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Air Purifiers: A Buying Guide

Are you in the market for an air purifier? Air purifiers are electric machines that are used to eliminate harmful particles or contaminants from the air. If used inside your home, air purifiers will help to make the air that you and your family breathes cleaner. For that reason, there is a good chance that [...]

Jun 27 2010 | Posted in Technology | Read More »

HP camera ‘can’t see’ black faces

A YouTube video suggesting that face recognition cameras installed in HP laptops cannot detect black faces has had over one million views. The short movie, uploaded earlier this month, features “Black Desi” and his colleague “White Wanda”. When Wanda, a white woman, is in front of the screen, the camera zooms to her face [...]

Dec 25 2009 | Posted in Home Tech,Tech News,Technology | Read More »

Microsoft admits code theft for Chinese blog Juku

Microsoft has indefinitely suspended its Chinese microblogging service MSN Juku after admitting that it “copied” code used to create the site. A vendor contracted to work for the software giant was caught lifting code from a rival Canadian start-up, Plurk. According to Plurk as much as 80% of the basecode was “stolen directly”. Microsoft apologised [...]

Dec 16 2009 | Posted in Blogging,Cybersecurity,Internet,Mobile Tech,Security,Tech News | Read More »

Teletext to close mid

The Teletext information service on analogue and digital television will close across the UK on 16 December. Limited services including holidays, racing and bookmaking and the subtitles on analogue channels will remain available. Teletext’s chat and dating TV channels on Freeview will also be unaffected. Speaking to the BBC in Jersey, Karen Rankin, the [...]

Dec 15 2009 | Posted in Communications,Home Tech,Technology | Read More »

Most of the UK missing out on HD

A staggering majority of UK consumers are not getting the best out of their high-definition (HD) televisions, according to a survey. Although 56% of UK households now have an HD television, 91% still watch standard DVDs and get their television through standard set-top boxes. Full HD broadcasting can be viewed from Sky, Virgin and [...]

Dec 11 2009 | Posted in Home Tech,Science,Tech News,Technology | Read More »

Tesco to offer iPhone contracts from 14 December

The iPhone will be available at Tesco Mobile from 14 December, the company has announced. Its lowest monthly tariff will be £20 a month for the duration of a 12-month contract – but customers will have to pay £222 for a basic 3G 8GB handset. This works out over the course of the contract [...]

Dec 10 2009 | Posted in Communications,Internet,Mobile Tech,Technology | Read More »

Facebook gives users more control of privacy

Facebook is launching new privacy settings, designed to simplify the process for its 350 million users. It is the latest in a string of changes that have been made to its privacy policy this year. The site claims that only 15-20% of users have ever adjusted their settings. One new feature – the ability [...]

Dec 9 2009 | Posted in Internet,Tech News,Technology | Read More »

Battery made of paper charges up

Batteries made from plain copier paper could make for future energy storage that is truly paper thin. The approach relies on the use of carbon nanotubes – tiny cylinders of carbon – to collect electric charge. While small-scale nanotube batteries have been demonstrated before, the plain paper approach lends itself to making larger devices [...]

Dec 8 2009 | Posted in Science,Technology | Read More »

Google includes real-time data in search results

Google has introduced so-called “real-time web” results into its search engine. It means that Google will display information from news organisations, blogs and platforms, such as Twitter, as soon as it is published. Google said it was “the first time” that a search engine had integrated the real-time web into its results page. The feature [...]

Dec 7 2009 | Posted in Internet,Tech News,Technology | Read More »

Intel unveils 48-core cloud computing silicon chip

Intel has unveiled a prototype chip that packs 48 separate processing cores on to a chunk of silicon the size of a postage stamp. The Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC), as it is known, contains 1.3 billion transistors, the tiny on-off switches that underpin chip technology. Each processing core could, in theory, run a separate operating [...]

Dec 3 2009 | Posted in Computing,Hardware,Tech News,Technology | Read More »