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“The service is now available on 25 devices but the majority of users still access it via a computer.”
“In April this year 88 million page requests came from computers, 20m via Virgin Media, 6m from mobiles, 5m from PlayStation 3 consoles and 4m from the Nintendo Wii channel.”
“pressures exceeding 5,000lb (2,268kg) per square inch.”
“In 50ft of water, divers would be doing much of the complicated work of checking pipes and connections.”
“When you have 5,000 barrels (795,000 litres) of fluid coming per day, you need better ROV camera shots otherwise you cannot pinpoint the sources of leaks.”
“It could even start increasing the leakage of oil, by as much as 5-15%, if the high density mud ends up bursting segments of the casing.”
“About 50 'green' properties are being built on the outskirts of Inverness for August's Scottish Housing Expo.”
“so she was effectively undertaking the 44-tonne tanker, Mr Joyce said.”
“Dr Mark Gasson from the University of Reading had a chip inserted in his hand which was then infected with a virus. In trials, Dr Gasson showed that the chip was able to pass on the computer virus to external control systems.”
“Professor Rafael Capurro of the Steinbeis-Transfer-Institute of Information Ethics in Germany told BBC News that the research was "interesting". "If someone can get online access to your implant, it could be serious," he said.”
“throwing it into the air from two metres it would have to land precisely.”
“We made nearly 600 throws without any joy which led to me calculating on the geometry that one would have to try 2,600 times to stand a reasonable chance of being successful.”
“And how long will the batteries last? It depends on the type but typically they should be good for at least 1,000 charges which should give you at least three years' use.”
“Second gear, charging-up: some 4,000 charging points are due to be installed in pilot schemes in the North-east, Milton Keynes and London this year.”
“The giant screen at Headingley is said to be the largest in England.”
“It said its investigation was focused on seven control mechanisms that should have prevented the 20 April oil rig explosion and resulting spill.”
“BP engineers have the equipment in place and will run a series of tests over the next 12 hours to prepare for the attempt, the Associated Press news agency quoted BP Senior Vice-President Kent Wells as saying on Tuesday.”
“Of the seven control mechanisms under scrutiny, four involve the blowout preventer - owned by Transocean - and the other three the cementing and casing of the wellhead, which was the responsibility of Halliburton, AP reports.”
“Social network giant Facebook will roll out a new set of privacy settings to all its users starting on 26 May.”
“Founder Mark Zuckerberg and other senior Facebook executives will discuss the changes at its Palo Alto headquarters at 10.30 PST (18.30 BST).”
“Founder Mark Zuckerberg admitted the company had 'missed the mark'.”
“Facebook's vice president of product Chris Cox described the last few weeks as 'extremely humbling'.”
“Significant changes to the settings began in December, when the social network changed the default rule on profile information.”
“In April of this year, the firm moved a step further with a series of changes including the suggestion that users automatically re-categorise their interests into publicly available pages. It also allowed more profile information to be sha…”
“Speaking a developers' conference, Mark Zuckerberg said he wanted to move towards a web with a 'social default'.”
“Mobile phone call charges range from 0.04 euro per minute in Latvia to 0.24 in Malta, a Commission report says.”
“In January average EU take-up of fixed broadband per capita stood at 24.8% - more than 123 million lines.”
“Denmark and the Netherlands are world leaders in fixed-line broadband, with nearly 40% of the population enjoying broadband internet access, the Commission says.”
“In January it was reaching 5.2% of the EU population, and the penetration rates for Finland, Portugal and Austria were above 15%.”
“The DfT pledged £5m towards the redevelopment, as part of its £50m project to upgrade the 10 worst stations in England, last November.”
“Improvements to six other stations in North West England - Liverpool Central, Stockport, Crewe, Warrington Bank Quay, Wigan North Western and Preston - which were also due to be funded by the Department for Transport have been scrapped, Ne…”
“The three-man set up are about to launch their very first title, Galactic Racer, for the iPhone.”
“The archives will be available online from January next year”
“Eircom is the Republic's largest internet service provider (ISP), accounting for around 40% of the market.”
“It will look specifically for people who are sharing, rather than just downloading, content illegally. Initially they will be sent a letter and a follow-up phone call from a new unit set up by Eircom to deal with the issue. They may also g…”
“We are launching an online music service later this year,' he added.”
“It will initially cross-reference about 50 per week to extract the physical address of identified net pirates.”
“We are launching an online music service later this year,”
“Control was lost of Intelsat's Galaxy-15 platform in April. It will not take commands from the ground and is in a drift towards neighbouring spacecraft.”
“Galaxy-15 was launched in 2005 to re-distribute TV services to cable companies across North and Central America, and also to send navigation data to aeroplanes to improve the accuracy of their GPS receivers.”
“On 5 April, it experienced a major fault and its services were switched to a back-up spacecraft.”
“To ensure its TV customers experience no loss or degradation of service, SES plans on Tuesday to initiate a drift in AMC-11 to match that of Galaxy-15.”
“It has also already commanded a second satellite, SES-1, to come in behind the damaged platform.”
“Normally positioned at 133 degrees West, and some 36,000km above the Pacific, the satellite is now drifting east into the slot occupied by AMC-11...”
“We have to do slight manoeuvres with our spacecraft pretty regularly, but a manoeuvre of this nature and complexity - no, I'm not aware of anyone having done this before,”
“Engineers have not yet established the cause, but damage from a solar storm is one possibility being investigated.”
“Ultimately, it is expected that the Intelsat platform will lose the ability to point its solar panels at the Sun and experience total power failure. This could take some months.”
“The Pac-Man game Google put on its home page gobbled up almost five million hours of work time, suggests a study.”
“The playable version of the classic video game was put on Google's front page on 21 May to celebrate 30 years since the launch of Pac-Man in Japan.”
“On a typical day, it suggests, most people conduct about 22 searches on the Google page, each one lasting about 11 seconds.”
“Putting Pac-Man on the page boosted that time by an average of about 36 seconds, the firm said based on the browsing habits of 11,000 Rescue Time users.”
“the firm said based on the browsing habits of 11,000 Rescue Time users.”
“Extrapolating this up across the 504 million unique users who visit the main Google page day-to-day, this represents an increase of 4.8 million hours - equal to about 549 years.”
“Extrapolating this up across the 504 million unique users who visit the main Google page day-to-day”
“this represents an increase of 4.8 million hours”
“equal to about 549 years.”
“The research councils are investing £117m in a Digital Economy Programme to help drive research in this area and more than £30m is being invested specific projects relating to the semantic web”
“Our understanding is that the data.gov.uk portal will in fact grow significantly in the months to come.”
“The last episode of the hit US drama Lost attracted 13.5m viewers in the US”
“Moore's Law, which predicts that the number of transistors that can fit on a given area of silicon, for a given price will double every 18-24 months.”
“who has been using large scale simulations on grid computers to study how the behaviour of transistors changes as they get smaller.”
“variations in manufacturing, environment, and workload can conspire to make a chip suffer errors.”
“To ensure correct operation you are purposefully running the chips at higher power than you need to”
“That insistence on perfection also pushes up manufacturing costs because many chips have to be discarded if they fall short.”
“The tiny components in chips are already starting to give rise to errors.”
“Depending on how many errors a designer is prepared to tolerate, power consumption can be cut by up to 30%”
“With only 1% error rates, power can be cut by 23%.”
“Through research part-funded by Intel, Professor Kumar and his colleagues are designing processors that forgo flawlessness.”
“The Streak is smaller than most tablets with a 5in (12.5cm) screen and runs Google's Android operating system.”
“Reports suggest Dell also has a 7in and a 10in tablet planned for the future.”
“"This year our estimates suggest that there will be 1.3 billion mobile devices sold around the world," said Ben Wood of analyst firm CCS Insight.”
“Some have put this renewed interest in tablet PCs down to the recent launch of the Apple iPad, which sold more than one million units in its first month and will go on sale in the UK on the 28 May.”
“The first model comes with 3G and wi-fi connectivity, 16GB of storage, GPS and two cameras; one on the front and one on the back.”
“"It reduces the need to take five or six different gadgets," he said.”
“5in (12.5cm) screen”
“7in and a 10in tablet”
“there will be 1.3 billion mobile devices sold around the world”
“sold more than one million units in its first month”
“will go on sale in the UK on the 28 May”
“16GB of storage, GPS and two cameras; one on the front and one on the back”
“from June”
“The Streak is smaller than most tablets with a 5in (12.5cm) screen and runs Google's Android operating system.”
“However, some have put this renewed interest in tablet PCs down to the recent launch of the Apple iPad, which sold more than one million units in its first month and will go on sale in the UK on the 28 May.”
“The touchscreen Streak will initially launch across Europe, followed by the US.”
“Other areas relating to Scotland include plans for a new high speed rail network and the scrapping of ID cards.”
“The business, started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, a co-founder of technology giant Sun Microsystems, specialises in environmentally-friendly technologies.”
“Borrowing a quote from the late science fiction author Arthur C Clarke, Mr Khosla said: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."”
“The research by Spot On Public Relations, a Dubai-based agency, says there are more than 15 million subscribers to the social network.”
“IBM is buying business software company Sterling Commerce from phone group AT&T for $1.4bn (£973m).”
“US-based Sterling makes software that helps firms do business with each other, and supplies more than 18,000 companies around the world.”
“good number two”
“great number one”
“Now we have just demonstrated the world's first electronic device in silicon systematically created on the scale of individual atoms,”
“The working transistor was created by replacing seven atoms in a silicon crystal with phosphorus atoms.”
“On chips where components are 22 nanometres in size, transistor gates are about 42 atoms across.”
“it could mean chips with components up to 100 times smaller than on existing processors.”
“Moore's Law predicts that the amount of memory that can fit on a given area of silicon, for a fixed cost doubles every 12-18 months.”
“two research groups have previously managed to produce working single-atom transistors.”
“If the new atomic transistor can be made in large numbers it could mean chips with components up to 100 times smaller than on existing processors.”
“However, the device is many times smaller than the components found in chips in contemporary computers. On chips where components are 22 nanometres in size, transistor gates are about 42 atoms across.”
