News

  • BBC comedy greats come to audiobook

    Christmas present shopping for comedy fans may just have become a little easier with the pre-Christmas release of a host of comedy greats from BBC Audiobooks including contemporary comedy comedians Mitchell and Webb the legendary Tony Hancock and the complete Blackadder series.

  • Plastic Logic announce new business eBook reader

    A new eBook reader designed especially for business professionals is set to be unveiled by at January’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Makers Plastic Logic say their new QUE reader “is designed to simplify the multi-faceted lifestyle of the modern businessperson”.

  • Review: BT Vision – TV down your (BT) broadband

    If you’re not already familiar with BT’s TV offering it’s an on demand service which uses broadband to deliver content to a set top box which also includes a Freeview recorder (PVR). To use the service you need to have BT broadband capable of at least 2MB speeds.

  • iGoLoco – club listings on your iPhone

    A couple of weeks back I was sent a preview of iGoLoco, a new listings app now available in the iPhone app store.

  • Discovery special explores 4.4m year old skeleton

    Science fans might want to make a date with the Discovery channel this Sunday when a special programme will chart the discovery of a 4.4 million-year-old female partial skeleton nicknamed ‘Ardi’.

  • Discovery goes on the Rampage

    Celebrations over a New York Lakers game turn to chaos and violence, a driver with road rage seeks revenge on an innocent man by ploughing him down and female prisoners in Brazil turn the tables on their guards in Discovery new series Rampage.