August, 2010 Archive

The UK version of the Amazon Kindle eBook device is hitting people’s doorsteps today, one day ahead of the 27th August release date. It seems some lucky customers that placed a pre-order are seeing deliveries today, with more expected over the next few days, although it seems that the early deliveries may only be for [...]

The Wand Remote Control, which we featured back in Show 46, got an appearance on the BBC Dragon’s Den this evening. Control your TV,  Hi-fi, audio and home electronics with the flick of a wrist. It’s a great product, as proved by the fact that all five Dragons wanted to invest. For our full hands-on [...]

As we’ve reported in recent shows, Sky’s purchased a bunch of channels from Virgin Media – including Living, Bravo and Virgin 1. Obviously, the station has to lose the “Virgin” brand, so Sky’s presumably paid a bunch of consultants to come up with the rather original name “Channel One”. (Our money was on “Chuck 1″ [...]

FrequencyCast Show 54 has just been released. Here’s what today’s show contains: News Updates: More broken Freeview boxes, new HD channels and the Kindle. Focus: Sport on TV. Sky’s stranglehold is broken, or is it? Comment: iPhone 4 reception problems and the FM Switchoff Hands-on: We play with the world’s smallest Internet radio Your comments [...]

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