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2nd October 2010 Archive

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  • Google's 'instant' search springs keyboard controls

    Search watchers fear death by blue arrow

    Google has introduced keyboard navigation to Google Instant, its "real-time" search engine, and though some users quite like it, at least one big-name search-marketing outfit sees it as yet another way the service is hindering search-marketing outfits. This week, as it expanded Instant to additional Google search services, …

    Music and Media 2 Oct 00:29

  • Why is IBM declaring war on Cisco?

    Is BNT Juniper on the cheap?

    IBM is buying Blade Network Technologies (BNT) and people are bemused beyond belief, especially a correspondent who wishes to remain anonymous but is close-ish to IBM. He thinks that the BNT purchase might be "Juniper on the cheap" and if so is "totally stupid." He characterises IBM CEO Sam Palmisano as a CEO who "doesn’t …

    Blocks and Files 2 Oct 08:00

  • Reg Hardware Reviews Digest

    A second bite of tech

    In the past seven days, Reg Hardware has looked at many products from the worlds of consumer electronics, gaming and computing. If you missed anything, here are those products again. Lifestyle Keene USB FM Transmitter Wireless music for 15 quid, surely not? Olympus LS-5 linear PCM recorder Sound idea? …

    Hardware 2 Oct 08:00

  • iPad spends 20% of time in bed

    'Not tonight, honey, I'm stroking my tablet'

    Among the interesting stats turned up by a new study of iPad usage is that 20 per cent of users' iPad time is spent in bed. That nugget was buried in a blog post by Stephen Baker, the NPD Group's VP of industry analysis, discussing his research group's just-released "iPad Owner Study." "It is obvious that the iPad form factor …

    Mobile 2 Oct 08:12