Wireless charging - the future for electric cars

It's electric, and like all battery-operated automobiles needs regular charging. "The charging is done wirelessly, you park up, turn off the key and voila... charging starts automatically," says Anthony Thomson, CEO of HaloIPT, a UK company that has installed the technology. The process uses electromagnetic induction to transfer power from a pad built into the ground to another installed in the bottom of the car. The system could be installed in a supermarket parking place, garage floor or the ground at a special charging station. When a driver parks the vehicle, the two pads line up and with a flick of a switch, the charging starts.

Wireless charging - the future for electric cars

Katy Perry leads MTV nominations

US pop star Katy Perry leads the way at this year's MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) with nine nominations. The singer's nods include video of the year for Firework, best pop video and best special effects. British singer Adele and Kanye West picked up seven nominations apiece. Other multiple nominees included Lady Gaga, Beyonce, and Bruno Mars. The VMAs are scheduled to take place on 28 August in Los Angeles and will be broadcast live in the US. Perry, who married comedian Russell Brand last year, was also nominated for best female video, best collaboration, best art direction and best cinematography.

Katy Perry leads MTV nominations

Texas executes 9/11 'revenge' killer

A man who embarked on a shooting spree in what he claimed was retaliation for 9/11 has been executed at a prison in Texas. The lone survivor of Mark Stroman's attack on convenience store workers in late 2001, Rais Bhuiyan, originally from Bangladesh, unsuccessfully sued to stop the execution, saying his religious beliefs as a Muslim required him to forgive the man. Stroman claimed the shooting spree that killed two men and injured a third targeted people from the Middle East, though all three victims were from south Asia. It was the death of 49-year-old Vasudev Patel, from India, that put Stroman on death row. Stroman's execution was the eighth this year in Texas.

Texas executes 9/11 revenge killer

Mac OS X Lion pounces

As promised, Apple let Mac OS X Lion out of its cage this morning. Version 10.7 of the operating system has more than 250 new features, Apple said, but an installation disc isn't one of them: it's available today for $29.99 as a 3.49GB download only. Apple enjoys pushing the computing industry into the future by dropping technology it deems to be from the past-for example floppy drives missing from the first iMac-and those who want a real-world copy of the OS will have to wait until Apple releases it on a USB thumb drive next month for $69. The Mac OS X download, available through the Mac App Store, dovetails with Apple's new MacBook Air and Mac Mini Lion-based computers. These new models are updated with Intel's modern Sandy Bridge processors and a high-speed Thunderbolt data transfer port-and none has a DVD drive for the next OS upgrade.

Mac OS X Lion pounces

Google+ For iPhone Now The Top Free App In iTunes

Google+ for iPhone hit Apple's App Store a mere 24 hours ago but it's being downloaded like wildfire as it currently sitting atop the heap as the most popular free app available from iTunes. This is big news considering Google+ is still invitation-only and only has 18 million users so far, compared to Facebook's 750 million. That said, Google+ users can now upload contacts from Outlook and Mac address books (not Facebook, though), which may result in even bigger Google+ adoption numbers.

Google+ For iPhone Now The Top Free App In iTunes

Steve Jobs dismisses rumors of his successor

Apple CEO and cancer survivor Steve Jobs is not keen on discussing speculation about who will replace him when the inevitable happens. This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the company's board of directors have been discussing plans about who will take over the position that has been held by Jobs since the late 1990s, and perhaps the title that some will always bestow upon Jobs and Jobs alone, once the man is no longer able to hold the position himself. The Journal said it had credible information that the board has already been meeting with headhunters and "at least one head of a high-profile technology company."

Steve Jobs dismisses rumors of his successor
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While the launch of its offer on 10 January, was orchestrated through a press conference (and teasing) skilfully presented, it is by a simple press release sent Tuesday morning at 7: 30 pm, the troublemaker announced the mobile subscriber numbers earned in the first quarter: 2.6 million people joined in late March that the operator does not exist on 1 January 2012. After his first 80 days old, Free will is offered 4% of the mobile market in France.

More importantly, the least we can say is that it did not leave the competition marble. Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom, the three main operators, have each unveiled an offer low cost (respectively Sosh, Red and B & You) and maneuvers continue: Bouygues Telecom to offer just Darty Mobile, ensuring a place in the distributor stores. SFR, who thanked Frank Esser, will be piloted in September by Michel Combes, the former head of Vodafone Europe. Orange, who lost in the meantime just over 600,000 subscribers, says not to let down our guard and could review again its offerings in the coming weeks.



Free had to reassure his side connection problems faced by some of its subscribers in late afternoon. But Xavier Niel, the main shareholder of Free, firmly believes in its disruptive model. He launched this week with Michael Golan, former CEO of Free France, Golan Israel Telecom. An operator that offers monthly plans ranging from NIS 9.99 (2 euros) to 99 shekels (20 euros). Never change a winning formula?




Have a Samsung S2 Galaxy? Did you get through the operator Vodafone? Well you see preparing the flagship of Samsung because it has reached a new update. Ice Cream Sandwich-better known as Android 4.0-now available for download for customers with a British operator having in his possession one of the most successful end of the market.

Both Samsung and Vodafone have confirmed that Samsung S2 Galaxy and has a particular update to Android 4.0, the latest operating system from Google. To upgrade, you must connect your terminal to your computer and run the program called Samsung Kies. Once you recognize the phone, the program will announce the availability of the new version.

Moreover, from the Vodafone forums also reported that customers who want to update your Samsung S2 Galaxy Android 4.0 without having to use cables, must wait a little longer. Specifically until 17 April. Date on which Vodafone customers can download directly to your terminal upgrade. Such practice is known as an update via OTA (Over-The-Air).



In addition, Samsung has communicated-both in their official Twitter account and Facebook-that such an update for customers of other operators (Movistar, Orange or Telstra) and, for terminals that have been obtained on the open market, yet is not available and final implementation dates will be communicated through light their social networking accounts most famous moment.

So Vodafone is presented as the first operator that allows Spanish users receive the update Android 4.0 officially and without having to install different versions that are distributed over the Internet: the familiar cooked ROMs.

For the rest, remember that Samsung has already confirmed what the teams would receive this update to Android 4.0. Samsung S2 Galaxy is being the first. However, there remains a list of handsets like the Samsung Galaxy Note that arrive in the second quarter of this year. In addition, this terminal will have surprises as with Android 4.0 also added some new applications to use the pointer (stylus) known as S-Pen.

Another team that should also receive the update is the Galaxy R; other advanced terminal improvement should receive shortly. This terminal is known for its resemblance to the flagship of the company, albeit with some changes to the technical characteristics: the processor is slightly less powerful, gets his camera to record videos in high definition but only at 720p or storage Internal is four gigabytes.

Finally, Samsung also confirmed that some of his touch tablets were also in the list of future equipment upgrade. Some of them are the great Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Tab Galaxy Galaxy 8.9 or the 7.7 Tab in Spain still not sold.

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