• Soundclould launched in the UK
• 3/5/2016

Music streaming service Soundcloud has launched a UK paid-for service to rival the likes of Spotify and Apple Music.
The company hopes to attract users with a mixture of officially licensed tracks and its catalogue of 125 million covers, remixes, DJ sets and podcasts.
Called Soundcloud Go, it costs £9.99 per month in line with its rivals.
Soundcloud itself will remain free to use, although listeners in the UK and Ireland will hear advertisements between songs from Tuesday morning.
The launch is a big move for the company, which built its business by allowing artists to upload their music and share it with fans on social media and blogs.
Acts like Drake, Lily Allen, Kanye West and Miley Cyrus have used it to premiere songs, or share works in progress - even when they have a stake in rival streaming services, as West does with Tidal.
It has established the Berlin-based company as an influential player in the music industry, especially in the dance music genre.

• TalkTalk hack: Police arrest second teen
• 30/10/2015

Police have made a second arrest, a 16-year-old boy from west London, in connection with the investigation into an alleged data theft from TalkTalk.
He was arrested on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences after detectives searched a Feltham address, and later bailed, Scotland Yard said.
On Monday, another boy, 15, was arrested and bailed in Northern Ireland in connection with the hacking.
The TalkTalk website was hit by a "significant" cyber-attack last week.
The phone and broadband provider, which has over four million UK customers, said banking details and personal information could have been accessed.
Officers have also searched a residential address in Liverpool, the Metropolitan Police said.
News of the hacking first emerged last Wednesday, with the telecoms company publicly warning customers that their details could be used by fraudsters.
Chief executive Dido Harding later said the scale of the attack was "smaller" than originally thought, and that any credit card details accessed would have been incomplete.
MPs are to launch an inquiry into the cyber-attack, with culture minister Ed Vaizey saying the government is not against compulsory encryption for firms holding customer data.

• Public release of OS X El Capitan 10.11.1 is coming soon
• 20/10/2015

A few days ago, Apple seeded the fourth beta of OS X El Capitan 10.11.1 to developers and public beta testers, and it looks like the beta cycle could be coming to an end soon.

According to a report recently published by MacRumors, the public release of OS X El Capitan 10.11.1 is coming soon, or “the very near future.” Unfortunately, no specific dates could be provided, but it does look like the minor .1 update will bring with it plenty of worthwhile fixes.

including fixes for Office 2016 and Mail

• 10 best monitors and displays on the market 2015
• 13/10/2015

Ten years ago, monitors were nothing more than necessary accessories. Today, they can be luxury items that dramatically improve all aspects of computing and content consumption. There are so many types of monitors that suit so many different needs.

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• Microsoft charges into laptop market with Surface Book
• 7/10/2015

Microsoft today introduced its first legitimate laptop, the Surface Book, a keyboard-equipped premium-priced notebook that can gymnastically twist into a slate or snap apart to serve as a tablet.

"What if you wanted a Surface, but you wanted a laptop Surface? What if we did a laptop?" asked Panos Panay, Microsoft's top executive for its Surface portfolio, during a two-hour presentation in New York that also saw the unveiling of the Surface Pro 4, a pair of flagship Lumia smartphones and device accessories.

A fired-up Panay answered his own question. "We made the ultimate laptop. We made Surface Book."

The Surface Book may be a sibling to the existing Surface Pro line, but the crucial difference is that the former is more a notebook-that-replaces-a-tablet than the latter, which for the last three years has worked from the other end as a tablet-that-replaces-a-notebook.

Weighing in at 3.5 lbs. as a complete package, the Surface Book boasts a 13.5-in. high-resolution display, a sixth-generation Intel Core i5 or i7 processor -- from the chips code-named "Skylake" -- up to 16GB of RAM, and solid-state storage space ranging from 128GB to 1TB.

Five models are available, with varying amounts of RAM and storage space, different CPUs and for the three upper-end models, a discrete Nvidia GeForce GPU (graphics processor unit). The line starts at $1,499 for a Book with 128GB of storage, 8GB of memory and a Core i5 processor, then climbs to the top-of-the-line $2,699 device with an Intel Core i7 processor, 16GB of memory, 512GB of storage and the Nvidia GPU.

Between those bookends, the Surface Book costs $1,699, $1,899 or $2,099.

in the UK converted that is starting at £981.03, £1,111.66, £1,242.52, £1,375.38

Kev at Easypropcs comment is doesn't it look a little bit too much like the Macbook ! (and the prices are just as bad)