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“Neil van Schalkwyk of Masincedane Sport - a vuvuzela-maker - says his firm has now produced an instrument that is 20 decibels lower than the older version.”
“According to its website, they have had 750,000 downloads of the application.”
“Thames Water (TW) wants to build the facility, which would hold 100 million tonnes of water, on land near Abingdon.”
“Up to 2,000 articles, including a page about former US President George W Bush, will have their strict editing restrictions relaxed.”
“Pending Changes will be introduced at 11pm GMT on 15 June.”
“For the duration of the two month trial, Wikipedia users will notice a small magnifying glass, in place of a padlock, on included articles.”
“At present, only about 0.1% of the 3.3 million articles on the English Wikipedia are under edit protection.”
“Mr Wales called for a similar change in 2009, after Wikipedia articles wrongly suggested for a short time that two US senators had died.”
“Wikipedia said the decision about which articles to include in the new trial, up to an initial limit of 2,000, will be taken by the Wikipedia community.”
“Later, the inquiry was told that the Zodiac rescue boat which was dispatched from Renfrew had no lights, no global positioning system and no sonar.”
“He was told his internet use breached of company policy after being accused of clocking up 27,500 website hits.”
“He was equipped with Osprey body armour and a Mark 7 helmet, but was awaiting new Osprey Assault body armour.”
“Mr Hepper said the Osprey Assault body armour did not differ in protection but in its coverings and distribution of weight.”
“which Mr Negroponte said could cost as little as $75.”
“It could be launched as early as 2011.”
“He added that there was a "huge awareness" of Annie among the public, and future plans included graphic novels, film, TV, games - maybe even a home on a mobile phone.”
“by last week, it was collecting about 15,000 barrels of oil a day”
“A transmission problem temporarily affected ITV1's HD service during the England/USA match. ITV standard definition service continued uninterrupted.”
“Peter Wise from Abergele, Conwy, and Coleg Llandrillo Cymru won a gold medal at the Geneva Inventors' Fair.”
“He then turned his attention to creating a novel 80mm (3.5 in) refracting telescope weighing under 1kg (2lb) that he said would on average cost 50% less than the market leaders.”
“Although 80% of one-off phone and internet transfers do clear on the same day, the amount allowed varies widely.”
“Only half of all standing orders can be sent as fast payments and the limits range from £25 with Clydesdale to £100,000 with Northern Rock.”
“Many bank and credit card customers are still waiting three to four days for money to clear, even though the Faster Payments scheme began two years ago.”
“''It is disappointing that faster payments with higher limits have not been available from all banks and building societies with higher limits from day one, but often they have been restricted due to security reasons,''”
“all 22 service areas”
“Five other firms also won spectrum in some areas”
“117 rounds of bidding”
“Bharti, Tikona, Aircel, Augere and US chipmaker Qualcomm”
“Vodafone and Reliance Communications”
“The results of the broadband wireless spectrum auction - effectively a sale of slices of the available airwaves - were announced by the Department of Telecommunications after 117 rounds of bidding.”
“He has a strong reputation for working closely with industry and in the commercialisation of research - a partnership which he forged with Intel has been widely acclaimed.”
“The 360-degree screen is 60m (197ft) in circumference”
“The screen - made up of more than half a million lights - will display messages like "Come on England" in addition to live scores.”
“The updates, displayed on the screen which stands 170m (550ft) above the ground, will be visible from South Bank and Primrose Hill.”
“England's scores will be displayed on a red background with 3.6m (12ft) long white lettering, while for updates for the US will be in blue.”
“I just thought it would be interesting to place it in a completely different context and decided on a gangsters theme in the 1920s,”
“Although the actual filming took just one afternoon, during the Christmas holiday, the real work was in the editing.”
“The carbon filtration system is expected to take up to 18 weeks to be built and installed.”
“its prototype AWS-III on Loch Ness had evolved from 'forgotten' technology first seen in 1985.”
“The technology was also tested on Loch Ness in the 1980s.”
“The ring-shaped machine on Loch Ness is one tenth of the size of the device that could eventually be generating electricity on a commercial scale.”
“Full-scale machines could be deployed in the sea around Orkney and Shetland following further tests in 2012.”
“In 2008, AWS Ocean Energy said it had set its sights on winning the world's largest prize for marine energy innovation.”
“As part of the restoration work, they were able to take X-rays using a mobile device.”
“Statistics suggest that approximately 12% of all websites offer pornography of one sort or another”
“and that 70% of men under 24 browse these sites”
“More than 90% of the 35,000 pornographic domains analysed in the study were free sites”
“About 3.23% of these sites were booby-trapped with adware, spyware and viruses”
“Analysis of the 49,000 visitors sent to their sample sites showed that 20,000 were using a computer and browser combination that was vulnerable to at least one known exploit”
“The researchers presented their results at the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security held at Harvard from 7-8 June”
“Traffic Wales, the assembly government's traffic management service, said it monitored seven CCTV cameras on the second Severn crossing.”
“A new e-petitions system will be launched later in 2010.”
“As part of the reconstruction, a 30ft by 30ft section of the bow will be built to scale next week at the Graving Dock in Belfast,”
“Harbour seals may be able to detect fish up to 100m (328ft) away using only their whiskers, say scientists.”
“The seal was able sense and indicate the direction in which the fin travelled up to 35 seconds after the movement had stopped.”
“The trail left by the first seal was two metres wide, and the second, following seal was able to stay right in the middle of it, so it seems they can analyse the internal structure of a trail.”
“Throughout the ordeal, the three kept in touch with a series of telephone calls, each lasting less than a minute to save the battery on David and Brian's mobile phone.”
“All new and upgrading customers will have their usage capped at between 500 Megabytes (MB) and one gigabyte (GB) depending on their monthly tariff.”
“O2 has said that the changes will affect just 3% of its 21m customers, who will have to pay additional charges for their data use.”
“"That 3% are using something like 36% of the data capacity of O2's network," said Mr Wood.”
“Currently, he said, O2 was spending around £1m a day to upgrade its network to cope with the "exponential demand" for data on smartphones.”
“The new charges will be brought in on 24 June, to coincide with the launch of the iPhone 4.”
“The network's cheapest tariff will cost £25 per month for two years and will allow a user to download 500MB per month.”
“After that, it will cost £5 for every additional 500 megabytes of data consumed.”
“O2 said that 500MB is two and a half times the average O2 customer's current use and would allow someone to browse 5,000 standard web pages.”
“The most expensive tariff - at £60 per month - allows users to download 1GB.”
“"That's a dangerous game to play, if that top 3% of users go to another network," he said.”
“That 3% are using something like 36% of the data capacity of O2's network, said Mr Wood.”
“O2 currently has the largest installed base of iPhone users in the UK.”
“O2's CEO Ronan Dunne sad the move laid 'the foundation for a sustainable data experience for all customers'.”
“O2 had become the industry poster-child of the capacity crunch era,' said Thomas Wehmeier, principal analyst at Informa Telecoms and Media.”
“BP says a containment cap system placed on the blown-out well last week collected 15,800 barrels of oil on Wednesday - slightly up on the 15,010 barrels collected in the previous 24-hour period.”
“"Securexam Remote Proctor enables schools, corporate training, and testing organisations to administer computer-based tests anywhere, anytime, while still maintaining the same exam room integrity as that found in a proctored testing centre…”
“The three shortlisted entries were all vying for the world's biggest technology prize, which is awarded every other year by Finland's Technology Academy.”
“"The constraint of solar energy has traditionally been its price. 'Gratzel cells' provide a more affordable way of harnessing solar energy," said Dr Ainomaija Haarla, President of Technology Academy Finland.”
“Professor Gratzel said that the €800,000 prize would benefit his research and go back into science.”
“Professor Sir Richard Friend of the University of Cambridge invented organic Light Emitting Diodes, which Finland's Technology Academy said was 'a crucial milestone in plastic electronics'.”
“And Professor Stephen Furber of Manchester University is the principal designer of the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor, an innovation found in gadgets ranging from Apple's iPhone to Microsoft's Zune.”
“It said: "The ingeniously designed processor enabled the development of cheap, powerful handheld, battery-operated devices".”
“Previous winners of the prize have included Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who is widely credited as having invented the web, and Professor Shuji Nakamura, who invented blue and white Light Emitting Diodes.”
“Ninety-six radio antennae have been installed at the Chilbolton Observatory”
“A further 5,000 antennae are set to be positioned across Europe”
“The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has created a $10m (£7m) fund for mobile banking services in the country.”
“The first one to launch a service which meets certain targets in the next six months will get $2.5m, and a second firm will receive $1.5m.”
“Another $6m will be awarded to the firm or firms that process the first five million transactions.”
“The Foundation hopes at least one million Haitians will take up services in the first two years.”
“Manufacture a series of 30cm custom plugs, each tapered at the front like a bullet. Each plug must have the same diameter as the inner diameter of the tube (minus 2mm to prevent jamming on the way in). However, along the sides of the plugs…”
“It is designed to test the skin for alcohol every half hour by sampling a person's perspiration.”
“So far we don't see any impact on space and aeronautics,”
“Some 120m euros are being invested in the centre.”
“When it does go ahead, the part-Russian, part South Korean rocket will launch a 91kg (200lb) test satellite called the Science and Technology Satellite 2B (STSAT 2B).”
“The rocket stands 33m (108ft) tall.”
“When the Pentagon document was leaked, the site stated that none of its sources had ever knowingly been exposed.”
“Mr Assange said these were deliberately located in jurisdictions - such as Sweden - that could prosecute Wikileaks if it revealed a source.”
“He added that it was "a scandal" that nearly three million households cannot access even this speed.”
“Despite criticising Labour's commitment to providing a minimum 2Mbps speed to all UK homes, the current government will honour it, using some of the digital switchover underspend to fund it.”
“The UK is currently ranked 33rd in the world when it comes to broadband speeds, according to the OECD.”
“Details of these projects will be announced at an industry event in July and will be co-ordinated by Broadband Delivery UK, an organisation set up by the previous government.”
“the Trappist telescope will be operated from a control room in Belgium, 12,000km away.”
“The 0.6m fully-automated telescope will be based at the La Silla Observatory”
