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The Movember Digital Sizzle

MOVEMBER SIZZLE - WE WANT YOU... TO GROW A TECH 'TASH FOR CASH! We are determined to make 2011's final Digital Sizzle the best ever by joining forces with a very worthy cause - Movember. Yes, we're going to pit start-up against start-up, agency against agency - all to raise money for The Prostate Cancer Charity.

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Date: 24 November 2011
Location: Adams Street Private Members Club, UK

London New Finance

You should join this group if you are interested or involved in financial technology, especially if you are at the ideas stage or have a startup. You'll also find it valuable if you just use existing technology and want something better or just want to get involved from a legal, funding or process perspective.

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Date: 22 November 2011
Location: Bar Music Hall, UK

Manchester Wired City Reconnected Event – Business Collaborative Networking

Wired City Reconnected is working in collaboration with Manchester Science Park Limited, Corridor Connections , Manchester DDA, and Manchester Digital to deliver the next Manchester Wired City Reconnected event. Thanks to their support of we are able to contribute to the growing Greater Manchester digital, creative and ICT cluster.

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Date: 24 November 2011
Location: The Cafe, Enterprise House,, UK

Preston Wired City Reconnected Event – Business Collaborative Networking

Wired City Reconnected is working in collaboration with Magma Digital to deliver the next Preston Wired City Reconnected event. Thanks to their support of we are able to return to Preston and offer a collaborative business networking event to the Lancashire digital, creative and ICT cluster.

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Date: 6 December 2011
Location: Derby House,, UK

Chester Wired City Reconnected Event – Business Collaborative Networking

Wired City Reconnected is working in collaboration with Hillyer Mckeown Solicitors Lloyds of Chester, Mi-db to deliver the next Chester WCR event. After only 1 weeks' promotional materials we are looking for the last 8 delegates...so pleased book now.

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Date: 1 December 2011
Location: Lloyds of Chester,, UK

Sheffield Wired City Reconnected Event – Business Collaborative Networking

Wired City Reconnected is working in collaboration with a group local businesses and The Circle to deliver the next Sheffield WCR event. We are currently looking for the last 10 delegates

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Date: 16 November 2011
Location: The Circle, UK

Simon Says: Daily Deals are rubbish, at the moment

junk mail

This morning I woke up to several emails: new girls in my area wanting to talk on Match.com, TopMan.com are having another sale & Groupon offers me 40% off a weekend spa break. All 3 went straight into the Trash.

I know from past experience the “girls in my area” are either people I know or live too far away. Anything in the TopMan sale is there for a reason - usually because even the cast of Skins wouldn’t be seen dead in it. And Groupon clearly doesn’t know me from Adam.

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Race For Apps Contest Open - Submit Your App Now & Help Visitors, Business Leaders and Locals During London 2012

Race For Apps

Race For Apps is a competition, launched by Hackney Council, Digital Shoreditch and IC Tomorrow, to crowdsource mobile apps from the digital community for visitors, business leaders and journalists coming into the local area during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralymic Games.

With millions of people descending on London next year, Race for Apps invites entries in the following five categories:

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Londata: Putting data to work - Launch Event

Londata is the event for people doing interesting things with data. It's particularly for people who are interested in how to put data to work, creating commercial and/or social value as you go.

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Date: 23 November 2011
Location: Media Science, UK

techpitch 4.5

techpitch 4.5 is an evening pitch event created by 2Pears, in order to showcase some of the latest tech startups, including some of the startups that have taken part in the UKTI pitch-training workshops in the past 6 months.

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Date: 7 December 2011
Location: Pinsent Mason's Auditorium, UK

The Europas 2011

The Europas will be identifying the hottest tech startups in Europe right now, taking hundreds of entries, sifting through them with a large advisory board and then submitting the picks to a public vote which the entire industry can participate in. The results will then be merged to find the winners.

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Date: 17 November 2011
Location: Carbon Bar, UK

Breakfast Briefing

We'll cover four contemporary technologies which can make a real difference to brands and publishers: Geolocation, QR codes, Gestural interfaces, and APIs.

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Date: 16 November 2011
Location: Free Word, UK

TechStars for a Day - UK

Get to know TechStars and what it can do for you. TechStars provides seed funding from over 75 top venture capital firms and angel investors who are vested in the success of your startup, as well as intensementorship from hundreds of the best entrepreneurs in the world.

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Date: 6 November 2011
Location: White Bear Yard, UK

MobX Conference 2011 / Mobile Experience Design & Usability

We are happy to announce a discount for the Chinwag community of 60 Euros (82 Dollars). Enter the promo code: MobX_Chinwag MobX Conference 2011 Mobile Experience Design & Usability: Meet the Experts! http://mobxcon.org Workshops: Nov 17, 2011 Conference: Nov 18, 2011 Location: Berlin Promo code: “MobX_Chinwag” Must-attend factor: Hot!

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Date: 18 November 2011
Location: Heimathafen Neukölln, DE

Apple’s New iOS 5 Operating System: What's New?

iOS 5

Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 5, is due to be released tomorrow and it boasts to have “added over 200 new features — taking a mobile operating system that was already years ahead of anything else and moving it even further ahead.

With so many new features I’ve put together a quick and easy to read list of the main changes and what it means for iUsers worldwide…

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