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Michael Moore to premiere film online
News Nine Inch Nails, led by Trent Reznor, followed Radiohead by offering the digital version of the album Ghosts I-IV for free as well as charging for premium versions. Filmmaker Michael Moore plans to premiere his latest documentary exclusively on the...
Tags: film, album, released, fans
5 September 2008, 10:08
Gaming's reach growing in Europe
News Dromgoole says women and girls are eschewing games that are popular with men, such as FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer, with their top three brands being The Sims, Tetris and Brain Training.Console ownership figures also show an interesting trend: 54...
Tags: interest, playstation, gamers, figures
12 August 2008, 8:35
Scientists closer to not seeing invisibility cloak
News The findings, to be released later this week in Nature and Science, were made by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, led by Xiang Zhang. Scientists say they are a step closer to developing materials that will render people and...
Tags: nature, science, materials, object
11 August 2008, 8:22
News.blog: Scrabulous returns to Facebook as Wordscraper
News The colours of the board were the same, the list of rules led to a Wikipedia entry for Scrabble rules, and the two names were similar enough for Hasbro to cry foul. In the school playground of Facebook apps, Scrabulous is like that girl who gets in...
Tags: points, board, facebook, creators
31 July 2008, 9:28
Nokia to form open-source Android killer
News Symbian Foundation members that are also involved in the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) -- the organisation developing the Google-led Android platform -- include LG, NTT DoCoMo, Motorola, Samsung and Texas Instruments.
Tags: community, linux, ericsson, lg
25 June 2008, 9:13
Photos: Unearthing history at Stonehenge
News The team was led by Mike Parker Pearson, an archaeology professor at the University of Sheffield, with support from the National Geographic Now that's a pretty impressive tombstone. New research suggests that
Tags: family, ancient, walls, phase
2 June 2008, 9:21
Virgin to boost broadband bandwidth
News The trend for online video content and popular bandwidth-heavy apps -- such as the BBC's iPlayer -- has led to concerns among ISPs their infrastructure will soon be creaking under the strain. As Web users' thirst for bandwidth soars, cable...
Tags: optical, kit, bandwidth, trial
12 May 2008, 9:14
Photos: Iron Man suits up in CGI
News Ben Snow, ILM's visual effects supervisor who led the Iron Man team, poses at a computer at ILM in front of posters from the film. Paramount's forthcoming film, Iron Man, which is scheduled to be released on Friday, uses a mixture of computer...
Tags: film, car, man, character
2 May 2008, 9:23
News.blog: Radiohead gives up on giveaways
News Nine Inch Nails, led by Trent Reznor, followed Radiohead by offering the digital version of the album Ghosts I-IV for free as well as charging for premium versions. Radiohead made it official: the band won't be giving away music like it did with...
Tags: album, promotion, radiohead, marketing
1 May 2008, 9:12
News.blog: Chip makers address processor 'greening'
News Stanford's lab will cost $6m over three years and be led by electrical engineering professor Kunle Olukotun, a pioneer the idea of multicore microprocessors, according to the Times. Clock speed is no longer the most important measure on processors...
Tags: intel, lab, university, sun microsystems
30 April 2008, 9:10
Photos: 'Mobots' race for accuracy
News It also sells a kit that uses an infrared LED to illuminate the white line used in the race, and a phototransistor to detect it. Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon University's 14th annual 'mobot' -- that is, mobile robot -- races took place on...
Tags: kit, motion, students, race
22 April 2008, 9:20
Europe embraces high-speed Web
News This compares to 62 per cent in 2005.i2010 is the EU's digital-led strategy to boost growth and jobs, established in 2005. More than a quarter of a billion Europeans regularly use the Internet, with around 80 per cent of those people being hooked...
Tags: cent, connections, broadband, europe
21 April 2008, 8:52
News.blog: China warned over Olympic Web access
News The unrest in Tibet, covered by a variety of news organisations, has led to calls to boycott the Olympic Games, according to a report in Associated Press. Inspectors for the International Olympic Committee are reminding China of its obligation to...
Tags: international, press, bbc, china
2 April 2008, 9:18
Microsoft fares poorly in Greenpeace guide
News They also led the pack in the amount of products they recycle as a percentage of past sales; Samsung claimed it had recycled five per cent by weight, while Toshiba claimed it had recycled per cent. Environmental campaign organisation Greenpeace has...
Tags: guide, products, cent, toshiba
19 March 2008, 9:17
Photos: A touch of power for new MacBooks
News There's also an optional high-resolution 17-inch LED-backlit model. Apple on Tuesday announced that it is boosting the processing power of its MacBook Pro and MacBook lineup of laptops. The Pro line is also gaining Apple's multi-touch technology.
27 February 2008, 9:35


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