BlackBerry blamed by Murdoch in Leveson hacking inquiry
James Murdoch has blamed his BlackBerry for missing an explosive email warning him of the extent of phone hacking at the News of the World. Murdoch, News Corp’s deputy chief operating officer and son of media oligarch Rupert Murdoch, claims he only glanced at the crucial email on his BlackBerry…
Nicki Minaj Rejoins Twitter
Dear Barbz, your leader has returned. After a nine-day Twitter hiatus, Nicki Minaj has come back to the social networking site minus several million followers, however. It was April 15 when Nicki drove her legion of fans crazy by disappearing from the site on which she was among the most At…
Nokia, BlackBerry shares cheap but not attractive
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WiFi to take flight
SA’s first WiFi-enabled flight is imminent.The long-awaited advent of Internet in the sky is imminent, with the first WiFi-enabled flight in SA set to take off in just over two weeks. Broadband enabler WirelessG will launch its G-Connect In-flight WiFi service, “providing broadband connectivity from 30 000 feet” next WirelessG was…
RIM Introduces BlackBerry Curve 9220 in Indonesian Market
Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM),considering strategy changes after customer and market-sharelosses, introduced a new smartphone BlackBerry Curve 9220 inIndonesia as local demand for its products increased. “We spent a lot of time in focus here making sure that ourproduct is as relevant as possible for Indonesians,” HastingsSingh, RIM’s managing director…
Mind-controlled robot gives paralyzed man mobility
LAUSANNE, SwitzerlandSwiss scientists have demonstrated how a partially paralyzed person can control a robot by thought alone, a step they hope will one day allow immobile people to interact with their surroundings through so-called avatars. Similar experiments have taken place in the United States and Germany, but they involved either…
Windows 8 ‘Release Preview’ coming out in June, Microsoft says
A new test version of Microsoft’s flagship Windows 8 operating system — expected to boost support for tech gizmos and let PC makers kick the tires of the forthcoming OS — will be made available to the public in the first week of June, the company said Monday. Microsoft President Steven…
The Chrysler Foundation Pumps Up Support to Michigan High Schools, Grants …
AUBURN HILLS, Mich., April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –The Chrysler Foundation today announced that it is granting $40,000 in additional funding to nine Michigan high school robotics teams that will participate in the international 2012 FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Championship, April 25-28, at Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, Each of the nine…
Honeoye’s robotics team headed to national competition
The Honeoye High School robotics team is on its way to the national championships in its first year of competition. The group leaves today for St. Louis, Mo., where the students will compete against about 400 other teams from across the country. The team, Students Utilizing Ingenuity, Technology and Science High…
Swiss scientists demonstrate mind controlled robot
Swiss scientists have demonstrated how a partially paralyzed person can control a robot using brain signals alone. The team at Switzerland’s Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne says the experiment takes them a step closer to enabling immobile patients to easily interact with their surroundings through a robot `avatar.’…
