Advertising revenues in the UK for the internet search engine Google will easily surpass ad sales at Channel 4 this year, the broadcaster's chief executive has said.
What is going on around here? The football team might go to a bowl game, and the baseball team won the Southeastern Conference. In this topsy-turvy world of UK Athletics, at least we still have one mainstay: The basketball team as a Final Four contender.
Apple Computer is the new #2 computer vendor in the UK education market, overtaking beleaguered Dell to get there. Macworld UK reported Wednesday that new market share figures from Gartner show #1 vendor Research Machines with 34.9% of the market, Apple with 14.7% of the market, and Dell with 14.1%. HP is the current #4 vendor with 7.7% of the market
A poster on the BOF FORUM says that there is scuttlebutt around the University of Leeds (located in the UK) that TDK may do some location filming there. The building of interest is said to be the Roger Stevens Building. Not much, but at least it's something.
Sharing concern over terror threats of which both have been victims, India and the UK today decided to convene a meeting of their experts to devise mechanism for protection of their critical national infrastructure, including mass transit systems.
But say plans 'may not catch criminals' UK banks have agreed to government data sharing proposals on suspected financial criminals, but say they want the public sector to share its data with them. The banks also express doubts about whether the plans would actually help to catch criminals.
Britain has agreed to partly lift its ban on liquids in hand luggage on airline flights from next week in a further easing of heightened security rules following a suspected plot to blow up airliners.
A more detailed look at the Total International Migration estimates from the Office of National Statistics shows that 565,000 people arrived in the UK for at least a year in 2005, or 1,500 a day, while 380,000 left, or 1,000 a day.
UK forward Sheray Thomas has been suspended for three games by head coach Tubby Smith for a violation of team rules, Smith said Wednesday. Smith said Thomas will be held out of UK's two preseason games as well as the regular season opener against Miami of Ohio November 15.