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Google Base classifieds service goes live

News Google's mysterious Google Base service went live late on Tuesday, allowing people to post any kind of information they want for free and to provide labels to describe it so others can easily find it.

16 November 2005, 9:22

Is Apple making a laptop with a camera in the latch?

News Apple has filed a patent for a laptop that has a camera built into the latch between the lid and the base, suggesting that it is working on such a feature in an upcoming laptop model. The patent application, which was published by the US Patent and...

20 September 2005, 9:55

Three-year study finds phone masts 'safe'

News A three-year study into the possible short-term health effects of mobile base stations has found that base stations are not associated with ill health. Mast Sanity, a pressure group which campaigns against the building of cellular base stations...

Tags: study, base, mobile phone, health

26 July 2007, 10:24

Google fixes flaw that unleashed flood of porn

News A technology glitch temporarily turned Google's new personal listings service, Google Base, into a vast, virtual red light district earlier this week. Launched last week, Google Base is the search company's foray into free classified listings and...

24 November 2005, 9:51

Digg in hot water over copyright debacle

News It has been a whirlwind two days for the social news site Digg, complete with a cease-and-desist letter, a mutinous user base and speculation that it might get sucked into a legal battle. Its user base, notoriously opinionated and used to a...

3 May 2007, 8:59

Photos: X Prize's rocket fest

News The X Prize Cup competition was part of a three-day rocket fest/air show/expo that took place at Holloman Air Force Base, NM, over the weekend. For the first time ever, Holloman Air Force Base pilots showed off to the public the F22 Raptor, the...

Tags: force, racing, fly, mod

30 October 2007, 10:16

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. Gartner report Forecast: PC Installed Base, Worldwide, 2004-2012.

Tags: pcs, installed, base, cent

24 June 2008, 9:07

Photos: Robot cars go head to head

News Projects Agency (DARPA) raised the green flag on Saturday on 11 driverless cars to drive a 97-plus kilometres course at the former George Air Force Base in Oro Grande, California, or what race officials called DARPA city.

Tags: force, air, base, drivers

5 November 2007, 10:06

PlayStation 3 stats spotlighted

News CPU: Cell Processor• PowerPC-base Core @ 3.2GHz• 1 VMX vector unit per core• 512KB L2 cache• 7 x SPE @ 3.2GHz• 7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs• 7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE• 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy• total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPSGPU...

18 May 2005, 9:27

O2 proposes indoor mobile network

News The mobile operator said on Thursday it will offer small mobile base stations to firms that experience poor mobile coverage in their offices. The first option has been made possible by the tumbling costs of so-called pico-cells -- small base...

17 November 2006, 9:10

Google opens London GooglePlex for phone push

News The new GooglePlex will also be the base for the search giant's first European engineering centre. When the search giant opened its first base in the capital four years ago, it was housed in the Soho area.

18 November 2005, 9:05

In-flight mobile use to take off in 2008

News The proposed system includes an on-board base station which connects to a passenger's mobile handset. Under the guidelines, both the base station and passenger phones must be switched off during take-off and landing to eliminate interference with...

Tags: mobile phone, station, european, base

19 October 2007, 10:17

Q&A: Gates on Windows' update speed

News Q: Microsoft did a lot of work to combine the consumer and business versions of Windows into one code base with Windows XP, and most people find it much more stable. There's a lot we're doing to make the transition easier, and there's more we can...

28 March 2006, 10:54

Pipex chuffed with WiMax trial

News Indoors, Pipex Wireless reported download speeds of 2Mbps at a distance of 1.2km from the base station and 10Mpbs outdoors at the same distance. At a distance of 6km from the base station, outdoor speeds reached 6Mbps.

16 August 2006, 9:47

Photos: Hands-on robot joins space station

News System and works with the Canadaarm2 which was installed on the ISS in and the mobile base which was installed in 2002. Dextre can either be attached to the end of Canadarm2 or ride independently on the mobile base system.

Tags: objects, base, installed, space

11 March 2008, 9:04