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Segway-riding MP Opik risks arrest
News He argues the one-person gyroscopic vehicles could transform city centres -- replacing pollution-spewing cars with the electric vehicles -- saying their top speed of 12mph is four miles per hour faster than the average car in London city centre.
Tags: travel, transport, vehicles, car
10 September 2008, 8:47
Broadband Britain loves to talk
News Internet and mobile phones have seen the biggest usage increases: time spent on PCs and laptops grew fourfold between 2002 and 2007 -- from 6 minutes to 24 minutes per person per day; while time spent talking and texting on mobiles doubled over...
Tags: cent, broadband, connections, communications
15 August 2008, 8:13
Photos: Legless photographer snaps from ground up
News I love the aesthetics of disgusting stuff lying on the ground -- debris and the fact that you can still snag a person in the midst of that. Kevin Connolly, a 22-year-old photographer born without legs and self-described 'camera geek', is probably...
Tags: shot, shots, exhibition, skateboard
4 July 2008, 9:28
'Half' of teens' MP3s are illegal tracks
News The average young person's MP3 player contains an average of 1,770 tracks, around half of which have not been paid for. Young people are getting almost half of their music collection through illegal means.
Tags: cent, sharing, industry, research
17 June 2008, 8:51
Photos: Google's Android software on display
News Android screen with two shortcuts: one for the New York Times Web page, and another for the contact information for a person in the Android contact list. The project, under development by Google and a number of partners in the Open Handset Alliance...
Tags: man, contact, engineering, maps
29 May 2008, 9:11
Facebook execs explain profile redesign
News That page will contain detailed data about the person's address, personal history and preferences. Facebook plans to unveil a redesign of profile pages in the coming weeks, to help members cut down on the clutter, executives said at a press event...
Tags: beta, feed, feeds, distribution
22 May 2008, 9:58
Brits call for ASBOs for bad mobile habits
News A survey of more than 2,000 UK adults found the top five pet hates are: people talking loudly on the phone; a person texting while talking to them; loud music being played on phones; using a phone in a restaurant; and swearing on the phone in public.
Tags: mobiles, talking, european, women
12 May 2008, 8:59
Photos: Fashionable tech hits the runway
News The jacket on the left is designed to allow someone to make music by merely touching the person wearing it. CNET News.com's own Kara Tsuboi models Massage Me, a wearable game controller that enables a person to massage someone while playing games...
Tags: skin, networks, credit, person
29 April 2008, 9:11
News.blog: iPhone to get chat app?
News The GUI has a set of messages exchanged between a user of the device and another person. At its iPhone SDK event last month, Apple touted an adaption of AOL's instant-messaging client for the iPhone. Now comes news of Apple's own patent application...
Tags: apple, messages, chat, messaging
23 April 2008, 9:34
News.blog: Google Earth adds Street View
News It adds the Street View feature from Google Maps for a ground-level view of some areas, and a new navigation method makes the software more like a first-person videogame, Google said in a statement. Part of the fun of Google Earth is flying over...
Tags: google, virtual, earth, maps
16 April 2008, 8:23
News.blog: A new focus for photographers
News Ng offers an analogy: where a photograph is like an X-ray image, the light field is like a three-dimensional CT scan that lets a doctor effectively look at the interior of a person from any direction.
Tags: fix, field, research, raw
29 February 2008, 9:22
Home Office laptop 'sold on eBay'
News Leapfrog sales manager Jonathan Parry told CNET.co.uk's sister site ZDNet.co.uk on Thursday that the person who had bought the laptop had brought it into the shop on Monday because "it wasn't working properly".
Tags: keyboard, laptop, disc, encrypted
29 February 2008, 9:06
'Wii Fit' gets UK pricing
News Wii Balance Board, which acts as a controller for the game and also calculates a person's body mass index. A week ago, Nintendo dated Wii Fit for Europe, saying the exercise game would arrive 25 April.
Tags: balance, board, released, europe
28 February 2008, 8:51
Sony shares surge after HD DVD's demise
News So therefore, every PS3 sale will likely mean that person won't buy a 360, so this news will ultimately hurt 360 sales. Sony's shares gained nearly five per cent yesterday on news that Toshiba will be bowing out of the high-definition format war...
21 February 2008, 9:19
Elonex to launch £99 laptop
News The One removes the cost barrier that has prevented the one-laptop-per- person, large-scale uptake of computers in the education system that has for so long been just a pipe dream," said Sam Goult, Elonex's marketing manager, in a statement last...
Tags: children, laptop, education, educational
19 February 2008, 10:15


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