The most detailed report comes from Financial Times, whose sources claim Apple will hold an event Tuesday, Jan. 26 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco — a venue where Apple has held its previous iPod events. The topic of the event is unknown, but Financial Times speculates it will center [...]
Dec
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Dec
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23
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BlackBerry outage second time in a week
For the second time in a week, a Blackberry outage has left North American users without access to e-mail on their handsets. The Canadian tech company said it suffered a service interruption on Tuesday in the Americas, though there were reports of outages in Asia and Australia. While RIM said its phone and SMS services [...]
Dec
22
2009
22
2009
Microsoft must Pay i4i $290 million
A federal appeals court ordered Microsoft Corp. to pay a Canadian software company $290 million for violating a patent, upholding the decision of a lower court.
The company, based in Redmond, Washington, was given until Jan. 11 — five months from the original order issued in August — to make the change by the U.S. Court [...]
Dec
22
2009
22
2009
Texting While Driving More Dangerous Than Talking
Drivers who text-message are putting themselves and others in danger as they switch their attention between two complex tasks, a new study confirms.
But the new study by psychologists of University of Utah has shed light on why this is dangerous, thus strengthening the earlier studies.
Text messaging drivers were found to have slower reaction times and [...]
Dec
21
2009
21
2009
Intel Unveils Atom Processor
Intel has unveiled a new chip, codenamed Pine Trail, which brings together the Atom processor and the chipset in one single physical unit in a bid, by the world’s biggest semiconductor manufacturer to cut costs while improving power efficiency and performance.
The chips are smaller and more energy-efficient than their predecessors. They also integrate graphics processors [...]
Dec
21
2009
21
2009
Astronauts Blast off on Christmas Space Trip
Three astronauts from Japan, Russia and the United States blasted off early Monday morning amid harsh weather conditions for a Christmas voyage to the International Space Station.
The Soyuz TMA-17’s three astronauts will take the orbiting laboratory’s permanent crew to five following the early-hours launch, the first-ever blastoff of a Soyuz rocket on a winter night. [...]
Dec
20
2009
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2009
Angela Merkel defends climate accord
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is defending the much-criticized outcome of the Copenhagen climate summit as a first step that paves the way for action.
She has said negative comments about the agreement are unproductive.
‘It is a first step toward a new world climate order, nothing more but also nothing less,’ she told the Bild am Sonntag [...]
Dec
19
2009
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2009
Copenhagen climate deal bogged down in UN plenary
A climate deal brokered by President Barack Obama with China and other emerging powers is being bogged down by arguments between delegates in a plenary session.
Barack Obama, the US president, called it an “unprecedented breakthrough”, but there were no celebrations yesterday for the last-minute climate deal reached in Copenhagen between the biggest economy in the [...]
Dec
18
2009
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2009
3D Blu-ray Disc Specification Confirmed for PS3
The Blu-ray Disc Association announced today that it has finalized the 3-D Disc Specification, which includes support for the PlayStation 3. The format will be display agnostic, supporting any 3-D television, including LCD and Plasma models.
3D playback will be “display agnostic,” meaning that, according to the Blu-ray Disc Association, the format will be compatible across [...]
Dec
18
2009
18
2009
Nokia N900 Tablet Smartphone
Nokia’s N900 tablet smartphone will coming soon in UK stores, just in time to miss the Christmas rush, even if you’re a last minute shopper.
The Nokia N900 Tablet phone as from the 26th of December 2009, a few days ahead of mobile phone network Vodafone which is now expected to stock it from the 7th [...]