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Sat-navs distracting and confusing drivers

News Worrying effects on drivers include almost a fifth (19 per cent) of sat-nav users who said it caused them to dawdle or hesitate on a busy road; 18 per cent who said it reduced their awareness of what was going on around them; 11 per cent who said...

Tags: gps, car, cent, drivers

23 July 2008, 8:39

News.blog: Hands on with the Wii

News Egan and I begin the road test with some mini-game demos that are part of Wario Ware. Thanks to Nintendo product testing supervisor Sean Egan, I've had about 90 minutes of solo time on the Wii as part of a road show Nintendo's putting on for the...

17 October 2006, 9:33

Microsoft set to test security software

News The software giant made the expected announcement at an event in Munich, where Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Mike Nash, a corporate vice president in charge of security efforts, discussed the company's security strategy and product road map at a...

7 October 2005, 8:53

MIT students to build flying car

News A fully operational prototype will come out in 2008 or earlier, according to the company, while Transition vehicles could hit the road, and the sky, by 2009 or 2010. Since 9/11, for the first time, average door-to-door travel speed has really...

16 February 2006, 10:00

Former Gizmondo exec crashes Ferrari

News Eriksson's car is said to have lost control and split in two after it smashed into a road-side pole, scattering debris hundreds of yards up the windy road. When Tiger Telematic's Gizmondo was announced in 2004 as the next handheld that would...

23 February 2006, 8:38

Sat-navs set to nag about speed limit

News A spokesman for TfL said: "This is the biggest scheme of its type in the country, we are working on a comprehensive map of every single road in the capital. Chris Line, TfL's road safety chief, recently told the transport select committee that such...

Tags: map, drivers, road, london

16 May 2008, 9:40

Open source could damage innovation, says analyst

News If you're on their road, you could be road-kill," he said. The open source movement could have a damaging impact on software innovation, according to a prominent market analyst. Bob Hayward, senior vice president and chief research officer at...

Tags: stream, research, open source, movement

6 July 2005, 10:02

Apple throws the switch, aligns with Intel

News Jobs said there are a lot of products Apple envisions for the coming years, but "we don't know how to build them with the future PowerPC road map. As for why Apple was making the shift, Jobs pointed both to past problems and to the PowerPC road map...

7 June 2005, 10:29

Segway-riding MP Opik risks arrest

News Opik pledged to raise the issue with transport minister Jim Fitzpatrick and to put forward a parliamentary question asking for them to be given the same classification as a bicycle on the road. The Department for Transport says it would be...

Tags: travel, transport, vehicles, car

10 September 2008, 8:47

For fuel cell innovation, the tank is half full

News Backup power and microdevices are close behind, with transportation applications much further down the road. It eventually plans an initial public offering, though that could be a couple of years down the road.

19 May 2005, 10:23

Photos: Gaming gear from E3

News Logitech says the second motor makes directional forces more realistic, letting indoor drivers feel everything from the banks in the road to impact with walls or other cars. The system features axial-feedback technology -- a motor built into the...

12 May 2006, 11:10

Is Linux Palm's saviour?

News In announcing the new OS, the company also highlighted its product road map, which included a feature-laden version, Cobalt 6.1. Showing the road map was an error, because the licencees wanted to wait for 6.1," the Italian developer said.

26 May 2005, 9:12

Songbird sings an open-source tune

News This is meant to inspire and show the road map -- and a glimpse of where we are on that road map. Lord's new five-person company, the ambitiously named Pioneers of the Inevitable, is building a piece of digital-music software called "Songbird...

23 December 2005, 10:25

'EA Replay' taps '90s nostalgia for PSP

News Others, such as the Road Rash series and Desert Strike and Jungle Strike, were made for consoles like the Super Nintendo or the Sega Mega Drive. Electronic Arts,the world's largest videogame producer, has announced the release of EA Replay, a...

4 September 2006, 10:17

Drivers to face fines for using mobiles

News That is why, from 27 February, the Road Safety Act will introduce a tougher fixed penalty of three points on your licence as well as a £60 fine," added Alexander. Drivers who insist on chatting away on handheld mobile phones are facing a further...

23 January 2007, 9:10