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Road users warned not to trust sat-navs

News Britain's first official road signs to warn drivers about the dangers of trusting their satellite-navigation devices were introduced on Tuesday in a Welsh village. The road is far too narrow for many to travel down, causing them to get stuck and...

29 August 2007, 10:31

Photos: Apple debuts iPhone 'software road map'

News Apple CEO Steve Jobs, wearing his standard jeans and black shirt, kicks off the speech by sharing news about "the iPhone software road map". Here are are some photos to help you feel like you were on Apple's guest list for the official launch of...

Tags: networks, jobs, president, iphone

7 March 2008, 9:49

Pay-per-mile road charges within sight?

News Technology-based 'pay-as-you-drive' road-charging must be introduced within the next 10 years to tackle congestion and deliver £28bn-worth of benefits to the UK economy, according to a new government-backed report by former British Airways chief...

4 December 2006, 10:00

Antispam spec hits road to becoming standard

News An antispam technology that focuses on identifying forged email addresses has been proposed as a standard by Cisco Systems, Yahoo and partners. The companies, along with software makers Sendmail and PGP, submitted their DomainKeys Identified Mail...

12 July 2005, 10:58

iPods take to the road in more 2006 cars

News Four additional automakers will offer iPod support as an optional feature starting with 2006 models, Apple announced on Wednesday. At an Apple press event in San Francisco, Audi, Volkswagen, Honda and its Acura luxury division showed off their yet...

8 September 2005, 10:38

Photos: Top ten portable speaker systems

News You want to take your tunes on the road, but headphones don't always cut it, and even the smallest home speakers and receivers/amplifiers aren't portable. Conclusion: JBL's On Tour is a good choice if you want great-sounding music to share on the...

12 July 2006, 17:18

Photos: Kitted-out VW preps for Baja race

News Beetle will carry a GPS unit loaded not just with the race route, but also with data provided by someone who has run the route in advance and noted road hazards and other notable features. The off-road race began on 10 November in Ensenada,

Tags: case, gps, race, class

13 November 2007, 9:14

See motorway traffic-jam clips on your mobile

News The footage was previously only available to road contractors, the police and emergency services. Highways Agency information director Denise Plumpton said in a statement: "We're carrying out this 12-month trial to see if we can help our road users...

12 January 2006, 9:56

Driverless car revs up for robo-desert race

News Or at the very least, they're on the road to doing so. But at Stanford University, you can find one going as fast as 40 miles an hour on a dirt road in a sleepy part of the campus, and it goes by the name Stanley.

18 July 2005, 10:21

Group aims to play nanotech nanny

News In a lot of ways, coming up with a road map for nanotechnology will be a far more complex problem than those most standards bodies face. The Foresight Nanotechnology Institute, a futurist organisation that has raised cautionary flags about the...

22 June 2005, 9:51

Robot car tech shifts into high gear

News For its future combat system, the US government plans to build a family of 18 vehicle types that will be faster and lighter on the road. For Stanford University, the winner of the DARPA Grand Challenge robot desert race and its $2m prize, the goal...

19 October 2005, 10:31

Mobility coming for the working masses

News Mobile devices, smart mobile phones and Pocket PCs will let workers on the road stay connected to the corporate network and use many of the applications they depend on at their desks. Johnston, who spoke as part of the keynote, recently took Nokia...

28 September 2005, 11:12

Driving games 'lead to real-life speeding'

News The survey showed that more than a third of 1,000 subjects polled are more likely to speed after playing a racing game, and 27 per cent of drivers aged 16 to 24 "admitted more risk-taking on the road after a gaming session.

5 March 2007, 10:15

News.blog: Jobs hints at future apps for iPhone

News There are a lot of things you can imagine down the road," Jobs said when asked if over-the-air music will ever be a reality. Down the road, I'm sure some of those tradeoffs will become more favourable towards 3G, but as of now we think we made a...

29 June 2007, 11:07

Hate commuting? It's RFID to the rescue

News Under the programme, Stockholm charged drivers to be on the road, and payment was made through RFID tags. Cars that lack the RFID tag are photographed by cameras along the road. While entering or leaving the city, electronic register stations along...

7 March 2006, 9:22