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Up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories. BBC News provides trusted World and UK news as well as local and regional perspectives.

Games will 'eclipse' other media
10 01 2009 Video games are poised to "eclipse" all other forms of entertainment, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is told.

Do-it-yourself 3D movies at home
09 01 2009 New 3D technology may mean films might no longer be the sole province of movie studios.

UK e-mail law 'attack on rights'
09 01 2009 A law ensuring the details of every e-mail sent in the UK are kept is an attack on civil liberties, say critics.

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Democrats Seek Delay in TV Shift
09 01 2009 The Obama transition team is seeking to delay the Feb. 17 move to digital TV, saying millions of homes aren’t ready.

Palm Unveils iPhone Competitor, the Pre
08 01 2009 Palm says the device breaks new ground in the fiercely competitive smartphone market.

Indian Company Fights to Survive
08 01 2009 While the Indian outsourcing company Satyam struggles to pay employees, investors prepare to sue its auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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The Economist / Science and technology / News

Astronomy: The cosmic boogie-box
08 01 2009 The sky, it seems, is filled with unexpected radio signals WHISPER it not, but doing science can sometimes be a bit tedious. Traditionally, a researcher postulates an idea, devises an experiment to test it and then reports the results. Sometimes those results confirm the postulate; sometimes they confound it. Occasionally, though, something unexpected happens, and that is when the tedious gets exciting. One such shock was the discovery in 1964 of the cosmic microwave background, by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, a pair of radio astronomers who were testing a receiver they planned to use to search the sky for localised sources of microwaves. The hiss they found at one particular frequency turned out to be evidence for the then-controversial idea that the universe had been born in a Big Bang. A similarly strange result was reported this week by stargazers gathered at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Long Beach, California. Some of them reckon that, besides microwaves, the sky reverberates with the din of radio waves as well. If they are right, something very odd indeed is going on in the universe. ...

Science policy: Blessed are the geeks, for they shall inherit the Earth
08 01 2009 Barack Obama is making good his promise to welcome scientists into his administration ONE of the stranger beliefs of some politicians is that if they treat nature like a troublesome opponent and ignore it, it might go away and stop bothering them. In the opinion of many scientists George Bush, America’s retiring president, was just such a politician. It would be one thing, for example, to argue that it is too expensive to stop climate change and that adapting to such change is a better course of action. It is quite another, as White House officials have done in the past, to describe climate change as a liberal cause without merit. Mr Bush’s administration also stands accused of suppressing the publication of research he did not like. In 2007, for example, Richard Carmona, then surgeon general, testified to Congress that Mr Bush’s officials had delayed and tried to “water down” a report which concluded that even brief exposure to cigarette smoke could cause immediate harm. It has been criticised, too, for preferring AIDS-prevention techniques based on abstinence (which don’t work, but have a moral appeal to Mr Bush and his supporters) to those that use condoms (which do work). His attitude to research on embryonic stem cells did not endear him to many scientists, either, and although the disagreement in this case was about a matter of principle rather than one of scientific truth, the decision to stop funding such research was seen as yet another example of how low the stock of science had fallen in the government. ...

Neuroscience: Sound and no fury
08 01 2009 It may, in the future, be possible to treat brain diseases with ultrasound THE idea of treating maladies of the mind by blasting the brain with noise sounds, to the layman, like kicking a television set in order to repair it. It is, however, on the cards. The noise in question is ultrasound. This has been used for decades to scan human interiors—particularly wombs containing developing fetuses. The ultrasound is reflected from surfaces within the body (such as the skin of a fetus) in the way that audible sound echoes from a cliff face. William Tyler and his colleagues at Arizona State University, however, want to take things a stage further. They think that ultrasound might be used therapeutically as well. ...

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Telegraph / Technology / Features


Science, technology and internet news from telegraph.co.uk

CES 2009: Hitech 9000 sewing machine to come to UK
09 01 2009 The world's most expensive sewing machine the first ever to contain an inbuilt video camera will arrive in shops this summer.

CES 2009: 'Major tech acquisitions' this year
09 01 2009 The technology industry will see "some major acquisitions" this year according to Gary Shapiro the chief executive of the Consumer Electronics Association which is hosting CES 2009 in Las Vegas this week.

Barack Obama's BlackBerry endorsement 'worth tens of millions'
09 01 2009 Barack Obama's public declarations of affection for his BlackBerry are providing its makers with free publicity worth up to £33million advertising experts have said.

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The Times / Technology and Web / News

Time is running out for Blu ray format
10 01 2009 Time is running out for Blu-ray discs, the high definition (HD) format that are supposed to be replacing the DVD.

Palm Pre takes its competitors by the roots
09 01 2009 Tech Central blog: the new Palm phone - an object of desire

YouTube video fuels US riots over killing of Oscar Grant
09 01 2009 Grainy mobile phone footage showing a police officer shooting an unarmed man in the back as he lay face down on the ground have been played repeatedly on YouTube, prompting street riots in the United States.

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Time magazine / Business and technology

Horrible Jobs Report May Save The Economy
09 01 2009

As bad as the December report on unemployment was, the disaster could be just the thing that saves the economy

Lenders Look Beyond Credit Scores to Gauge Who's a Risk
09 01 2009

Unhappy with the predictive value of credit scores, lenders look for more personal data

Lenders Look Beyond Credit Scores to Determine Who's a Risk
09 01 2009

Unhappy with the predictive value of credit scores, lenders look for more personal data

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The Register / News


Sci/Tech news

Pro-Palestine vandals deface Army, NATO sites
10 01 2009

Protest Israeli Gaza attacks

Online vandals protesting Israel's military action in Gaza have defaced thousands of websites, including high-profile sites belonging to the US Army, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and a Washington-based group that oversees homeland security.…

Microsoft delays first Windows 7 public beta
10 01 2009

'Feature complete' code demand buckles servers

Microsoft has postponed broad availability of the first Windows 7 beta in order to keep up with anticipated download demand.…

Sun and open-source events changed as recession bites
10 01 2009

Analyze this

Update Sun Microsystems has scrapped its industry analyst conference held annually in San Francisco, California. It was scheduled for February.…

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Wired Magazine / Gadgets / News

How Video Will Save the Audio Star
10 01 2009 Audiophiles, rejoice: Sound quality is about to get much better, thanks to high-definition video standards.

Why the Budget All-in-One Desktop Will Fail
10 01 2009 Attempting to ride the success of netbooks, companies are introducing inexpensive all-in-one PC desktops. They don't stand a chance in the market, and here's why.

Conceptual Interface is Controlled by Hand Gestures
10 01 2009 Toshiba showed off a conceptual computer interface at this year's CES that uses hand gestures for control. With simple motion sensing technology and a software interface, Toshiba hopes to open up possible applications for video games and other interactive media.

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Digital Communities / Magazine / Features


Information technology (IT) case studies, applications, news and best practices by and for international, state, city and county government.

Northeastern Wins Multi-Million Dollar Grant to Develop Critical Infrastructure Sensing Technology
09 01 2009 Northeastern University has been awarded a $9 million federal research grant to develop new multi-sensor technology systems for cars and trucks that will allow for real-time assessment of road and bridge infrastructure across the country.

Governments use Twitter for Emergency Alerts, Traffic Notices and More
09 01 2009 Agencies help move free microblogging service beyond social media novelty.

The Cyber Fusion Center, Existing Law, InfraGard Tools for Fighting Cyber-Crime
09 01 2009 The threat of cyber-terrorism is something of a microcosm of larger counterterrorism challenges.

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New York Times / Bits / Web log

C.E.S. Interview: Microsoft's Robbie Bach on the 'Strategy Tax'
09 01 2009 Microsoft executive Robbie Bach discusses the challenges of trying to serve so many different types of customers.

C.E.S. Interview: Reed Hastings of Netflix on TV's Future
09 01 2009 Reed Hastings predicts that within two years Netflix will be built into many televisions.

Mattel Channels Obi-Wan: "Stretch Out With Your Feelings"
09 01 2009 A new toy called Mindflex challenges players to elevate and maneuver a small ball using only the power of the mind.

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Techtonic South Africa / Technology / Web Log


Tracking the shifts in technology

Readers ask: Which netbook?
16 12 2008 Ultra portable netbooks have proved to be the surprise hit of 2008. But with just about every major manufacturer launching a netbook into the market over the past year choosing the right one can be a challenge. Tectonic reader Jaco asks which Linux netbook would be the best buy for his mother.

Best of 2008: The year’s top posts
12 12 2008 With just a couple of weeks to go until 2009 it seems an appropriate time to look back on the year that was. We dug through the archives and came up with the ten most popular posts on Tectonic over the past 12 months.

Dell customer gets Windows refund
12 12 2008 Dell customer Zvi Devir has done what most open source fans just dream about: He managed to get Dell to give him a refund for the Windows software shipped on his new laptop which he didnxx_apos_xxt want because he was planning to run Linux.

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All Things Digital


News, analysis and opinion on technology, the Internet and media from the Wall Street Journal.

2009 Software Outlook Predictably Crappy [Digital Daily]
10 01 2009

Goldman Sachs published its "Americas: 2009 Software Outlook" report today and it's as dismal and ugly a forecast as you'd expect, given the current economic climate. Of course, as ugly as it was, it could have been worse.

As BoomTown Said, Bartz Is Tops on the Yahoo CEO Short List�'Here’s the Reaction [BoomTown]
10 01 2009

Following on BoomTown's report earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal has also named former Autodesk top exec Carol Bartz as a contender for Yahoo CEO in a report today.Since my post on Wednesday, I have been getting a lot of intense reaction from inside and outside of Yahoo to the idea of an old-line tech CEO--such as Bartz--with little Internet or online advertising experience, taking on the difficult role at Yahoo.What's most interesting about the reaction to Bartz is that the kudos and the knocks track very closely.

Dell Says We Will Fall in Love With Adamo [Voices]
10 01 2009 Dell called a bunch of reporters to a room at the Palms hotel in Las Vegas and gave them a sneak peek at a widely rumored laptop called Adamo. It was literally just a peek; the stylish, thin notebook PC was held up briefly by a stylish, thin fashion model who goes by the single name Hollis. A small mob of photographers was allowed to snap away for a minute or two, and then the Adamo was hustled out of the room.

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