Less than 6 months after YouTube.com announced its largest ever video sizing and streaming resolution (1080p) the Video streaming website go and blow themselves out of the water by announcing a further update that allows videos to be broadcast in up to a whopping 4K resolution.
YouTube officials announced the latest update to its internet changing [...]
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YouTube Announce up to 4K Video Resolution Playback
Channel Five pulls out of Project Canvas
Project Canvas is a joint venture which sees the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Talk Talk and Arqiva in partnership with the aim of providing a common platform to deliver TV content to people all over the UK via the internet and other IP streaming formats. However the partership has just been dealt a small [...]
Facebook Face Legal Action Due to Privacy Issues
Earlier this year Google got on the wrong side of the German law with its Street View project. Google had gathered data sent from unencrypted Wi-Fi connections which didn’t sit well the Information Commissioner.
Now it’s Facebook who will be on the phone to their lawyers. The Californian company now face legal proceedings against them after [...]
Firefox 4 Beta available now
Mozilla have released the Beta version of its long awaited Firefox web browser updates and this time it’s a more substantial upgrade to the Firefox 4 release.
The Beta version is now available for anyone to download from the Mozilla website, but as the release is still in a Beta from then you should expect a [...]
News International Introduces ‘Paywall’ Scheme to Make Money from Online Users
News International will begin the most significant change to their online model by introducing a “Paywall” to their Times and Sunday Time online websites from Friday at a cost of £1 per day and £2 for a week’s subscription.
The media world will watch with baited breath to see whether it succeeds as this new model [...]
BBC Website crashes around the England vs Slovenia crunch game
If you are one of the millions of football fans over the UK who was hoping to sneakily catch the England vs Slovenia final group stages match, either at home or on your work PC they may have been in for a little bit of a disappointment as there due to the high demand of [...]
Google planning iTunes downloads rival?
Rumours are abound today regarding Google’s massive iTunes rival music and media download service coming to a computer near you in arrive by the end of the year, according to music industry sources
Rumours regarding a Google iTunes rival started earlier on in the year when the tech giant Google bought out Simplify Media, and the [...]
UK’s proposed broadband tax scrapped
George Osborne today announced that as a part of his emergency budget, the proposed 50p Broadband Tax will be scrapped. The plan was devised by Labour as a way to fund an improved broadband network in the UK, and a rollout of Fibre Optic cabling in rural areas. The 50p Tax was to be added [...]
Gaming Weekly – E3 2010’s Whos, Whats and Whens, Crysis 2 excites and plus goes the Playstation
We’re Writing About E3…
Oh yes, we are writing about E3. This week’s blog will show off some of the highlights of this year’s show, and bring to the attention of the huge fan base gaming commands some of the latest and greatest new innovations, new consoles and games from E3 2010.
Check out a few of [...]
