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LG at the Freeze Festival
October 29th, 2010 by LG Blog UK
I think the majority of us can all agree that a festival is a great thing – music, entertainment and some quality time with your friends. But the festival season is too short, confined by the temperamental nature of our British summer. Well forget that, as today is the first day of the Freeze Festival, the UK’s biggest winter sports and music event.
Taking place at London’s spectacular Battersea Power Station, and LG will be there - the skyline at Freeze is dominated by LG’s Big Air World Cup snow jump that stands 32m high, 100m long and is made of...
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Android reach the 100,000 applications mark
October 28th, 2010 by LG Blog UK
With the recent release of the Windows Phone 7 operating system it seems the other operating systems have been out of the spotlight of late. That was until the news surfaced that Google’s Android OS has reached the 100,000 appsmark in the Android Marketplace.
In comparison to Apple’s application store, Google have about a third the number of applications, but the growth rate between the two is incomparable. Since March Google have managed to triple the number of applications in their market place. It is worth noting that Google run an open licensing policy, meaning programmers developing applications can add proprietary...
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Ofcom help predict the future of our media consumption
October 27th, 2010 by LG Blog UK
The Ofcom Communications Market report 2010 has stated that multi-tasking media consumption is on the rise amongst Britons, with more and more people absorbing content from more than one device at any time. In fact I am part of this statistic. I often use my laptop or browse the internet on my smartphone whilst I’m watching TV.
The Ofcom report states that the media consumer’s digital day is seven hours and five minutes in length, including radio, TV, surfing the internet and texting. In context this means that our media consumption takes up a quite astonishing 45% of our day, so...
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Korea’s 1st F1 Sees Thrills, Spills in a Captivating Race
October 26th, 2010 by LG Blog UK
After months of preparation, a groundswell of anticipation and Herculean efforts by all involved, Korea’s first ever Formula 1 Grand Prix race took place last weekend at the International Circuit in Yeongnam, in Korea’s southwest. In a gripping, rain-swept encounter, Spain’s Fernando Alonso took the checkered flag to claim his fifth victory of the season.
The top three after qualifying at the Formula 1 Korea Grand Prix:
(left to right) Mark Webber, Sebastian Vettel, and eventual winner Fernando Alonso
Formula 1 is the world’s premier motor racing event, taking in venues around the world and drawing a huge global audience. This year’s event...
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LG Optimus 7 – video review
October 26th, 2010 by LG Blog UK
Christmas is something that I have sadly outgrown, however the term ‘like a kid at Christmas’ was certainly an appropriate term for my reaction when the new LG Optimus 7 landed on my desk last week. The handset uses Microsoft’s brand new Windows Phone 7 OS and is packed full of features, some exclusive to Microsoft’s OS and some exclusive to LG.
We have put together a short video introducing the LG Optimus 7, as well as showing off a number of the great features on the handset including Voice-to-Text and ScanSearch that are both exclusive to the LG handset.
Last week...
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Asimo and the future of robotics
October 22nd, 2010 by LG Blog UK
Here at the LG blog we have a keen interest in robots, so while recently spending some time catching up on the latest in this field,
reading gorobotics.com’s list of the top 10 robots of the past decade, I was impressed with the range of robots that have been developed over the past ten years. They ranged from toys for the family like the Pleo robotic dinosaur (we want one for the office) that succeeded the Furby, right to the other end of the spectrum with serious pieces of military technology including the Predator Drone unmanned aerial vehicle and the PackBot...
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LG Blog nominated in Computer Weekly’s Blog of the Year 2010 Awards
October 21st, 2010 by LG Blog UK
Apologies for our silence lately dear readers, the new Optimus 7 has landed on our desk so we’ve been like kids at Christmas – more on that soon, so stay tuned.
In other exciting news we have been nominated for ‘Corporate Blog’ of the year in Computer Weekly’s Blog of the Year Awards 2010. With a pedigree of over 40 years publishing Computer Weekly magazine, it’s a real honour to have our hard work recognized by such a renowned publication.
I, for one, am looking forward to dusting off my suit for the award ceremony next month…
And, forgive this shameless request, but please, vote for us
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In the Maldives, a President Turns Green
October 19th, 2010 by LG Blog UK
The world’s first “green palace” has arrived in the Maldives. On October 7, Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed announced that his official residence, the Mulee Aage Palace, is now largely running on solar energy, using solar panels donated by LG.
President Mohamed Nasheed announces that the Mulee Aage Palace will go solar thanks to LG Electronics
The sun was not long risen when the historic event began at 7:30am, but a crowd of onlookers had already gathered in eager anticipation of seeing their president don some overalls and do a little home improvement. Having played a central role in bringing the project to...
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Happy 1st Birthday LG Arena Birmingham!
October 18th, 2010 by LG Blog UK
This month marks the first birthday of the LG Arena in Birmingham – one of the country’s leading live music and event venues!
We’re somewhat amazed to discover the facts and figures behind the LG Arena’s past 12 months.
Since it opened last October, the LG Arena has played host to 800,000 arcoss97 events. Those 800, 000 visitors have drunk 120, 347 bottles of pop, 63, 836 bottles of water, 181, 713 glasses of wine, 183, 889 beers and 38, 485 cups of tea and coffee.
They’ve munched on 26, 179 burgers, 18, 545 hot dogs, 10, 614 portions of fish & chips,...
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LG Ireland hold a gaming night
October 15th, 2010 by LG Blog UK
Last night LG Ireland hosted a gaming night for Irish technology journalists and bloggers to be able to get hands on with the products and enjoy some beer and pizza whilst they were at it.
The 15 selected guests were from a range of publications and blogs including the Irish Times, Silicon Republic, Tech.tv, Digitology, Boards.ie, AnthonyMcG and Culch.ie. They were treated to an evening of gaming in a room specially styled to give off an ‘at home’ experience to all who attended. This set-up included working displays of the LX9900 active shutter Full LED 3D TV playing Medal of Honour...
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