Satellite Navigation devices could start to fail from 2010, according to a US Government report. The network of orbiting GPS satillites is now around 20 years old, and satellites are expected to fail shortly. The satellites need replacing after their 20 year lifespan, and the first launch of a new satellite was due for the [...]
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Sat Navs to crash from 2010
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Happy Towel Day, listeners
A quick shout out to all of today’s towel carriers. Today is Towel Day, celebrated the world over. FrequencyCast extends the towel of friendship to all men, women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. Share and Enjoy, froods…
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FrequencyCast Update – Quest, Top Up and Tiscali news
As we’re hoping you know, FrequencyCast produces regular online radio shows (a.k.a. podcasts). Now and then, we release special audio “updates” to cover breaking stories, and so far there’s been a bunch of stories this month already. So, we’re just out of the studio with a 16 minute audio update looking at Quest‘s failure to launch, [...]
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Freeview channel Quest fails to launch
Today, 14th of May 2009 – Launch day for the new free-to-view documentary channel from Discovery… “Quest”. Or so we were assuming. Adverts had been released, Freeview’s website was carrying the news of the launch, user’s Freeview boxes had the channel placeholder on channel 47, TV listings were in the Radio Times, and the on-screen [...]
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Top Up TV Box Lockups
More troubles for Top Up TV users… It seems that over the Bank Holiday weekend, something happened that affected users of a number of Thomson Top Up TV Anytime boxes. The Thomson DTI 6300 hard-disk recorders appear to be failing to start up – showing an orange light. Attempts to reboot the boxes don’t seem [...]
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Gadget Show’s Jon Bentley listens?
We’ve heard a rumour that the Gadget Show’s Jon Bentley may be a listener to our humble tech podcast. Could this be our first famous listener? Jon – If you’re reading, we gave you a shout in Show 39. Get in touch and say “hi”?
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FrequencyCast UK Podcast 39 released
Show 39 of FrequencyCast, the UK’s TV and Tech podcast, has just been released. In our regular online radio show, we discuss all that’s new with digital TV and technology. Here’s what we cover in this show: News Updates: HD on iPlayer, concerns for canvass, plus 1 billion apps on iPhones Focus: Get more from [...]
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