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BBC News / Technology


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.

'Console killer' launches in June
11 03 2010 A gaming service that aims to kill off the traditional gaming console will begin streaming games over the net in June this year.

Sony shows off motion controller
11 03 2010 Sony unveils its new motion controller the PlayStation Move, as a contender to market leader Nintendo Wii.

Internet up for Nobel Peace Prize
10 03 2010 The internet is among a record 237 individuals and organisations nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

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Driven to Distraction: Distracted Driving in Ambulances and Police Cruisers
11 03 2010 Police and paramedics use an array of dashboard devices, a boon for their jobs that also presents a clear risk.

Tricks to Keep Your Device’s Battery Going and Going
11 03 2010 Smartphone and laptop batteries may seem like cruel masters when they threaten to lose power, but you have more control than you may think.

TV Providers Seek New Federal Rules on Retransmission Rights
10 03 2010 With a petition to the F.C.C. and a letter to Congressional leaders, cable and satellite providers said the current rules were “broken and in need of repair.”

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The Economist / Science and technology / News

Correction: Alien life
05 03 2010 In "Signs of life" (February 27th) we said that the Square Kilometre Array radio-telescope collaboration planned to build its grid over a square kilometre of land. In fact, it is the combined collecting area of the telescopes involved that is one square kilometre. The instruments themselves would be scattered over several hundred square kilometres. ...

Palaeontology: Do the locomotion
05 03 2010 The earliest animal tracks yet found have been unearthed in Canada ONE of the greatest mysteries of the history of life is the Cambrian explosion. Prior to 560m years ago, animal fossils are rare. Then, in a geological eyeblink, they become common. Shelly creatures such as trilobites and brachiopods, of whose ancestors there is little sign in the rocks, are suddenly everywhere. Biologists would dearly love to know what happened. Recent discoveries at the delightfully named Mistaken Point, in Newfoundland, serve to lift the veil slightly. These findings are not of Precambrian animals themselves, but of their tracks. And these, paradoxically, may be more useful. ...

Weather forecasting: Flaky science
05 03 2010 How to predict the consistency of snow “THE wrong type of snow” became famous as a lame excuse in Britain in February 1991 when, caught out by a cold snap, British Rail blamed severe disruption to its services on problems clearing unusually soft and powdery snow from its tracks. But British Rail had a point. There are, indeed, different types of snow—and people who live in mountainous areas, or visit to ski, like to know which ones to expect. Forecasting what sort of snow will fall is not easy. But a pair of researchers at the University of Utah think they have cracked the problem. Jim Steenburgh and Trevor Alcott carried out their research in the Alta ski area, which is about 3,000 metres (10,000 feet) up in the Wasatch range. Good record-keeping at the resort, including precipitation measurements that are taken automatically every hour, allowed them to analyse 457 snowfalls that took place between 1999 and 2007. ...

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Telegraph / Technology / Features


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

Opera browser launches on Android
11 03 2010 First browser to rival Google's official version launches in beta

Microsoft's Bing sponsors The Simpsons
11 03 2010 Microsoft has sponsored The Simpsons on Channel 4, as part of its multi million pound advertising campaign in the UK to promote Bing, its search engine.

Conservatives promise ultrafast broadband
11 03 2010 The Conservative Party's Technology Manifesto includes commmitments to 100mbps broadband for most of the population and a 'Right to Data'

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The Times / Technology and Web / News

Nokia patents the first self-charging phone
11 03 2010 You’re at work, on holiday, or halfway through a vital conversation about last night’s television. Suddenly, you realise the phone’s battery is about to run out. It’s a very modern disaster, but one that could soon be at an end.

Sony enters gaming war with Move, its own motion control system
11 03 2010 Sony last night fired its opening shot in the battle to oust Nintendo's Wii from the world's living rooms with the announcement of a new motion control system for its high-definition games console, the PlayStation 3.

Microsoft launches free rival to BBC iPlayer - the MSN Video Player
10 03 2010 Microsoft is launching a free online video player - the first serious rival to the BBC’s iPlayer

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Time magazine / Business and technology

Subprime Lending Crisis: Auto Loans Thrive, Housing Down
11 03 2010 In the wake of the credit crisis, banks have scaled back lending to subprime borrowers. But other lenders have stepped in, making high-interest-rate loans to borrowers with low credit scores

East Africa's Oil and Gas: Drilling, Exploration Rising
10 03 2010 New drilling in and off countries up the coast of East Africa shows that the region may have massive reserves of natural gas and oil

Q&A: How Trust Creates Wealth
10 03 2010 This may feel like a low point for trust, but in her new book The Economics of Integrity, journalist Anna Bernasek argues it's everywhere -- and it's one of the most powerful economic assets we've got

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The Register / News


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Tories pat small biz heads in open source IT procurement pledge
11 03 2010

Claims Conservative government would cap tech £100m contracts

Shadow chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne claimed today that the Conservative party, if elected to form the next government, would meet its "ambition" of ensuring that the next generation of "Googles, Microsofts and Facebooks" were British companies.…

Estonian DDoS revenge worm crafter jailed
11 03 2010

Infection still spreading

An Estonian virus writer has been jailed for two and a half years for creating a Windows worm family that launched denial of service attacks on the websites of a local insurance firm and ISP.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Database state breached 11 times
11 03 2010

As Hillier says give kids ID cards for social networks

Home Secretary Alan Johnson has given Parliament some details on the most recent breaches of the various identity databases held by his ministry.… What is your recession sales strategy?

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Wired Magazine / Gadgets / News

iPad Could See 50 Tablet Rivals This Year
11 03 2010 Microprocessor company ARM says there will be more than 50 new tablets launching worldwide to compete with the iPad.

Multitasking Earbuds Stress Great Design, Not Sound
11 03 2010 Cool looking and inexpensive, the Remix earbud from VMODA doesn't quite deliver solid sound quality.

Safe and Affordable Jetpack: Just $90,000
10 03 2010 For years, man has been trying to build a jetpack which would be safe and cheap enough to use by anyone other than Lee Majors on the title sequence of The Fall Guy. It turns out we’ve been doing it wrong. Instead of starting with a pack and adding on the jet, we should have torn the giant engines from a plane and strapped them to some poor schmuck.

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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.

Can the Library of Congress Be Downloaded in Seconds?
11 03 2010 Cisco launches new routing system built for the next-generation network.

Briefs: Edmonton, Alberta, Embraces Open Government; White House Mulls Contest Platform
11 03 2010 Hacker targets Massachusetts city; Columbia, Mo., seeks Google broadband.

E-Prescribing Significantly Reduces Medication Errors
11 03 2010 New study shows seven-fold decrease in medication errors thanks to e-prescribing.

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New York Times / Bits / Web log

Polyvore Hires Former Google Executive as Chief
23 02 2010 Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, formerly of Google and Accel, is the new chief executive of Polyvore, a fashion-oriented e-commerce start-up.

Bits Scan: Tracking Adobe Stock, Google Hackers and Sexy iPhone Apps
22 02 2010 Our Monday morning technology news roundup also looks at AOL's plan to build a newsroom of the future, an emerging battle among chip makers and possible price cuts for TV shows on Apple's iTunes.

A Visual Tool to Track Olympic Tweets
20 02 2010 NBC and Stamen Design have created a visual tool to help Olympic fans follow the Twitter traffic about their favorite sports and athletes.

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All Things Digital


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

China’s First Twitter Novel [Voices]
11 03 2010 While Twitter remains generally blocked in China, that hasn’t stopped tech-savvy Chinese from putting the microblog platform to creative uses.This week, influential blogger Lian Yue started publishing a novel on Twitter, believed to be the first time a Chinese-language novel is released on the popular service.

Rich Dude Who Backed New York Times Bumps Tech's Gates as World's Wealthiest Man [BoomTown]
11 03 2010 Microsoft bigwig Bill Gates got hip-checked off the top perch as the richest man in the world by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim on the annual Forbes list of the world's Richie Richs.Often in the No. 1 spot, Gates actually got shoved off in 2008 by investor Warren Buffett (now No. 3), with whom he is good friends.Gates returned to the top rank in 2009, and now Slim--a telecom and more tycoon--has surpassed Gates's net worth of $53 billion slightly with a $53.5 billion kitty.

Good News for Netflix Web Users: Disney Re-Ups With Starz [MediaMemo]
11 03 2010 Premium TV network Starz Entertainment has re-upped with Disney on its distribution deal, assuring access to the studio's movies through 2015. Why do you care? Because the deal means Starz keeps the digital rights to the studio's films, which means that Netflix streaming video users will be able to watch the movies.

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