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It’s just beenannouncedthat next month will be the end forSeeSaw, the platform that has let millions of UK viewers watch TV online. It says: “Following a strategic review of its business activities Arqiva, our parent company, is no longer able to support the service.” SeeSaw was launched in February last year, and the video-on-demand service broadcasted recent episodes of TV shows such as Hollyoaks, Neighbours and Skins. SeeSaw went public initially with over 3,000 hours of free content, supported by advertising....

It seems that the British public love a bit of gossip. As Twitter hit theheadlinesfor its role in revealing which celebrities were behind the court super-injunctions, the UK public rushed onto the microblogging platform to see what they could find out. And in the process, UK Twitter records were smashed on Monday, as one in every 200 UK web visits was to Twitter.com, a 14% rise on the day before, according toExperian Hitwise....

A fun new event is coming to the UK tech scene –Activateis a one day event for web developers and designers to get some time with other peeps in the industry away from the office and into the great outdoors, set in a 200 acre forest in Kent. The day will be spent with activities like lake crossing, rafting, 4×4 off-road driving, a trapeze swing, orienteering, and assault courses and evenings spent having drinks and a BBQ around campfires....

Right now, Ukrainian entrepreneur Denis Oleinikov is trying to restore his companyProstoPrint.com. He’s working around the clock to support his employees after this week’s armed raid of their office and night long interrogations, as well as buy and install new equipment. According to OleinikovProstoPrint.comis the biggest goods-on-demand service in the former USSR countries and is similar to other web services such aszazzle.com,cafepress.comandspreadshirt.net. ProstoPrint users can create their own web shops of t-shirts, mugs, caps, mouse pads etc....

Steve Jobs is a legendary orator with a conversational but magnetic style that is so impressive that books have been written about how to emulate his style. Recently, the Ukrainian Secretary of National Security and Defense, Raisa Bogatyreva, decided that she loved Steve Jobs’ speech to Stanford in 2005 so much that she would just copy it outright, reportsFocus Ukraine. The apparent plaigarism was outed by the siteUkranian Truth, which has published a set of excerpts from both Jobs’ speech and Bogatyreva’s....