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Sky’s digital movie store is now open to non-subscribers – and it sends you the DVD too

Apr15
by on April 15, 2015 at 12:09 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Buy & Keep, Downloads, Movies, Product Updates, Sky, UK

Your choice of places to download movies in the UK and Ireland isn’t exactly limited. There’s loads including iTunes, Google Play and Amazon to name three. That’s why Sky’s offering has an extra weapon – it’ll send you a DVD too. Buy & Keep has been around since March 2014, but it was previously limited to Sky subscribers. Now anyone can use it through Sky Store (which opened up to non-Sky subscribers back in 2013) or the company’s apps. Movies are viewable on mobile devices, Roku, YouView, NowTV or a Sky+ HD box, and you can register up to four devices to…

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Is no management right for your business?

Apr15
by on April 15, 2015 at 12:09 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, holocracy, Insider, Investigations, Management, management style

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Romy Misra is currently the Sr. Director of Product at Visually. In the past she was responsible for building and scaling the operations and analytics teams. There are a lot of non-traditional structures coming up in management in Silicon Valley as well as an entire notion of removing bosses. Management makes a lot of people cringe. It is associated with bureaucracy, people watching and inefficiency, and more and more companies are trying to find newer ways to work with people better. Medium has adopted the principle of ‘Holocracy‘ successfully with its 90 employees. Holocracy is a self organizing form of…

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Microsoft Band available to buy in the UK now for £170

Apr15
by on April 15, 2015 at 11:04 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Product Updates

Microsoft’s wearable Band device that plugs into the Microsoft Health service to allow users to keep track of things like activity, heart rate, sun exposure, stress levels, calories burned and quality of sleep is now available to buy in the UK for the first time. In addition to the activity tracking side of things, the device – via its companion apps for Windows Phone, iOS and Android devices – offers tailored workouts depending on your own specific goals and will do things like map your training routes via GPS, or allow you to set commands using Cortana. The band is available to buy for around…

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Microsoft Band available to buy in the UK now for £170

Apr15
by on April 15, 2015 at 11:04 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Product Updates

Microsoft’s wearable Band device that plugs into the Microsoft Health service to allow users to keep track of things like activity, heart rate, sun exposure, stress levels, calories burned and quality of sleep is now available to buy in the UK for the first time. In addition to the activity tracking side of things, the device – via its companion apps for Windows Phone, iOS and Android devices – offers tailored workouts depending on your own specific goals and will do things like map your training routes via GPS, or allow you to set commands using Cortana. The band is available to buy for around…

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Tumblr’s updated iOS app brings new icon, widget, ability to create blogs and more

Apr15
by on April 15, 2015 at 10:59 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

That’s right, Tumblr’s latest iOS update is here bringing even more blogging goodness to your iPhone or iPad. Tumblr 4.0 brings a shiny new app icon, along with a widget for quick access to what’s trending on Tumblr. Once you’ve added the widget to your notification center (requires iOS 8), you can swipe down from anywhere to see what’s new. The update also brings a bunch of other interesting new features: you can submit to submission-only blogs on the go, create secondary blogs, filter searches by post type and also create a video post from a URL. The company says there are a…

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