Lawrence Latif, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 12:43:00 Mac Pro, iMac and Cinema Display monitor all likely candidates for an update Apple has shuttered its online store amid speculation that new products are about to be unveiled. Rumours have been circulating that the firm will issue updates to its Mac Pro..
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Apple readies online store for new products
Dan Worth, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 12:23:00 Customers paying for 24Mbit/s DSL only getting a quarter of that speed in reality Internet service providers (ISPs) routinely overstate broadband speeds, and rarely provide anything near the advertised capabilities, according to new research by Ofcom….
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UK broadband firms dramatically overstating speeds
I don’t usually worship my air-conditioner, but ours ran virtually non-stop last week when the air here in New Jersey decided to turn sauna-like. In that context, a green tech breakthrough that has just been achieved by General Motors caught my eye. Apparently, the automaker is the first to begin using what it calls a climate-friendly
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GM cars will get greener AC technology by 2013
David Neal, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 11:48:00 Site will use real people to respond to complex queries Ask.com is rolling out a feature that will add human input into search results to provide what the firm claims will be correct and informed responses to queries….
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Ask adds human insight to search results
David Neal, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 11:15:00 Village of Crumlin to get 50Mbit/s service Virgin Media will soon start offering Welsh villagers the chance to get a broadband connection via electricity cables. The firm has inked an agreement with local power company Surf Telecoms..
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Virgin begins electricity pole broadband trials in Wales
A site lays bare the speed experienced by customers of different firms. Choosing a broadband provider is a little like shopping blind folded: you rarely know what speed connection you’ll actually get until you’ve handed over your first month’s subscription. Also, marketing material carefully uses the phrase “up to”, so consumers tend to only know about the best case scenario speeds of different providers
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Revealing the Speeds ISPs Really Deliver
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 03:22:00 New version of graphics platform goes live The Khronos Group has posted the latest release of the 2D and 3D OpenGL graphics standard. The OpenGL 4.1 update includes tools to improve re-compilation times, along with 64-bit floating…
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Khronos Group releases OpenGL 4.1 standard
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 03:17:00 Fears about perception trump real-world issues, finds survey Online merchants worry more about perceived customer worries than actual security threats, according to a recent survey by VeriSign. The online security firm found that 88 per cent of IT..
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Customer confidence tops UK security worries
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 03:16:00 Company enters the computer big league Apple’s iPad sales have lifted the company into the top five PC manufacturers, according to the latest figures from Canalys….
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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 01:30:00 Slot allocations and standards allow huge storage systems Oracle has announced a series of improvements to its StorageTek tape storage line, expanding the size of possible systems to 150 petabytes….
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Oracle’s StorageTek takes tape to 150 petabytes
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 01:00:00 Phone unlocking procedure considered fair use The US Library of Congress has approved the use of ‘jail-breaking’ procedures on mobile phones. The practice of removing restrictions on third-party applications falls under ‘fair use’ guidelines that allow…
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US Copyright Office approves handset jail-breaking
A 60-foot catamaran made out of plastic bottles completed a four month journey across the Pacific Ocean today, an unusual adventure to raise awareness about the widespread problem of plastic pollution. Expedition leader David de Rothschild and five other crewmembers sailed their boat, The Plastiki, under the famous Harbour Bridge in Sydney, Australia, to dock at the city’s Maritime Museum. They were met by a cheering crowd of 100, a welcome site after a long voyage that started in San Francisco on March 20th.
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‘The Plastiki’ Completes Its Ocean Journey
Looks like data center energy intelligence company SynapSense is feeling some love from GE. The company is getting $5 million from GE Energy Financial Services, along with Emerald Technology Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, American River Ventures, Nth Power and DFJ Frontier. The money is earmarked for research and development AND market expansion activities
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GE makes investment in data center monitoring company SynapSense
By Angie Lane Last week my family and I had a great experience while dining out. For days afterward, we continually spoke about what great service we had received with a very personal touch. I started thinking of how this relates to LexJet and how we provide a personal touch.
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Good Customer Service is Personalized and Memorable
According to law enforcement officials, intentionally altering or mutilating the fingertips is a drastic — not to mention painful — way for criminals to avoid being linked to their arrest record. And the number of criminal suspects engaging in the practice seems to be growing. Fingerprint – Forensic science – Science in Society – Law – Biometrics
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Crooks Mutilate Fingerprints to Hide From Law
Laser printing technology is deceptively simple. You use some software to create a digital image and a laser temporarily etches the image onto a round drum which picks up toner and transfers it onto paper which then passes through a heating source to “cure” it – simple, right
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Printing to the beat of a different drum
Professional photographers who have purchased inkjet printers for photographic output like having control over the entire process. That’s one of the findings of an in-depth survey conducted in May 2010 by I.T. Strategies, a digital-printing market research firm that has been surveying photographers since 2005.
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When I was growing up on the east coast, there was this silly rule about wearing white in the summer. Except it really wasn’t so silly, because lighter colors are shown to help reflect hit and keep you cooler when it’s ridiculously hot outside. Think about how blazing hot the asphalt in parking lots can
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Want a cooler building without cranking the AC? Stop being colorblind about your roof
(Updated July 25, 2010, to add pricing) For smaller companies that are interested in a more energy-efficiency entry level server, Fujitsu has just come out with the Primergy TX100 S2, based on the Intel Xeon processor 3400 series. The big value proposition for the new hardware is that it draws zero watts during its off state;
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Fujitsu adds server to ‘zero-watt’ hardware portfolio
First off, I want to credit Joe Boyce, a consultant with Gaia Worldwide focused on the solar technology energy industry, for reminding me that it has been some time since I looked at the whole financing end of the solar industry equation. Almost exactly a year, in fact, since I looked extensively at solar financing
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3 revelations about solar financing