All technology turns up devices that rather than being just nuts and bolts they become friends and the boxy old HTC Advantage is just one of those.
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Tuesday, 28 September 2010 23:53
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Tuesday, 28 September 2010 23:53
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Tuesday, 28 September 2010 22:23
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Satnavs have stripped the idea of being lost from the language
When the UK’s mainstream media dwell, hesitantly, upon technology (in between its worthier deliberations on the weighty issues of the day – such as which football player has slept with who, or its first hand knowledge of the working of the minds of politicians and princes) it is only to remark on which technology you must have.
You will seldom hear the mainstream stop to ponder on the significance of a device like a mobile phone or the Satnav – or what an unusual thing a international conference call is.
Which is a shame because the field is rich.
Now its easy to know your way around
Written by peter
Monday, 20 September 2010 22:52
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A handheld mixing desk
Fifty years ago the road to pop super-stardom started with a practice session in a pub, soon it will happen in a studio on the internet and we could all be doing it.
Rather than coming from towns like Liverpool or London according to some of the music industry’s top gurus the Beatles and Rolling Stones of the future will be drawn via the internet from all corners of the world and could even use their mobile phones as mixing desks.
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Tuesday, 07 September 2010 20:30
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Tuesday, 07 September 2010 20:30
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One of the strangest parts of life in the 21st century is that games have suddenly got serious.
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Thursday, 02 April 2009 22:03
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Thursday, 02 April 2009 22:03
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Forget Street View, there is a far more subtle – and pervasive – invasion of your private life being carried out – this time through your mobile phone.
When the furore about Google Street View washed across the UK last month, Google must have been pleased. For a much more sinister invasion of privacy had gone unnoticed. A week before, Google had, without any fanfare, released 11 software applications for mobile phones that spell a fundamental change in our lives, Pete Warren reports.
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Thursday, 25 September 2008 22:40
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Thursday, 25 September 2008 22:40
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Millions of mobiles are lost and discarded every year, yet their owners give little thought to the sensitive data they contain
By Peter Warren
Three years ago, Graham Clements – the European managing director of the UK subsidiary of the Japanese packaging multinational Ishida – decided to get rid of his BlackBerry and passed it on to his IT department for recycling. At the start of this month, that BlackBerry was one of the top items on the agenda at the first board meeting that Clements had called since his return from holiday – because it, and the data on it, had come back to haunt him.
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Thursday, 15 November 2007 01:02
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Thursday, 15 November 2007 01:02
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The Russian Business Network – which some blame for 60% of all internet crime – appears to have gone to ground. But, asks Peter Warren, has it really disappeared?
A curious game of cat and mouse is being played out on the internet, as high-tech hunters close in on a group of cybercriminals known as the Russian Business Network, or in the acronyms so beloved of thriller writers, the RBN.
Indeed, in scenes reminiscent of Cold War hunts for Russian submarines, the chase started a week ago when the RBN – a Russian ISP alleged to be behind much of today’s web crime – slipped its internet moorings in the Baltic coastal city of St Petersburg and made for servers in China.
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Thursday, 06 July 2006 23:44
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The biggest threat to the European Commission’s plans to regulate media on the internet is not from organisations like the CBI and OfCom; it is from technology itself. Already devices such as Slingbox [www.slingmedia.com/slingbox] and the software application Orb [www.orb.com] will allow you to pick up TV and video from a home PC equipped with a TV card on an internet-enabled device from anywhere in the world – a nightmare for the regulatory authorities. And it gets worse.
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