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Best free iPad apps
25 top iPad apps you can get without paying a penny 27 May 2010 23:41 GMT TweetUPDATE: Check out our Best iPad 2 apps round up of the best iPad 2 Apps to get
So you've got an iPad, but you've scraped and saved so much that you now don't have enough money to buy any iPad apps.
Well the bad news, is that while there...
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Best iPad apps for the TV and Movie fan
FEATURE Grab the popcorn, it's movie time 12 April 2010 14:52 GMT TweetSo you've just taken in a shiny new iPad. Great, but you'll soon realise that on its own the iPad doesn't do that much.
We've scoured the 3,500 dedicated iPad apps to bring you what we think are the best iPad apps available at the moment (early...
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Rdio gets iPhone application
Skype and Kazaa founders' new music service goes mobile 18 December 2009 11:28 GMT TweetRdio, the music streaming service from Skype/Kazaa founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, has launched an iPhone app, despite still being in very private stealth beta.
The description on the app store reads: "Rdio is like carrying a giant...
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First Rdio screenshots appear
Music service from Skype/Joost/Kazaa founders 10 November 2009 9:40 GMT TweetRdio, the new music service from the founders of Skype, Joost and KaZaa, is beginning to show its face on the Web. A couple of screenshots of the interface of the app have appeared on ReadWriteWeb, complete with a short description of the service.
As...
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Joost goes into liquidation in the UK
Founders already working on music streaming service Rdio 15 October 2009 11:42 GMT TweetThe UK division of online video service Joost has gone into liquidation.
Founded by the creators of Skype and Kazaa, Joost, although attracting big media investors with funding said to top $45 million, failed to sign agreements with major content...
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DivX to bring Joost to your television
WebTV likely to come to DivX connected platform 9 October 2007 16:30 GMT TweetJoost, the online television service launched by the founders of Skype, could be coming to your TV thanks to DivX.
DivX co-founder, Jerome Vashisht-Rota told Pocket-lint that the two companies were "working together" to bring the service... -
Joost opens to public
Download and view without an invite 4 October 2007 0:07 GMT TweetJoost has opened to the public allowing people to download the software without having to source out an invite first.
Previously only available to people through an invite to the service, the announcement, which was made on the company's... -
eBay claims a loss for Skype, CEO steps down
Paid too much for VoIP co? 2 October 2007 8:58 GMT TweeteBay has reassessed the value of Skype, that it bought for $2.6 billion 2 years ago and will claim a $1.43 billion "impairment write-down" against its value.
This means that the company are saying they have made a loss on their original... -
Joost announces one million users
Could launch publicly by end of the year 25 July 2007 14:43 GMT TweetJoost, the peer-to-peer TV sharing site has announced it has signed up one million users.
Joost, created by the founders of Skype, and funded from eBay's purchase of the VoIP company, has had a slow and slightly troubled start but could... -
Tiscali launch on-demand Movie Now service
Video on demand comes to Tiscali 4 May 2007 11:24 GMT TweetTiscali has announced a partnership and the availability of a TV service on demand from its homepage.
Following in the footsteps of BT, BBC, ITV, Joost the broadband provider has teamed up with Arts Alliance Media for a new service, Movies... -
Online TV viewers on the rise
Half of broadband users watch TV 3 May 2007 11:27 GMT TweetAmid a host of online IPTV service launches like Joost, BBC's iPlayer and ITV's iTV in the last week, new research out today has found that users accessing content is on the rise.
Jumping on an IPTV bandwagon, Motorola questioned 2500 people... -
Joost officially launched
Joost invites family and friends to join the broadcast-quality internet television service 1 May 2007 15:24 GMT TweetJoost has finally announced that it is now commercially available for people to access and begin using.
The brand new internet television service has undergone testing for months, from an exclusive number of people from across the globe.... -
Joost looks to indie market for breakaway content
Internet TV platform engages with indie market 17 April 2007 15:09 GMT TweetJoost, the internet television platform set up by two of the founders of VoIP service Skype has turned to indie publishers for content.
The relatively new internet TV platform has signed a string of distribution partnerships with independent... -
Joost signs content deals with Viacom
Agreement brings MTV and Comedy Central shows online for free 20 February 2007 16:52 GMT TweetUS television conglomerate Viacom has signed a content deal to put its programming on Joost, the internet on-demand TV service from the men behind Skype.
The agreement means that TV shows from MTV, BET Networks, and film studio Paramount... -
Joost Mac Beta pulled days after release
Well it is a beta 19 February 2007 16:26 GMT TweetThree days after Joost announced that Joost for Mac Intel is available in beta version, the company has announced that they have temporarily suspending the download of the Mac OS X client.
According to an entry on the company's blog, there...
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