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Submission + - Vodafone Told Off For Femtocell Ad Claims (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by geek4
geek4 writes: The advertising regulator has rapped Vodafone over the knuckles concerning an advert claim about its Sure Signal femtocell

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has reprimanded mobile operator Vodafone over advert claims concerning its Sure Signal femtocell.

Vodafone was the first European operator to launch its Vodafone Access Gateway back in June last year. Then in January, Vodafone renamed the femtocell as Sure Signal and also dramatically cut the price of the device to just £50, from £160.
Education

Submission + - Cambridge University To Cut Internet Energy Use (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by justice4all
justice4all writes: Two British Universities will investigate how to reduce the energy consumption of the Internet, which currently consumes 3 to five percent of the world's power

The Internet and other networks use an increasing amount of power, and Leeds and Cambridge Universities have received a £5.9 million, five-year grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to look into ways to reduce this
Open Source

Submission + - Tablet version of Ubuntu to launch next year (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by nk497
nk497 writes: Tablets running Ubuntu should be on shelves by the beginning of next year. Canonical said the Light version of Ubuntu 10.10 — codenamed Maverick Meerkat — will be developed to work on tablets, alongside netbooks. Canonical is also in talks with ARM manufacturers to ensure the OS runs quickly on tablets without using too much power, and is also in talks with Pixel Qi about displays. The move puts Ubuntu in competition with Google's Android and Chrome OS, as well as Intel's Meego, Apple's iOS4 and Palm's webOS. Chris Kenyon, Canonical's vice president of OEM, admitted: "It's a crowded space with a lot of powerful players."

Submission + - Biodegradable Sugar-Powered Batteries, Coming Soon (physorg.com)

Submitted by srsguy
srsguy writes: In the past, we've seen cell phones powered by cola. Now, researchers at Saint Louis University in Missouri are attempting to commercialize batteries powered purely by sugar — not from just one source, either. The team is making claims that "[d]evices could be instantly recharged by adding virtually any convenient sugar source, including plant sap". This should keep the world's sugar-fueled youth with plenty of power — up to 4 times longer on a single charge, in fact.

Submission + - Another arrested in Japan for using anonymous P2P (animenewsnetwork.com)

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renrutal
renrutal writes: "A 43-year-old man is the second known person arrested in Japan for using Perfect Dark to share copyrighted material in its encrypted P2P network.

According to the [Kyoto-based] High-Tech Crime Task Force, the Okayama police, and the Saga police, the Osaka-based suspect uploaded about a thousand files, including anime. The suspect admitted that he thought he would not get caught because he was using Perfect Dark.

Perfect Dark is the third generation of japanese anonymous P2P network clients, developed with the intent to fix the security flaws found in its predecessors Winny and Share, in spite of also adopting a "Secure through Obscurity" closed-source model. In 2004, Winny's developer, Isamu Kaneo, was charged 1.5 million yen for assisting in copyright infringement, but he was acquited last October. Since 2008, at least 15 people were arrested in Japan suspect of uploading copyrighted material to those "secure" networks."
Apple

Submission + - Eight Suicide at Apple Supplier This Year (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by jee4all
jee4all writes: A worker at Foxconn, which makes the Apple iPhone, was the 10th to fall from a building and the eighth to die in this way in 2010 alone.

In what appears to be another suicide, a worker at the Foxconn facility in Shenzhen, China, fell from a building on the company’s campus on 21 May.
Yahoo!

Submission + - Nokia And Yahoo Partner On Mobile Services (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by geek4
geek4 writes: Yahoo and Nokia announced a partnership on 24 May in which Nokia will become the global provider of Yahoo’s map and navigation services, while Yahoo becomes the global provider of Nokia’s Ovi e-mail and messenger services.

The deal is designed to play to the strengths of both companies, with Yahoo compensating for a weakness in maps with Nokia’s technology, while Nokia’s Ovi brand benefits from Yahoo’s advances in mobile communication.
Google

Submission + - Reding Says Google Does Not Respect EU Rules (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by justice4all
justice4all writes: EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding has slammed Google for not respecting EU rules while a German data watchdog has given the search giant one week to hand over a hard drive containing private Wi-Fi data the search giant harvested.
HP

Submission + - Utilities Blamed For Stalling Smart Grid Roll-outs (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by justice4all
justice4all writes: Established utility companies are stalling the roll-out of smart grids and meters over concerns that the information available to customers will upset established business models.

That was the assessment from management consultant, Marchment Hill Consulting’s Neil Gibbs, speaking in a panel discussion at HP’s annual Executive Energy Conference in Dubai this week.
HP

Submission + - Green Expert Warns Energy Execs About Complacency (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by jee4all
jee4all writes: Technology and energy experts have been warned about being complacent in the face of climate change by a leading green expert.

Speaking at the HP Executive Energy Conference in Dubai this week, climate change expert Gabrielle Walker told the audience of technology and energy industry executives that climate change was an opportunity, not something to be feared.
HP

Submission + - HP Launches New Servers And Finance Advice (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by geek4
geek4 writes: Hewlett-Packard has announced new servers and promised to help businesses free up the cash to buy them, by “self-funding” IT projects that eliminate old technology — a process the company calls “breaking the innovation gridlock”.

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