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Blackberry users receive free apps for service outage
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Blackberry makers RIM are offering users £60 of ”premium” apps as an apology after they experienced three days of service interruption. Last week UK Blackberry owners were unable to access websites and emails do to a failure within RIM’s network infrastructure. On Monday RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis announced firm would be making an “expression of…
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Future clocks up 2m Apple Newsstand downloads
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Titles from specialist magazine publisher Future Publishing have been downloaded more than two million times since the debut of Apple’s Newsstand feature as part of last week’s iOS 5 update. Newsstand allows iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch users to find digital newspapers and magazines in the App Store and organise them on one bookshelf. Last…
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Paul Nicholls joins Law & Order: UK
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Former EastEnders and Harley Street star Paul Nicholls is joining the cast of ITV1’s Law & Order: UK. Nicholls will play headstrong young cop DS Sam Casey who is brought in to investigate the shooting of Matt Devlin (Jamie Bamber). The former Secret Diary of a Call Girl actor joins existing cast members Bradley…
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Digital publisher unveils Christmas ebook gift set
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Digital publisher Blasted Heath is hoping to add the personal touch to ebook gifting this Christmas with a five book gift set contained on a branded USB stick and shipping in a presentation pack. included titles include are: All The Young Warriors by Anthony Neil Smith, Dead Money by Ray Banks, Phase Four by Gary…
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Colin Murray fronts new car stunt series
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Radio 5 Live Sport’s Colin Murray is presenting a new motoring based series for UKTV’s Dave. Starting this Wednesday, Driving Wars combines the very latest in remote control technology, robotics and high speed video links with some of Britain’s best stunt drivers to create some of TV’s most dangerous motoring challenges. The show pits two…
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Dreams of A Life – review
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Carol Morley‘s Dreams of A Life documentary film explores the life of Joyce Carol Vincent, a young women whose skeleton was found in her flat three years after she died. The film starts in 2006 with a reconstruction of the discovery of Vincent’s skeleton by bailiffs seizing possession of her Wood Green flat. It then…