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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Brookside Foods (www.brooksidefoods.com), a creative chocolate company, has wrapped its "Giving Back with Chocolate" U.S. coast-to-coast charity tour and announced the winner of its $15,000 Sweepstakes. Sherron Jones from Randleman, NC is the lucky recipient of the Brookside prize, and will use her good fortune to give back to her father who suggested she enter in the first place, while also giving back through charitable efforts during the...

LONDON, November 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- New series of The Fast Show is back - even faster - with Foster's Funny The Fast Show [http://fosters.co.uk/tagged/The_Fast_Show ] cast is back together after more than a decade, taking Britain's best-loved sketch show online for the first time, courtesy of Foster's Funny. The series which premieres on 10th November 2011 on Fosters.co.uk [http://fosters.co.uk ] will have a total of twelve weekly episodes, each around five...

LONDON, November 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sky today unveils a free Sky Movies app [http://corporate.sky.com/skyviews.htm ] for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad which offers Sky TV customers a quick and easy way to find the movies they love. The new app brings users up-to-the-minute information about Sky Movies, Sky Movies Box Office and the latest cinema releases, listing movies via thumbnails or full page view, enabling Sky Movies customers to get even more value for their...

LONDON, November 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- With at least 44,000 people in the UK due to turn 75 in the next 12 months and currently benefitting from a short-term TV Licence, TV Licensing and Age UK are reminding them they will be entitled to a free licence on their 75th birthday. Anyone aged 75 or over is entitled to a free TV Licence for their main address, and nearly 4 million people across the UK already enjoy the benefits of the concession. Those eligible can...

LONDON, October 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- TV Licensing took home the silver award for 'Best Corporate Website' at the second annual Digital Impact Awards on Thursday, 20 October 2011. It's another landmark in a successful year for the TV Licensing website, which has been nominated for a number of other awards in 2011 including BIMA, CorpComms DigiAwards, Blades and DADI*. The TV Licensing website, having undergone continual improvement since its redesign two years ago,...

Despite watching more TV than ever before, young teenagers between the ages of 12 and 15 say for the first time they would miss their mobile and Internet gadgets more than TV, according to new research by communications regulator Ofcom. Nearly 28 percent of young teens said they would miss their mobile phones most, 25 percent said they would miss the Internet the most, and only 18 percent said they would miss TV the most. The research findings are intriguing since the same age group of...

LONDON, October 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sky Bet has launched a new Facebook app for football betting [http://www.skybet.com ] fans, where hundreds of fans can share videos of themselves predicting weekend football results. Each week, match predictions made by more than 300 football fans are uploaded by the online betting company via their 'Call of the Nation' [https://apps.facebook.com/callofthenation/user.php?d=3_2-1_1.9_1.9_541530693&ref=nf ] app, which is hosted...

--Survey Shows Most Hispanics With Early Parkinson's Signs Would Wait To See Doc-- MIAMI, Oct. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Parkinson Foundation (NPF) announced today a campaign to reach the Hispanic community about early warning signs of Parkinson's disease (PD) with two key features: a bilingual, toll-free Helpline 1-800-4PD-INFO (1-800-473-4636), where health specialists answer caller questions about PD in both English and Spanish, and, a new, free brochure in Spanish...

TORONTO, Sept. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Frontline Technologies (TSX:FLC) today announced it has successfully completed a multi-phased data centre migration, relocation and integration project of Belzberg Technologies (Belzberg). Following the merger of Belzberg and Frontline on April 14 2011, the combined company initiated this re-location effort which included the complete de-installation, transport and re-installation of all Belzberg IT infrastructure components into the...

LONDON, August 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Fizzback is proud to announce it has been selected by Virgin Media to enhance their customers' experience and drive performance improvement across their call centres. Virgin Media is the first provider of all four broadband, TV, mobile phone and home phone services in the UK. The company delivers ultrafast broadband connections as well as the most advanced interactive television service to over half of all UK homes, and is...