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Posted by: Catie Holdridge
15 / 10 / 10
Apple has been awarded a patent in the US for a device to filter out ‘inappropriate’ language from text messages (otherwise known as ‘sexting’, apparently). Essentially, it is a way for parents to monitor and manage the content of their children’s texting. After all – as the patent tells us – ‘children may send or […]
28 / 09 / 10
Recent eyetracker research reveals that users of news websites look at the headlines first, rather than the images. The study, called Eyetrack III, from The Poynter Institute in the US, looks at how people’s eyes move, focus and skip while reading news websites. It found that people zoomed in on headlines first, although they tended […]
16 / 09 / 10
The next edition of The Oxford English Dictionary probably won’t appear in print, according to the Oxford University Press (OUP), the dictionary’s owner. Instead, it is likely that the third edition will be accessible only electronically. OED3 won’t be ready for at least another decade, and the decision is not yet final. But when asked […]
Posted by: em-admin
11 / 03 / 10
Printer manufacturers must be getting a bit twitchy about the iPad. Or if they’re not, they should be – because it could well make a serious dent in their profits, writes Rob Ashton. Generally, I’m in the ‘pro’ camp when it comes to technology. I’ve bought a fair few examples over the years. And although […]
Posted by: Rob Ashton
09 / 03 / 10
11 / 11 / 09
It is 40 years ago, almost to the day, that the internet made its first connection. On 29 October 1969, a computer in the University of California connected with one several hundred miles away in the Stanford Research Institute, just long enough to receive the message ‘LO’. (It was meant to be ‘LOGIN’, but the […]
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