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There is a great need for TV content online. The sheer amount of illegal ways of getting to it is evidence enough, but in recent years, companies are starting to realize that rather than just spend millions on trying to prevent piracy it would be much easier and more profitable to meet the needs of the consumer. In ... |
27 November 2009
10:31 GMT |
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The battle against “illegal file-sharing” is heating up, especially in Europe where it looks like the media lobbyists are well worth their fees. Several countries are planning or debating whether to introduce a 'three-strikes' system for file sharers, and recently, the UK has been the hotbed of... |
27 November 2009
09:21 GMT |
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Google is hardly a typical media company despite making the vast majority of its revenue from advertising. In the past, it's had a rather tense relationship with old media companies and traditional advertising outlets. The strategy seems to have paid off, judging by its success so far, but in recent years Googl... |
27 November 2009
05:11 GMT |
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Given the fact that the effects of global warming are becoming increasingly obvious and devastating, the government of the United Kingdom is among a select few in the world today that is actually doing something about it. A huge part of its future plans is to construct an entirely new generation of nuclear power plan... |
26 November 2009
08:54 GMT |
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It seems Intel isn't the only one being accused of unsavory practices. Hewlett-Packard, however, is implied to be using foul play against its own employees, or at least that's what the HP United Kingdom Unite union members claim. "Unite members have been angered by the company treating them with contempt o... |
20 November 2009
04:43 GMT |
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Twitter may be slowing down in the US, but it's showing no signs of stopping elsewhere. One feature, which seems to drive growth as much as anything else, is its mobility. Since its inception, users have been able to send tweets via SMS, but Twitter is now taking it to the next level with the announcement of a ... |
17 November 2009
05:48 GMT |
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When it comes down to Microsoft’s search/decision engine, some users are “more equal than others.” The Redmond company’s focus on English-speaking markets is obvious, initially with US users becoming first-class citizens of Bing, and now with the decision engine shading its Beta tag for UK cus... |
13 November 2009
06:14 GMT |
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Authorities in the United Kingdom will only be allowed to hold the DNA evidence related to persons found to be innocent of the crimes they were charged with, for a maximum period of six years, after which time they will have to destroy the material. The decision applies in England and Wales, the UK Home Office has an... |
11 November 2009
22:31 GMT |
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Maybe the Holloween spirit hasn't completely worn off or maybe Google is adding a new 'feature,' but it looks like Google Maps is now listing ghost towns that show up as real places, but that don't actually exist. UK users are reporting the town of Argleton in the L39 postcode, which shows up on G... |
2 November 2009
10:22 GMT |
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A group of faith leaders and officials at the Durham University, in the United Kingdom, have recently extended an invitation to Pope Benedict XVI to visit the Cathedral at the university. If the pontiff accepts, then this could be the first ever papal visit to the North East of England, which would mark a historic mo... |
31 October 2009
05:49 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study conducted in the United Kingdom, slightly less than half of Primary 7 students (aged ten to 11) have social-media accounts, on sites such as Bebo, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter or Hi5. Approximately 48 percent of the 3,657 children that were analyzed, as part of the Kids’ Life a... |
28 October 2009
07:40 GMT |
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Google is a software and web services company and, despite being present in almost every segment of those markets, its ventures outside of them have been less successful. At the same time, it is nurturing a very green image and is investing in green technology while concomitantly doing its best to be as energy effici... |
28 October 2009
07:39 GMT |
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While digging at a site on the UK coasts, experts recently came across the bones of a pliosaur. While some may consider it just another dinosaur, for experts, it is one of the most important and amazing finds of the last few years. The aquatic animal was a monster, they say, one that would have made Tyrannosaurus Rex... |
27 October 2009
04:01 GMT |
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At this point, a number of scientific instruments orbits the planet, collecting data about its temperatures and their trends. Designed and built by an international team of experts, led by scientists at the University of Leicester, in the United Kingdom, the Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) instruments are mana... |
22 October 2009
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On October 12, scientists at the Diamond Light Source, in the United Kingdom, ignited the latest experimental station (I07) at the facility for the first time. The laboratory's purpose is to produce electromagnetic radiation known as synchrotron light, which is generated from charged particles traveling almost ... |
16 October 2009
10:00 GMT |
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The music streaming market is about to get even more crowded, at least in the UK, despite very few services making any actual revenue and the ones that are can hardly be called successful. This isn't stopping UK ISP Sky from launching Sky Songs a subscription-based music streaming service to compete with the lik... |
12 October 2009
09:29 GMT |
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The Intellectual Property Office (IPO), formerly the Patent Office, is, let's say, a peculiar organization. Recently, it became fond of the idea of constructing a space capsule, to be opened no sooner than 2020. For its enterprise, the IPO asked about 85,000 children and young inventors to set their ideas on pap... |
8 October 2009
06:57 GMT |
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Experts at the Durham University, in the United Kingdom, have recently devised a new map of the country's coastal lands, which highlights the areas most threatened by sea-level rises. The map charts the post Ice-Age tilt of the UK and Ireland, as well as current, relative sea-level changes in the region. Details... |
6 October 2009
20:11 GMT |
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Observing animals in their natural habitats, without a direct, human interference, is the best possible way of discovering their habits and population variations, and experts say that the method may also provide a novel, high-tech way of keeping tabs on climate change. If a certain species varies outside its normal l... |
5 October 2009
08:32 GMT |
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The United Kingdom is among the countries that have taken real steps towards fighting climate change and global warming. For instance, the government has proposed that all homes be equipped with smart energy meters by no later than 2020. Now, a new report suggests that authorities should require power companies to in... |
5 October 2009
03:59 GMT |
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Twitter can be used for a lot of things but, despite more and more businesses using it as a legitimate marketing, support and even sales tool, the justice system is not one you would expect to use the microblogging site in any official dealings. But a UK High Court has done just that, allowing an injunction to be ser... |
2 October 2009
06:29 GMT |
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Despite old media's best attempts to have you believe otherwise, the world is changing and business models need to change with it. Recent data from the UK shows that Internet advertising spending has passed TV spending for the first time becoming the single biggest ad market sector. This is the first time online... |
30 September 2009
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Naturalists and biologists warn those suffering from arachnophobia that this autumn may be a thing of nightmares. On account of excellent breeding conditions and suitable climate, much more spiders and daddy longlegs (crane flies) will be spawned. Last autumn was very rainy, so crane-fly larvae had sufficient decayin... |
25 September 2009
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The amazing, new find was made in Staffordshire, where archaeologists discovered the largest such pile of gold in the entire United Kingdom. The Anglo-Saxon hoard features approximately 1,500 pieces of silver and gold, and is estimated to be around 1,300 years old. Experts say that more than a year will most likely g... |
24 September 2009
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Since it was launched, Gmail has been one of Google's most popular products and the webmail service is one of the top three in the world at the moment. Unless you're living in the UK, in which case Google Mail has been one of Google's most popular products to date. Despite being called Gmail elsewhere ... |
22 September 2009
06:38 GMT |
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Spotify is building up a lot of hype ahead of the upcoming US launch, but, so far, most of it has been well deserved, succeeding, to some degree, where many other music-streaming services have not. It recently launched an Apple iPhone app, as well as a similar one for Android phones and, apparently, the demand they c... |
11 September 2009
06:17 GMT |
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A BBC radio show has recently investigated and proved the fact that some interpretation errors in surveys taken in the UK have led to a hugely exaggerated number of P2P file sharers. The British Government was planning to use this figure in issuing some P2P banning / limiting laws across the UK's territory in th... |
10 September 2009
10:31 GMT |
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YouTube's future and financial viability may be looking up, but it still has a lot of snags to take care of along the way. One issue that was causing UK users a great deal of irritation, while also costing YouTube a pretty penny in potential advertising revenue, was the licensing deal with UK's PRS for Musi... |
3 September 2009
06:28 GMT |
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MySpace has never been particularly well received outside of the US and it has never gained nearly as much popularity or market share as in its country of origin. Twitter on the other hand has been growing fast in the US but also worldwide and is especially popular in countries like the UK. Even so, it is interesting... |
1 September 2009
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Designing fossil fuel-based power plants outfitted with carbon-capture and -storage (CCS) technologies seems to be a lot to ask from the industry. The equipment required for such technologies to function is still prohibitively expensive, and their efficacy has yet to be fully tested because of this. But engineers are... |
27 August 2009
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Spotify has been getting a lot of hype lately and it's starting to look like it may be well deserved. The music streaming service has been very popular in the European countries where it has been launched so far and, according to a Universal Music exec in Sweden, the service's country of origin, the site is... |
26 August 2009
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Hulu can be considered a success in the US, rising to be one of the most visited video sites in the country. But its content is restricted to the North American region, which makes it largely irrelevant to the rest of the world. The site's backers though, three of the four major TV networks in the US, are pushin... |
25 August 2009
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A newly-proposed idea in the United Kingdom holds that seniors in the country could, within three years, start enjoying the company of robotic kittens in their households. According to leading psychiatrists, always having some company around could benefit the elderly, and could make them become more involved in daily... |
22 August 2009
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A number of scientists, academics and private sector investors in the United Kingdom are at this point testing their newly-developed anti-terrorism weapon, a shoulder-level gun that can immobilize speeding boats. The system it uses is quite ingenious, albeit fairly high-tech. It essentially shoots a net at an incomin... |
14 August 2009
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The Pirate Party, a political organization fighting for copyright and patent law reform, is going from strength to strength having secured a seat in the European Parliament and the German one. Now the organization is announcing that it is an officially registered political party in the UK, having been recognized by t... |
14 August 2009
11:27 GMT |
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The Internet is always changing and the way that it's being used has shifted dramatically over the years. New data from Hitwise shows a big change in the popularity of several website categories, with entertainment-related sites now having 73 percent more visitors in the UK than business and other transactional ... |
14 August 2009
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According to a new statistical study, it would appear that about four in five British parents cannot answer basic scientific questions that their children ask, such as “What makes a rainbow?” or “Why is the sky blue?” Moreover, one in five parents seem to believe that their children know more ... |
13 August 2009
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Though some might want to believe that file sharing, especially for music, is becoming less of a problem and that legitimate services are replacing illegal ones, new data from a UK Music-backed study shows that, at least in the UK, unlawful music sharing is as much of a problem as always with 61 percent of young peop... |
11 August 2009
11:34 GMT |
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According to this year's National Student Survey (NSS), just completed in the United Kingdom, it would appear that students at Durham University are still among the most satisfied in the country. This year's results confirm previous trends, which showed that the university provides a satisfactory environmen... |
11 August 2009
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It was bound to happen eventually and now it seems that the younger users are starting to leave social networking sites, at least in the UK. With hundreds of millions of users and with everyone from their grandmother to their teachers now using social networking, it's no wonder that it's becoming a less com... |
7 August 2009
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For the first time, researchers studying the behavior of the Asian super ant Lasius neglectus have discovered that the small insects seem to have a rather morbid attraction to electrical installations. This liking that the ants have taken in wires, which the experts plastically call the “kamikaze attraction,&rd... |
3 August 2009
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This is one of those instances in which the word “car” is being used in its loosest form. The only connections between the Bloodhound SSC and your average minivan is that they both have four wheels and a body. But the similarities stop here, and the differences begin. Built specifically to beat the existi... |
31 July 2009
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The United Kingdom will make today another addition to its Disaster Monitoring Constellation, when it will launch the UK-DMC2 and Deimos-1 satellites into orbit. The goal of the spacecraft is to offer government agencies images from various areas very fast, and their primary use will be for assessing the seriousness ... |
29 July 2009
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It's not just countless blogs that are writing Twitter guides anymore. Last week the company itself revealed Twitter 101, a guide to the microblogging service for businesses. But even that pales in comparison to the 20-page guide a UK government official has released, covering most aspects of the medium. While e... |
28 July 2009
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According to a new scientific study released by experts at the Bournemouth University, in the United Kingdom, the historic British woodlands are losing biodiversity at a very high rate. Environmental changes, such as an increase in soil fertility and a reduction in light, related to increased canopies, have radically... |
22 July 2009
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Social networking is big and it's getting even bigger. A new study in the UK conducted by research firm comScore shows that social networking is the second biggest online activity, second only to instant messaging. Even more telling is the fact that it's spread evenly across all demographics with users of a... |
21 July 2009
08:47 GMT |
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In a curious case in the UK Google was found not liable for the snippets of texts that appear in its search results that may be defamatory to others. London, UK-based Metropolitan International Schools (MIS) sued Google's operations in the US and the UK claiming some search results with content from a forum in t... |
20 July 2009
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Over the following 12 weeks, representatives of academies, universities and industrialists in the United Kingdom will meet and discuss whether a national space agency is necessary for the country at this point, or if the British National Space Center should be left in charge of robotic explorations. The Center has a ... |
20 July 2009
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Google launched Street View in the UK in March this year and, like in many places around the world, it has seen its fair share of controversy and opposition there too. So in order to get the public on its side Google Street View UK has added a few popular sites, some real, some less so. While everyone has heard of St... |
17 July 2009
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A UK authority has recently taken a stand against the private genetic test industry, which, it says, needs more regulations, in order to ensure that the results it puts forth are reliable. The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee argued that there was too much leeway at the moment for the private sector, a... |
7 July 2009
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