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Aug 2011 |
New study in Brazil finds direct link to 4924 cancer deaths from cellular antenna radiation.
The electromagnetic radiation emitted by transmitting cell phone antennas is linked to the occurrence of some types of cancer, according to a study by Brazilian researchers.
The study established a direct link between cancer deaths in Belo Horizonte, the third largest city, with the antennae of the mobile telephone network, reported in Science Hoje site, the news portal of the Brazilian Society for Progress Sc... |
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Aug 2011 |
Britain will signal on Wednesday that it intends to legalize copying of CDs or DVDs onto digital music players or computers for personal use, a government source said on Tuesday.
The move was one of the recommendations made in a review of Britain's intellectual property framework carried out by Professor Ian Hargreaves earlier this year at the request of Prime Minister David Cameron.
Business Secretary Vince Cable will announce on Wednesday the government's response to Hargreaves' report.
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Aug 2011 |
TechCrunch on Wednesday published a report claiming to reveal AndroidӒs dirty secret, and quite a secret it was. According to the report, which cited a person familiar with handset sales for multiple manufacturers, between 30% and 40% of many Android handsets are returned by consumers. ԓPlainly put, these figures are absolutely ridiculous, a source told BGR. We spoke to multiple well-placed sources following the publication of that story, but in reality we didnԒt have to know the claim was... |
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Aug 2011 |
The rush to provide higher bandwidth services to UK mobile users could be at the expense of more limited geographical coverage, a leading engineering body has warned.
With the UK gearing up towards 4G mobile networks, with a spectrum auction due in 2012, businesses and consumers should gain access to near-ADSL broadband speeds from mobile devices.
However, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) believes that the move to 4G technology could drive "a shrinkage of 'effective' mobile coverage... |
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July 2011 |
Apple has become the world's biggest seller of smartphones, according to industry analysts.
The US firm overtook both previous leader Nokia and Samsung in the second quarter of the year, when total smartphone sales hit a record 110m.
The figures from Strategy Analytics also showed that 361m handsets were shipped, up 13% on the previous year.
Nokia remained the biggest seller of all types of handsets, but the numbers shipped and its market share fell.
It shipped 20% fewer handsets in the second q... |
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July 2011 |
Blockbuster sales of the iPhone and strong Asian business again helped Apple crush Wall Street's expectations, driving its shares up more than seven percent to record highs.
Sales of its iconic products far outpaced forecasts, helping drive a near-doubling of revenue in the fiscal third quarter. Its shares leapt to a high of $US405 ($A378) after a brief after-hours trading suspension.
Apple sold 20.34 million iPhones during the quarter versus an expected 17 million to 18 million, which analysts say he... |
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July 2011 |
Google is introducing a credit card for its advertising customers, offering its clients a credit line to try and drum up business as competition in the online ad market heats up.
Google is offering the card to select US clients with what it calls a competitive interest rate, an ample credit line and no annual fee.
The catch: it can only be used to buy search advertising on the world's No.1 Internet search engine.
The AdWords Business credit card marks Google's first foray into the world of vendor f... |
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July 2011 |
In less than five years, smartphone sales are expected to rise above the billion mark for the year, according to a new report from Juniper Research.
Sales are expected to more than triple from 302 million smartphones in 2010 to more than one billion per year in 2016.
While smartphones have traditionally been at the high end, manufacturers are introducing more devices at lower price points and that will help smartphones comprise the majority of all mobile devices shipped within five years.
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July 2011 |
Apple has won a preliminary ruling from a US trade panel that HTC infringed two of its patents.
HTC, which uses Google's Android operating system for its smartphones, said it would "vigorously fight" the infringement finding.
An International Trade Commission (ITC) judge made the ruling on Friday, but the full commission must now rule on whether it will uphold or reverse its administrative judge's decision.
The ruling, though preliminary, will be examined closely as it is one of the first between A... |
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July 2011 |
The rumor mill about the upcoming iPhone is always rampant. Even though the iPhone 5 launch is at least a couple of months away, it hasn't deterred the technology world from making predictions about the iPhone 6. Nobody's quiet sure what the iPhone 6 would look like.
Researchers in Germany have already created an "Imaginary iPhone" system that lets you keep your phone in your pocket and do all operations by tapping your palm. However, Apple's new patent filing coupled with this WSJ report has fueled spec... |
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July 2011 |
More threats targeting Googles Android operating system have been spotted by security researchers.
A version of the notorious Zeus Trojan has been spotted targeting Android, after cyber criminals managed to get the malware uploaded to the official Android Market hidden in an app.
The app disguised itself as a tool from security company Trusteer. Ironically, Trusteer chief executive (CEO) Mickey Boodaei this week said he expects one in every 20 Android mobiles and iPhones to be infected by financial ma... |
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July 2011 |
Google Chrome has yet again increased its market share in the browser market, as its two main rivals faltered.
Microsofts Internet Explorer and MozillaҒs Firefox saw declines in market share in June 2011, according to NetMarketShare figures.
Chrome saw its share rise from 12.52 per cent in May to 13.11 per cent in June.
Firefox had 21.67 per cent share in June, still not even half of IEs 53.68 per cent.
Safari saw its market share rise from 7.28 per cent to 7.48 per cent.
Opera will be ... |
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July 2011 |
Amazon has been given permission to use the App Store name by a judge in the US for now, a court document has revealed.
Apple has been trying to keep the name all to itself with a number of legal tussles, including one against Microsoft.
The iPhone maker may have lost this first round of its lawsuit, but US District Judge Phyllis Hamilton did not agree with Amazons claim the App Store name was generic, Reuters reported.
The judge allowed Amazon to use the name when approaching software developers i... |
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July 2011 |
About 47 percent of total flat-panel televisions shipped in four years will have Internet connectivity, as manufacturers bet on the expansion of Netflix and direct-to-consumer offerings from content producers like Time Warner's.
This figure, about 138 million units, is up from 25 percent of flat panels with WiFi capability shipped this year, according to a quarterly report by DisplaySearch, a unit of research firm NPD group. By the end of 2015, more than 500 million connected TVs will be shipped, accordi... |
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July 2011 |
A San Francisco judge allowed search engine giant Google to be sued over wire tapping because of its Street View service. The judge said Google may have violated federal laws on wire tapping using open wi-fi networks.
Google previously admitted that it collected data by mistake while gathering images for its Street View services after German data protection officials asked the firm in 2010 what information its Street View photography cars were collecting.
Since then, Google stopped its Street View car... |
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