18th August 2012 Archive

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• NASA picks the target for Curiosity's first road trip

  Pics Rover has to shoot itself first however

  NASA has pronounced the Curiosity rover ready to get roving and has picked an interesting venue for its first roll across the Martian surface, but the probe has to shoot itself before it can go anywhere. At a press conference on Friday, NASA said that Curiosity will move towards a spot dubbed Glenelg, which is located at the …

  Science 18 Aug 00:37

• HP to take one more stab at consumer tablets

  Taps former Nokia exec to head new fondleslab division

  If you thought HP's decision to spin off its webOS division into a new subsidiary signaled the end of its adventures in the mobile market, think again. According to reports, the PC maker is reshuffling its Personal Systems Group to launch a new business unit aimed at getting HP back in the tablet race. According to a leaked …

  Windows 8 18 Aug 00:40

• Ten phones for seniors

  Product Round-up Mobiles for mature intercourse

  Whatever Philip Larkin may have said about your mum and dad, you probably want them to have a mobile phone they can use. If you think an iPhone is easy you need to reset your sights. There are plenty of people who find switching a phone on a challenge and entering phone numbers daunting. We all suffer reduced eyesight from …

  Phones 18 Aug 07:00

• Amazon UK to offer collection service at corner shops

  'Yeah, I'll 'ave Amazon gear, pint o' milk an' a Mars bar'

  Amazon is a to launch a service that lets UK customers pick up their purchases from one of 4,700 shops across Britain. The etailer has been secretly trialling pick-ups through shops that already work with PayPoint using its existing CollectPlus parcel service. CollectPlus is already available in selected local corner shops, …

  Business 18 Aug 10:34

• Exposing China's vast underground economy

  Analysis 90,000 people work on the dark side of the Net

  A new academic study has set out to illuminate for the first time the size and structure of the Chinese online underground, and found it affected nearly a quarter of the country’s internet users last year and cost the economy over 5 billion yuan (£500m). Investigating China’s Online Underground Economy was put together by …

  Security 18 Aug 22:00