London-based theatre design consultancy Charcoalblue is a new sponsor of The Off West End Theatre Awards (Offies). Creative thinkers Charcoalblue is sponsoring the Award for Most Welcoming Theatre (Central, North, South East, East, North ...
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Google+ suffered a site outage Friday morning, prompting users of the social network to complain on both Google+ and Twitter that the site was down or slow to load. According to Google, the outage was over by late morning, East Coast ...
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UK - When Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (BOVTS) required an upgrade from their ageing prompt desk they turned to Stage Electrics who have successfully been building stage management consoles for over 30 years. "When I joined BOVTS I ...
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IDG News Service - Panasonic introduced its 2013 TV lineup with a few whizz-bang features that look useful but others that seem a curious choice for the living room. On the useful side, 2013's update to Panasonic's My Home Screen ...
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Calling Google+ the "fastest growing network thingy ever," a company executive said Thursday that the number of Google+ active users has jumped to 135 million, a 35% increase in its user base in three months. Vic Gundotra, a senior vice ...
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A year after Google+ was launched, it seems Google is saying it's not really a social network after all. Now this might be confusing to the 150 million people who actively use Google+ every month. They catch up with colleagues and friends ...
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As their company's stock continued to slump, Facebook executives had to face not one but two other pieces of tough news this week. Just as an angry third-party developer blasted Facebook's allegedly high-handed negotiation tactics in an ...
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The Bristol Old Vic, one of Britain's most historic theatres, founded in 1766 by 50 merchants, lawyers and politicians, has been given a spectacular pound 12.26m makeover in the first phase of a major redevelopment. Originally designed by ...
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ioSafe, the storage company that has gained some Internet notoriety by challenging users to try to destroy its encased hard drives and arrays, today released a new disaster-proof cloud NAS appliance. ioSafe's new N2 is a dare waiting to ...
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Answering critics who said Google+ was among the walking dead, Google this week announced that it has some 100 million active users among the 400 million that have signed up for the social network that turned a year-old in June. The ...
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Google+ is hitting a major milestone this week as its fledgling social network reaches its first birthday. Google launched its own social network a year ago Thursday. While it's a distant competitor to the world's top social network, ...
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There is international interest in a mining discovery in the province that involves Iron Ore, but this find is not in Labrador. 4 Corners Mining Corporation has a significant discovery of iron ore, titanium and vanadium resources about 50 ...
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VIC State Distributors are recalling Kanga Candy Choc Winter Mix from several supermarkets in Victoria, Australia, as the products contain an undeclared allergen (almond), according to the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ). The ...
Eight community projects in Australia and New Zealand have been selected to share $40,000 worth of Canon products in the company's annual grants program. Nominations were sought from across Australia and New Zealand in five categories ...
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Microsoft will not sell Windows 8 as a physical boxed product in China and instead will only distribute the OS through downloads and pre-installs on devices,in a move that could help the company drive consumers away from pirated copies of ...
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