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A child psychologist – a psychologist for children that is, not a seven-year-old with a couch and a sheaf of Rorschach inkblot tests – has said that kids shouldn’t be using computers before the age of nine. The reason being that introducing young ones to technology early in their development can apparently damage the not-fully-formed brain. Dr Aric Sigman believes the government is way off the mark with its educational recommendation that children should be introduced to computers at around two-years-old.

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Children should be seen and not surfing before age 9

The free German turn-by-turn sat-nav service Skobbler is now available on the iPhone 3G and 3GS. Using a community powered model called OpenStreetMap, Skobbler is the Wikipedia of the sat-nav world, allowing users to update its maps with their latest discoveries

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Skobbler sat-nav available on iPhone in the UK

Polariq Ltd, a UK-based optical fiber company, has been acquired by US-based Xtera Communications, Inc. Polariq specialises in solutions for polarisation mode dispersion (PMD), which causes random spreading of optical pulses in optical fiber and limits the rate at which data can be transmitted over a fiber

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By the end of this month, the BBC Trust will have made its decision on the future of the online TV service known as Project Canvas. If this is favourable, and there is no reason to assume that it will not be, then there will be a three month timeline leading to an initial launch during September. According to the controller of strategy at ITV, Simon Pitts, following the BBC Trust’s approval, partners will be found in July and then the technical specs can be defined and shared in August

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September launch for Project Canvas

World Cup fever can be found all around the UK but nothing can be as prominent as the display that BT has installed at the top of the BT Tower in London. The phone and broadband provider has installed a screen with a length that is equivalent to half a football pitch and completely wraps around the tower, offering a 360 degree view.

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BT sets up big screen for World Cup

The phone and broadband provider, BT, has cut the price of the popular Talk and Surf Plus Home Broadband up-to-20 Mbps with 10 Gb monthly usage package, while still offering new subscribers three months free. Before the deal, a new customer would sign for the package and receive three months free, but only providing they paid the rental charge for the landline. After the three month period, the customer would be charged £19.99 per month.

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Broadband deal from BT

I’m surprised at just how easy it was to repair the loose flash shoe on my Canon Digital Rebel XT! I followed the instructions here conraderb.com (found through a Google search ) and once I figured out what to do, it took me about 30 seconds to do the repair. The flash shoe, which was loose and causing the flash to not fire at all or to fire at full strength (so photographs were all washed out), is now fixed and my flash is working perfectly. And the connection between the flash and the camera feels like new (even when it was working right, it had been feeling a little bit loose)

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Repairing the flash shoe on my Canon Digital Rebel XT

Sooo Google announced their living room product strategy — Google TV . Seems to me like a sound strategy with the right pieces in place : – Android platform that 3rd parties can develop against, adapted for the TV -check! – Google less-than-free business model (ie they’ll pay cable or satellite providers a nice cut of their ad revenues in Google search, maps, etc) -check! (See bgurley post on the “less than free” business model concept) – deals with hardware makers (Sony, Intel, Logitech) -check! – deal with a TV provider (Dish Networks) to provide initial go to market beachhead -check! So I think all the pieces are there for Google to try and get the TV-as-a-platform party started.

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What Google TV will mean for the DIY HTPC market

Patients with chronic kidney disease who have been diagnosed with depression are twice as likely to be hospitalized, progress to long-term dialysis treatments or die within a year as those who are not depressed, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found.

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Depressed chronic kidney disease patients more likely to face complications

(PhysOrg.com) — A new UC Davis Health System study finds that handgun buyers, if they have any prior criminal record, go on to commit felonies and violent misdemeanor crimes at much higher rates than law-abiding gun owners do. Identifying individuals who legally purchased guns and likely still own them after being convicted of subsequent crimes that prohibit gun ownership could be a valuable violence prevention measure, according to the study.

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Gun buyers with criminal record likely to offend: study

Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford, Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and National University Health System (NUHS) have identified new genetic variants that increase susceptibility to several infectious diseases including tuberculosis and malaria.

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Study reveals genetic link to infectious disease susceptibility

(Garrison, NY) Shifting children from the controversial diagnosis of bipolar disorder to one that more accurately reflects their symptoms will not by itself decrease the rate of psychopharmacologic treatment and is not enough to help troubled children flourish, according to a commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine by researchers at The Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute, and a physician-researcher at Stony Brook University School of Medicine.

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Proposed diagnostic change not enough to help children currently diagnosed with bipolar disorder

The concept of family-centered care for children with special health care needs is based on the understanding that a partnership among patients, families and health care professionals is essential to providing quality care.

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Study finds racial, ethnic disparities in family-centered care for kids with special health needs

New research shows that nearly 1 in 5 cases of infection with the potentially deadly fungus Cryptococcus neoformans are caused by not one but multiple strains of the pathogen. Researchers from the Institut Pasteur and the University of Minnesota Medical School report their findings today in the inaugural issue of mBio, the first online, open-access journal published by the American Society for Microbiology.

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Unexpectedly high rate of multiple strains in fungal infection

What, in your opinion, is the most important invention in the world? It isn’t an easy question to answer without some thought, but Tesco Mobile has attempted to pin down the most important inventions ever with a poll of 4,000 people. And stone the crows, the iPhone managed to make the top ten all-time inventions.

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iPhone voted the eighth wonder of the world

Google’s mobile operating system has surpassed Microsoft’s OS when it comes to the smartphone market worldwide. Android was the fourth most popular smartphone OS last quarter, according to Gartner, with almost 10% of the market. It knocked Windows Mobile into fifth spot, as it only managed a 7% share

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Android powers past Windows on smartphones

The British Library has revealed that it’s planning to take some 40 million newspaper pages and put them online, in partnership with publisher Brightsolid. This not-so-little lot will include historic articles dating back as far as the early eighteenth century

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British Library unveils large-scale newspaper digitisation plans

Good old Boris has been making speeches again, and this time managing to avoid offending entire counties with dubious comments. Speaking at a Google organised event, the mayor of London promised that the city would have blanket wi-fi coverage in time for the 2012 Olympics.

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Boris Johnson promises London-wide wi-fi for the Olympics

When UKTV launched “Watch” eighteen months ago, it was seen as a fresh new brand, but the channel that is jointly owned by the BBC Worldwide brand and Virgin Media will now be getting a new look and feel. This follows the broadcaster’s announcement that it was taking ideas and pitches from agencies on the rebrand

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Watch is rebranded by UKTV

Computer users who use Amazon should be aware that emails which look like they come from the book seller could be fakes and contain a Trojan too! The email appears to be confirming an order, which for someone who has not ordered anything is going to start alarm bells ringing as they may think that their account has been compromised.

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Amazon email contains Trojan