Mar
24

Facebook helps spread sexual disease?

What has Facebook done now, you may well ask. Well, nothing as such, although The Sun has drawn a link between the social networking site and a rise in syphilis. Specifically,.. more
Mar
24

Crooks “coppa” load of Virgin cable

Some Virgin Media customers in Leeds found themselves without a service for the second time in the space of a week, thanks to thieves who once again vandalised the network yesterday... more
Mar
24

Pirate party reveals 2010 election manifesto

The Pirate party is standing for two seats in the upcoming UK general election, and the organisation has just unveiled its campaign manifesto. Shoulder seated parrots are to be made compulsory.. more
Mar
24

ShoreTel for IBM Lotus Foundations availability announced

ShoreTel® (NASDAQ; SHOR), the leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems with fully integrated Unified Communications (UC), and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that general availability of ShoreTel for IBM Lotus Foundations is planned for the second quarter of calendar year 2010. ShoreTel for.. more
Mar
24

Teen sacked from cafe on Facebook

When you log onto Facebook, you generally expect to discover that your friends are hungover, or they’ve just taken the “which electrical appliance are you most compatible with” quiz (the vacuum cleaner, we suspect in many cases). What you don’t expect to discover is a.. more
Mar
24

Island Freeview delayed

The BBC Trust was due to make an important decision on the future of the Gaelic language channel BBC Alba. However the Trust has decided to delay making this decision until after the future plans for the BBC have been published. Currently BBC Alba is.. more
Mar
24

OFT to view Project Canvas

Following the recent criticism of the multi channel funded video-on-demand service known as Project Canvas by other media providers, such as BSkyB and Virgin Media, it now looks as if the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) may be looking into the service. Project Canvas is.. more
Mar
24

Fetch TV Smartbox arrives

Yet another piece of brand new TV kit has been launched in the UK. This time it is the turn of the Fetch TV Smartbox 8320 HD, which is basically a Freeview set-top-box offering the consumer HD TV and a built in personal video recorder.. more
Mar
24

TV recycle after switchover

As more consumers switch over to digital television, many of them will be left with unwanted television sets, meaning a trip down to the local, or in some cases not so local, recycling centre. Currently, in the West TV region, the first stage of digital.. more
Mar
24

World Cup plan unveiled

It is not long before the first match kicks off in the Football World Cup in South Africa this June, yet the main broadcasters involved in televising the event, the BBC and ITV, have only just decided how they are going to cover the games... more