It was several months ago Netflix announced it would “soon” arrive in the UK, well today is the day. UK users have longed for a great online streaming service with a low cost such as Netflix but have been serveraly limited with only Love Film (Netflix’s largest rival in the UK) getting anywhere near offering a full online streaming experience however it comes with a cost.

Netflix is £5.99 per month in the UK meaning unlimited streaming of Movies and TV shows for a great price.  The quality seems far superior to the the quality of Lovefilm’s streaming and there seems to be several features missing from Lovefilms selection. Also as with Lovefilm you can stream on your console too making it a great edition to the media hubs of our homes!

You can currently sign up for a 30 day free trial at Netflix.com

Amazon Cloud Player

Today Amazon has announced its brand new Cloud Music service. It seems that it has beaten Apple and Google in what many are calling the future of Music. Amazon are giving each user 5GB of free storage to upload their own music which can then be streamed to the Cloud Player (Mac or PC) and Android mobile Phones. If you buy a MP3 Album though you get a free upgrade to 20GB of storage (promotion only) or you can buy anything from 20GB to 1000GB of storage with all files located on the Amazon S3 Servers.

At the moment it seems the Cloud Music Player only works within the US but hopefully Amazon will open it up to the rest of the world soon. Would you use a cloud service for your music or are you happy storing it locally and syncing it?

London Underground Map

Its just over 1 year until the beginning of the London Olympics 2012. In order to improve internet connectivity BT are rolling out 120 Wifi spots in the London Underground. The wifi will not work in the tunnels but many platforms will be covered allowing tourists to access the web ideal if you wish to use mapping software like Google Maps on your phone. This means more traditional ways of passing the time whilst travelling across London will be replaced with texting and tweeting like in many other cities with metros. Yet there are many wider issues concerning internet security that are still to be debated when it comes to funding the Wifi on the tube; not least that of the internet surfers themselves and their devices that may be under threat from eavesdropping software. This isn’t the first news of tech hitting the underground for the Olympics, in February Huawei a large telecommunications firm from China offered to install a Mobile Network costing around £55 million for free in the Underground as part of a gift from one host to another. However this troubled many MPs who suggested allowing a Chinese firm to have control over such a critical wireless infrastructure is dangerous.

Today the long awaited Firefox 4 update was released globally. It actually slipped out earlier than it should of via the Mozilla FTP site but now can be officially downloaded. So far there has been over 3 million downloads, and Mozilla will be hoping this will bring Firefox back in-line with the likes of Chrome and Safari who have been dominating recently.

Firefox 4 released to the world!

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Today Google released their brand new logo for their browser, Chrome. From the 3D chrome effect logo to a new 2D Matt finish logo, Google hasn’t stated why it’s changed the design of the logo. This also leads us to wonder will they change to logo of any other of their services, who knows?

The First Google Chrome Logo

The New Google Chrome Logo

So what do you think of the New Logo? Personally I like and don’t like it. However I do feel it is more “logo like” now.