May 23

Systemax relaunches Circuit City’s website, this time with feeling

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After shelling out some $6.5 million, you had to know that Systemax planned on doing something with Circuit City’s trademarks and internet domain names. As of today, CircuitCity.com is back and better than ever, carrying on the legacy of a name that became synonymous with overpriced consumer electronics for nearly six decades. Of course, this doesn’t mean that any Circuit City retail stores will be re-opening, but at least the brand is living on in the world wide web. The wonders of the internet: I Can Has Cheezburger?, Twitter and the continuation of an icon that would otherwise be six feet underground.

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Jan 01

1 Second Was Added To 2008 To Cope With Global Change

Posted in: Online, science, Today's Chili

pspan class=”mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image” style=”display: inline;”img alt=”clocksecond.jpg” src=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/clocksecond.jpg” width=”400″ height=”265″ class=”mt-image-right” style=”float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;” //span/p pWe all know that 2008 was a leap year but you may not know that it was also a year when a ‘leap second’ was added just before midnight to atomic clocks worldwide./p pThe official countdown to the new year went “57, 58, 59, 60, 00″, with ’60’ representing the extra second, which is necessary in order to compensate for the earth’s erratic rotation. /p pbr / /pimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://feeds.uk.gizmodo.com/c/552/f/9581/s/2a9b602/mf.gif’ border=’0’/div class=’mf-viral’table border=’0’trtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=1 Second Was Added To 2008 To Cope With Global Changelink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2009/01/01/1_second_was_added_to_2008_to.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif” border=”0″ //a/tdtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=1 Second Was Added To 2008 To Cope With Global Changelink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2009/01/01/1_second_was_added_to_2008_to.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif” border=”0″ //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588764574/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44676610/a2.htm”img src=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588764574/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44676610/a2.img” border=”0″//a

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Jan 01

LG Launching Blu-Ray Player With YouTube And On-Demand Support

Posted in: blu-ray, Online, Today's Chili

pspan class=”mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image” style=”display: inline;”img alt=”LGYouTube.jpg” src=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/LGYouTube.jpg” width=”402″ height=”314″ class=”mt-image-none” style=”” //span/p pOur call to cut down on set top boxes by combining features such as a href=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/30/worlds_first_bluray_playermedi.html”Blu-ray and media streaming/a into a single box has already been answered by LG. /p pIt is planning on launching a series of new networkable Blu-ray players that’ll primarily be designed to help you stream and view YouTube clips through your TV./pimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://feeds.uk.gizmodo.com/c/552/f/9581/s/2a990fa/mf.gif’ border=’0’/div class=’mf-viral’table border=’0’trtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=LG Launching Blu-Ray Player With YouTube And On-Demand Supportlink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2009/01/01/lg_to_launch_bluray_players_wi.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif” border=”0″ //a/tdtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=LG Launching Blu-Ray Player With YouTube And On-Demand Supportlink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2009/01/01/lg_to_launch_bluray_players_wi.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif” border=”0″ //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588761540/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44667130/a2.htm”img src=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588761540/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44667130/a2.img” border=”0″//a

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Dec 31

Cambridge Professor Calls For Urgent Fix To Nation’s Broadband

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pspan class=”mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image” style=”display: inline;”img alt=”fibreoptics.jpg” src=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/fibreoptics.jpg” width=”298″ height=”440″ class=”mt-image-none” style=”” //span/p pIt will come as a surprise to precisely no one that Britain is lagging behind much of the world in the broadband speed stakes and complaining about slow downloads and glitchy video streaming doesn’t seem to be geeing things up any./p pBlighty has found a new hero in the form of Professor Christopher Bishop, who has been pretty vocal about the situation recently and claims that far more worthwhile areas, such as health care, education and the environment, are suffering from our lack of fibre optics./p pThe chief scientist at Microsoft Research in Cambridge is lecturing this week on the state of the nation and will be calling for ‘urgency’ in getting a programme in place to sort these connections out sharpish.br / /pimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://feeds.uk.gizmodo.com/c/552/f/9581/s/2a87f54/mf.gif’ border=’0’/div class=’mf-viral’table border=’0’trtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Cambridge Professor Calls For Urgent Fix To Nation’s Broadbandlink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/31/cambridge_professor_calls_for.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif” border=”0″ //a/tdtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Cambridge Professor Calls For Urgent Fix To Nation’s Broadbandlink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/31/cambridge_professor_calls_for.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif” border=”0″ //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588737051/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44597076/a2.htm”img src=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588737051/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44597076/a2.img” border=”0″//a

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Dec 30

Amazon Announces Record Sales This Christmas

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pspan class=”mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image” style=”display: inline;”img alt=”AmazonBoxes.jpg” src=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/AmazonBoxes.jpg” width=”400″ height=”404″ class=”mt-image-none” style=”” //span/p pAmazon didn’t exactly cover itself in glory when details of its a href=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/15/amazon_workers_getting_flogged.html”staffing policies/a were revealed before Christmas, but it certainly knows how to make a quick buck and has announced record sales over the festive period./p pThe 15th of December was its busiest day, during which it shipped 6.3 million items worldwide, which equates to a stunning (and apparently record-breaking) 72.9 per second. /p pbr / /pimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://feeds.uk.gizmodo.com/c/552/f/9581/s/2a6e4bd/mf.gif’ border=’0’/div class=’mf-viral’table border=’0’trtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Amazon Announces Record Sales This Christmaslink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/30/amazon_announces_record_sales_1.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif” border=”0″ //a/tdtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Amazon Announces Record Sales This Christmaslink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/30/amazon_announces_record_sales_1.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif” border=”0″ //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588701228/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44491965/a2.htm”img src=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588701228/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44491965/a2.img” border=”0″//a

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Dec 29

Zavvi Enters Administration, Bleak Future Predicted For Retailers

Posted in: MP3, Music, Online, Today's Chili

pspan class=”mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image” style=”display: inline;”img alt=”zavvicloses.jpg” src=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/zavvicloses.jpg” width=”400″ height=”250″ class=”mt-image-none” style=”” //span/p pWoolworths wasn’t the only store affected by the demise of supplier Entertainment UK; as we reported last year Zavvi also uses it, which forced the chain to a href=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/03/zavvi_online_forced_to_stop_tr.html”stop selling online/a. /p pDespite a href=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/17/zavvi_flogging_99_xbox_360s_mo.html”flogging Xbox 360s on the cheap/a to drive customers into stores it sadly hasn’t recovered, forcing Ernst Young to announce that it has gone into administration. br / /pimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://feeds.uk.gizmodo.com/c/552/f/9581/s/2a52943/mf.gif’ border=’0’/div class=’mf-viral’table border=’0’trtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Zavvi Enters Administration, Bleak Future Predicted For Retailerslink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/29/zavvi_enters_administration_bl.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif” border=”0″ //a/tdtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Zavvi Enters Administration, Bleak Future Predicted For Retailerslink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/29/zavvi_enters_administration_bl.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif” border=”0″ //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588653162/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44378435/a2.htm”img src=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588653162/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44378435/a2.img” border=”0″//a

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Dec 29

Google Street View To Cover UK Cities In 2009

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pspan class=”mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image” style=”display: inline;”img alt=”GoogleStreetViewCar.jpg” src=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/GoogleStreetViewCar.jpg” width=”400″ height=”304″ class=”mt-image-right” style=”float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;” //span/p pIf you thought the new Google Maps a href=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/19/3d_new_york_now_available_from.html”3D view of New York/a was impressive, you’ll be interested in the new ‘street view’ feature, which was launched in the US last year and will be finalised for cities in the UK next Spring./p pOver the last six months, Google Street View cars have been scooting about snapping pictures in London, Manchester, Birmingham and Edinburgh and in compatible areas you’ll be able to zoom down to street level to take a look around. /p p/p pbr / /pimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://feeds.uk.gizmodo.com/c/552/f/9581/s/2a5150b/mf.gif’ border=’0’/div class=’mf-viral’table border=’0’trtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Google Street View To Cover UK Cities In 2009link=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/29/google_street_view_to_cover_uk.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif” border=”0″ //a/tdtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Google Street View To Cover UK Cities In 2009link=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/29/google_street_view_to_cover_uk.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif” border=”0″ //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588650952/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44373259/a2.htm”img src=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588650952/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44373259/a2.img” border=”0″//a

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Dec 24

Amazon Play.com Tops With UK Shoppers

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pspan class=”mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image” style=”display: inline;”img alt=”online shopping trolley.jpg” src=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/online%20shopping%20trolley.jpg” width=”290″ height=”277″ class=”mt-image-left” style=”float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;” //spanAmazon and Play.com have snatched top place in an online consumer satisfaction survey of the UK’s Top 30 etailers./p pBoth sites scored 78 out of a possible 100 points, leading the chasing pack which included eBay and Apple iTunes, among others. Almost one-third of sites surveyed by ForeSee Results managed to score over 70: eBay [72], Apple iTunes UK [71] and Screwfix Direct [71]. A score over 70 places the etailer in what’s called the ’emTop Performer’/em category. /p pThe big loser this year was Tesco Direct which slid from last year’s 8th with 69 points to 18th on 65 points. HMV and Marks Spencer, who managed 70 points apiece last year, this year managed to slip to 69 points and 68 points, respectively./pimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://feeds.uk.gizmodo.com/c/552/f/9581/s/29fc2e7/mf.gif’ border=’0’/div class=’mf-viral’table border=’0’trtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Amazon Play.com Tops With UK Shopperslink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/24/amazon_playcom_tops_with_uk_sh.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif” border=”0″ //a/tdtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Amazon Play.com Tops With UK Shopperslink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/24/amazon_playcom_tops_with_uk_sh.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif” border=”0″ //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588520988/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44024551/a2.htm”img src=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588520988/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44024551/a2.img” border=”0″//a

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Dec 22

RIAA To Stop Suing People, Asks ISPs To Help Out Instead

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pspan class=”mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image” style=”display: inline;”img alt=”RIAA.jpg” src=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/RIAA.jpg” width=”318″ height=”316″ class=”mt-image-none” style=”” //span/p pIf you were to ask the RIAA for something for Christmas this year, what would it be? That they stop randomly filing lawsuits against people, including single moms, teenage girls and dead people, for allegedly downloading music? /p pWell ‘Ho Ho Ho’ then, because that’s exactly what’s happening. After years of unsuccessfully trying to stop piracy in the US by running around targeting random citizens, the RIAA has given up on approaching people directly and is now turning to ISPs for help./p pbr / /pimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://feeds.uk.gizmodo.com/c/552/f/9581/s/29bd5fb/mf.gif’ border=’0’/div class=’mf-viral’table border=’0’trtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=RIAA To Stop Suing People, Asks ISPs To Help Out Insteadlink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/22/riaa_to_stop_suing_people_asks.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif” border=”0″ //a/tdtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=RIAA To Stop Suing People, Asks ISPs To Help Out Insteadlink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/22/riaa_to_stop_suing_people_asks.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif” border=”0″ //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27233455176/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/43767291/a2.htm”img src=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27233455176/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/43767291/a2.img” border=”0″//a

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Dec 22

BBC Launches iPlayer For Kids

Posted in: Laptops, Online, PC, Today's Chili, TV

pspan class=”mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image” style=”display: inline;”img alt=”iplayer cbbc.jpg” src=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/iplayer%20cbbc.jpg” width=”588″ height=”253″ class=”mt-image-none” style=”” //spanbr / Last week, the BBC’s iPlayer garnered a lot of attention because they finally announced a href=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/19/bbc_iplayer_launches_for_the_m.html”new version/a that allowed Mac and Linux computer users to download programmes too for the first time. /p pBut, there was another announcement too, of which they said: em”The big news today for children across Britain is that we’re quietly rolling out their very own customised version of BBC iPlayer for CBBC shows – just in time for Christmas. CBBC fans can now watch their favourite programmes on-demand just like Mum or Dad.”/em/p pWhy so quiet, since this is good news for young kids and tweenies [and their parents] right? /pimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://feeds.uk.gizmodo.com/c/552/f/9581/s/29aa1f3/mf.gif’ border=’0’/div class=’mf-viral’table border=’0’trtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=BBC Launches iPlayer For Kidslink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/22/bbc_launches_iplayer_for_kids.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif” border=”0″ //a/tdtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=BBC Launches iPlayer For Kidslink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/22/bbc_launches_iplayer_for_kids.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif” border=”0″ //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27233430408/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/43688435/a2.htm”img src=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27233430408/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/43688435/a2.img” border=”0″//a

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