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HMV rescued in £50m deal
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Troubled entertainment retailer HMV has been rescued by restructuring specialists Hilco in a £50m deal. The company has bought the HMV brand, business and 132 stores from administrators Deloitte, along with all nine of the group’s Fopp stores. The deal could save up to 2,500 jobs and comes almost three months after the iconic entertainment…
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Endeavour returns to ITV on April 14th – trailer
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ITV’s Inspector Morse prequel Endeavour, which stars Shaun Evans as the young Morse, the role first made famous by John Thaw, returns for a four-episode series on April 14th. The original “one-off” episode aired over New Year 2012 to mark the 25th anniversary of the very first Morse episode. and drew a consolidated audience of…
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Apple to ‘radically overhaul’ iPhone and iPad operating system
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The next version of iOS, the operating system used by Apple’s iPhone and iPad, will bring a “significant” change to the platform’s look and feel according to reports. Daring Fireball’s John Gruber says IOS 7 will be a “significant system-wide UI overhaul”, breaking with the look of past versions. Although new features have been added,…
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Zinio announces exclusive Nokia Lumia newsstand app
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Digital magazine retailer Zinio has struck a deal with Nokia to make its Windows Phone 8 newsstand app exclusive to the phone manufacturer’s Lumia range. Zinio has already released a Windows 8 app for tablets, notebooks and desktops in late 2012, but the new app is its first for the smartphone version of Microsoft’s latest…
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Star Trek Into Darkness – official new 60 second trailer
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Paramount pictures has released a brand new 60 second trailer for J.J. Abrams’s upcoming Star Trek Into Darkness – out in UK cinemas on May 9th. The film stars Chris Pine as Kirk, Zachary Quinto as Spock, Zoe Saldaña as Uhura, Karl Urban as Dr McCoy, Anton Yelchin as Chekov, John Co, as Sulu, Simon…
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Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: Zygons to return
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As well at least one past Doctor and companion, the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary story is set to feature classic monsters the Zygons. The show’s official Twitter account has published this image, showing one of the shapeshifting aliens on what could well be a Welsh hillside. The Zygons first appeared in the 1975 story Terror…