Don't you just love the school holidays? Loads of kids come into the shop looking at the toys they want and hopefully buy them. But you still get the odd ‘child’ who needs some serious time with the Supernanny. Take this ...
Tags: toys, soft toys, tougher toys, toy, toy trade
It's the most wonderful time of the year. In the toy business, it's the time when we get to see which lines live up to the hype and go on to become best-sellers. But with 2013 now not too far away, you might be looking foward to what ...
Tags: TOYNEWS, toy business, toy trends, toy
The digital December/January edition, sponsored by LeapFrog, can be viewed online now. The redesigned ToyNews issue for December/January is available to read online or via our iPad app. Makeovers traditionally come as part of the ...
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Euro 2012 has gripped not only Europe over the past few weeks,but has the world over supporting their favourite teams and predicting who they think will win the day's match. The group stages have come to an end,and the competition has ...
Tags: Euro 2012, Royal Vegas Online Casino, predict the results, online gaming
YAHOO! is revamping its email for the Web and mobile devices in a move aimed at streamlining the service and making its look consistent across various platforms. "Since it's such an important part of our daily lives, we're making a few ...
Tags: YAHOO, email, Web, mobile devices, streamlining the service
Google Apps will no longer be offered free to enterprise users,as the company has decided to enforce use of the premium version for business customers–along with a$50 per user annual fee. Explaining the decision on the Google ...
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About 200 Android applications hosted on Google Play create spoofed SMS messages on the devices on which they are installed,according to security researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec. This technique can theoretically be used for SMS ...
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Amidst much media buzz about efficient new lighting technologies and a general uproar about government light bulb "bans" worldwide, the most fundamental rule for saving energy on lighting seems to be fading: Make only as much of the right ...
Tags: Incandescent Bulb, CFL, LED Bulb
Yammer has upgraded its cloud-based enterprise social networking software with new and improved features designed to make it easier for end users to manage their content. The upgrades, which will be rolled out progressively to all users ...
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BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has unveiled its new range of PlayBooks, with the devices being launched in Canada on 9 August, followed by rollouts in the US, Europe, South Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Like the ...
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Microsoft has announced it is revamping and renaming its free webmail service,which analysts say may be aimed at winning over users of Google's rival Gmail service. The revamped service,to be known as Outlook.com,will automatically sort ...
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International utility, National Grid has selected email delivery and strategy specialist, Striata to provide email billing and transactional email services NEW YORK, NY, July 29, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- International utility, National ...
Tags: email billing services, transactional email services, Email software
One year on since Microsoft launched Office 365 the vendor has released Office 365 for Education,a cloud suite free for its education customers. Early adopters in the UK include University of Dundee,Westminster University and The Schools ...
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Raspberry Pi is a tiny ARM-based single board computer that enables a TV to run Linux and scripting languages such as Python. Designed by Cambridge business men and academics to engage children with computer science and thereby improve ...