Former Busted singer Charlie Simpson, now fronting Fightstar, is being sent to Siberia. No, not to a gulag – although some might think that a just punishment for his multiple crimes against music – but for a world record attempt sponsored by Jägermeister. Simpson plans...
The anti-trust investigation into Facebook’s proposed acquisition of Instagram has been closed, leaving the pathway clear for the takeover to go ahead. However, what had been a proposed £1bn deal has been scaled down to just £300m, plus 23 million shares – shares that are...
Having controversially been allowed by Ofcom to launch super-fast 4G services on its existing bandwidth, Everything Everywhere (owners of the soon-to-be-replaced Orange and T-Mobile brands) hope to have it up and running by October. While Everything, Everywhere were forced to sell a chunk of their...
With the coalition government currently consulting over the possibility of forcing ISPs to restrict access to pornography, a poll has suggested that over a third of Britons would support a blanket ban. That would enforce anyone desiring a cheeky knuckle-shuffle to ‘opt in’ to access...
Spotify seems to have been going from strength to strength following its launch in the USA, but it may have hit a plateau. Somehow it had four million fewer users over the last month, even as daily users continued to increase. Read an analysis of the...
As phones get smarter and smarter, the battery life on them gets shorter and shorter. Which could become a problem if, say, you’re using a compass app while hiking through the Lake District on a foggy afternoon and your phone goes dead. Luckily, if these...
As the internet takes over more of our lives, and we descend into becoming a race of bulbous-bellied sloths stuck to our chairs by a fine paste of fatty sweat, our computer keyboards are going to become ever-more ingrained with grease, salt and jam. Luckily,...
While Egmont Magazines reported a 20% increase in circulation, and D C Thompson also showed good results, the general trends in magazine readership made for worrying reading with Bauer performing particularly badly. In the music magazine sector, paid-for mags continued their slow decline. Particularly surprising was...
Azealia Banks risks losing the momentum she’s been building as the release of her debut album, originally due out next month, has been pushed back till February. No reason has been given for the delay, but the rapper/singer has revealed she’s been working on tracks...
You’d think that ‘liking’ a band or artist on Facebook would result in you receiving all their updates in your feed, but that often doesn’t happen. Why? Because Facebook wants musicians to buy ads before their content is shared to everyone who has requested it....