Tag: increase
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Netflix Standard Subscription Price to Rise to £7.49 on July 21st
Loyal Netflix UK customers who have been with the service since before 2014 have received notice that the price of a standard monthly membership will rise to £7.49 on July 21st. On a morning where Great Britain’s financial future looks bleak a £1.50 price hike is the last thing we expect you’d want to hear…
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PlayStation Plus Price Set to Rise this September
A little bit of bad news for PS4, PS3 and PS Vita owners in the UK and Europe today as Sony has revealed it intends to hike up the price of subscriptions to its premium online gaming service PlayStation Plus. Currently a per month, three month or yearly membership offers access to a large range…
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Netflix Raises Monthly Fee for New Subscribers
Netflix has been assessing and tweaking its pricing structure for some time now and today has informed UK customers that anyone joining the service anew will be expected to pay £7.49 a month. This follows an increase last year when the company added a pound a month, with the price of admission going from £5.99…
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Flip Phones Still Huge In Japan
Whilst it doesn’t seem to correlate with the current smartphone trend, Japan’s obsession with flip phones isn’t going to die out soon – fans of anime would be able to tell you that straight away. Whilst the devices appear a lot in Japan’s famous cartoons, in real life the older flip phone is still growing…
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Google and Dropbox Increasing Security
You might have read our report on the increasing of security by Google on Android L, automatically encrypting user personal information and restricting access to pictures, emails and other personal correspondence without a password. In an additional initiative to prevent hacking by shady individuals as well as the intrusion into user data by government agencies,…
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Netflix Price Increases to £6.99 Per Month for New Subscribers
Netflix will soon change its price structure up the fee for its subscription service in the UK – Existing customer will not be effected.. For now.
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Netflix Price Increase to Effect Joining Members Only
After recently trialling new price structures in the United States and Ireland, streaming service Netflix has announced it will be boosting subscription fees for joining customers. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings revealed the price hike in the company’s quarterly earnings report stating “Our current view is to do a one or two dollar increase – depending…
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Virgin Media to deliver 19 times faster broadband service
Virgin Media has begun boosting its broadband speeds for customers across Britain today with a new maximum of 152Mbps available. Over twelve million broadband subscribers will benefit from recent improvements to the Virgin Media network and the upgrades will eventually be delivered to all customers in the coming months. In a press release Virgin Media…
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Top tips to improve the battery life of the BlackBerry Z10
Follow these simple tips to get a better battery life from your new phone
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Nintendo Addresses ‘Blurry’ Concerns on New Bigger 3DS XL Handheld
In the latest ‘Iwata Asks’ Nintendo’s CEO questions console engineers about the visual quality of the new 3DS XL.
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Ofcom U.K Survey Reveals Increase in Text Communication Now More Than Voice Calls
An Ofcom survey has revealed that communication via text has now overtaken traditional voice calls with 58% of the U.K residents questioned claiming they’re more likely to whip off a quick SMS than actually have a good old chin wag with their pals over the phone. Industry regulator Ofcom’s annual marketing report has shown a…
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How to Update Your Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone & Triple it’s Battery Life
After a lengthy wait for us Brits, Nokia has finally delivered the Lumia 800 software update that should bring an end to those battery woes on your Windows Phone and it’s believed that this fix, which recently went live in India and Singapore, will even increase the life of you gadget’s charge threefold! If you…