On-line 3D modelling firm, Brandsauce, has developed an innovative technique which creates high-quality brand images at a significantly lower cost than traditional product photography. The online technique also gives a faster turnaround time than traditional methods, and allows the client much more control ...

 

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Intel's CEO, Paul Otellini, kicked-off the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco with predictions of a low power future for the company. Otellini promoted Intel's low-power chips for MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices), which will reduce the power consumption of its handheld ...

 

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SAP is unveiling its new line of Web-based business management programs, code-named A1S, at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Web-based software, also known as on-demand software or software as a service, has traditionally been the focus of smaller companies such ...

 

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Mozilla Corporation has spun off its Thunderbird e-mail client into a separate company and invested $3 million to get the business off the ground and expand its programming staff. Mozilla has dubbed the new organisation MailCo for the time being. ...

 

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Researchers at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington are developing innovative sensors to quickly read huge amounts of data on a hard disk. The new sensors are designed to cope with the increasing amount of data being stored on ...

 

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Microsoft has patented a technology for digital rights management that is believed to be unbreakable. The technology, known as 'stealthy audio watermarking', protects digital content even when it is distributed without DRM protection. It inserts and detects watermarks in audio signals which ...

 

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IBM and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, have developed a method of printing patterns with molecules. The technique involves precisely arranging particles as small as 60 nanometers on a soft, rubbery template. (To give an idea of the ...

 

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Firefox, Mozilla's open-source Internet browser, passed the 400 million download mark on Friday, continuing its rapid growth in popularity. Firefox was launched in 2004 and took one year to reach 100 million downloads. It achieved 200 million downloads a year later. Firefox is ...

 

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In a YouGov survey of UK workers for Orange Business Services, 71 percent of respondents said that their companies either do not offer flexible working practices, or discourage flexible working even if it is available. Over a third of ...

 

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Leaders from the open source community are meeting senior government officials at the Westminster eForum on 12 September, to discuss open source software and the economy. Alan Cox, developer of the Linux kernel, and Mark Taylor, president of the Open ...

 

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Intel has released its latest generation of quad-core processors, beating AMD which plans to release its Barcelona quad-core processors next week. Intel's Xeon 7300 series can provide three times the performance per watt than the company's previous dual-core models. With ...

 

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A new survey by Ipsos MORI identifies Wi-Fi as the most important technology to consumers when they are purchasing new PCs. Wireless connectivity was found to be more important than enhanced processing power, portable connectivity and the internet. Half ...

 

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Card not present (CNP) fraud has soared by 22% in the UK over the last year according to retail watchdog Early Warning. According to Early Warning's research, the problem is worst in London, with postcode area SE18 having the highest level of ...

 

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In a speech to the National Council of Voluntary Organisations on Monday, Prime Minister Gordon Brown revealed plans to investigate ways of regulating access to inappropriate material on the Internet. Ministers will work with ISPs, and communications regulator Ofcom, in a campaign ...

 

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Scientists at the Georgia Electronic Design Center, led by Professor Joy Laskar, is developing a method of using extremely high radio frequencies to transfer very large data files over short distances. The technique could complement current wireless technologies ...

 

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Google News has secured licensing agreements with four major news agencies which will help the search engine company generate ad revenue from its news service. Google News will now run articles from The Associated Press, the Press Association of Great Britain, Canadian Press, and Agence France-Presse. ...

 

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Platinax has discovered that the NEC Group website has been hacked, with pages inserted onto the site to promote pharmaceuticals sales. A specific search on Google reveals a small number of pages added to the site, which offer to sell a variety of ...

 

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The Competition Commission has announced plans to lift the price controls it imposed on business bank rates in 2003. The controls were put in place to make it easier for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to move accounts and to ...

 

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According to new research carried out by Accelerator in association with Cisco, the vast majority (over 90%) of Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) in the UK, gain significant benefits from their investment in technology. The 'Accelerator Business Confidence Survey' found ...

 

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According to new research commissioned by Websense Inc, employees of small and medium sized businesses (SMB's) regularly visit high-risk sites in work time, but IT Managers are failing to implement adequate IT security measures. The research, which was carried out ...

 

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