"Virgin Media To Offer Free WiFi On London Underground During Olympics"

UK broadband provider Virgin Media have won a contract to provide free broadband on the London Underground during the 2012 Olympics, and the service will start in July.
 

Anyone using the London Underground from July to the end of the Olympics will be able to connect their smartphone, tablet and notebook to the free WiFi on the underground and the

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"RIM Confirms Blackberry 10 Landing On PlayBook Soon"

RIM’s Rob Orr, RIM’s VP of product management has confirmed to the Tech Radar technology website, that when the new Blackberry 10 is ready the latest operating system will be arriving on their Playbook tablet. The new Blackberry 10 operating system is based on the same QNX platform which is currently used by the Playbook OS.
 

“We’ve said publicly a number of times that our first BB10 handset will be available towards the end of 2012, and that’s still firmly the case,” “At some point after the launch we’ll bring

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"16GB NOOK Storage Can Now Officially Be Repartitioned"

Barnes & Noble has today announced that owners of their NOOK 16GB tablets will now be able to change their storage configurations and repartition the tablets 16GB of storage.
 

The new configuration supports comes after Barnes & Noble originally shipping their 16GB NOOK with just 1GB of the available 16GB available for used as storage for files you downloaded from the web or transferred from your computer. With the other 15GB being

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"Gmail Update Adds Extra Features For Outgoing Mail"

Google has this week rolled out a new update to its Gmail email service, which now brings with it a few new handy features for outgoing mail.

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One of the great new additions is a new star feature for out going mail that allows you to

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"iTunes 1080p Video Quality Compared To Blu-ray"

With the launch of the new iPad 3 and the Apple TV 3, Apple also added the ability to download and stream full HD video in 1080p in iTunes, and the guys over at Ars Technica have compared Apple’s new iTunes 1080p video to Blu-ray.
 

According to the report the new iTunes 1080p was considerably better than the previous 720p offering in iTunes just as you would expect, and the quality was almost as good of that

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"Surface 2.0 NUIverse App Demonstrated (video)"

The research team over at the Microsoft Technology Center have released a video demo straying their latest Surface 2.0 application called NUIverse. Which allows you to explore the universe and planets using the Surface 2.0 multitouch navigation.


Watch the video after the jump to see the NUIverse application designed by David Brown for the Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface in action.


 


The NUIverse application provides a fast and fluid method of exploring our universe and

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"Nokia’s Design Chief Confirms Tablet In The Works"

We have been hearing rumors that Nokia are working on a new tablet, which will most likely be a Windows 8 based tablet, and the last thing we heard was that the device would launch in quarter four of 2012.


 


Now Marko Ahtisaari, who is Nokia’s design chief has confirmed that the company is indeed working on a tablet, the new comes from a Finnish publication which recently interviewed

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"Leica M10 To Be Announced In May?"

Leica is well known for picking its launch dates very carefully and launched its current Leica M9 camera on the 09/09/09. So when a new invitation has been sent out by Leica for an event taking place on the 10th May. It has fuelled speculation that Leica might be planning to launch its new Leica M10 camera.


 



The invitation sent out by Leica for the Berlin event was revealed over on the Steve Huff website and announces that a “whole range” of product launches will be revealed. As more

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"Sony’s Bloggie HD Waterproof Sports Camera Arrives In Stores (video)"

Anyone waiting for the arrival of Sony’s new Bloggie Sports Camera, first unveiled earlier this year during CES 2012.Will be pleased to know that the compact sports camera is now available to purchase in stores and shipping has now started.




The compact pocket Bloggie sports camera is equipped with a Sony Exmor 5 megapixel CMOS sensor for recording 1080p HD, and 2.7″ touchscreen. Watch the video after the jump

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"Solve computer issues using remote assistance"

Many of us may have had our computer suffer from a hardware or software problem. Usually the way out is to either call a computer expert over or take the system to the nearest service centre. However, you can easily get help for common issues using a remote

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"London Taxi cab TX4 now in India: Special feature"

Text: Rishub Matharu, www.zigwheels.com 

• If you've been to London, you might recognise one instantly. However, try to refrain yourself from calling out "Taxi!" Because this freshly imported piece, one of a fleet of 10, is only for the exclusive use of guests of Oakwood Hotel in Koregaon Park in Pune. 

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"Reliance Communications unveils Reliance CDMA Tab"

• Telecom service provider Reliance Communications on Tuesday announced the launch of first tablet PC for CDMA users, Reliance CDMA Tab, built on Android

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"After 244 years, Encyclopaedia Britannica going out of print"

 

After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print. Those coolly authoritative , gold-lettered reference books that were once sold door to door by travelling salesmen and displayed as proud fixtures in US homes will be discontinued , company executives said. 

In an acknowledgment of the realities of the digital age - and of competition from the website Wikipedia - Encyclopaedia Britannica will focus primarily on its online encyclopaedias and educational curriculum for schools. The last print version is the 32-volume 2010 edition, which weighs 129 pounds and includes new entries on global warming and the Human Genome Project. 

"It's a rite of passage in this new era," Jorge Cauz, the president of Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., a company based in Chicago, said in an interview. "Some people will feel sad about it and nostalgic about it. But we have a better tool now. 

The website is continuously updated, it's much more expansive and it has multimedia." But in recent years, print reference books have been almost completely overtaken by the internet and its vast spread of resources, including specialised websites and the hugely popular - and free - online encyclopedia Wikipedia. 

The site is written and edited by tens of thousands of contributors, and it has been gradually accepted as a largely accurate and comprehensive source, even by many scholars and academics. Wikipedia also regularly meets the 21stcentury mandate of providing instantly updated material. 

A LUXURY ON THE SHELF 

The Britannica, the oldest continuously published encyclopaedia in the English language, has become a luxury item with a $1,395 price tag. It is frequently bought by embassies, libraries and research institutions, and by welleducated , upscale consumers who felt an attachment to the set of bound volumes. Only 8,000 sets of the 2010 edition have been sold, and the remaining 4,000 have been stored in a warehouse until they are bought. 

Sales of the Britannica peaked in 1990, when 120,000 sets were sold in the United States. But now print encyclopaedias account for less than 1% of the Britannica's revenue. About 85% of revenue comes from selling curriculum products in subjects like math, science and the English language; 15% comes from subscriptions to the website, the company said. 

CAUGHT IN THE WEB 

Many people are also discovering that the books have outlived their usefulness. Used editions of encyclopaedias are widely available on Craigslist and eBay. Charles Fuller, a geography professor who lives in the Chicago suburbs, put his 1992 edition on sale on Craigslist on Sunday. For years, he has neglected the print encyclopaedias, he said in an interview , and now prefers to use his iPhone to look up facts quickly . 

He and his wife are downsizing and relocating to California, he said, and the Encyclopaedia Britannica will not be coming with them, a loss he acknowledges with a hint of wistfulness. "They're not obsolete," Fuller said. "When I'm doing research, I still use the print books. And they look beautiful on the bookshelves." 

"Watch out Facebook, Twitter. Here comes Pinterest"

AUSTIN: Christina Gomez has carefully displayed her dream cribs, rockers and mobiles on Pinterest, the increasingly popular online bulletin board. Never mind that she doesn't have a baby. 

"Ah, Pinterest - where I dress my unborn children and decorate my imaginary mansion," the San Antonio political consultant said - on Twitter - when asked about the website. 

Gomez is addicted. And she's not alone. The social site where users can "pin" images and follow others' collections has surged in recent months to become the 16th most-visited site in the United States, according to the Web information company Alexa. That's

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"Nano Quad: Pre-programmed flying robots that fit into your palm could render UAVs redundant"

 

By Dr Vijay Kumar 
Unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, have been featured in the popular press. Even though UAVs are unmanned, they are not autonomous. They are remotely piloted, often by a flight crew consisting of pilots, operators of sensors and mission coordinators. They are also quite large, weighing hundreds or thousands of pounds. 

Now, imagine really small flying robots, that are around a foot in scale, weighing around a pound, and are completely autonomous. Robots like these could fly low to the ground, in indoor environments, or through jungles and caverns. 

FLYING ROBOTS 
We have developed many such micro aerial robots. Some rely on commercially available platforms that we equip with our own sensors and processors and adapt to our applications. Our latest robot, the Nano

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"3D Printing: The technology can revolutionize manufacturing & healthcare industry"

SAN FRANCISCO: Gonzalo Martinez's overheating gasoline scooter needed better ventilation parts. He designed the parts on his home computer that night and hit "Print" for his office printer. When he went to office the next morning, the two parts -- a turbine fan and the cover housing of the scooter's ventilation turbine -- (printed in ABS plastic) were waiting at his office printing station. 

He put them into his scooter and had his scooter running, without the hassle of visiting a mechanic. Martinez's behaviour might not appear surprising; he is after all director for strategic research, Office of the CTO at design software behemoth Autodesk. But it hints at the very near future when not just design

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"Ex-employee on why Google is not the best workplace"

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SAN FRANCISCO: A former Google executive went public on Tuesday with a lament that the Internet star has become obsessed with advertising and seizing theonline social networking crown from Facebook. 

James Whittaker left Microsoft in 2009 for a high-level software engineering job at Google only to recently jump back to the California-based firm's rival. 

In a personal blog post he explained why he left what is considered one of the world's most desirable workplaces. 

"The Google I was passionate about was a technology company that empowered its employees to innovate," Whittaker said. 

"The Google I left was an advertising company with a single corporate-mandated focus." 

That focus was to conquer the online social networking realm where Facebook rules and

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Match 2: India v Sri Lanka highlights Asia Cup'12...

 India v Sri Lanka 2nd Match Highlights at Dhaka, Mar 13, 2012
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