Posts tagged with the keyword: ‘UK’
Steve Jobs might be quaking on his aluminium unibody iThrone tonight as it appears the next iPhone release could be halted – by the law. Sadly nothing to do with a counter claim by Gizmodo’s Jason Chen , the problem revolves around the screen used in the upcoming iPhone HD
May 4, 2010 | Posted in
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Tiny dishes etched on microscope slides act like ear trumpets A micro-ear could soon help scientists eavesdrop on tiny events just like microscopes make them visible. Initially, researchers will use it to snoop on cells as they go about their daily business. It may allow researchers to listen to how a drug disrupts micro-organisms, in the same way as a mechanic might listen to a car’s engine to find a fault
March 1, 2010 | Posted in
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Reading newspapers has become less popular in the US and UK Online news has become more popular than reading newspapers in the US, according to a survey. It is the third most popular form of news, behind local and national TV stations, the Pew Research Center said.
March 1, 2010 | Posted in
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Culling his junk mail folder, Gerrard Dennis saw an e-mail from Apple that told him his swimwear retail app had been flagged for having explicit sexual c ontent and pulled from the App Store. The e-mail seemed pretty innocuous, a standard letter blasted to the masses.
February 28, 2010 | Posted in
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An eagle-eyed Mac enthusiast has spotted a mystery blank key on the forthcoming Apple iPad keyboard dock. Writing in the MacRumors forum macduke notes that one button is currently left blank in the row of shortcut keys above the numerical ones.
February 28, 2010 | Posted in
GADGETS |
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The European Union’s Data Protection Working Party has given an express order to Google: Ditch Street View images taken in the UK after six months. Computerworld reports that the working party found Google’s current 12-month retention time for the images to be a “disproportionate” length of time.
February 27, 2010 | Posted in
SOCIAL MEDIA |
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Despite some conflicting reports across the Web, and no definitive announcemnt from Samsung, the company’s three-dimensional TV sets now appear to be available.
February 27, 2010 | Posted in
TECHNOLOGY |
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By Jason Palmer Science and technologyreporter, BBC News Society will only get ever more dependent on sat-nav systems Technology that depends on satellite-navigation signals is increasingly threatened by attack from widely available equipment, experts say. While “jamming” sat-nav equipment with noise signals is on the rise, more sophisticated methods allow hackers to program what receivers display. At risk are not only sat-nav users, but also critical national infrastructure.
February 24, 2010 | Posted in
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TECHNOLOGY |
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The government wants to pay for a £1bn network upgrade A government proposal to charge people with fixed phone lines 50p per month to help fund ultra-fast broadband has been condemned as “unfair” by MPs. The cross-party Business Innovation and Skills Committee said most of those who would pay the tax would not benefit from the faster broadband service
February 24, 2010 | Posted in
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Philips has taken all the best bits of TV tech and packed it into a new range of TVs – the 9000 series.
February 23, 2010 | Posted in
NEWS,
TV news |
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