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Fitbit Ultra

If you're always rushing around the office setting up servers and fixing computers, how much exercise do you really get?... Read more

12 December, 2011

Why Nokia must kill or cure Symbian

...t set in stone yet. So MeeGo is an unknown and the US-centric tech press seems to enjoy laughing at Symbian. Android is attacking... Read more

10 November, 2010
UK FlightPad 1.11

UK FlightPad 1.11

...information from the UK airports, all other flight driven iPhone apps are US centric and are connected to a US websites such as Flightstats.com... Read more

18 April, 2012
iPlaneLive 6

iPlaneLive 6

...information from the UK airports, all other flight driven iPhone apps are US centric and are connected to a US websites such as Flightstats.com... Read more

5 March, 2011

Firms alienate online job seekers

...had a relatively well developed corporate careers section, the vast majority were US centric, with few or no European/UK based roles advertised. A very... Read more

13 February, 2003 by Andrew Swinton

Wikipedia accused of 'US-centric bias

An Australian academic has accused Wikipedia of "US-centric bias" over the way the online encyclopaedia's administrators edit user... Read more

12 February, 2008 by Marcus Browne

CA dumps US-centric beliefs

Computer Associates has ditched a six-year old policy of running its operations from the US, and finally given real responsibility to its European managers. Read more

11 April, 2001 by silicon.com staff

BCS calls for UK net neutrality debate

...the UK, the consensus here has been that net neutrality is a US-centric debate. The UK government and the regulator Ofcom have both argued... Read more

17 September, 2007 by David Meyer

Nokia's BlackBerry-killers get Oracle field apps

...and Oracle's Siebel Wireless for both the E61 device and its US-centric counterpart, the E62, which doesn't include Wi-Fi. Mobile Field... Read more

25 October, 2006 by David Meyer

Defending the world's freedoms

...diverse things. We have rewritten many provisions of the licence to remove US-centric vocabulary or legal concepts, to neutralise the language of the GPL... Read more

20 January, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

Nintendo's New Year's Revolutions

...number of not only worldwide but even US-centric million-unit selling games, and Sony doesn't. We have games... Read more

19 January, 2006 by Daniel Terdiman

Bronze Age clues to 21st century security

...roving gang of European CIOs, it has recently joined forces with the US-centric Open Group. Its big idea - deperimeterisation. De-P is ugly shorthand... Read more

16 November, 2004 by Leader

Pure IP uptake slow, EU happy with hybrid

...IP telephony vendors, notably Cisco and 3Com, in part due to their US-centric, internet-dominated view of the world, have consistently underestimated the competitive... Read more

13 June, 2003 by Tony Hallett

Nextel may expand 'push to talk' service

...walkie-talkie feature for mobile phones, as rivals work on their own US-centric versions of the technology. Speaking at the Lehman Brothers Global Wireless... Read more

21 May, 2003 by Ben Charny

Dyson ends support for ICANN 1.0

...defining what the community is. Dyson admitted that currently ICANN is unduly US-centric. "It is based in Los Angeles and has too high a... Read more

10 February, 2003 by Matt Loney

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