Not long after Specialized unveiled its new wind tunnel, employees at Giant challenged the fellow Californian brand to a duel: Giant's Propel SL Advanced o versus the Specialized Venge S-Works Di2 in a head-to-head battle to determine, once ...
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A range of fully loaded action vehicle toys are screeching to retail this summer. ToyNews takes a look at some of the coolest R/C and die-cast products to command land, water and air. Mattel - 01628 500 000 Mattel unveils a ...
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Sony will leverage its streaming technology to bring PlayStation games to devices other than dedicated consoles as part of its ongoing turnaround, but said gaming profits will still suffer and lowered sales targets for its smartphones and ...
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Hewlett-Packard reported a 32% drop in profit for its second fiscal quarter, due partly to slower sales of PCs and servers. HP's revenue for the quarter, ended April 30, was $27.6 billion, down 10% from the same period last year, the ...
Twitter, in a much-needed move to keep its users safer from cyberattacks, is introducing a more secure login process. The system, called Login Verification, gives users the option to have a verification code sent to their mobile phone ...
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An exhibition in Osaka, central Japan, has assembled a hall of fame for Japanese tech products, with hits including Sony's Walkman and Aibo, an original Tranformer toy, and Paro the baby seal robot on display. The "First in the World" ...
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Bit9?has teamed with FireEye and Palo Alto Networks, which each have?sandboxing?technologies, in order to share information related to zero-day attack code. FireEye and Palo Alto Networks, with its next-generation firewall, each have ...
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With Bitcoin all the rage and startups popping up left and right, it's hard to know who's an expert in the virtual currency and who just has an opinion. Most people would put Jeff Garzik in the former camp. A Bitcoin core developer for ...
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Microsoft has today announced the Xbox One, its new entry in the home videogames console market. The device is supposedly intended to answer a question that Microsoft asked itself for the project: "Can we improve a living room that's ...
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Google has announced the closure of Google Checkout, the online payment system used by small merchants, with users being given until 20 November to migrate to an alternative. Instead, Google will focus on Google Wallet, "a platform that ...
Tony Sheldon. Photo courtesy of The Age. Unions need to take the intellectual lead in spelling out a vision for the future of Australia, according to Transport Workers’ Union (TWU) national secretary Tony Sheldon. Mr Sheldon told ...
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The 300-year period in Chinese history from the Wei and Jin Dynasty(220-420) to the Southern and Northern Dynasty(386-581), witnessed great social turmoil and an intensive cultural amalgamation amongst various ethnic groups. The Sui Dynasty ...
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Several users of devices running Google's Android operating system have filed an amended version of an earlier lawsuit accusing the company of illegally collecting, and allowing others to collect, extensive amounts of mobile user data ...
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A day after breaking an almost year-long silence on a medical condition that had affected the way he speaks, Google co-founder Larry Page said Wednesday that people should be more open about their medical histories. "I just disclosed ...
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Ken Springham, former founder and managing director of Inka Presswood Pallets, has died at the age of 77. Springham started his packaging career in the quality control laboratory of Thames Board Mills in the early sixties. In the late ...
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