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Police shame 999 timewasters on YouTube

News But that did not stop some callers in Somerset from hitting 999 and berating exasperated emergency operators about their wife's sub-standard salmon sandwiches or their difficulties peeling potatoes. Losing your glasses or forgetting the answer to a...

Tags: services, youtube, lives, police

30 July 2008, 9:07

ID card scheme short on suppliers

News We have definitely got a great range and each contractor brings with them a host of talent from five to 15 sub-contractors. The government is facing calls to cancel its ID card scheme after it announced that all of the five remaining IT suppliers...

Tags: commercial, award, contract, scheme

27 May 2008, 8:35

Businesses buying Vista, but not using it

News At launch we had sub-one million drivers available, by April we had about million and in October we were at 2.3 million device drivers," said Microsoft says it remains happy with enterprise sales of Vista; however, the software behemoth...

Tags: windows vista, cent, drivers, sales

12 December 2007, 8:31

European GPS project is 'folly', says MP

News Nantwich and chairperson of the Transport Sub-Committee, said that to pursue the project would be "folly". The cost of Galileo was planned to be €3bn (£2.1bn) but the Transport Sub-Committee believes that this could spiral to €14.2bn (£10bn).

Tags: gps, community, navigation, european

13 November 2007, 8:53

Queuers give their iPhone to charity

News Clayman has been involved in large-scale charity initiatives for some time, having once organised a charity stair climb at Chicago's Sears Tower -- 105 stories from the sub-basement to the summit -- that raised $22,000 in donations for victims of...

Tags: scale, child, advertising, profit

30 June 2007, 9:28

EC to cap roaming rates

News However, the plan is being backed by Margaret Hodge, Minister of State for Industry and the Regions, who gave evidence in front of the Lords sub-committee on roaming yesterday. Holidaymakers and business travellers could soon see a maximum price on...

28 February 2007, 9:07

HP touts 'little iron' for the home

News The $1,799 (£929) IQ770 is an all-in-one design that HP envisions as a family hub, with an HP-designed calendar application that lets members of a household leave digital notes for each other without marking up the finish on the stainless-steel...

8 January 2007, 9:23

Developing countries need sexy phones

News The company is working with trade body the GSMA on a sub-$30 (£15) handset and believes that phones that cost under $15 are on the way soon. Developing countries are not the low-cost, low-functionality markets they are often painted as, according...

5 December 2006, 9:21

O2 proposes indoor mobile network

News There has been a compelling change in technical costs: you can get one of these for sub-$100," said Dave Williams, O2's chief technology officer, brandishing a WLAN router with a GSM radio. Patchy indoor mobile coverage could be consigned to...

17 November 2006, 9:10

Sub-£20 video phones on the way

News Texas Instruments has said that sub-$20 phones will come out in the relatively near future. Texas Instruments unfurled plans on Wednesday to produce a chip that will let consumers in emerging markets buy inexpensive video mobile phones by 2008.

9 November 2006, 9:53

Photos: LG.Philips' tiny LCD tech

News Pentile technology has a high image resolution created by using a chip that allows the sub-pixels that make up each pixel in an LCD display to show up on the screen, creating a more detailed image. Last week LG.Philips LCD announced it had created...

6 October 2006, 10:00

Microsoft unwraps Zune for Christmas

News The device will also come preloaded with content from DTS, EMI Music's Astralwerks and Virgin, Ninja Tune, Playlouderecordings, Quango Music Group, Sub Pop Records and V2/Artemis Records. The device, which the company anticipates will be ready in...

15 September 2006, 10:21

Milton Keynes ready for Pipex WiMax

News According to Graham Currier, business development manager for Pipex Wireless, Milton Keynes was chosen because of its sprawling geography, the technophile nature of its local council and its sub-par broadband provisioning.

22 August 2006, 9:17

IBM's single molecule stores data

News The experiment itself mounted the molecule between two gold electrodes that could be adjusted to sub-picometre accuracy. IBM researchers in Zurich have demonstrated a single molecule device capable of repeatedly storing and retrieving data.

11 August 2006, 9:24

Skype to launch new Wi-Fi phones

News With the increased activity from both fixed and mobile operators to deliver dualmode services to the mass market, often as part of a more far-reaching fixed-mobile convergence strategy, the long-term forecast for dualmode Wi-Fi/cellular handsets...

21 July 2006, 9:00