As part of the promotion of UK’s innovation and technology iawards there will be a live webchat with leading entrepreneur and Dragons’ Den star James Caan today (Thursday 27 August) at 1.30pm UK local time.
Aiming to recognise and celebrate the best British achievements in science, innovation and technology, the iawards are backed by Science and Innovation Minister Lord Drayson and leading entrepreneur James Caan.
Hats off to cool innovation and technology!
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With Snow Leopard set to be released in only a couple of days, what can be expected of the new “refined, not reinvented” version of OS X.
Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs first announced Snow Leopard at WWDC on June 8, 2008, with the first public demonstration being given at WWDC 2009 by Bertrand Serlet and Phil Schiller. After months of work it is now ready.
For Snow Leopard, Apple engineers had a single goal: to make a Snow Leopard a better Leopard. The aim was to refine, simplify, and speed up. Refinements …

There have been loads of rumours about the early release of Snow Leopard, Apple’s next iteration of its OS X operation system for Macs. Originally marked for release in September, Apple have managed to get the OS up to scratch early and it is now being released on August 28th.
You can pre-order it from the Apple store today. Prices for the USA are $29 for a single user upgrade and £25 for those in the UK.
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There are a total of 600 million mobile users in China of which China Mobile has the largest subscriber base with more than 450 million users, with 140 million customers is the second largest mobile service provider. iPhone sales all over the world are increasing in rate even in the critical period of recession. Supporting the previous statement Apple has shown a 15 percent increase in the company’s profit over the last quarter with the credits to its own gadget – the iPhone. Apple also has a manufacturing unit in …

The technology has developed so rapidly that the billboards which were large in size can be made more flexible and transparent. This new technology has made possible to create tail lights that fit the curves of the car. These are all possible with the help of a new technology called inorganic LEDs which allows the tiny Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) to be attached to materials like rubber or glass. Professor John Rogers of the University of Illinois said that with the help of this new technology, it will be …

Social networking site MySpace is all set to acquire the popular music service – iLike that has taken social networking to an all new level. iLike, a famous application in MySpace’s rival site, Facebook has over 55 million registered users and stays as one of the most used application on Facebook. Owen Van Natta, CEO of MySpace said  that the acquisition was part of MySpace’s pursuit of innovation.A rather interesting fact is that iLike has been on most of the social networking sites earlier except for MySpace.
Although MySpace hadn’t revealed …

K7 Computing, who are very big in Asia with over nine million customers (including a quarter of the Japanese market), has announced its release of K7 TotalSecurity Version 10.0, Internet Security Software to help safeguard users from virus threats, spyware and hackers.
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Judge Leonard Davis, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, ordered a ban of the sale of Microsoft’s products which can open XML, .DOCX or .DOCM files containing custom XML. The operating system giant was handed the judgment for violating a patent of i4i, a Canadian company and collaborative content solution developer, which states “A system and method for the separate manipulation of the architecture and content of a document, particularly for data representation and transformations”.
Microsoft strongly deny the charges. The case, that was filed on …

Smart Pen manufacturers have often failed to win the hearts of the customers. But those days have passed with the new application for Mac, MyScript for Livescribe. MyScript for Livescribe converts your handwritten notes to digital text.
The smart pen, like its predecessors, can be used on a specially designed paper for the software to monitor the words and save them as images in the system. This new gadget has its own handwriting recognition software and a digital audio recorder which can simultaneously record audio while writing, which are indexed to …

Microsoft and Nokia have signed a deal, that will ensure Microsoft office suite’s presence in Nokia Symbian mobiles in the near future. Nokia’s Vice President Robert Andersson said that, RIM being the North American e-mail expert, dominates the field with Blackberry. This additional component that is to be added into the Nokia E series phones is expected to bring up more competition in the domain. Hundreds of employees from both the companies are to co-ordinate and work for the project, which could be found on the phones next year.
Microsoft recently …