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Vodafone promises Nexus One ´in a few short weeks´

Nexus One´s vague Europe-bound release window has tightened up quite a bit. A Vodafone spokesperson said the Google Phone is coming first in the UK and -- here´s the kicker -- within "a few short weeks." France, Germany, and a few other unnamed companies are following after later in the year. Enjoy your new Android device across the pond, ladies and gents.   By Ross Mi...

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Banks should know more about their customers says city regulators

Banks should know more about their mortgage customers´ spending habits, says City regulator the FSA. Outlining its proposals to crack down on ‘irresponsible’ home lending, FSA chief exec Hector Sants suggests that affordability tests – including questions on spending on alcohol,  tobacco and clothing – should be part of the mortgage approval process in future. This would help, says San...

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TV Signs Development Deal With Mattel

ITV Studios has signed a deal to develop several of Mattels board-game brands into international TV formats and multi-platform properties. The new agreement includes some of Mattels most popular brands such as word game Scrabble, sketching game Pictionary and UNO - where players try to win by strategically eliminating all their cards by matching colours or numbers. ITV Studios director of f...

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Elvis wavy locks is going on the auction

A tuft of Elvis Presley´s 51-year-old wavy locks is going on the auction block ... and is expected to fetch around $12k!!. One of Presley´s friends has managed to hold on to the hair clump, which was cut off back in 1958 when the King enlisted in the Army, and is selling it as part of an auction of Elvis memorabilia on October 18 in Chicago. Other less creepy items ...

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Online advertising ´overtakes TV´

Online advertising spending in the UK has overtaken television expenditure for the first time, a report has said. Online spending grew 4.6% to £1.752bn in the first half of 2009, while TV spending shrank 16.1% to £1.639bn. Overall advertising fell 16% compared with the same period in 2008, said the study by the Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. E-mail campaigns, classifi...

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Canon Launch EOS 7D Camera

Canon launched the EOS-7D on 31st August 09, its most advanced crop-frame digital SLR camera to date. The camera not only shoots at 18 megapixels, one of the highest resolutions for a camera that isn´t full-frame, but also gives it two DIGIC 4 processors that help it shoot more quickly than other cameras in its class. It can shoot bursts of 8 frames per second for up to 15 shots in RA...

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Andrew Davis screen writer.

  Andrew Davies screen writer asked ICE Productions to produce a DVD for his talks on Little Dorrit. Mr Davies is known for his many adaptations of novels and screen plays including  Affinity by Sarah Waters, Evelyn Waugh´s Brideshead Revisited, aswell as Charles Dickens’ Little Dorrit, filmed as a BBC series. His version of Little Dorrit won 7 out of its 11 Emmy...

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