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Launched yesterday at the Hay Festival in Wales, Unbound is the latest website to link prospective funders to creators. In this instance, it's authors and books, rather than entrepreneurs and tech but it's the same concept. They have an idea for a book, the story gets pitched to you, if you like it you buy the future book and if
Following on from the previous post, Boxee have announced that they're opening a European office in London. In an email to Boxee users, they said that Wil Stephens will be setting up shop to bring more content to the UK audience and will be working with D-Link to get more boxes into more stores. They'll also be hiring staff so
At a press conference in Cannes, HP touted the forthcoming TouchPad as being "better than number one" and announced a few of the European TouchPad flagship partners. HP's senior VP for the Personal Systems Group in EMEA, Eric Cador said, "In the PC world, with fewer ways of differentiating HP’s products from our competitors, we became number one; in the
Ofcom, the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries, hosts a database, called Sitefinder, giving the location and type of mobile network base stations. Why would you be interested in base stations? Because they're another names for mobile phone masts or cell phone towers. The database has been linked with the ubiquitous Google Maps so that by
As the UK slowly moves towards turning off the analogue terrestrial TV signal and switching to digital transmissions, it's been overtaken by consumer demand for high definition (HD) broadcasting. The satellite and cable providers, namely Sky and Virgin Media, have been quick to offer HD on their subscription services, but the terrestrial digital broadcast system, Freeview, has been somewhat slower
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office today announced that it was fining Andrew Crossley of the now defunct ACS Law £1,000 for failing to keep secure sensitive personal information about 6,000 people. The Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, was particularly critical saying, "The security measures ACS Law had in place were barely fit for purpose in a person’s home environment, let alone
When it comes to ebook readers, I think it's fairly safe to say that there are three main contenders in the market - Amazon with the Kindle, Barnes & Noble with the Nook and Sony with the Pocket Reader range. Three contenders in the US market that is. If you live in the UK, your choice is more restricted with