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Find love on public transport with On The Same Track web service
"We've all been there. We see someone on our train journey and wish there was an easy way to chat to him/her. Let's face it, it's more difficult in real life." That's the opening gambit of the new networking web…
Microsoft's OneCare anti-virus software scraps email messages
It's one thing for an over-zealous email spam filter to incorrectly identify legitimate emails as spam, and move them into a separate folder, but it's something else when anti-virus software deletes existing messages. Microsoft has admitted that its new AV…
Lily Allen planned 'rubbish remix' for iTunes
Lily Allen declared in a recent radio interview that she planned to give Apple a 'rubbish remix' for iTunes, because they allegedly demanded exclusive content from her. Yeah, yeah, how would we tell… “They won't advertise your album unless you…
Sony introduce GPS-CS1KA GPS unit for digital cameras
Sony has released its GPS-CS1KA GPS Unit this month, allowing any digital camera that takes Exif 2.1-compatible images to have location data saved alongside it. The GPS-CS1 is a portable Global Positioning System unit that records time and date information…
Top games designer calls for joyful games
Top designer at Nintendo, Shigeru Miyamoto, has said that the video game industry's reputation has suffered over the past decade, and has called for game developers to deliver titles that bring joy to the widest possible spectrum of players. "I…
Wiki service to rival Google and Yahoo?
The founder of online user-edited encyclopaedia Wikipedia claims that his company is ready to take on the might of Google and Yahoo, and grab as much as 5% of the search engine market. Speaking in Tokyo, Jimmy Wales said that…
Apple may use flash memory for 'subnotebooks'
An analyst at American Technology Research has claimed that Apple may begin shipping a line of ultra-portable notebook computers that use flash memory in place of a hard drive. These 'subnotebooks' would run a cut down version of Mac OS…
Samsung launch first hybrid hard drive
Samsung has claimed the world's first production hybrid hard drive, the MH80 coming with a standard hard drive and up to 256MB of OneNAND flash memory on board, that can provide faster response times under certain circumstances. The drive has…
Microsoft considered pulling Mac Office 97 to hurt Apple
A fascinating document has come to light, as part of the Iowa anti-trust trial, that shows the dismal view Microsoft had of Apple and the Mac back in '97 (so what's new?) It suggests that they were seriously considering dropping…
Olympus launch EVOLT E-410 and E-510 digital SLRs
Along with their new mju 780 compact digital camera, Olympus have unveiled two new digital SLRs. The Olympus EVOLT E-410 offers a 10 megapixel image sensor and 4/3 lens mount system, with a 2.5" HyperCrystal LCD, TruePic III image…