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The games industry says British universities are failing to equip graduates with the skills it needs. The warning comes from the industry campaign group “Games Up?”, which says games developers in Britain are facing a serious skills shortage.
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Apple could face an uphill battle convincing big businesses to abandon the BlackBerry in favour of its iPhone mobile handset, according to a study released on Wednesday. An analysis of responses from 105 chief information officers by Sanford Bernstein, th
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Steven Spielberg and the founders of the DreamWorks studio are in talks with India’s Reliance Big Entertainment about financing their new film venture, in a move that will see DreamWorks end its three-year association with Paramount Pictures, the Hollyw
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ITV has signed a potentially ground-breaking deal to develop new programmes with Twentieth Century Fox TV using joint funding and combined teams of US and British writers and producers.
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Mark Rabe has been appointed to head Yahoo’s UK sales team, replacing Blake Chandlee who left the firm for Facebook last October.
Monthly Archives: June 2008
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More bloggers than ever face arrest for exposing human rights abuses or criticising governments, says a World Information Access report. In 2007 three times as many people were arrested for blogging about political issues than in 2006, it revealed.
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Instant messaging may turn out to be a large area of long-term growth for Google and Yahoo, especially in the mobile sector.
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Apple has unveiled the second generation iPhone, with support for faster 3G wireless networks. Steve Jobs said the phone would be “more affordable” for consumers, starting at $199 (£100). The new iPhone also comes with GPS satellite navigation built in f
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A proposed merger between United Business Media and Informa has been greeted as a credible combination of two complementary business media groups, timed to take advantage of private equity buyers’ new found financial limitations.
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A new generation of social networking sites is gaining support in Silicon Valley, challenging the established models of leaders MySpace and Facebook. FriendFeed, a service founded by the creators of Google Maps and Gmail, is at the head of an anarchic cou
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Burgeoning growth on the internet helped overcome a slump in newspapers to lift overall spending on advertising in the UK by 4.2 per cent last year, figures released on Monday showed.
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Motorola has introduced full-length films to watch on its mobile handsets for the first time, offering downloads including The Italian Job, Star Trek and Team America: World Police to UK customers. A deal with Paramount Digital Entertainment has made 40 t
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Former Linden Lab chief technology officer Cory Ondrejka has been appointed to the new position at EMI of senior vice-president of digital strategy.
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U2’s manager Paul McGuinness has said the group will not let fans download their music for free.
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A psychiatrist specialising in treating those who worry about spending too time playing videogames has said pornography is more accepted than World of Warcraft.
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Sky, Virgin Media and Joost have submitted concerns about Project Kangaroo to the Office of Fair Trading. The firms say the in-development video-on-demand service could dominate the market and stifle competition.
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Microsoft’s live search will be the default search engine on all PCs made by Hewlett Packard for the US and Canadian markets from January 2009.
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Adobe has made a move into online document sharing with the launch of the Acrobat.com community site. It allows people to create, store and share documents online, and hold web conferences to discuss changes. It was unveiled at the same time as the new ve
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Tighter regulation of the secondary ticketing market is being demanded by a group representing 400 musicians and their managers, who claim that a partnership between Madonna and Viagogo ticket resale site suggests the industry cannot regulate itself.
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Warner Bros quietly rolled out a trial version of an ambitious on-demand video website over the weekend, offering archives of shows including Friends, Smallville and Buffy the Vampire Slayer as well as web-exclusive content and social networking features.
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