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Apple has earlier used a September event to release new iPods and announce upgrades to the iTunes service. Keeping with the tradition -  Apple will be holding a media  event on September 1st out in San Francisco, and we think that it is for  new Apple TV everyone is talking about. Apart from a  Apple TV release, which is expected to be relaunched with a naming change to Apple iTV, Apple watchers [...]

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 the BBC reports that [...]

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 [...]

Sky’s parent company British Sky Broadcasting (commonly abbreviated to BSkyB)  has announced the acquisition of Virgin Media Television or VMtv for 160 million pounds in an all cash deal, both companies have also  entered into a number of agreements providing for the broadcasting of certain Sky standard and high-definition channels on VMtv. BSkyB will initiall  pay 105 million pounds in [...]

Yahoo had been once synonymous with Internet in recent times it has been plagued by dwindling number of visitors  and is loosing users to Social Networking websites including its competitor Google’s Buzz and Orkut websites, to curb this Yahoo has announced its integration with Facebook. Select Yahoo services will stream Facebook news feed updates and  users of both Yahoo and Facebook would [...]

Few days after reaching numero uno position and becoming the most valuable technology company in terms of market capitalization, Apple has joined the infamous club  of big companies -  including IBM, Intel and Microsoft – which got  investigated for antitrust allegations by United States Department of Justice(DoJ). The Department of Justice is  investigating Apple over antitrust practices [...]

After the tremendous sales and success which Apple has seen since  iPhone launch helped  it overtook Microsoft to became world’s most valuable technology company and the the second largest company in the US after Exxon Mobile in market capitalization,  it  to become the most valuable technology company which was a mixture of persistent run-up in Apple shares and the dwindling value [...]

Tony Blair, the  former Prime Minister of UK  has been hired as a senior adviser by Khosla Ventures, a Silicon Valley firm which is promoted by Vinod Khosla who is  known as the brains behind Sun Microsystems and is one of Silicon Valley’s smartest investors. Khosla Ventures  is planning to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in green technology and is banking on Blair’s international [...]

Foursquare, the popular location-based social networking service for mobile devices, which also doubles up as a game and rewards users with virtual badges and mayorships for checking into various establishments has tied up with Dominos Pizza in UK .   Dominos, which promotes itself as the UK’s leading pizza delivery service, will offer free pizzas and discounts to Foursquare users who visit [...]

Google TV  which was being talked about for some time and which was officially announced during the Google Developers conference held last week at California saw Logitech mentioned as a prominent partner for hardware which was further acknowledged by the peripheral maker through its website. ” To help bring Google TV to life, Logitech will offer the first retail companion box to work with [...]