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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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- LEYTONSTONE: '15 involved' in stabbing - UP to 15 people may have been involved in yesterday's stabbing in Leytonstone, police have said.
- LEYTON: School bans detentions to improve behaviour - A LEYTON school has taken the unusual step of scrapping detentions in an effort to improve pupils' behaviour.
- WALTHAM FOREST: £1.2m spent on councillors - WALTHAM Forest councillors cost taxpayers more than £1.2million in allowances and expenses during the last financial year, it has been revealed.
- EPPING FOREST: Asbestos fly-tip is only latest dump in forest - DEADLY asbestos dumped at the heart of Epping Forest has prompted the City of London Corporation to speak out over rampant fly-tipping.
- REDBRIDGE: Outdoor celebration for end of fasting - A MASS outdoor celebration to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan will be held next week.
- WOODFORD GREEN: World-famous author to visit school - A FAMOUS children's author is set to visit one of the borough's secondary schools.
- REDBRIDGE: Jobs fair comes to the borough - JOBSEEKERS from across the borough are invited to an informative event later this month.
- EPPING FOREST: Help hospice raise money for its life-changing work - PEOPLE will have a chance to raise money for a hospice's life-changing work with a charity walk in Loughton.
- WANSTEAD: Film screening kicks off new 'green' drive - ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners will kick off a new scheme to help people develop more sustainable lifestyles with a thought-provoking film screening.
- REDBRIDGE: Council considers leisure centre sites as college shows interest in move - THE POSSIBILITY of relocating the borough's further education college will be discussed at a council meeting next week.
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- Brighton and Hove's school lottery maintains status quo, research finds - Brighton and Hove's controversial schools places lottery has failed to reduce segregation between rich and poor pupils, research suggests today.
- St Leonards dad's baby agony - A father suffered every parent's worst nightmare after falling asleep while feeding his baby.
- Toaster fire sparks Worthing blaze - A piece of toast set alight starting a kitchen fire in Worthing.
- Portslade mother becomes magazine cover girl - A mother-of-two from Portslade has been chosen to front a women's magazines campaign to get airbrushed mofdels off their cover.
- Brighton doctor's meningitis warning - A DOCTOR has warned of the difficulties in spotting meningitis symptoms after his own son was struck down by the deadly virus.
- Brighton and Hove council uses YouTube to advertise jobs - A YouTube video has been created by a council to advertise vacancies - despite having only 15 positions available.
- Mystery over departure of council boss - A county council has refused to reveal why its chief executive stepped down.
- The Sussex map that time forgot - This is the map that time forgot – and so did the council.
- Woman, 92, hit by reversing BMW - A 92-year-old woman was today rushed to hospital after a car reversed into her in Saltdean.
- Brighton Festival Fringe takes legal action against venue - Bosses of Brighton Festival Fringe are taking legal action against a company which it claims has not paid artists.
- Albion's art appeal for American Express Community Stadium - Fans have been given the chance to leave their mark on Brighton and Hove Albion’s new home by creating pictures, paintings, graffiti and murals to decorate the new stadium. Albion have decided to throw open the concourses of the £93million American Express Community Stadium to the mercy of local artists – professional and amateur – and have issued an appeal for ideas.
- RNLI lifeboat called out to two emergencies in Eastbourne - Lifeboat crews came to the rescue of two vessels within the space of an hour in Eastbourne
- Con man steals jewellery from Shoreham home - Police have issued an appeal for information after a con man posing as a gas meter reader stole items from a Shoreham house
- Hove mother will fight for landlords' rights - A mother who was forced to sleep in a tent because a tenant refused to move out of her house has launched a campaign to fight for landlords’ rights.