South Korean manufacturer LG this morning finally released its premium Optimus G smartphone onto the Australian market making it available through Telstra from today. At a launch held at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, LG ...
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Are we getting lazy - lazy enough to spur an entire industry dedicated to eliminating cables for transferring photos from cameras to our desktops? The work involved in plugging in a USB cable to a camera port, and the other end into a PC, ...
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Andy Rubin, the brains behind the Google Android operating system which has become the dominant mobile platform, is stepping down as head of that division, the company said on Wednesday. Google chief Larry Page announced that Sundar ...
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St. Petersburg, Florida, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) March 15, 2013 -- Saint Petersburg, Fla. March 13, 2013 --- Hot Gear Direct, Inc., has announced today that they now offer services to small businesses and ...
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Amazon has ramped up its challenge to Apple's iPads by making the large-screen Kindle Fire available in new markets and trimming its price - but it is still not available in Australia. The online retailer cut $US100 from the price of ...
The vast majority of 3G and 4G USB modems handed out by mobile operators to their customers are manufactured by a handful of companies and run insecure software, according to two security researchers from Russia. Researchers Nikita ...
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Hackers can influence real-time traffic-flow-analysis systems to make people drive into traffic jams or to keep roads clear in areas where a lot of people use Google or Waze navigation systems, a German researcher demonstrated at BlackHat ...
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Apple yesterday gave its strongest signal yet that it will continue to support OS X Snow Leopard with patches for the foreseeable future rather than retire the still-active operating system. On Thursday, Apple shipped Security Update ...
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In booth 1136 at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference & Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2013) at the Anaheim Convention Center, California (17–21 March), micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti ...
Facebook reportedly is taking a page from social networking rival Twitter and may start using the hashtag Facebook is getting ready to use the hashtag to group conversations, photos and videos, but the move doesn't appear to be imminent, ...
Facing a rapidly evolving technology market, Bell Labs is paying more attention to projects that can bring it short-term gains, in areas such as software. "The biggest challenge we face is speed," said Bell Labs' president Gee Rittenhouse ...
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In contrast with the majority of major competitors, Emu produces 80% in Italy and can rely on a source of constant innovation and development, thanks to an enviable ability to interpret the new market needs and a deep expertise in ...
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Kids@Play is bringing a new construction toy to the UK and Ireland. Artec Building Blocks - from Japanese toy developers Artec - boasts a "3D dimension". It's part of a fresh range of science and educational products. Welsh toy ...
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North Lanarkshire Council in Scotland is taking the plunge by investing in a retrofit project of its street lighting in order to help the council slash more than £228,000 annually from its electricity bill. MacLean Electrical Group ...
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Ukraine-based Azovstal, a subsidiary of Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated mining and steel group Metinvest, has stated that in March it plans to ship around 100,000-105,000 mt of plates, up 40-41 percent compared to February, and ...