Published on August 4, 2010 by Technology Slice
Android Getting New Users – Research in Motion’s BlackBerry platform continues to be the number mobile OS in the U.S., but a poll of BlackBerry users showed that about 42 percent of current owners are weighing a switch to iPhone or Android. Overall, RIM has 35 percent of the mobile OS market share in the [...]
Tags: apple, blackberry, Current, Feature Phones, iphone, Last Quarter, Leap, Loyalty, Market Share, Mobile Market, Mobile Os, Nielsen, Os Market, People, Poll, Research In Motion, Rim, S Market, Six Months, Subscribers
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Published on April 8, 2010 by Technology Slice
Blu Ray High Capacity Format – The Blu-ray Disc Association has released a high-capacity format that more than doubles the amount of storage from the previous generation of discs. Called BDXL, the specification enables up to 128 GB of storage on write-once Blu-ray discs and 100 GB on rewritable discs.
Tags: Blu Ray Disc, Blu Ray Disc Association, Blu Ray Discs, Committee Chair, Creative Professionals, Current, Desire, Gb, Graphic Images, Magnetic Media, Matsuda, Medical Industries, Optical Disc, Professional Industries, Promotions Committee, Recordable Layers, Rewritable Discs, Storage, Transition
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Published on March 19, 2010 by Technology Slice
Cyclone Ului Downgraded To Category 2 – Tropical Cyclone Ului swirling in the Coral Sea off Queensland has been downgraded to a category two system. The weather bureau’s latest advice is that the cyclone has moved closer to the coast and is 950 kilometres north-east of Mackay. It is still expected to cross the coast [...]
Tags: Authorities, Cardwell, Coastal Areas, Coral Sea, Current, Disaster Management, Mackay, Mainland, Management Group, Management Meetings, North Queensland, Sunday Morning, Townsville, Trevor Williams, Tropical Cyclone, Weather Bureau
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Published on March 3, 2010 by Technology Slice
Supreme Court – Despite being cleared for release and officially declared no threat to the US, five Uighurs held at Guantánamo Bay for eight years had their bid for freedom blocked by the Obama Administration yesterday. The move came after the Supreme Court agreed with arguments by US government lawyers that the five should not [...]
Tags: Bush, Congress, Current, foreigners, Freedom, Government Lawyers, Immigration Policy, Judiciary, Justice Department, Prisoners, Siding, Soil, Supreme Court, Ultimate Control, White House
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Published on February 10, 2010 by Technology Slice
Although the Chinese were the first to issue and use paper money known as the ‘flying money’ in 619-907 AD, it was soon taken over by the Song dynasty in 1024 as result of fraud. Around that same time the ‘money changers’ became a prevalent scene in medieval England. They became so prevalent that they could actually control and manipulate the entire English economy.
Tags: Control, Current, Depression, English Economy, Fraud, Goldsmith, Medieval England, Money Changers, Paper Money, Reason, Song Dynasty
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