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Android Kindle app updated
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Amazon has updated its Kindle app for Google’s Android operating system, adding the ability to search books by voice and text and look up words and phrases in Wikipedia. Other improvements include the ability to lock the screen’s orientation and view details about a book on Shelfari, the books-focused social networking site. Amazon claim the…
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Fake spotting and haggling as the Pawn Stars return
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Pawn Stars, the documentary about a family of pawnbrokers, returned to HISTORY this week for a second series. Following three generations of the Harrison family, the show offers viewers lessons on haggling as well as the history behind one-of-a-kind, vintage items and the need to spot a fake. Series 2 finds the family business booming…
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Zinio to offer branded iPad magazine apps
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Digital magazine retailer Zinio has announced a new “Branded App” service which will allow magazine publishers to offer stand-alone apps branded as their magazine via Apple’s App Store. The apps use Zinio’s UNITY™ distribution platform to offer buyers immediate access to their library of issues whiter bought via the branded app, Zinio’s traditional iPad app…
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Exclusive clip: This Just In
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This Just In is a new online comedy service for Channel 4 which promises to deliver “up to the minute, bleeding edge jokes and videos” featuring the best emerging and established UK comedy writing and performing talent.
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Global broadcast for Les Miserables 25th Anniversary performance
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A special 25th Anniversary performance of Les Miserables is to be shown live at cinema screens across the globe on October 3rd to allow fans of the hit musical to take part in the celebrations. The performance will be beamed from London’s O2 where a host of internationally renowned performers including Matt Lucas, Alfie Boe,…
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SyFy confirm Haven screen date
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SyFy have announced they’ll be showing a new series inspired by Stephen King’s 2005 novel The Colorado Kid from next month. Haven is a 13-part series set in the small town of Haven, Maine where where the cursed have gathered for generations to lead normal lives, until now.