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Dell, in keeping with Apple?s Mac mini and HP?s Slimline series, have unveiled the Dell Studio Hybrid. ? Roughly the size of a motel-bible, the Studio Hybrid is roughly 80 percent smaller than the average size desktop mini-tower and uses significantly less energy, according to Dell. Dell also announced two new Inspiron PCs: the Inspiron [...]

? Virgin founder, billionaire, and the UK?s favourite boss, Richard Branson has unveiled a new high-altitude jet that will allow tourists to reach new heights. ? The jet will act as the ?mothership? for a spacecraft, releasing it in mid-air so it can take two crew and six passengers on sub-orbital flights. ? Already over [...]

According to official figures posted today from the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC), China has surpassed the US as the world?s largest net-using population with more than 253 million people in the country now online. The figure fly?s past the US total of 223 million, which was last checked in June. Net penetration in [...]

? This morning commuters in London took advantage of free underground travel when technical problems brought down the Oyster ticket system. ? Gates were left open early this morning to allow commuters to continue with their day. Unlike that last time the Oyster system rolled over and died, the failure has not damaged peoples travel [...]

A businessman whose personal details were ?laid bare? in fake libellous entries on social networking site Facebook has been awarded ?22,000 in damages today against a former friend who created the profile. ? Mathew Firsht, who is the MD of Applause Store Productions Ltd, sued old school fried, freelance cameraman Grant Raphael, for libel and [...]

? Sounding like something from the distant future, Esquire magazine are celebrating the 75th anniversary of the publication by printing 100,000 special editions of its October 2008 magazine, by using a cover made from electronic paper. The cover will feature moving images and words that will move around the page, with the first ever e-paper [...]

? Testers are being sought for technology that will allow television to migrate the net. The P2P Next project has created a beta version of software that can stream video across a file-sharing network. ? The European Union has sunk 19 million Euros into the project, hoping that the software the team creates can be [...]

? With the help of screen-reader software, blind people can use a computer, but those products can cost more than US$1000, so you won?t see them in public libraries or at internet cafes. ? A new web-based application called ?WebAnywhere? has been developed by a computer science graduate at the University of Washington ? and [...]

? The decision to have a huge UK database of the details of all phone calls, emails and internet use could be ?step too far for the British way of life?, according to the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas. ? Security minister Lord West responded to the warning, saying: “It is very early days as to [...]

? Joss Whedon, the guy who gave us ?Buffy the Vampire Slayer? and ?Firefly?, found a way to keep himself busy during the recent Hollywod writers strike by creating a wacky musical about a mad doctor with an evil-mastermind-wannabe inferiority complex. ? Buts instead of his traditional TV route, he?s decided to go all Web [...]