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Its FreeView Re-tune Day

Don’t forget to re-tune your freeview TV set’s and card after noon today http://www.bbc.co.uk/digital/tv/retune/index.shtml for more information

Published 30 Sep 2009 2:52 by Darren McCarthy

Filed under: 2009, FreeView
Microsoft posts final details on the next service pack for WHS

Full Image-based Backups of Windows 7 PCs. After the Windows Home Server Connector is installed on your Windows 7 PCs, Action Center should no longer display that your files are not being backed up. Windows 7 Libraries Support. Music, Photos and...

Published 29 Sep 2009 1:46 by Darren McCarthy

Filed under: 2009, Windows Home Server
BT Cuts wholesale broadband prices

BT Wholesale will be dropping prices to communications providers from January 2010 which should reduce costs to end users. The plan is to decrease bandwidth charges by 50% and also to introduce a reduction in WBC rental costs. This should mean...

Published 28 Sep 2009 4:56 by Darren McCarthy

Filed under: 2009, Broadband
BT pledge 24Meg to 75% of the country by 2011

BT have announced today their plans for expanding their 21st Century Network, known as 21CN, to more of the country. Current deployment is to around 40% of the population and they aim to extend this to around 55% of homes and business by Spring 2010 and...

Published 28 Sep 2009 4:55 by Darren McCarthy

Filed under: 2009, Broadband
Microsoft Update their ebook reader app

Microsoft have recently, quietly updated their ebook reader app (2.4.2). http://www.microsoft.com/reader/info/features/default.aspx For more information

Published 28 Sep 2009 2:48 by Darren McCarthy
Re-tuning your Freeview TV equipment for UK Viewers

On Wednesday 30 September 2009 improvements are being made to the Freeview service to pave the way for the digital TV switchover. You will need to re-tune your Freeview TV or box (including BT Vision and Top Up TV) from lunchtime onwards to ensure you...

Published 27 Sep 2009 8:53 by Darren McCarthy

Filed under: FreeView
Starbucks lets customers pay for coffee via iPhone

Filed under: Business , iPhone , Mobile Starbucks is late to adopt the branded iPhone app trend, but now the coffee giant has entered the mobile market in a big way. Starbucks just announced two iPhone apps : myStarbucks and Starbucks Card Mobile...

Published 24 Sep 2009 16:19 by Darren McCarthy

Filed under: 2009
UK phone line tax going ahead

Government plans for a tax to help pay for broadband in rural and poorer areas have moved forwards in another giant leap for mankind's cash UK phone line tax going ahead nate.lanxon@cnet.co.uk (Nate Lanxon) Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:32:01 GMT

Published 24 Sep 2009 16:18 by Darren McCarthy

Filed under: 2009
Updated Version of Windows Live Family Safety Released

With yesterday’s update to Windows Live Essentials (which included the final release of Windows Live Movie Maker), we also released an updated version of Windows Live Family Safety . Windows Live Family Safety is designed to help parents keep their...

Published 24 Sep 2009 15:08 by Darren McCarthy

Filed under: 2009, Windows Live
Xbox 360 System Update rolling out (no new features)

Sometime over the next few hours when you sign in to Xbox LIVE you’ll receive a prompt to accept this mandatory update. If you are signed into LIVE already, you may be signed out and asked to accept the update and you’ll be back online in a few moments...

Published 23 Sep 2009 10:19 by Darren McCarthy

Filed under: XBox 360
First update for Windows 7…already released!

Install this update to resolve issues with non-compatible applications for Windows 7. For complete details of this update, see Knowledge Base Article KB974332 . After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.

Published 23 Sep 2009 2:59 by Darren McCarthy

Filed under: Windows 7
New Hotmail features

Auto Refresh of Inbox : Inbox is refreshed when a user is logged into WebIM, instead of after 60 seconds. Auto save Drafts : emails automatically saved to drafts as they are composed. Current auto save is set to 3 minutes Keyboard Shortcuts : “Lots...

Published 14 Sep 2009 2:41 by Darren McCarthy

Filed under: 2009, Hotmail
New Windows Mobile Phones Coming

Microsoft has at last announced the availability of Windows Phones with Windows Mobile 6.5. Though the precise phone models were not announced today, Microsoft announced the carriers and handset manufacturers we can expect to find on October 6.

Published 4 Sep 2009 22:07 by Darren McCarthy

Filed under: 2009, Windows Mobile
Google calls Gmail outage 'minor issue', but thousands beg to differ

By Nate Mook , Betanews Has Google issued an apology about today's Gmail outage, or is the company trying to downplay the issue? We're not really sure. In a blog post this afternoon, Google engineering director David Besbris wrote, "We...

Published 4 Sep 2009 21:44 by Darren McCarthy

Filed under: 2009
Apple denies 'exploding' iPhones

iPhones that reportedly "exploded" in France were not due to overheating batteries as had been suggested, Apple says. Apple denies 'exploding' iPhones Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:45:23 GMT

Published 4 Sep 2009 21:40 by Darren McCarthy

Filed under: 2009, iPhone

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Its FreeView Re-tune Day

Microsoft posts final details on the next service pack for WHS

BT Cuts wholesale broadband prices

BT pledge 24Meg to 75% of the country by 2011

Microsoft Update their ebook reader app

Re-tuning your Freeview TV equipment for UK Viewers

Starbucks lets customers pay for coffee via iPhone

UK phone line tax going ahead

Updated Version of Windows Live Family Safety Released

Xbox 360 System Update rolling out (no new features)

First update for Windows 7…already released!

New Hotmail features

New Windows Mobile Phones Coming

Google calls Gmail outage 'minor issue', but thousands beg to differ

Apple denies 'exploding' iPhones