing all of the competition.
He insists that ...
by David Allen
It is not long now before the launch of the much awaited Freesat, the satellite service that will be provided by the BBC and ITV, with the possible inclusion of Channel Four and Five being included at a later date.
In anticipation of the launch some of the equipment has been on appearing in the advertising for the new summer Argos catalogue of all places.
Initially there would seem ...
by David Allen
The BBC are today accused of manufacturing the way that contestants are chosen on the National Lottery programme 1 v 100, the quiz show where one contestant faces one hundred contestants and the single person has to defeat the one hundred to walk away with the winnings.
The show has proved to be very popular with the viewers as it has a different take on the traditional quiz show. ...
by David Allen
For anyone who watches the ITV group of channels they will notice that there are quite a lot of repeats of older and some more recent programmes on the ITV2 and ITV3 channels.
But ITV are being accused by the maker of some these programmes of not paying the full amount for screening a repeat.
Excelsior Group Productions who make the popular programmes, The Darling Buds of May, and ...
April 25, 2008
by David Allen
It has only been a matter of weeks since Orange UK introduced the £30 connection fee for all new customers to their network. But in that time staff working for the Orange Mobile Phone stores, have reported that sales have fallen by over fifty per cent.
There would appear to be a discrepancy between what the store staff is saying and what the management seem to be saying. This ...
by David Allen
With revamped Sci Fi programmes being all the rage at the moment, Dr Who, Battlestar Galactica and the Bionic Woman are prime examples, it should come as no surprise that the old favourite from the eighties, Blake’s Seven, could be making its way back to the small screen.
But unlike Dr Who, it would seem that the BBC may have missed out on this one, as it looks as ...
by David Allen
It would seem that the word we have all got used to for the mobile broadband device that plugs into the USB port of the computer could be wrong. It has been known as a mobile broadband dongle; however this name is something that could one day come into question as it belongs to someone else.
The parent company of Currys, DSG, owned a computer shop which was in ...
by David Allen
In what could be one the best mayoral election promises so far, the Lib Dem candidate Brian Paddick has announced that he wants to see all Londoners getting access to a free wireless internet network, which would be available in all public places throughout the city.
He stated that if he was elected the mayor for London then he would want to see the divide that has grown in ...
by Janet Harris
Yahoo! announced Y!Open, a strategy to turn the search engine into a developer platform, at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.
The initiative will open up Yahoo to third party developers and enhance the social aspects of the service for its members.
Yahoo will introduce the change gradually, with Yahoo Search being the first element to benefit from the changes.
'SearchMonkey', which is currently in beta, will ...
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Israel-based Web 2.0 company, WorkLight Inc, has secured $12 million in venture capital funding, which will allow it to expand in North America, Europe and Asia.
The funding round, which was led by Pitango Venture Capital of Israel, attracted further investment from Genesis Partners, Index Ventures and Shlomo Kramer, the CEO of Imperva.
Worklight will now be able to expand its Web 2.0 tools, which allow enterprises to utilise ...
Microsoft has decided to delay the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3, which was due out today.
Before SP3 can be released, Microsoft has to resolve a compatibility issue between Microsoft Dynamics RMS and both XP SP3 and Vista SP1, which has just come to light.
Microsoft Dynamics RMS is a retail-chain-management software, designed for SMBs.
Microsoft released Windows Vista SP1 ...
