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Nokia N8 – The Commuter, new Nokia film in mobile HD – Nokia UK

Pamela Anderson, Ed Westwick, Dev Patel and Charles Dance star in Nokia’s highly anticipated short film, ‘The Commuter’ which was shot entirely in mobile HD on the Nokia N8 smartphone. The groundbreaking film, directed by the McHenry Brothers, was shot in just four days with the Nokia N8 using no back up cameras, with the streets of London and St

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Wireless technology for the hearing impaired

Siemens Hearing Instruments has announced the launch of its new, multifunctional miniTek™ device, which acts as both a remote control and automatic streamer to synchronise all the latest gadgets with hearing device instruments with a pair of hearing aids. The miniTek is a natural technology progression from the Tek™ that Siemens has been supplying since 2008. Put simply, the miniTek™

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The Official Ferrari Opus Launch – Ferrari World Abu Dhabi

Ferrari S.p.A. and Opus Media Group have joined forces to produce a glorious celebration of the ‘Prancing Horse’ and the success of one of the world’s most famous racing names in motor sport. Unveiled at the newly opened Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, The Official Ferrari Opus weighs an impressive 37kg and runs to 852 pages, each measuring half a metre

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Manic Monday goes mobile as british use smartphones to shop

One in ten Brits will do their online Christmas shopping using their mobile phone rather than a computer this year, according to new research findings from Tesco Direct. The trend of using mobile phones for online shopping emerged in a study of 4,000 consumers. This comes as Tesco Direct gets ready to face its busiest online shopping day of the

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Video: TweetFired – Fired from Job Because Of Twitter

You may have heard of the story of Brian Maupin who got fired from BestBuy becuase of his iPhone4 vs HTC Evo YouTube Video he posted, even though the video makes no mention of BestBuy. Well now he’s back with another video called TweetFired which is the story of Peter, a man who gets in trouble with his boss at

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Christmas Gifts 2010: No sextoys please, we’re British

Twenga, a comprehensive shopping search engine, asked Internet users about Christmas gifts they don’t want to receive. The results show that 42% of British consumers would be disappointed with a sextoy as their gift, and 38% would not like a scented candle. The sextoy is indeed the least popular item in Europe, especially for the French, 47% of whom wouldn’t

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Internet Shopping Could Cost British Businesses Dearly this Christmas

UK Employers Stand to Lose £300 Million a Week in Lost Productivity Bloxx, an innovator in web and email filtering, today warned the forecasted increase in Internet shopping could end up costing the UK economy millions of pounds in lost business productivity in the run up to Christmas. Online retail industry group IMRG and consultants Capgemini recently stated that they expected

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BitDefenders safego says one fifth of Facebook users subject to malware

BitDefender, an award winning provider of innovative internet security solutions, has released statistics derived from its social networking safety app safego launched in beta at the end of last month. The application, which has scanned over 17 million Facebook posts to date, detected infections on the news feeds of around 20% of its users. Key Statistics To date, safego has

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Video: Saijo Matsuri 2009

  Saijo Matsuri 2009 ???? from Brad Kremer on Vimeo. Saijo Matsuri is a festival held every year in October in Saijo, Japan. Saijo Matsuri is a three day event celebrating the fall harvest. They carry 135 of these 700kg(1500lbs) Danjiri all over town and parade them in a very enthusiastic fashion. They will all be in one spot for