Technology & Gadgets
Apple threatens to close iTunes store
Apple could close its online music store iTunes in a row over royalty rates
the company pays out to record labels for selling their music.
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Call could cost as much as ticket
Thursday, 25 September 2008
As the the low-cost airline industry plunges into its gloomiest-ever winter,
the quest for "ancillaries" is intensifying.
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Brown promises web access for all children
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Parents are to receive vouchers worth up to £700 to ensure that all 1.4
million children growing up in homes without computers can have access to
the internet, Gordon Brown will announce today.
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Google G1 phone launch
Monday, 22 September 2008
Google's "G1" mobile phone is to be formally announced today, and is
expected to go on sale in the US and the UK in the next few months.
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Google G1 phone unveiled
Monday, 22 September 2008
The first phone to use Google’s Android software has been launched.
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Mobile phones pose cancer risk to children
Monday, 22 September 2008
Children and teenagers are five times more likely to get brain cancer if they
use mobile phones, startling new research indicates.
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Quest for 'Big Bang' delayed by fault in Hadron Collider
Saturday, 20 September 2008
Overheated magnets have delayed the next stage of the £5bn experiment to
recreate the Big Bang, scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider in
Geneva have said.
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Irish internet shopping expanding
Thursday, 18 September 2008
Online retailing now accounts for sales of more than €12 million per day in Ireland according to ecommerce specialists Magico.ie.
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Google to accept anti-abortion advertising after legal action
Thursday, 18 September 2008
Google has been forced to abandon its ban on religious organisations placing
anti-abortion ads on its site after it was sued by a pro-life charity.
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Belfast gets a bite of the Apple as first store opens in Northern Ireland
Wednesday, 17 September 2008
Apple will open its first retail outlet in Northern Ireland this weekend.
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Cern's LHC experiment: Impressive but a bit like booting up a sulky PC
Thursday, 11 September 2008
All was quiet at the moment when the greatest scientific experiment in history
was scheduled to begin, at 9.30am Swiss time yesterday. No bands, no flags,
no cheerleaders – only a silence so heavy and awed that even the 300
journalists stopped talking.
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Facebook makeover set to become permanent
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
Social networking website Facebook will begin forcing its 100 million users to
adapt to its redesign when its old format is removed permanently by the end
of the week.
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Yahoo advertising alliance with Google faces litigation threat
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
Yahoo's life-saving advertising alliance with Google could be under threat,
after it emerged that the US Justice Department has hired a top competition
lawyer to advise on a potential litigation to stop the deal.
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Explicit sexual images put on web by teens
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Teenagers are uploading their own sexual images onto the internet, according
to an expert on online abuse.
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Segway road ban could be lifted
Monday, 8 September 2008
They look like a mode of transport from another planet and seem to defy the
laws of gravity. With two wheels side by side, commuters can zip along on
the electric devices, upright, at 12mph.
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Andrew Keen: Google's tenth birthday present to itself – the age of Chrome is here
Monday, 8 September 2008
A decade ago yesterday (7 September, 1998), a new company called Google was
incorporated in Menlo Park, California. Google's 10th birthday has an ironic
mathematical resonance. Google was named by its two young Stanford
University electrical engineering graduate students in misspelt homage to
the word "googel" – an infinity-like number denoting 10 to the
power of 100 (that's the number one followed by a hundred zeros).
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Andrew Keen: You think you could be an author? Try out your book on the web
Monday, 8 September 2008
According to Clive Malcher, the Digital Publisher at Harper Collins UK, "everyone
thinks they have a book in them". Therein, Malcher believes, lies the
justification for Authonomy.com, an ambitious new Harper Collins website
designed for unpublished authors.
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Andrew Keen: If you must argue on the internet, use a little expertise...
Monday, 8 September 2008
Do you believe in God? Should we eat meat? Do you think baby boys should be
circumcised? For Internet users still unsure of the answers to this type of
big picture question, a promising new American website called OpposingViews.com
offers a digital debating chamber for proven experts in politics,
economics, culture, science and faith.
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Google once reviled internet superpowers but domination is just what it is achieving
Monday, 8 September 2008
There are not many companies whose trade names have become verbs. And there
must be even fewer who would view this as a cause for concern. But when
Google entered the dictionary in 2006, the directors seemed furious. Instead
of celebrating their status as the ultimate household name, they were found
muttering darkly about "brand dilution" and the company's future.
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The message is clear; Wii is the new social hub
Monday, 8 September 2008
What could be more family-friendly than a Nintendo Wii, a games console
replete with motion-sensing technology and gleaming white purity? Just look
at the marketing; the families bounding around the living room, gurning with
unbridled joy as they compete with each other at video tennis and baseball.
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Is Google's new Chrome browser any good?
Saturday, 6 September 2008
Google is looking to plug the gaps in its cloud computing universe with its
new browser, Chrome, which many believe could be a serious competitor to
Microsoft's IE and Mozilla's Firefox.
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In Pictures: The new Lara Croft
Former gymnast Alison Carroll makes her debut in Tomb Raider: Underworld
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Castration for Sex Offenders
Should the UK follow Poland's lead and force sex offenders to be chemically castrated?
Cancer treatment
Should cancer drugs be free for all patients?
Next US president?
Who do you think is likely to become the next president of the United States?
Who do you think is likely to become the next president of the United States?
| John McCain |
 43% |
| Barack Obama |
 42% |
| It won't make a difference |
11% |
| I'm still holding out for Ron Paul |
3% |
Sport legends
Who is Northern Ireland's greatest sports person of modern times?
Who is Northern Ireland's greatest sports person of modern times?
| George Best |
31% |
| Tony McCoy |
2% |
| Darren Clarke |
3% |
| Barry McGuigan |
4% |
| Mary Peters |
4% |
| Willie John McBride |
3% |
| Peter Canavan |
6% |
| Joey Dunlop |
40% |
| David Healy |
5% |
| Alex Higgins |
2% |
Poll: Tasers and the police
Do you support the use of Tasers by the PSNI?
Do you support the use of Tasers by the PSNI?
| Yes, it is better than using firearms |
56% |
| Yes, but only in exceptional circumstances |
21% |
| No, I'm genuinely concerned about the safety of Tasers |
8% |
| No, the police should not have these weapons |
14% |