All Posts Tagged With: "UK"

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Quick Links 11-02-07

I’ve finally managed to clear Google Reader after some frantic J J J J S J J J J S action.
Here are the links I found that were interesting:

UK HDforAll campaign aims to secure high definition over Freeview
Vodafone to offer MySpace service
Microsoft’s Live OneCare and McAfee software fails to secure Vista
Five Things To Do With [...]

11Feb2007 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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50K Wiis Sold In 12 Hours In UK

No big surprise as the Wii sold out within 12 hours. The video below does a good job of covering the launch at the main HMV on Oxford Street. The Oxford Street launch featured footballer Ian Wright fighting World Champion boxer Ricky Hatton on Wii Boxing, which Wrighty won.

9Dec2006 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
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FM Transmitters Will Be Legal In The UK From December 8th

Finally. According to TechDigest, FM Transmitters will be legal in the UK from December 8th when the new Wireless Telegraphy Regulations 2006, is passed:
“In response to consumer demand Ofcom has led negotiations in Europe to develop a harmonised technical approach designed to limit the potential of interference to other wireless devices,” Ofcom said in [...]

24Nov2006 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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New Google UK Logo - One Day Only!

I read this story in the paper on the way to work today, and I think it looks pretty cool.
More than 15,000 kids entered a content to design a new logo for Google UK to reflect ‘Britishness’.
I think the winning design by Katherine Chisnall, 13, which was chosen by an online poll and which features [...]

7Nov2006 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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Brits Spend More Time On The Net Than Watching TV

A survey conducted by Google found that British internet users spend an average of 164 minutes online daily - the equivalent of 41 days a year - compared to 148 minutes watching television.
Men spend on average 172 minutes on the web daily, and women 156 minutes. Londoners and Scots are the most dedicated net [...]

10Mar2006 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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UK Blog Visits Increased By 130% Over The Last 12 months

Hitwise, a web traffic monitoring company reported that visits to blogs in the UK currently account for almost 1 in 200 visits to all websites, up 130% on the previous year.The UK market is dominated by MSN Spaces and LiveJournal, although myspace is growing fast - up 500% since it debuted in the Hitwise ranks [...]

30Jul2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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ICE-In Case of Emergency Campaign

In the wake of the London bombings, there is a new campaign in the UK to get everyone to add a ‘ICE-In case of Emergency’ contact to their phone address books so that emergency services can quickly call from a victims moby to find out who they are, inform next of kin etc.
This is a [...]

10Jul2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Blogs Following The London bombing

The Guardian Newsblog is providing up to date reports from the chaos that combines the strength of the mainstream press with the imediacy of blogging.
The whole London transport network is down - it’s impossible to even get a cab. I just spoke to my brother’s wife as I wasn’t able to get through to [...]

7Jul2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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London Explosion Latest

I’ve just realised that it must be hard for those of you who are overseas to find out what is going on as the phone networks, both fixed and mobile, are struggling. To keep up to date with what is happening you can watch live coverage on the web at http://news.bbc.co.uk. So far [...]

7Jul2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Off-topic: Liverpool Champions League Win

Just got back after watching live Liverpool win the Champions League. Or was it live? Steven Gerrard clearly said the F word in his interview at the end but it was dubbed out. There is no way someone did this real-time - is live TV broadcast with a slight delay so they [...]

25May2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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