Posted by Rupert Goodwins on 2 September, 2010 13:23
It's small, it's simple, it does one job well - and it's ours. And you can make it yours. The ZDNet UK iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad app is now available for download from the App Store, at our favourite price point: free.
That one job is reading ZDNet UK on the move. Fire up the app, and it'll sync with our site, pulling down the latest stories, reviews and blogs. They're kept for you to browse even when...
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Posted by David Meyer on 2 September, 2010 11:19
Orange will on Friday announce it is joining Mobile Broadband Network Limited, the network-sharing joint venture between 3 and T-Mobile, ZDNet UK understands.
According to industry sources, Orange will contribute a few thousand of its own masts to MBNL, which will remain a 50-50 joint venture between 3 on one side and T-Mobile and Orange, rather than just T-Mobile as the deal currently stands, on the other....
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Posted by Rupert Goodwins on 2 September, 2010 01:10
Apple has an obsession with elegance. Just look at the line-up at yesterday's annual orgy of consumer desire. A new iPod Nano that looks like a tiny, animated, touch-sensitive, acid-drenched postage stamp - without losing a microgram of cool. An iPod Touch that generates and displays video, plays games and audio, and runs a kazillion apps, all with fewer buttons than a Mark 1 Walkman. An Apple TV that hooks...
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Posted by Lucy Sherriff on 1 September, 2010 21:59
New research from the US has hinted that we will be able to control the electronic properties of graphene with even more finesse than previously imagined. According to researchers at UC, it is possoble to stretch the honeycomb lattice of graphene in such a way that tiny bubbles form in the layer of carbon atoms
In the nano bubbles, electrons form up neatly into quantised energy levels, as if they were circling...
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Posted by apexwm on 1 September, 2010 18:46
I have written in the past about the reliability and stability of Linux, and pointed out that it does not have to be rebooted unless there is a kernel upgrade being done. All other pieces of software can be upgraded on the fly. This is in drastic contrast to Windows which needs to be rebooted for a majority of its patches, Linux can run for a very long time without a reboot (we are talking years here)....
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Posted by Tom Espiner on 31 August, 2010 17:20
German ID cards have be hacked by members of the Chaos Computer Club, according to news website the Local.
The ID cards, which will be used from November, were hacked for a TV news programme aired last week, according to the Local article.
SmartMX chips for the ID cards are being supplied by Dutch semiconductor company NXP.
NXP's MiFare Classic cards, which were used in Oyster London travel cards, were...
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Posted by David Meyer on 31 August, 2010 16:24
Google's Chromium browser for Linux systems will support GPU acceleration, bringing it in line with rivals such as Microsoft's IE9 and Mozilla's Firefox 4.
In a blog post on Friday, Google software engineer Vangelis Kokkevis said the move would let Chromium "speed up its entire drawing model, including many common 2D operations such as compositing and image scaling".
"At its core, this graphics work relies...
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Posted by Jack Schofield on 31 August, 2010 12:01
While PC shipments have staged a comeback this year, Gartner’s researchers have reduced their sales forecast for the second half of the year by 2%. Previous warnings by analysts were confirmed by an Intel statement on Friday that it was lowering sales forecasts. It said: "Revenue is being affected by weaker-than-expected demand for consumer PCs in mature markets."
Gartner is now projecting worldwide PC...
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Posted by J.A. Watson on 31 August, 2010 08:54
The obvious first choice in loading Linux on my new Samsung netbook is the Ubuntu Netbook Edition. This should be particularly well-suited, because UNE was originally developed specifically for Intel Atom based netbook, and although it has been improved over the past couple of releases so that it works on others (such as my HP 2133 Mini-Note), I believe that it still works "best" on Atom-based systems.
Rather...
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Posted by Jack Schofield on 30 August, 2010 18:46
The broadcast media landscape is changing rapidly, with people spending less time watching live television. Since young people are quicker to adopt new technologies than older people, the result is that the audience for live TV is getting older.
The flight from live television isn’t new, of course: it started with the arrival of the VCR in the 1980s. However, consumers now have a growing number of alternatives....
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