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App to help disabled individuals move around London more easily
Jan 31, 2012 By Clare MuskerAfter the bombing attack in London 7/7 one man’s life was dramatically altered. Daniel Briddle was in the same tube carriage as one of the bombers- the attack left him with severely injured and the result was the loss of both his legs and other severe injuries. Since being confined to a...
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Lack of bring- your- own- device policies- damaging your workplace
Jan 26, 2012 By Clare MuskerA bring- your- own device policy relates to a set of rules surrounding a business’s policy to support a person’s personal IT products . This includes PCs, smartphones, laptops and tablets which an employee brings in from home. Many businesses shave a strict no home device policy but recent...
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12 atom magnetic memory- a look into the future
Jan 13, 2012 By Clare MuskerTo store a single bit — the most basic piece of information a computer understands – a disk drive needs one million atoms. The IT company IBM has had a team working to dramatically reduce the size of this storage. The resarch has shown that information can be stored on a little as 12 magnetic...
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Synnex Launches New Hyve
Dec 19, 2011 By Clare MuskerA brand new Synnex division called Hyve has been assembling and testing internet server hardware. Synnex, a US company, is known for its buying and selling of computers, hard drives, memory and other IT products and hardware tools- now its new Hyve division is building servers targeted at...
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X-Box migration from gaming console to entertainment medium begins
Dec 8, 2011 By Clare MuskerIn an attempt to evolve the X-Box 360 from a purely gaming console to an entertainment medium, Microsoft is planning to add BBC iPlayer to X-Box 360 consoles in 2012. Only Gold members of X-Box live will have access to the live TV programmes and other on-line services. These will be...
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus is back on the shelves but no fix in sight for those with problem handsets
Nov 30, 2011 By Clare MuskerThe release of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus was anticipated by fans of the Nexus One and Nexus S and all who love Andriod. It was soon discovered however that this model had a particularly annoying bug that dropped the volume when a person was using 2G. This meant it was almost impossible to make...
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Knights Corner, the new teraflop chip from Intel
Nov 24, 2011 By Clare MuskerIn 1997 Intel- an IT company - showed us a teraflop supercomputer which required 9,680 Intel Pentium Pro Processors to power. Intel has now achieved this performance on a single chip. The chip is code named “Knights Corner”, a brand new accelerator chip capable of running at 1 teraflop, it was...
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Anti- bullying week to tackle new cyberbulling threat this year in Northern Ireland
Nov 14, 2011 By Clare MuskerThe number of children being targeted over the internet by bullies has increased across all age groups. The Education Department in Northern Ireland is taking this seriously and is starting a campaign as part of this year’s anti- bullying week, detailing response and prevention. Cyberbullying...
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A New Graphics Processing Unit Built For Mobile Devices Enables More Responsive User Interface
Nov 10, 2011 By Clare MuskerThe Mali- 400, the predecessor to the recently unveiled new graphics processing unit (GPU), has recently been reviewed by the influential website AnandTech as ‘the fastest GPU available in a smartphone today’. The new release- by British computer chip designer ARM- the Mali- T658 claims to offer...
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Malicious Software Disguised As Reputable Apps Catch Users Unaware
Nov 7, 2011 By Clare MuskerAs the smartphone market increases as does the number of individuals seeking to exploit those who are not careful about the apps they install. Get Safe Online, an IT security initiative formed by the police, government and those within the smartphone industry say that smartphone users are not...
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