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  November 11th

  News 10 ways Big Brother is already watching you

  Big Brother is watching you. The rest of his family is too

  Related categories : World-of-tech

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  September 6th

  News Japan's NTT DoCoMo to hit US mobile market

  Giant Japanese mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo is set to make a surprise move to bring its cutting-edge services overseas when it launches in the US some time next year.

  Related categories : Mobile-phones

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  August 31st

  News Smart house remembers what you forget

  A team of researchers from the University of Granada has created a system with artificial intelligence techniques that notifies elderly people or people with special needs if they forget everyday tasks.

  Related categories : World-of-tech

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  August 6th

  News Wireless charging for iPhone and BlackBerry coming in October

  Powermat will release a wireless charging mat that allows iPhones, iPods, BlackBerrys, Sony PSPs and Nintendo DSis to power up without the need for proprietary connectors.

  Related categories : World-of-tech , Digital-home

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  June 22nd

  News Orange touts GlastoNav festival organiser

  Orange is certainly not a company to miss the PR opportunity that has become 'product X essential at Glastonbury this year' announcing a new GlastoNav mobile app today AND a new photovoltaic tent fabric that powers-up your gadgets at the festival.

  Related categories : Mobile-phones , Phone-and-communications

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  June 21st

  News Thousand-year memory device in the pipeline

  If you had no idea typical storage media, such as DVDs and hard drives, are expected to last just 30 years before failing, then you'll probably want to look at a new device designed to last an entire millennium.

  Related categories : Storage

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  June 14th

  News Nokia developing wireless power delivery

  Five years from now we could be smug, eco-conscious owners of gadgets that charge themselves not from the mains or any other traditional source, but by pulling power from thin air.

  Related categories : Mobile-phones , Future-tech

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  June 6th

  News Massive e-cash surge hits Japan's shops

  We've seen before how pervasive RFID-based electronic money is in Japan, but it comes as a bit of a shock to note that the country now has exactly one e-cash card in circulation for every member of the population.

  Related categories : World-of-tech

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  May 21st

  News Meet the real-life human cyborgs

  Digital eyes, USB fingers - implants aren't just for Jordan

  Related categories : World-of-tech

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  April 25th

  News Hitachi delivers street maps to RFID phones

  We've heard a lot over the last couple of years about RFID chips in phones being used as electronic cash, but a new development being trialled now might get the chips stopping us from getting lost too.

  Related categories : Future-tech , Mobile-phones

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  April 15th

  News Carbon nanotubes unzip future touchphones

  Scientists at Rice University have found a simple way to create basic elements for aircraft, flat-screen TVs, electronics and other products that incorporate sheets of tough, electrically conductive material.

  Related categories : Portable-devices , Television , Future-tech , Mobile-phones

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  April 5th

  News Cars to get RFID identity tags for toll gates

  While there's little doubt that RFID tags are set to take over the world in everything from e-cash to warehouse inventory tracking, they haven't yet made much impact in cars - something Mitsubishi aims to change.

  Related categories : Car-tech , Future-tech

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  March 25th

  News Nokia bets big on mobile payments

  It seems that Nokia is finally ready to back mobile payments after it announced it had invested over £45m for a stake in Obopay.

  Related categories : Mobile-phones , Phone-and-communications

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  March 11th

  News Carbon nanotubes to slim mobile phones

  The University of Cincinnati has long been known for its world-record-breaking carbon nanotubes. Now researchers there have that spinning carbon nanotubes (CNTs) into longer fibres could mean ultra-lightweight mobile phone aerials.

  Related categories : Future-tech , Mobile-phones

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  March 9th

  News Barclaycard puts a credit card in your Orange mobile

  Barclaycard and Orange have announced a new service that allows you to make contactless payments simply by waving your mobile phone.

  Related categories : Phone-and-communications , Mobile-phones

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  March 8th

  News Bravia TV sets to take e-cash payments

  Using a TV for surfing the web has always been pretty much a bust, but the imminent rise of downloads direct to TV sets looks a sure bet for online media success in the living room.

  Related categories : Television , Home-theatre-audio

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  March 5th

  News 10 crazy gadgets to buy your pampered pets

  Because animals deserve high-tech gifts, too

  Related categories : World-of-tech

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  February 19th

  News What if we could Google our own brains?

  We don't need an intrusive implant to search ourselves

  Related categories : World-of-tech

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  February 14th

  News Inkjet-printed memory made from gold

  Using inkjet technology for creating not just photographs and A4 prints, but physical objects is not a new idea, but the notion of printing computer memory in that way is certainly novel.

  Related categories : Storage , Future-tech

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  January 15th

  News Goodbye GPS? Location based services go hybrid

  Many next-generation location-based applications such as social networking, local search, advertising, and geo-tagging are expected to be used in urban and indoor environments where GPS either underperforms in terms of fix times or accuracy, or fails altogether. Alternative positioning technologies such as Wi-Fi and Cell-ID will become increasingly important.

  Related categories : Mobile-phones , Satnav