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Author Archives: Keith McGrellis
Spotify on Virgin Media Tivo and its Big Update
Spotify is now available on Virgin Media’s Tivo for Spotify Premium subscribers. I was expecting to be able to search the Spotify library just like with the desktop application but all you can do is play from your playlists or … Continue reading
Virgin Media and Spotify Deal Details
Virgin Media and Spotify have announced the details of their deal. New customers who sign up to a 12 month contract for a 30Mbps or faster cable broadband service will get 6 months of Spotify Premium for free. The same … Continue reading
Kingdom of England and France
Royal succession rules are being changed so that females have equal rights to the Commonweath realm thrones. This throws up some interesting situations if the rule had been in place during different parts of history. Stephen Glenn has an interesting … Continue reading
New Loan Scheme for SMEs
Alastair Hamilton, Chief Executive of Invest NI, has announced that a new loan scheme for small and medium-sized businesses which can’t get lending from banks will start three months after FSA approval. He said that the £50million scheme will be … Continue reading
Judo Centre of Excellence to be Opened in Derry
The steady stream of good news coming out of Derry continues with the announcement that Derry City Council has approved the building of Ireland’s first Judo centre of excellence in the city. The centre will be part of a new … Continue reading
Derry is First Fibre City
BT have announced that they have completed the roll-out of fibre broadband in all of it’s street cabinets in Derry. This means that Derry is the first city in the UK and Ireland to be completely upgraded to the fibre … Continue reading
NI Digital TV Switch-over Date Set
The BBC are reporting that Northern Ireland’s analogue TV transmitters will be shut down on 24th October 2012. This date will also be the end of analogue TV in the UK as Northern Ireland will be the last region to … Continue reading
Good and Bad News for City of Culture
Derry is on the build up to being the UK’s first City of Culture in 2013 but for the second time in a year the City of Culture office was the target for a bomb attack. The bomb went off … Continue reading
Where’s the Rent or Mortgage?
Some of the candidates in the Irish Presidential election have released their earnings. Martin McGuinness doesn’t get paid directly from the Northern Ireland Assembly for being an MLA and Deputy First Minister. Instead his salary gets paid to Sinn Féin … Continue reading
RIP Steve Jobs
What a man. The world has lost one of the best innovators to have ever lived. He changed all of our lives. Where would we be today if he never existed? What it means for Apple Inc as a company will be … Continue reading