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ASDA halves pay as you go mobile prices
News ASDA's mobile phone service is actually run on Vodafone's infrastructure, a trend which sees a company without any allocated radio frequency become a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) through a licensed operator.
Tags: pre, customers, plan, war
22 August 2008, 8:33
Safe sex ringtone sings 'Condom, condom!'
News The ringtone marks the latest phase in the mass-media campaign, which has placed ads on television, radio, and film, and in print and outdoor media. Ever heard a safe-sex promo sung in multipart harmony?
20 August 2008, 8:46
Broadband Britain loves to talk
News On average, Britons spend a total of 7 hours and 9 minutes per day surfing the Net, using mobile phones, talking on landline telephones, watching TV and listening to the radio, up from an average of just six minutes back in 2002.
Tags: cent, broadband, connections, communications
15 August 2008, 8:13
News.blog: Last.fm launches indie cash back scheme
News Royalty Program that allows unsigned artists to reap royalties each time one of their songs is played through the site's ad-supported streaming music feature or Web radio. Back in January, social music service Last.fm announced that it would be...
Tags: artist, royalty, upload, streaming
10 July 2008, 9:09
BBC iPlayer gets 2.0 facelift
News Radio is more prominent with 'Listen Again' and live radio available with improved sound quality and the ability to rewind and fast forward on the listen again service. The BBC's iPlayer on-demand TV service has undergone a major facelift designed...
Tags: beta, section, listen, programme
26 June 2008, 8:58
Photos: Intel shows off future tech
News Researchers are also experimenting with ways of automatically switching off a computer's wireless radio, such as during lulls in video streaming, without affecting the user experience. With two cameras on its hand, the device is able to...
Tags: hand, handle, research, production
16 June 2008, 9:23
News.blog: Last.fm thinks big 'In a Box'
News Last.fm, the music-focused social site that CBS Interactive acquired last year, announced on Wednesday the launch of a project called 'Last.fm In A Box', which distributes the site's ad-supported streaming radio services to partner companies.
Tags: ad, interactive, networks, television
5 June 2008, 9:28
Cracking open the Atari 2600
News The output from the Atari 2600 is your basic radio frequency signal carried along a wire via RCA connections. Here, we look at the Atari 2600 Video Computer System. Introduced all the way back in October 1977, it is one of the more fondly...
Tags: credit, ports, output, channel
23 May 2008, 11:04
Broadband Blighty gets a rural flavour
News And DAB digital radio penetration -- which stands at 22 per cent nationally, a four point rise. Broadband Britain is flying a tweed flag: fat pipe penetration in rural areas has outstripped urban areas for the first time, according to an Ofcom report.
Tags: rate, cent, points, connected
23 May 2008, 9:50
Qualcomm buys UK mobile-TV spectrum
News The spectrum lies in what is known as the "L-band", ranging between 1452-1492MHz, and is used through much of the world for Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) radio transmissions -- although the UK uses different frequencies for that.
Tags: auction, broadband, band, spectrum
19 May 2008, 10:38
News.blog: Last.fm tries out original video series
News Earlier this week, CBS announced that Last.fm would be powering AOL Radio's online stations in Europe. Last.fm, the social music service that CBS Interactive acquired last year, is venturing into original content for the first time with a new video...
Tags: pop, europe, expand, myspace
12 May 2008, 8:51
News.blog: Italian 3G iPhone confirmed
News Manners is one of the world's most venerable tech journalists -- he interviewed Marconi after the famous radio-assisted Titanic rescue, asking when the ship's radio cat's whisker detectors were going to move from the 3-inch to the 1.5-inch...
Tags: radio, inch, iphone, desert
9 May 2008, 10:15
Brits fear 'phonelessness' as much as dentist
News In the same week as new warnings emerged of a potential link between mobile use and cancer research has found Brits have a pathological fear of mobile 'radio silence' -- so much so the majority can't contemplate switching off their handsets in...
Tags: family, cent, contact, job
1 April 2008, 9:21
T-Mobile, Orange snatch more spectrum
News Ofcom has announced the results of its fourth radio spectrum auction, awarding licences to 10 organisations.The spectrum licences, which are technology and service neutral, are in the higher frequency bands at 10GHz to 40GHz, which is suitable for...
Tags: wireless, auction, band, operator
25 February 2008, 8:53
Orange and T-Mobile to trial mobile TV
News The service will include 24 TV channels and 10 radio stations delivered to multimedia-enabled mobiles phones over 3G UMTS spectrum.The six-month pilot will use the TDtv platform from software and systems company Nextwave Wireless, which uses...
Tags: stations, broadcast, radio, director
14 February 2008, 7:33


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