Tag: UK

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While some people still think Windows 7 could be a big ol' flop (hello, Randall C. Kennedy), Microsoft is doing everything it can to make sure launch day is a smashing great success. In the UK, that has meant moving ahead shipments of preorders so customers receive their copies before a possible postal service interruption occurs. As it turns out, Royal Mail workers have pegged October 22nd ...

Now here's something you don't see every day. A piece of technology that's going to be cheaper for UK customers than those in the US. Typically UK shoppers end up paying more for computers, gaming consoles and software than their US counterparts. But CNET has discovered that Microsoft is charging just £65 for a full version of Windows 7 Home Premium. That's about $107 US, while Americans ...

Microsoft has started taking pre-orders of Windows 7 in the UK. Windows 7 Home Premium E is available for pre-order for £49.99, while Windows 7 Professional E will set you back £99.99. Pre-orde pricing will be available until August 9th, or while supplies run out, whichever comes first. Of course, Microsoft isn't actually going to run out of pre-order licenses. It's software, after ...

Hot on the heels of the announcement that Hulu has hired a new VP in charge of international business, paidContent is reporting that Hulu has signed a deal to distribute several TV shows from the UK's Channel 4. But for now, they'll only be available to US viewers. The deal covers several programs including Peep Show, Rude Tube, Queer as Folk, Green Wing, and Underbelly. The shows aren't ...

Google has launched Street View in the UK. Street View lets Google Maps users see photographs of streetscapes photographed by Google vehicles. At launch, you can see imagery for 25 cities in the UK including London, Edinburgh, Cambridge, Glasgow, and Sheffield and Southampton. Overall, Google Maps has pictures of more than 22,000 miles of streets in the UK. When the service launched in the US, ...

Google and the group that licenses music videos in the UK have hit a stumbling block in negotiations. And that's led Google to block UK users' access to premium music videos. That covers music that has been uploaded by artists and record labels for which Google pays a licensing fee, as well as user uploaded videos that have been claimed by copyright holders. In other words, the only music videos ...

Amazon offers one of the most compelling iTunes competitors around right now. The online retailer offers music downloads from all four major labels. And unlike Apple's iTunes, Microsoft's Zune Marketplace and other digital music stores, Amazon MP3 offers DRM-free music at reasonable prices. There's just one problem -- the service doesn't work outside of the US. Yet. For months, Amazon has been ...

First came pirated copies of TV shows being traded over the internet by fans the BBC iPlayer service which lets UK residents watch any TV program that's aired in the last seven days. Now the BBC plans to stream BBC1 content live over the internet. The new streaming service will go live sometime int he next few months. The BBC already streams content from several of its news channels live, but ...

For those of you that have been itching to get a pulse on more European company information and UK mutual fund data, Google Finance has just opened Google Finance UK. Following in the footsteps of Google Finance Canada, the Google Finance Blog states that this is another implementation of a series of sites that will aim to bring localized financial information to users. Although there aren't any ...

We have two bits of probably unrelated news about digital music in Europe to share today. First up, Apple has announced plans to establish uniform pricing for iTunes downloads throughout Europe. Right now, UK residents are paying more for their music than customers in any other country in Europe. The reason for that is because Apple has to pay record labels more money to distribute music in the UK ...

Attention UK Pandora users: as of January 15, 2008, Pandora will stop streaming its Internet radio content. This comes more than six months after Pandora was forced to shut-down service to most non-US users and is the latest in the continually messy battle over licensing Internet radio. A reader just forwarded us an e-mail from Pandora, explaining the situation. Here are the pertinent bits: ...As ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2007/11/14/uk-iphone-reactions-mixed-loud/'; With UK-based Carphone Warehouse estimating first-day sales of Apple's iPhone at 10,000 or more, observers in England are beginning to gripe about the same things American iPhone consumers have been griping about since last spring. Where to begin? The servers used to activate the phones can't handle the ...

A few months back we realized that we don't know Kentucky from Kansas thanks to Statetris, an online game that combines geography with Tetris. At the time, all we could do is bungle the placement of US states. But now that Statetris has gone international, we realize just how little we know about world geography. There are new versions of Statetris for Africa, Europe, France, Japan, the ...

With so many hassles and things to worry about when moving, why not hire a professional. Better yet, check out a free service called Moveme. Moveme is based and focused on the London, UK area. It offers individuals and families an easy way to keep track of their moving tasks like changing mailing addresses, forwarding mail, hiring a moving truck and activating new utilities. The interface is ...