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Celebrities make 'Spore' creatures

News In each case, fans can see the celebrity's creation, how many times others have looked at it (on YouTube, where they can rate it), and how many people have 'liked' it. It seems everyone is getting in on the Spore fun these days.

Tags: celebrities, youtube, views, creatures

3 September 2008, 10:07

Microsoft may launch apps store for Windows Mobile

News On Thursday Google announced Android Market, an online center that will let people find, buy, download and rate applications and other content for mobile phones equipped with the open-source operating system.

Tags: sales, cross, surfing, cent

1 September 2008, 10:56

London police in Google Maps crime mash-up

News Searches can be conducted by postcode or borough, and results include a summary of the current crime rate and how it compares to rates in recent years. The Metropolitan Police has launched a test version of a clickable crime map for London, showing...

Tags: enable, maps, london, police

19 August 2008, 8:36

Ikea assembles pay as you go mobile

News The purveyor of oddly named ranges of flat-pack furniture has pulled a new product out of its bargain bin: a mobile SIM it claims offers the lowest price pay as you go calls and texts in the UK -- at a flat rate of 9p per minute, and 6p per text.

Tags: account, family, rate, credit

5 August 2008, 8:13

Faster FireWire approved for gigabit generation

News It is currently on version 2.0 with a top speed of 480Mbps, with 3.0 due out in 2010 at a mooted fastest rate of 4.8Gbps. The IEEE has approved the new IEEE 1394-2008 specification that gives support for better bandwidth of up to 3.2Gbps -- the...

Tags: compatibility, usb, serial, firewire

1 August 2008, 9:10

BT to upgrade 10 million homes with fibre

News But the company has said comms industry regulator Ofcom needs to look at changing the regulatory environment in order to ensure a "fair rate of return" for companies looking to roll out the technology.

Tags: industry, generation, silicon, return

16 July 2008, 8:15

3 disables data roaming to avoid big bills

News We have offered every network in Europe a reciprocal wholesale rate of 25 euro cents per megabyte -- that's a platform to offer far better retail prices for Europe's consumers," he said. The mobile operator 3 has removed the default roaming...

Tags: networks, consumers, customers, bill

9 July 2008, 9:00

Mobile broadband boosts fibre diet

News The rapid take-up of mobile broadband could help spur the arrival of super-fast fibre broadband networks in the UK, according to telecoms regulator Ofcom, which has set out plans for a pro-investment regulatory framework that will guarantee...

Tags: rate, generation, communications, businesses

7 July 2008, 9:32

Mobile termination fees cost users £80bn

News Currently, the average EU mobile termination rate is 9 euro cents per minute, although there is significant variation between networks. The European telecoms regulator European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA) has urged the...

Tags: consumers, networks, rates, european

27 June 2008, 8:56

Active PCs grow 1 billion strong

News Gartner's estimation that the installed base of PCs is growing at an annual rate of almost 12 per cent, there will be 2 billion PCs in use by 2014, the analysts said on Monday. There are now more than a billion PCs in active use worldwide...

Tags: pcs, installed, base, cent

24 June 2008, 9:07

Photos: Futuristic PCs think out of the beige box

News This FIT device concept, also a finalist in the competition, helps users adhere to a fitness plan with calorie-burn and heart-rate monitors, progress reports and more. Move over beige box. That was theme enthusiastically embraced by winners of the...

Tags: fantasy, entry, human, shape

20 June 2008, 8:57

News.blog: Firefox 3 downloads pass 8 million mark

News The download rate, which peaked at 14,000 per minute on Tuesday, was still going strong at more than 6,000 per minute on Wednesday morning. Take this statistic with a grain of salt, but Mozilla has said more than 8 million copies of Firefox 3 were...

Tags: firefox, downloaded, copies, downloading

19 June 2008, 8:27

News.blog: Facebook enables ad ratings

News Blogger Rob Webb appears to have been the first to notice that the social network now allows members to rate the site's ads with a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Finally, I can now do something about all those tacky speed-dating ads that show up on my...

Tags: ads, facebook, dating, thumbs

6 June 2008, 9:23

Broadband Blighty gets a rural flavour

News Wales had the lowest growth rate, rising just three percentage points on last year to hit 45 per cent fat pipe penetration. Wales saw the highest growth, with around a fifth (19 per cent) of homes being mobile-only, while the UK city with the...

Tags: rate, cent, points, connected

23 May 2008, 9:50

BBFC: Online game ratings inevitable

News Cooke said his organisation will be working together with the Pan European Game Information Online system to rate online games, and he will be recommending that some elements of the BBFC Online system be used.

22 May 2008, 10:25