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Police shame 999 timewasters on YouTube

News Losing your glasses or forgetting the answer to a quiz question could hardly be classed as a matter of life or death. But that did not stop some callers in Somerset from hitting 999 and berating exasperated emergency operators about their wife's...

Tags: services, youtube, lives, police

30 July 2008, 10:07

Photos: Top 10 new species

News Malo kingi got its name from an American tourist, Robert King, who was stung to death off Queeensland, Australia, by the second known species of the box jellyfish genus Malo. Thousands of species were discovered or 'newly described' in the past...

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7 July 2008, 10:42

News.blog: XP death could be postponed

News The death of Windows XP may have been greatly exaggerated. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company could re-evaluate its plans to phase out Windows XP by 30 June, if customers demand that it stick around.

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25 April 2008, 10:22

Mobile use 'worse than asbestos and smoking'

News Writing in the report, he says: "The author fears that unless the industry and governments take immediate and decisive steps to openly acknowledge and intervene in this situation, even while waiting definitive confirmation by large and well...

Tags: mobile phones, research, study, body

1 April 2008, 10:08

Report: Paramount to back Blu-ray?

News The newspaper believes that this would be the 'death knell' for Yesterday's Financial Times reveals that according to its sources, Paramount is 'poised to reveal' it will be abandoning the HD DVD format in order to go Blu-ray exclusive.The article...

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9 January 2008, 11:37

Photos: Inside the iPod touch

News Could this signal the death of our touch? Once it was back together, our iPod touch booted right up with no white screen of death. The iPod touch includes the usual music-playing features, but adds video playback and Wi-Fi connectivity.

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4 December 2007, 11:15

Photos: What's inside the iPod nano?

News The closest we have come to bringing it back to life so far is the white screen of death. TechRepublic's Mark Kaelin cracked open the 4GB third-generation) iPod nano to see what makes this device tick.

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7 November 2007, 9:30

Employers rein in Facebook 'addicts'

News It's all irrelevant anyway, Facebook will die a death in the next 12 months and something new will be along to wow our fickle attention spans," he added. Employers are being forced to crack down on staff accessing social-networking Web site...

3 September 2007, 10:16

'Manhunt 2' approved for sale in US

News While a game cannot be banned outright by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board in the US, it can receive an AO for Adults Only rating, which is a similar kiss of death due to release and sales policies -- many major retailers in the country...

28 August 2007, 10:01

Second 'WoW' expansion announced

News It will also introduce the Death Knight hero class and a new profession -- inscription -- that will let players permanently enhance spells and abilities. The next shot shows the male human in black Death Knight armour, standing before a seated...

6 August 2007, 11:21

Xbox repair process leaves gamers with the blues

News That's because the extension is limited to consoles that display three blinking lights, or the 'Red Ring of Death', as it is known to the gaming community. Microsoft's announcement that it will spend $1bn to fix problematic Xbox 360s seemed like a...

6 August 2007, 11:00

Apple under fire for embedding personal data in songs

News It used to be that music fans believed cryptic messages about Satan or the death of a band member were hidden within rock albums. Nowadays, the secrets buried in digital music are way too easy to find, according to the Electronic Frontier...

4 June 2007, 10:07

Photos: 'Star Wars' fan frenzy in LA

News On entering the Los Angeles Convention Center, visitors are greeted by a huge model of the Death Star, which hangs from the ceiling. Celebration IV is a Star Wars fan fest that's taking place in Los Angeles this week.

25 May 2007, 11:37

Death knell sounded for cassettes

News According to the electronics retailer, the growth of music downloads has sounded the death knell for the cassette. Following the demise of the floppy disk, it looks like analogue tape is about to meet a similar fate: Currys has announced it will no...

9 May 2007, 12:28

The death of the smiley?

News Author Vladimir Nabokov said in a 1969 New York Times interview that "there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile -- some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket". Now, nearly four decades later, there is just such a...

14 March 2007, 10:41