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  • Top 5 Poker Shows on TV

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    While televised sports tournaments have always been popular, in recent years poker on TV has been flourishing. For many years a number of TV channels have been showing different poker tournaments typically with one or two nights a week dedicated to celebrity poker games. There are numerous reasons behind the success of televised poker. Just…

  • US court finds Apple guilty of ebook price-fixing

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    Apple has been found guilty of participating in a conspiracy to raise ebook prices and thwart competition. The iBooks operator and iPad maker was being sued by the US Department of Justice over the decision to adopt the agency pricing model for eBooks. Agency pricing sees publishers set the final retail price and pay the…

  • Kobo brings ereader app to Blackberry 10

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    Kobo has added Blackberry 10 to the line-up of platforms it supports, launching a new version of its popular reading app on BlackBerry World for BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10 owners. The app offers access to more than 3.5 million ebooks from Kobo’s store, plus the ability for users to sync their their library across…

  • Ray Liotta’s Breakout gets September DVD release

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    With a screenplay co-written by Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games, Breakout is dramatic chase thriller about a young mother who must resort to radical measures to protect her children. Forced to flee with her two young children, recently divorced mother Jocelyn (Alexandra Breckenridge; TVs American Horror Story) must keep her family safe from…

  • TalkTalk Mobile bolsters low-cost Android range

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    TalkTalk Mobile is offering customers a choice of Android smartphone or tablet for just £10 per month. The firm is offering the Huawei MediaPad Lite 7, a tablet with a 7″ LCD screen, 1GB of RAM and SD slot allowing up to 32 GB or additional RAM and the Huawei Ascend Y210 smartphone. It has…

  • An alternative router to BT’s Home Hub for use with BT Sport?

    An alternative router to BT’s Home Hub for use with BT Sport?

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    For some, the euphoria caused by the sudden appearance of BT Sport on their YouView box has already been tempered by the realisation that their self-bought routers won’t work with the channels and that they’ll have to revert to BT’s dreadful HomeHub 3. My personal experience of the HH3 is that it loses at least…