Tech Team Blog - On This Week's Show, Samsung S3 News, Local Broadband News

02 Jun 2012

On This Week’s Tech Team Radio Show – 3^rd June 2012

On this week’s show we have an interview with Dr Carl Reynolds who founded NHS Hack Day, an event to get together NHS staff and developers, to resolve software issues. Plus a review of the new Samsung Note Mobile Phone by Richard. Plus the week’s top technology news.

Free Music For Your Street Party

PRS for Music has announced it will make no charge for music licences for certain small non-profit-making community events, including street parties, to encourage celebrations for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee this week. The policy, which is in effect from 2 – 5 June inclusive, hopes to help communities all across the UK enjoy the benefits of music to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s reign. PRS for Music represents 85,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers, collecting and paying royalties when their music is played, performed or reproduced. Many of its members earn a vital living for their creative talent through public plays of their music both in the UK and internationally.

Samsung S3 Delay

The blue version of the new Samsung Galaxy S 3 will be delayed by up to three weeks as a result of the "newly invented blue colour and special hyperglaze material", Samsung confirmed on Tuesday. "In order to meet the highest internal quality standards and to provide the best quality Galaxy S 3 to customers, a short supply of pebble blue version is expected in some regions in the next two to three weeks," a spokeswoman for the company said in a statement. Samsung was not able to confirm whether only the blue version of the handset and if both its 16GB and 32GB variants would be affected by the shortages. However, customers on the Vodafone network have been on the operator's forum to complain about the shortfall in handsets, suggesting that the white version of the device has hit a snag too.

Local Superfast Broadband Update

BT’s superfast fibre broadband is now available in some parts of our local area, So far Newcastle and Leek exchange says it will be coming very soon and Alsager, Biddulph and Cheadle exchanges are now accepting orders. We will keep you up to date with developments as and when we hear more. For further info have a look at BT’s web site at www.bt.com

Tech Team Top Site

Our top web site for this edition is a special part of Google Maps where you can see if there is a street party in your local area, take a look here.

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