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Photos: Windows Media Player 11 unveiled

News Urge offers an extensive collection of live radio stations. Individual artist pages offer abundant information, including related playlists and radio stations, an Auto-Mix link that generates playlists of similar artists, a related-artist list...

16 May 2006, 12:09

Sony adds to LocationFree lineup

News Due for release in October, the LF-B10 and LF-B20 'base stations' are slim black boxes that hook up to devices like televisions, digital video recorders and video cameras. The two base stations are essentially the same, but the pricier of the two...

6 September 2006, 9:06

File-swapping TV's reception becomes clearer

News For the last several months, Clarke's television and radio stations have been putting content online using a four-month-old peer-to-peer service called the Open Media Network, which gives public broadcasters an affordable way to distribute high...

9 August 2005, 9:34

Bomb scanners to check UK rail passengers

News The government is planning to test the increased security checks at various stations to see how viable the scanners are when faced with thousands of daily commuters and other passengers. If it does work it will be rolled out across major rail and...

1 November 2005, 9:15

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

Christmas scams come with added jingle

News With the Christmas just days away, shoppers rush around late into the night, radio stations blare seasonal tunes -- and cybercriminals busily try to scam unsuspecting targets. Fraudsters use current affairs to create legitimacy," said Melih...

22 December 2005, 9:54

Virgin Trains may opt for WiMax

News Nomad Digital has emerged as the preferred bidder for the project, which would involve trackside WiMax base stations, connected via DSL, placed every few miles along the route. Travellers on Virgin Trains' West Coast line may soon be getting Wi-Fi...

22 September 2006, 10:21

London swallows another Oyster fail

News The system failed at all London Underground stations and ticket gates were opened to limit disruption while the problem was resolved. London's Oyster travel smart card system failed for the second time in a fortnight with many commuters enjoying a...

Tags: cards, problem, card, london

28 July 2008, 11:06

BT halts Web kiosk rollout

News At present there are around 1,300 Web kiosks installed around the UK at shopping centres, railway stations and airports. BT has halted the rollout of thousands of Internet kiosks after overestimating how much public demand there would be for the...

17 January 2006, 8:49

News.blog: Pandora revamps MSN radio

News In the last week, MSN quietly re-launched its online radio service powered by Pandora, a music recommendation engine that lets people create custom radio stations and discover new music related to their favourite artists or songs.

23 November 2006, 9:17

'Big Brother' cameras listen out for aggro

News The system has already been deployed in the Netherlands to listen out for aggressive tones to counter violent attacks in Dutch streets, prisons and railway stations. Smarter CCTV cameras have been given the ability to listen out for disturbances as...

23 November 2006, 9:22

News.blog: Ask tries guerrilla marketing

News Posters with a hand holding a megaphone and urging people to 'Stop the Online Information Monopoly' recently began appearing in London Underground trains and stations. Web search company Ask.com has secretly launched a guerrilla marketing campaign...

15 March 2007, 10:01

3 leads the field for 3G coverage

News UK -- owned by Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa -- has operated in the UK for less than four years, but it has already built 7,250 base stations across the country. The mobile operator 3 has announced that its third-generation services now cover...

6 February 2007, 8:45

Ericsson develops mobile network for planes

News The gear, also meant for use on ships at sea, is a much slimmer version of Ericsson's RBS 2000, the wireless giant's most popular lineup of mobile phone network base stations. Amid growing interest in relaxing the ban on mobile phone use on...

14 June 2005, 8:39

London Underground says yes to mobiles

News Transport for London (TfL) announced on Thursday it has put out a tender notice for a pilot project to put mobile coverage on the Waterloo and City line between Bank and Waterloo stations, including on platforms and in the tunnels.

16 March 2007, 8:50