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This year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2012), which was held in Las Vegas last month, gave us a glimpse into the electronic gadgets of the near future.
Some may have been disappointed by the absence of revolutionary products and technologies at this year’s CES, but we believe that the current focus on
Telecoms group BT has reported a rise in profits, thanks to cost-cutting and an increase in broadband users.
Pre-tax profits for the three months to the end of December were £652m, 48% higher than a year earlier.
The Digital Research and Development Fund for Arts and Culture, Scotland is a partnership between Creative Scotland the Arts & Humanities Researcgh Council (AHRC) and NESTA to support arts and cultrual organisations across Scotland who want to work with digital technologies to expand their audience reach and engagement,
EdgeCase, the leading Ruby on Rails software company, has announced its acquisition by Tokyo based technology company Digital Garage, creating a global consultancy – New Context. New Context will operate out of the US, the UK and Japan and signals a change in the way startups are supported.
Head Resourcing has topped the chart of the 2012 Recruiter Fast 50 (the 50 fastest growing privately owned staffing companies in the UK compiled by Boxington Corporate Finance).
The award is recognition of the recruitme
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About 100 people gather in Enniskillen to demonstrate against the use of fracking to extract gas from shale rock in County Fermanagh.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will visit China next week to discuss Canada’s oil products, after the US blocked a key pipeline.
Prince Charles says there are reasons to be optimistic about the state of the world’s oceans, but it is "critically urgent" to tackle overfishing.
Do the dead outnumber the living – or is it the other way round?
The FBI investigates how activists linked to Anonymous obtained a recording of a phone call between US and UK police on their operations against hacking.
Steve Appleton, the chief executive of memory-chip maker Micron, has died in a plane crash near Boise, Idaho.
Fibre optic broadband connections to at speeds of 300 Mbps will be available ‘on demand’ in the UK next year, BT says.
A tour of Kew’s Royal Botanic Gardens’ exotic orchids
Apple is granted a suspension of a sales ban imposed on some of its iPads and iPhones in Germany.
What Huhne’s departure means to ‘the greenest government ever’