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Box updates Notes with version history, tables and easier image insertion

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by on January 30, 2015 at 11:38 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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Box has rolled out an update designed to make using its Box Notes collaboration and note-taking features a little more convenient. Now, users can get a full version history for documents created and edited via the plaform. To revert to (or view) an earlier revision, you just need to select the correct version from the right-hand panel; a new copy is saved roughly every five minutes and shows who made each change, Box said. Somewhat surprisingly for a business-focused tool, the update is also the first time that the company has allowed users to create tables in documents, which should massively…

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Jay Z is getting into the music streaming business by buying Aspiro

Jan30
by on January 30, 2015 at 10:50 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Aspiro, Insider, jay-z, Tidal, WiMP

Jay Z is buying Aspiro, the Swedish music streaming company behind ad-free services WiMP and Tidal. Project Panther Bidco Ltd, a company controlled by the rapper’s firm Shawn Carter LLC, has agreed a $56 million deal to make the acquisition. While WiMP is only available in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Germany and Poland, Tidal launched in the UK and US last year with a focus on offering higher quality streams. According to the press release announcing the deal, Aspiro’s board of directors has “unanimously recommended” that shareholders accept the offer. Jay Z has a wide range of business interests and Forbes estimated his…

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Jay Z is getting into the music streaming business by buying Aspiro

Jan30
by on January 30, 2015 at 10:50 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Aspiro, Insider, jay-z, Tidal, WiMP

Jay Z is buying Aspiro, the Swedish music streaming company behind ad-free services WiMP and Tidal. Project Panther Bidco Ltd, a company controlled by the rapper’s firm Shawn Carter LLC, has agreed a $56 million deal to make the acquisition. While WiMP is only available in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Germany and Poland, Tidal launched in the UK and US last year with a focus on offering higher quality streams. According to the press release announcing the deal, Aspiro’s board of directors has “unanimously recommended” that shareholders accept the offer. Jay Z has a wide range of business interests and Forbes estimated his…

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BT promises 500Mbps broadband across the UK but it could take a decade to arrive

Jan30
by on January 30, 2015 at 9:03 am
Posted In: Around the Web, broadband, BT, G.fast, Mobile, UK, ultrafast

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UK telecoms provider, BT has announced plans to deliver broadband speeds of up to 500Mbps to homes and small business across the UK. It says it’ll achieve that by using G.fast, a standard for local loops shorter than 250 meters which can offer speeds of up to 1Gbps. The company will begin testing G.fast in two pilot locations this summer with broader deployments expected to start in 2016/17 if the trials are successful. The bad news is that BT says the plan could take up to a decade to complete. The pilot schemes will take place in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire and Gosforth, Newcastle with…

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BT promises 500Mbps broadband across the UK but it could take a decade to arrive

Jan30
by on January 30, 2015 at 9:03 am
Posted In: Around the Web, broadband, BT, G.fast, Mobile, UK, ultrafast

BT

UK telecoms provider, BT has announced plans to deliver broadband speeds of up to 500Mbps to homes and small business across the UK. It says it’ll achieve that by using G.fast, a standard for local loops shorter than 250 meters which can offer speeds of up to 1Gbps. The company will begin testing G.fast in two pilot locations this summer with broader deployments expected to start in 2016/17 if the trials are successful. The bad news is that BT says the plan could take up to a decade to complete. The pilot schemes will take place in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire and Gosforth, Newcastle with…

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