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- Weekend Gadget Watch: Nokia N900 -
Considering hitting the shops at the weekend? Looking for inspiration? Check out the latest in our series of gadget mini-reviews, courtesy of silicon.com's sister site CNET.co.uk, the home of technology reviews. For the full review and details, click on the link below.
What is it: Touchscreen smartphone with Qwerty keyboard
- Photos: The top Christmas apps for the Apple iPhone -
Feeling festive? Then you need silicon.com's seasonal guide to the best Christmas apps for Apple's iPhone.
First up is the Solar System app, a cosmic take on the advent calendar that lets you journey to the earth's neighbouring planets.
- Facebook, Google, eBay urge Mandelson to abandon copyright plan -
Web heavyweights have hit out against the Digital Economy Bill, claiming clauses in the legislation could put the UK's digital future at risk.
In an open letter to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Peter Mandelson, published yesterday, representatives of eBay, Facebook, Google and Yahoo! call on the government to abandon "measures which risk stifling innovation and damaging the government's vision for a Digital Britain".
- Plenty of life ahead for RFID and NFC -
Radio and tagging technologies have loads of promise - though the applications may not be quite what you were expecting, says Quocirca's Rob Bamforth.
RFID and its close cousin near field communications (NFC) have both been touted for great and sexy futuristic applications. These range from the tagging and tracking of all consumer goods to the conversion of mobile phones into all purpose 'super wallets' where simply waving the phone at the checkout would pay for your items.
- Android phones, Firefox history, Google Wave and datacentres galore -
This month saw California's Hacker Dojo host the Random Hacks of Kindness event, which brought independent coders together with developers from Google, Microsoft, Nasa, Yahoo! and other organisations to work on projects to help with disaster relief.
See more photos from the hackathon here.
- Anti-ageism legislation isn't working, say IT pros -
Anti-ageism legislation isn't working and the IT industry continues to discriminate against older techies. That's the verdict of the exclusive 2009 silicon.com Skills Survey.
The majority (51 per cent) of survey respondents agreed or strongly agreed that the IT industry discriminates against older workers, compared with less than a fifth (18 per cent) who held the opposite view.
- Mini laptops, codebreaking, Wikipedia and why there's no 'British Google' -
November's top stories on silicon.com tackled some big questions: does my business need an office? Can I work solely on a netbook? Will the UK ever create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle of its very own?
November also dealt with the perennial question of will the UK's ID cards programme ever run to plan?
- Peter Cochrane's Blog: Can I become faster and smarter? -
Compiled on the M6 driving to Liverpool and dispatched to silicon.com a couple of weeks later via a free wi-fi connection in my hotel.
I just cannot work any faster or smarter - I seem to have exhausted every degree of freedom, every element of efficiency improvement I can muster.
- eBay app lets users bid from a BlackBerry -
eBay has released an app for BlackBerry.
The application, co-developed by the auction site and RIM, lets users search, track and buy items using their smartphone.
- Photos: The new gadgets and tech services up Orange's sleeve -
At Orange's biannual La Collection event in Paris, the mobile operator gives a sneak peek at the technology set for future release.
silicon.com went along to the 10th La Collection event last week to take a look at the gadgets and services set to make their way into consumers' hands in the coming months and years.
- Tesco Mobile to get a taste of Apple's iPhone -
Tesco Mobile has announced today it will stock Apple's iPhone 3G and 3GS.
Apple ended its two-year UK exclusive deal with O2 this month by launching the iPhone on the Orange network. Vodafone also announced an agreement with Apple in September, and will start offering the iPhone next year.
- Beware the turf wars when merging comms -
Enterprise take-up of unified communications - the merging of IP telephony, conferencing and collaboration, messaging and communications tools - is on a "steeply rising curve", according to analysts.
Spending on UC among businesses worldwide is expected to rise from just $302m last year to $4.2bn in five years' time, according to industry watchers ABI Research.
- Marketing chiefs: Are you spamming your customers? -
Marketing emails are at risk of being blocked as spam because businesses are not correctly managing the email communications they send out, a survey has found.
More than half of the 157 marketing managers surveyed by the DMA Email Marketing Council said their business did not restrict the number of messages that could be sent to an email account in a given period.
- IT skills shortage squashed by recession? -
The icy winds of economic gloom have put paid to talk of a tech skills shortage - at least for now, the exclusive 2009 silicon.com Skills Survey can reveal.
While the proportion of respondents reporting empty IT seats dipped in 2008 after several years of rising steadily, this year's result shows a much steeper decline as the worldwide economic recession mothballs big tech projects and puts recruitment hopes on ice. With less positions for job hunters to choose from it seems employers are having less difficulty filling the few vacancies that do pop up.
- Photos: Sony Ericsson debuts see-through Xperia phone -
Mobile maker Sony Ericsson has debuted another phone in its Xperia range - but with a twist.
The see-through display is a world first, according to Sony Ericsson, requiring battery, memory card and antenna to be miniaturised to fit inside the bottom portion of the device.
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- WALTHAM FOREST: Voluntary sector "could implode" - A CRISIS is looming in the provision of vital care for Waltham Forest’s most vulnerable adults, voluntary organisations have warned.
- ALDERSBROOK: Police involved in bird deaths investigation - POLICE are now involved in the investigation into the deaths of more than 70 birds at a popular beauty spot.
- WALTHAMSTOW: Man denies kidnap and murder of 24-year-old - A WALTHAMSTOW man has denied abducting and murdering a 24-year-old man in east London.
- WALTHAM FOREST: Council claims credit for reduction in obesity - A DROP in childhood obesity rates in Waltham Forest is partly due to the council's ban on fast food outlets opening near schools, the authority has claimed.
- WOODFORD GREEN: Pair jailed after cannabis raid - A MAN and a woman have been jailed following a raid on a cannabis factory in a quiet residential street.
- SOUTH WOODFORD: Artist gets big break - AN ARTIST from Redbridge has won a place in a prestigious London exhibition after using a hand full of toy soldiers - and a backgarden - to recreate dramatic images of war.
- LEYTON: House fire victim still in serious condition - A PENSIONER who suffered 40 per cent burns in a house fire is still in a serious condition in hospital.
- LOUGHTON: Danger spot causes another injury - A NOTORIOUS danger spot has injured another victim, as an elderly woman triped and fell as she climbed aboard a bus after visiting the supermarket.
- WOODFORD GREEN: Pair assaulted with iron bar - POLICE are hunting vicious thug who assaulted a man and a women with an iron bar as he tried to trying to force his way into a house.
- SOUTH WOODFORD: Film star and rapper to party at local club - IT’S not what you know – it’s who you know. This is what a South Woodford nightclub has demonstrated by scoring an exclusive appearance from US rapper 50 Cent.
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- Teenagers told woman to jump from Worthing building - Callous teenagers urged a distressed woman to jump from the top of Teville Gate multi-storey car park in Worthing.
- Crawley motorbike passenger killed in crash named - A man who died in a motorcycle crash has been named by police as Crawley 24-year-old Piotr Mucha.
- Pair died after same feeding tube operation at the Royal Sussex, inquest hears - An inquest will examine if faulty equipment was to blame when a journalist and a pensioner died after having the same operation.
- Brighton and Hove's parking law in a mess over grass verges - Parking on Brighton and Hove’s grass verges could be banned amid calls to reintroduce an old by-law.
- Brighton nightclub attack left man with broken ribs - A man’s ribs were broken when he was given a kicking during a night out.
- Seaford skeleton may be man who took own life - An unidentified skeleton found in woods is thought to be a young man who had taken his own life.
- Fears over Sussex council's £1bn pension shortfall - pension funds run by Sussex councils have been left with a shortfall of almost £1 billion because of stock market turmoil.
- Sussex Police three times more likely to stop black men - Black people in Sussex are almost three times more likely than white people to be stopped and searched by police.
- Fears over £1bn pensions shortfall - pension funds run by Sussex councils have been left with a shortfall of almost £1 billion because of stock market turmoil.
- War propaganda posters to go under hammer in Lewes - A RARE collection of Second World War propaganda posters is to go under the hammer.
- Heather Mills' prosthetic leg swabbed for explosives - Airport security officials feared Heather Mills' prosthetic leg could be a bomb.
- Police apologise to Crowborough restaurant boss - Police have apologised to a restaurant owner who was arrested after stopping youths from breaking into his property.
- Plans for homes next to Worthing's Titnore Woods voted down - UPDATE: Plans for 875 homes next to Titnore Woods have been unanimously rejected to a standing ovation from protesters who danced for joy in the public gallery.
- Haywards Heath woman's amazing marathon challenge - Doing a marathon is a tough ordeal for any runner but for Kim Lo it is her ultimate challenge.