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ASDA halves pay as you go mobile prices
News Vodafone announced increases after rivals T-Mobile and O2 raised their pre-pay call charges this summer. O2, which has 11.5 million pre-pay customers, has doubled its minimum call charges for customers who have not upgraded to a new tariff.
Tags: pre, customers, plan, war
22 August 2008, 8:33
News.blog: Photosynth goes public
News One thing that's missing from this version of Photosynth is a way to synth pre-existing photo collections, or sets of photos taken from community sites. Photosynth, a technology demo from Microsoft Live Labs, is graduating from its "ooh, that's...
Tags: managed, photographs, labs, collections
21 August 2008, 9:16
Could 64-bit Vista finally be taking off?
News In its circular this Sunday, most of the desktops and half of the dozen laptop models being advertised by US retailer Office Depot had the 64-bit version of Windows pre-installed. If you build it, it appears they will come, eventually.
Tags: desktops, cent, models, gaming
5 August 2008, 9:19
PC World stocking Atom mini laptop
News The accessibility to the Internet and portability of netbooks has seen extremely strong pre-sales through PC The UK computer-store chain PC World is claiming to be the first retail outlet in the country to offer a netbook using Intel's
Tags: intel, windows xp, laptops, viewing
8 July 2008, 8:50
News.blog: Adobe uncovers 'invisible' Flash content
News Adobe's technology means that millions of pre-existing RIAs that use Flash technology, including content that loads at runtime, are immediately searchable without alteration by companies or developers,
Tags: adobe, yahoo, engines, index
2 July 2008, 9:03
Photos: Intel shows off future tech
News Another development in hand-like technology is this gripper, which uses electric field sensing and pre-touch technology that helps the device decide how to best handle an object. This robotic arm and hand developed by researchers at Intel's...
Tags: hand, handle, research, production
16 June 2008, 9:23
UK console modder wins court appeal
News The 38-year-old operated his business from his parents' home in Bristol, and sold both pre-modded consoles and the chips themselves. An online retailer who imported chips from Hong Kong to allow overseas and copied games to be played on 'modded...
Tags: case, mod, chips, consoles
12 June 2008, 13:48
Mac cloners offer software updates
News Psystar, a Florida-based company that last month began selling generic PCs with Apple's Mac OS X operating system pre-installed in the US, has addressed one of the major shortcomings of the systems by offering bug fixes and software updates.
Tags: mac os, operating system, pre, automatic updates
29 May 2008, 8:50
Council flats get broadband via power line
News Using a "pre-WiMax" 5.8GHz wireless connection based on the roofs of the buildings, a broadband connection will be distributed to residents through the buildings' electrical wiring. Residents of council flats in the West Midlands town of Solihull...
Tags: connectivity, project, broadband, buildings
22 May 2008, 8:55
Dell to cut PC power by 25 per cent
News Following a campaign on the company's IdeaStorm forum, the company announced that most of the pre-installed software on its computers would become optional at the point of configuration. Dell has committed to improving the energy efficiency of its...
Tags: technologies, dell, energy, roi
19 May 2008, 9:19
Photos: Fill 'er up with yeast and sugar
News The MicroFuelers can be pre-ordered now and will ship in the fourth quarter of 2008 if all goes as planned. Meet the EFuel100 MicroFueler, which parent company E-Fuel says is the 'world's first home ethanol product'.
Tags: press, water, credit, conference
9 May 2008, 9:56
Eee 900 launches with limited stock
News It's available for pre-order through Asus has officially launched the latest version of its Eee PC, the Eee PC 900, but most UK customers are currently unable to get their hands on the popular subnotebook.
2 May 2008, 9:21
Social trends spur technology
News This is reflected in the fact technology users often come up with new applications for the tech they adopt -- such as mobile pre-pay, which is used as an alternative currency in some parts of the world, or text messages being used as a dumping...
Tags: base, customer, nokia, london
24 April 2008, 9:21
European in-flight mobile calls set for take-off
News But the EC's information, society and media commissioner, Viviane Reding, has already sounded a pre-emptive warning to operators about sky-high prices. In-flight mobile phone calls have been given the green light by the European Commission (EC...
Tags: mobiles, mobile phone, technical, europe
9 April 2008, 9:39
Asus to ship most Eee PCs with XP
News Asus has said that around 60 per cent of its Eee PCs shipped this year will come with Windows XP pre-installed, according to reports. The Taiwanese manufacturer announced last week that it would be putting
Tags: xp, cent, windows xp, linux
14 March 2008, 9:27
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Format wars: The tech that should have won
Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed
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