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Mavericks are back and better than ever ; REVIEW [Birmingham Mail (UK)]

Mon, 20 May 2013 04:50:20 -0400

The Mavericks SYMPHONY HALL, BIRMINGHAM MORE than two hours of wonderful Latin American-infused country music can mean only one thing. The Mavericks are back! The band has happily reunited after splitting up nearly 10 years ago, and seemingly didn't want to leave the stage after twice coming back for more....

PICTURE OF THE DAY ; It's woof at the top [Birmingham Mail (UK)]

Fri, 17 May 2013 04:55:19 -0400

It's a tough job being a movie star, and Britain's Got Talent pooch Pudsey looks dog-tired at the Cannes Film Festival, where he was launching barking biopic Pudsey: The Movie. A service of YellowBrix, Inc. ...

location location... [Birmingham Mail (UK)]

Fri, 17 May 2013 04:55:19 -0400

In 1986 comedy Clockwise, the frantic telephone box scene that proved one of the John Cleese comedy's highlights was filmed in the village of Much Wenlock in Shropshire. A service of YellowBrix, Inc. ...

Stars light up the stage in memory of gentle giant ; REVIEW [Birmingham Mail (UK)]

Tue, 14 May 2013 04:50:20 -0400

Sunday Night At The Birmingham Hippodrome - Dedicated to the memory of Ian Sandy BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME THE star-studded bill made it feel like the Royal Variety Show. But this was a night when the cream of Britain's light entertainment talent rose to the top - to honour one of their own....

CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS [Birmingham Mail (UK)]

Tue, 14 May 2013 04:50:20 -0400

Cate Blanchett, actress, 44 Chay Blyth, round-the-world yachtsman, 73; Jack Bruce, rock musician, 70; George Lucas, film- maker, 69; Francesca Annis, actress, 68; David Byrne, musician (Talking Heads), 61; Robert Zemeckis, film director, 62; Tim Roth, actor, 52; Ian Astbury, singer (The Cult), 51. A service of YellowBrix, Inc. ...

Market Report: Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Power in the United Kingdom, (UK), Market Outlook to 2020

Fri, 10 May 2013 08:52:30 -0400

REVIEW ; John Shuttleworth WOLVERHAMPTON CIVIC HAL [Birmingham Mail (UK)]

Fri, 10 May 2013 04:50:20 -0400

WELCOME to the world of John Shuttleworth, Sheffield's most versatile singer and organist. He's happy to play Wolverhampton Civic Hall at a push, but - as he ruefully points out - he's more at home at village halls and hospices....

Critic guest for hits from flicks [Birmingham Mail (UK)]

Wed, 01 May 2013 04:50:23 -0400

ENGLISH film critic Mark Kermode will take to the stage of Birmingham's Symphony Hall this summer. He will be the special guest, as well as presenter, at a night of film music performed in the hall by the CBSO. The evening will feature music from Mary Poppins to The Exorcist. For tickets call 0121 345 0603. A service of YellowBrix, Inc. ...

WIN tickets to see Hairspray! ; Chipper Club [Birmingham Mail (UK)]

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:50:22 -0400

THE West End's favourite musical comedy Hairspray is coming back to Birmingham Hippodrome soon - and we've got some tickets to give away for it. Hairspray tells the story of Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, as she sets out to follow her extraordinary dreams, inspire her mum and win the boy she loves....

Carlyle Group Partners with Palamon Capital to Purchase DBG (UK) Limited

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:54:47 -0400

Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) and Palamon Capital Partners today announced the acquisition of DBG (UK) Limited ("dbg") from Synova Capital. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Operating for over 20 years, dbg is a specialist healthcare support services provider of training, compliance support, engineering

UK Online Payments Platform GoCardless Raises $1.5 Million Series A, Plans To Expand Across Europe

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:00:29 -0400

GoCardless, the Y Combinator-backed payments startup based in the U.K., has raised a $1.5 million Series A round of funding, led by existing investors Accel Partners and Passion Capital. The company had previously raised $1.5 million in seed funding in early 2012, following its participation in the Y Combinator Summer 2011 class.

UK audit office probes 4G auction results

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 06:33:28 -0400

The audit office will investigate the auction, which took more than £1 billion less than the government had predicted. However, the rationale for the government's forecast remains highly questionable.

My story of the Thatcher era

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:07:09 -0400

Here’s how I remember it all. I didn’t look anything up, with the idea that memories matter. The ‘golden age’ from WWII was said to have ended around 1973. Inflation and employment was remembered as relatively low, productivity high, the American middle class thriving. Why? Keynes was sort of followed. The Kennedy tax cuts come [...]

Vasseti (UK) Plc & Questus Colabration to opening New Horizon

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 05:21:53 -0400

The UK moves to preserve its digital history, paywalled content (and some tweets) included

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:46:51 -0400

The U.K.'s legal deposit rules, which require publishers to submit copies of all publications to national and other major libraries, have been updated to cover everything from blogs to tweets.

The UK moves to preserve its digital history, paywalled content (and some tweets) included

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:46:51 -0400

The UK's legal deposit rules, which require publishers to submit copies of all publications to national and other major libraries, have been updated to cover everything from blogs to public social media output.

EE harnesses London cabs to tout its 4G prowess

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:12:28 -0400

The operator, which is still the only one in the U.K. to offer LTE, has launched a three-month promotion where passengers of some black cabs will get to surf through a 4G connection for free.

From Mexico City to Manchester, Skype and Peace One Day Host Student SkypeTalks

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:30:00 -0400

Bill Ford (yes, that Ford) invests in public transit, backing mobile ticketing firm Masabi

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:51:41 -0400

Masabi is a U.K. startup specializing and cloud-based smartphone ticketing technologies for public transit, and it just landed a $2.8 million strategic investment led by Bill Ford's Fontinalis Venutures.

Brits May Have to Work Until 75, Thanks to China

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:10:12 -0500

Stupid taken to new heights. Retirement is about no longer producing real goods and services and instead living off of the real output of others, incuding China’s exports to you. The only way this could make any sense is if China somehow was going to force the UK to net export at some time in [...]

Top Safety Accreditation for Vision Events (UK) Ltd

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:30:00 -0500

Midlothian, Scotland -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/27/2013 -- Local business Vision Events (UK) Ltd (known as VisionEvents) has been awarded accreditation from safecontractor for its commitment to achieving excellence in health and safety.

Top Safety Accreditation for Vision Events (UK) Ltd.

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:44:07 -0500

PayPal’s mobile payment service will go live in Europe with a funky new card reader

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:22:12 -0500

PayPal's Here mobile payments service is bound for Europe, launching first in the U.K. over the next few months. Instead of the card-swiper used in the U.S., Europe will get a new Chip & PIN device.

The results are in: UK 4G spectrum auction has five winners, raising $3.62B

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:22:54 -0500

EE, Vodafone, Three, O2 and BT have all won spectrum in the auction, which the regulator Ofcom says will lead to full 4G coverage by the end of 2017

Happy Valentine’s, Google — see you in court

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:51:14 -0500

A British man has found some sympathy in the courts because Google did not delete false comments about him made on Blogger fast enough. Does his case open a backdoor to internet regulation?

Happy Valentine’s, Google — see you in court

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:51:14 -0500

A British man has found some sympathy in the courts because Google did not delete false comments about him made on Blogger fast enough. Does his case open a backdoor to internet regulation?

UK Recovery

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:05:37 -0500

UK Daily | U.K. Jobs Grow Fastest in Almost 2 Years

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:07:15 -0500

If they just wouldn’t add to the austerity measures the deficit is plenty high enough for a reasonable recovery, albeit from unconscionably low levels caused by their fiscal policies. UK Headlines: Bank of England Leaves Interest Rate Unchanged at 0.5 Percent U.K. Fourth-Quarter Construction Increases More Than Estimated Carney Plays Down Talk of Radical Policy [...]

What a model train project can teach us about the future of 3D scanning and printing

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:17:44 -0500

A new Kickstarter project aims to fund the production of model trains for an extremely niche group of people. The way this is being made possible offers an insight into the future of manufacturing.

Better late than never, as bidding begins in UK 4G spectrum auction

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:17:24 -0500

The much-delayed UK spectrum auction is underway. It remains to be seen how EE's decision to cut its premium 4G pricing yesterday, just months after launching the service, affects the outcome.

Guest Post: What Could Shale Mean for UK Economy and Employment?

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:00:00 -0500

Diversity at conferences won’t solve anyone’s problem

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:30:32 -0500

Britain's tech community is fretting again over the dominance of young white men on the conference circuit. But events veteran Mel Kirk says that forcing diversity ignores the deep skews in the industry itself.

UK remains hopelessly out of paradigm

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 09:32:25 -0500

U.K. Labour to Strip Benefits From Unemployed If Job Refused By Kitty Donaldson January 4 (Bloomberg) — The U.K.’s opposition Labour Party called for a compulsory jobs guarantee for the long-term unemployed, making state welfare payments dependent on paid employment. The party’s treasury spokesman, Ed Balls, said the guarantee would initially be for adults who [...]

Can the French civilize Twitter? Should they try?

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 07:00:57 -0500

A string of offensive hashtag memes in France has spurred the government to announce a consultation on hate speech with Twitter. It could mark a watershed for the country's approach to social media — but it's not just Paris that has a problem. We all do.

UK copyright reform affects fair use, format-shifting and big data

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 08:56:04 -0500

It will soon become legal in the UK to copy music from a CD to an iPod, show copyrighted texts on an interactive whiteboard and use copyrighted works in a parody. In other words, this reform was sorely needed.

UK copyright reform affects fair use, format-shifting and big data

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 08:56:04 -0500

Now English social media users know the line between ‘troll’ and ‘criminal’

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:56:14 -0500

The UK's director of public prosecutions has published provisional social media guidelines for the country's police and courts, reminding them that there's a difference between bad taste and serious threats.

Last.fm revels in its scrobbles as radio bar is raised farther

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:45:01 -0500

Five years after its $280 million acquisition, the music service is still struggling to turn a profit for CBS, if latest efforts to tactically abandon and charge for royalty-incurring personalised radio are anything to go by.

How London’s Silicon Roundabout really got started

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 05:18:52 -0500

Four years ago developer Matt Biddulph jokingly coined 'Silicon Roundabout' as a description of East London's small but growing startup scene — now it's become the de facto term for the area around Old Street. Here he recounts how a moment of mirth turned into a meme.

Santa Takes Cisco Technology on Virtual Sleigh Ride Across U.K.

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:00:00 -0500

Stop crowing, London: it’s time to step it up

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 07:00:58 -0500

The British government's constant adulation of the London startup scene reached its culmination this week with the news of a huge new redevelopment project. But the reality is that many of Britain's smartest innovators are locked inside government and the rest look increasingly like poseurs.

‘Game-changing’? A free future for Mirror, Record, other papers on iPad?

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 05:28:02 -0500

In a world of £9.99 tablet newspaper subscriptions, two UK red-tops are ditching their cover price entirely for their debut iPad editions. Does this free digital move point the way for the industry?

UK Future Jobs Fund vindicated

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 21:17:55 -0500

Helps support the idea that an employed labor buffer stock works a lot better than an unemployed labor buffer stock, much like we’ve been suggesting for the last two decades: Future Jobs Fund vindicated By Tanweer Ali November 27 — Last week the government finally published its impact report on Labour’s Future Jobs Fund. According [...]

Coming in 2013 – targeted TV ads

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:59:21 -0500

TV advertising remains healthy, but platform operators want a bigger slice of the pie. Next year, some will introduce targeted advertising to their set top boxes, promising greater granularity and more effectiveness to marketers.

Coming in 2013 – targeted TV ads

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:07:55 -0500

Leveson: Social media and blogs aren’t popular enough to carry proper news

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:16:21 -0500

Weblogs and social channels not affiliated with newspapers can breathe a sigh of relief. Tweets and blogs don't have enough heft to be considered 'news' media like print, says the judge leading recommendations to heighten UK 'press' standards.

Leveson tied in knots over online news regulation

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:28:49 -0500

People don't expect trustworthy online journalism like they do in print, says the judge making recommendations about British media. His view may seem antiquated to some, but it may see digital publishers dodge new regulation.

Inquiry: ‘Reckless’ UK press needs new regulator

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:55:49 -0500

The nine-month-long inquiry in to British press standards says newspapers' ethical standards have caused 'havoc', so a new self-regulator is required to hold them to better account.

Booktime Promotes Social Responsibility by the Book

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:30:00 -0500

Guardian and BBC battle for traffic in the Big Apple

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:30:18 -0500

A U.S. election bump lifts the newspaper above the venerable broadcaster, as the two British news orgs vie for American readers. But closer inspection shows the BBC remains the more popular brand.