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Green Technology Initiative forum launches to educate and assist UK businesses
Today sees the launch of the Green Technology Initiative (GTI) which aims to educate and help UK businesses to reduce the carbon emissions from energy used by their IT equipment.
Ocean Blue Software developing solution for set-top boxes to connect to broadband
Ocean Blue Software, who specialise in digital TV software, is completing the development of software that will expand the opportunity for "red button" services by allowing set-top boxes (STBs) to connect directly to broadband.
The company is part of the DTG standards design group which is finalising MHEG-5, the system behind these interactive red button services on digital TV.
Video review: iStation Traveller Speakers
Susi hails the summer with these handy travel speakers.
From Space to Your Face: How Google Earth works
Mark Aubin, a software engineer at Google Earth, has written an interesting article on how it was inspired by a photo flipbook, how the whole system has captured people’s imagination, and explaining where the imagery comes from, why some parts of the globe are blurry whilst others are clear, and how often it’s updated.
Orange Pay-Off: 15 seconds to be a sexy, weird, dancer
Orange has launched its Pay-Off contest and is inviting its customers to submit 10-15 second video clips of themselves either trying to prove that they’re the sexiest person alive (Face-off), are the best/craziest dancer (Dance-off), or are just plain weird but couldn’t muster a longer clip on YouTube (Weird-off).
The best videos are entered into a series of play-off rounds, where users vote for their favourite and the winner then has to face a new challenge – though what that is isn’t clear yet.
European broadband now reaches 1 in 3
A new report by the European Commission suggests that almost one-third of Europeans have home access to a high speed wired broadband connection. 53% of households access the web via ADSL, with 34% using wireless connections. Nearly one-fifth of Europeans…
UK indie band The Crimea to give away album online
British indie band The Crimea is to give away its new album “Secrets of the Witching Hour” for free online, in an attempt to build a fan base.
Although plenty of unsigned bands give away their music in this way, The Crimea are possibly the biggest band to go down this route.
Channel 4's 4oD TV-on-demand service attracts 1m viewers
Channel 4's 4oD service, which launched back in December and has been strongly marketed across the Channel 4 brand, is reported to have attracted 1 million viewers so far this year. Sarah Rose, head of the 4oD service, told the…
Will the iPhone do for mobile music what iTunes did for online music?
Media analyst Screen Digest has completed some interesting research into the global market for over-the-air (OTA) mobile music downloads, as well as speculating on what impact the iPhone may have on this market.
Shiny Video Review: Playaway Audiobook
Susi excitedly introduces Katie to the wonders of a device that does one thing and one thing only. Playaway Audiobooks…
