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Tickets costs $’000s for this event.. so to watch it in the comfort of where ever you are watching has got to be a good thing. Watch live streaming video from web20tv at livestream.com

Image by Axel Bührmann via Flickr Hey if Stephen Fry comes out to say that the lastest phone OS from Microsoft, the aptly named Windows 7 Smart Phone as ‘joy to play with’, then we’re listening. Remember Stephen Fry persuaded undoubtably some of us to jailbreak our iPhones. Microsoft are coming at this release all guns blazing and it’s full of Microsoft things to do, [...]

If you’re bored and want to watch something fascinating, check out the TechCruch Disrupt event. TechCrunch incidentally just merged (acquired) by AOL.

Image via Wikipedia From October BT want to eek a little bit more money out of you to say thanks for being a loyal customer. They’re set to increase the monthly line rental by 50p per month, while also increasing the connection cost of each call by 1p, which tops it up to a nice round number for 10.9p. Of course BT have their calling plans which help of set some of these costs, but even so [...]

Image via Wikipedia It’s the trailer you probably weren’t waiting for but heck, it is tech, it is social media, it should define a generation, heck it could be the next Matrix. ‘The Social Network‘ – depicts the early days of Facebook, you know when they has 22,000 hits in 2 hours. Before Zuckerburg had 500 million friends and a few enemies. Ah the life of an undergraduate, [...]

Here we’re all big users of Google Mail, why? For all the same reasons you like to use it. About 6 months ago I stopped using a non web based email client and I haven’t looked back, well until I saw this video. Somehow the new Outlook looks a little more functional and a little more social. I’m going to go to the office tomorrow take the trouble to setup Outlook to sync with my Google [...]

File sharing copyrighted material is now as old as Napster which turns out to be more than 10 years old, where did the time go? Anyway I digress, last night the recording industry vs people report that the RIAA were throwing literally millions upon millions of dollars to recover tiny amounts in damages from the likes of you and I. Image via Wikipedia In 2008 it is reported that their legal [...]

Image by DavidErickson via Flickr iAds have landed and they are ringing the bells of the cash registers for developers/media owners. One reported on hacker news earnings on their first day of $1,372.20. That’s a fair chunk of cash when you consider the effective cost per thousand (eCPM) ad displayed worked out at $147.55. Based on the chart above the developer (publisher/media owner) has shown [...]

E3 is kicking off and we’ve sent editor @cr to bring us back some gossip. In a bid not to be a little jealous I’ve invested some time working out how to make my life a little more comfortable for gaming, movies and reading. So today I present to you my uncrate moment, a chair! Granted no gizmos, no high tech flair. After hours (truth be told, years) of searching for the right chair I came [...]

Apple release of it’s own ad network iAds is the clearest signal that mobile advertising has reached a tipping point. Watch this segment grow up fast and become hugely influential in the future role of digital and traditional marketing. iTunes in my mind has evolved Apple into so much more than a technology company. iTunes now sits at the very core of the distribution business model that Apple [...]