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2004 after a $20m security upgrade. The observation deck at the top of the crown was reopened on 4 July 2009.

240 people visit each day. About 3.5 million people visit the monument every year.

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ppression systems, elevators and bathrooms.

Touch Bionics also agreed to fit the hand and train Matthew at their state of the art facilities for free, which would have otherwise cost £25,000.

Matthew said: ''It is just amazing.

even fitted with Bluetooth technology to allow Matthew to hook up to a computer wirelessly to track the strength and speed of his movements.

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networking are connecting people

groups of people -- primarily young people -- are using the tools at their disposal to wreak havoc.

social media networks like Facebook and Twitter, or through text message, BlackBerry Messenger or e-mail.

leaving one unconscious

broken jaw

June, some gangs attacked pedestrians and people leaving restaurants,

robbed train passengers.

stolen goods.

easy to blame technology

networks are only a tool

Twitter, texting or other means be illega

Chile earlier this summer

students amassed in Santiago's Plaza de la Ciudadanía

broke into a choreographed and costumed dance

educational system, which they say is currently rotten and dead

technology is indeed a double-edged sword.

made these events easier to organize,

also made them easier to stop

7-Eleven

robbed

terrifying riots that rocked England

over 1,000 have been charged.

technology

four years in a juvenile cent

Jordan Blackshaw, 20, invited about 100 people to an event called "Smash Down in Northwich Town,"

h Facebook.

, 22, created a group called "The Worthington Riots."

Cleveland, Ohio thinks such measures are inappropriate and legally questionable.

last weekend kept the streets of Philadelphia relatively quie

anyone 17 or younger must be home by nine p.m.

18 must be indoors by midnight

13 must be off the streets by 10 p.m.

The juveniles will face fines of upto $300.

upcoming Apple smartphone

, T-Mobile’s Samsung Hercules

The leak said October 26th.&nbsp;

Samsung Galaxy S II

iPhone 5 will arrive in October

better under the hood specification

Apple delayed the launch of the iPhone 5 to take advantage of the so-called Thanksgiving and Christmas shopping rush.

more powerful back and front cameras.

next-generation Apple smartphone.

based in Asia.

supply of the units from Apple’s manufacturing partners

also added that Apple is still internally “debating” on either the September 29th or the 30th preorder date, but the latter seems more likely.

much-anticipated smartphones this year.

iPhone 5

expected by the end of September

iPhone 5

new A5 chip, the dual-core dedicated processor of the computer company, as well as bigger RAM, 8-megapixel rear camera, a non-VGA front-facing camera and could sport a new design. The new iPhone 5 is also the expected device to launch with iOS 5 out of the box.

iPhone 5′s design is “curvier”

f Samsung Mobile

Android OEM

launch a “defensive” strategy against the iPhone 5 by launching the company’s most popular Android smartphone to date

Samsung Galaxy S II.

Galaxy S II was heralded this week, claiming that the Samsung Hercules, or the Samsung Galaxy S II variant for the US carrier T-Mobile.

AT&amp;T, Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless

also expected to sell the Samsung Galaxy S II,

Other Android devices that are also expected to arrive by Thanksgiving are the HTC Vigor, Motorola Droid Bionic and the new Nexus smartphone from Google.

Android “team” compete against the iPhone 5? I

Android smartphone that could possibly steal some of the iPhone 5 customers?

Apple was fined 3 million won for collecting such data even when some users turned off location-recognition features on their iPhones, the Korea Communications Commission said Aug. 3. Google Inc

Earlier this year, Apple was sued in the U.S. by two iPhone and iPad users who claimed the devices secretly collected information on their movements.

“I’m an iPhone user myself, so when I first heard about this in the media, I reviewed the legality of the matter based on Korean law,” Kim Hyeong Seok, an attorney for the plaintiffs

migrant workers – who build the capital's offices and mansions, clean its streets and guard its security – have been shut down,

Tens of thousands of migrant children are left without schools

rural origin – a third of the city's 19 million population

day-to-day inju

stices

hukou (household registration), set up in 1958

control rural-to-urban migration

Peasants' role was to produce and feed the cities and support the modernisation process of their motherland.

as shown on their ID – no matter what they might choose to do. "Wo shi nongmin [I&nbsp;am a peasant],"

Deng Xiao Ping's gaige kaifang (economic reforms and opening up), in the late 1970s.

Agricultural production increased in the early stage of the reforms in "releasing the productive forces",

half of the 400 million rural working population have been pushed off the land, seeking a livelihood away from their villages.

As rural residents came to the cities, they immediately faced discrimination and exclusion.

They spoke their own dialects instead of "proper" Mandarin. Many faced verbal abuse as soon as they arrived.

the strict requirement for the unaffordable temporary residency permit, and the random street search by police.

The criteria for applying for a hukou remain harsh, and unreachable for most migrants, and many work for years without any status.

Without hukou,

healthcare, education and housing.

urban dwellers pay a minimal cost for medical care, many migrants have to return home for treatment.

"These children aren't treated as everyone else. They're called the mobile students, who can't go to state schools. Their parents have for years sent their children to privately run schools without proper facilities or curriculum."

hundreds such private schools were set up.

government-funded National Development and Reform Commission

admits it is an "institutional barrier"

government has shown no wish to listen to migrant workers' demands.

voice their discontent is by petitioning the local authorities

Little happens as a result.

Some suspect that migrant children's schools are being closed as a disincentive to future migration.

protests, road blockages, sit-ins and spontaneous strikes.

Hsiao-Hung Pai, Beijing

Migrants who toil in the cities still face a decades-old system of segregation and exploitation. But many are now demanding fairness

Beijing "a city of violence"

Beijing's migrant worker slums

are ruthlessly segregated from the urban dwellers, economically, socially and culturally

Mozilla is carefully circumventing the phrase of “waging war” against the creation of closed or “siloed” environments on the web.

competing, but not so by going directly against a rival, but by being “different”

That name would be Apple, which Mozilla’s chairman and chief lizard wrangler Mitchell Baker directly addressed in a series of sequential blog posts that outline Mozilla’s future direction. The attacks aren’t as crude and as we typically see between Mozilla and Microsoft. They are much more carefully worded, perhaps in an effort to remain polite and not to raise any unnecessary attention

“There’s no reason why “apps” can’t incorporate the characteristics that are important about the web. They don’t today because Apple didn’t build them that way. There’s no reason Apple should; Apple has a different view of the world. But we can. In fact, Mozilla is one of the very few organizations that can do this.”

Mozilla has yet to show what it plans to do and leaves us with its vision for now. Mozilla believes that its opportunity is a user’s desire to run anything he wants on any device he owns. Mozilla believes that a user wants to be in charge of his web experience, not Apple, Google or a device. Mozilla believes that a user would want to be in control of her/his identity and the information that is made available. Of course, Mozilla’s model is also based on Firefox and a web browser, which Apple could care less about at this time.

each of the gadgets cost HP at least £180 just to build, so selling the Touchpad for £89 would never have been considered until the firm decided to abandon it.

others hoping to loosen Apple’s stranglehold on the tablet computing market.

The main Google Android tablets, made by Samsung and Motorola, are pitched at around the same £400-ish price point as the iPad. But, put together with all the other Android tablets, it’s estimated they are outsold by Apple’s devices eight to one.

Amazon, which is rumoured to be preparing to release an Android tablet this autumn. Like Apple with the iPad, it has built and dominated a market for itself with the Kindle, its hugely successful e-reader.

Kindle’s success is its relatively low price of £111

Steve Jobs announced to the world last week that “unfortunately, that day has come” for him to step down as chief executive officer of Apple,

impeccable.

14 years since Jobs regained control of his company in the summer of 1997 after a long, bitter exile

Apple shares have increased a stunning 110-fold

surpassed rival Microsoft a year ago, Apple’s $350 billion in market capitalization places it behind only ExxonMobil

most valuable company in the world.

Apple has made money so quickly and so prodigiously that it holds an outrageous $76 billion in cash and investments

graduate students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison: Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian immigrant

In his second time around at Apple, Jobs ultimately achieved what had eluded him in his early years there, from 1976 to 1985

visionary and a brilliant promoter but wasn’t respected as a businessman

Now Jobs, 56, retires,

awesome sum thought to be parked in an obscure subsidiary,

Jobs didn’t just create products that instilled lust in consumers and enriched his company.

Personal computing. The music business. Publishing. Hollywood. All have been radically transformed because of Steve Jobs.

It’s impossible to begin to understand the sources of Jobs’s success without looking to his unusual life story.

like the fictional Harry Potter, he was a misfit, raised by adoptive parents

Bill Gates as the most highly regarded business figure of our times

doctorate in political science

He was adopted at birth by Paul and Clara Jobs of San Francisco.

his constant risk taking, his rare deal-making ability

icrosoft’s Bill Gates and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.

“dropout”

drop-in”:

leftist artsy intellectualism, even though he knew his parents couldn’t—and wouldn’t—pick up the tab.

That’s how strongly he wanted to be at an elite school and obtain its validation that he was indeed a wizard rather than a muggle. And that’s how good he was at persuasion and dealmaking—and how open to real risk.

fruitarian” diet that left him constantly hungry.

Samsung's

a date for the U.S. release

its hotly anticipated phone,

sold lavishly in foreign markets

r 5 million people worldwide

bought the flagship Android phone

85 days it has been on the market

one sold every 1.5 seconds,

Samsung

"a major product announcement"

an invitation to journalists early Friday

Galaxy S II

Aug. 29.

Galaxy S II by name,

The Galaxy is coming.

"It isn't rocket science to understand that it's the Galaxy S II announcement,"

It isn't an overstatement to say that the Samsung Galaxy S II is the strongest competition the iPhone faces.

sports&nbsp;a 4.3-inch, 800x480 screen, a 1.2-GHz processor, fast 4G network connectivity, and a sleek, simple design evocative of the iPhone. By contrast, the Apple iPhone 4 &nbsp;has a 3.5-inch, 960x640 screen, a 1-GHz processor, and a slower, 3G connection.

Bigger and faster?

Though it hasn’t gone on sale yet in the U.S.

Galaxy S II are copious

obscene.

24 days, the company sold 1 million units

The 2 million units sold in 42 days would fill two and a half soccer fields.

That's a lot of smartphones. But it's more than that: It's a lot of good smartphones,

"If the U.S. versions are anything like the international versions, these are going to be spectacular smartphones," he told FoxNews.com. Segan gave an international version of the phone an Editors' Choice award, calling it the finest Android smartphone available today.

Apple iPhone 5

he elephant in the room

he 3 million Galaxy S II phones sold in just over 50 days are as heavy as 100 elephants)

iPhone 5 is widely expected to be coming out in September, Segan noted.

And getting the right price could make all the difference for Samsung. "They don't want to be more expensive than the iPhone," Segan said.

But that 4G network connection may prove a major difference between the two.&nbsp;

Unless Apple has made some sort of secret breakthrough, [the faster LTE network] might make a Verizon iPhone too thick and power-hungry for Apple's demands this year. Apple may skip it for now and wait for smaller and cooler chipsets," Segan noted.

That faster connection really pays off for anyone surfing a lot of complicated websites or viewing movies over Netflix, he said.&nbsp;

But in the end, pricing, a final feature set and the design is all up to the carriers. "The mainstream price for a smartphone is $199 with contract," Segan noted. "We're all hoping for $199."

The bright red, Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa, which competed in the Le Mans 24-hour race, won first place in the 2006 Concours d'Elegance, where classic cars are judged based on their looks and condition.

The previous record for a car sold at auction was the $12 million sale of another 1957 Testa Rossa in Maranello, Italy in 2009

Bing Webmaster Tools now provides users with traffic data from both Bing and Yahoo

The changes

rolled out between August 12th and 16th

you can’t currently filter for Yahoo versus Bing results

you will see is a combination of the two,

Bing is powering Yahoo’s search results. It’s expected that every regional version of Yahoo will have made the transition by early 2012,

notable exception of Yahoo Japan; Yahoo Japan functions as an independent company and will have its back-end powered by Google.

since Yahoo announced earlier this year that they would be shutting down their own webmaster tools once every market has transitioned to Bing.

doesn’t put them on sale any later than October

T-Mobile’s own 4G incompatibility

single hybrid model

iPhone 5 unless it includes 4G networking. And not the 4G LTE which Verizon and AT&amp;T keep touting…

incompatible version of 4G networking

Sprint won’t have the iPhone until the iPhone 6

iPhone 5 by default as AT&amp;T

different iPhone 4 hardware models

Sprint will instantly become the smallest U.S. carrier as well as the only one not in line for the iPhone.

Motorola Mobility

iPhone 5 era for political or network reasons

Android platform

Android-based flagship phone has been thoroughly outsold by AT&amp;T’s flagship iPhone 4

Droid phone

Android offerings

rival Android platform

Android manufacturers HTC and Samsung are losing their underwear in the courts thanks to prolonged patent wars and may not ultimately be a part of the Android collective once it’s all said and done.

Verizon iPhone 5

Apple controls the OS and the hardware

Verizon iPhone 5

(along with the “old standby” AT&amp;T iPhone 6

Ssangyong has been absent from the UK network for two years

but with new backing and a new model in the Korando crossover (pictured), Ssangyong Motor UK CEO Paul Williams believes the brand offers a great franchise opportunity for a range of dealers.

Newly-appointed Marketing Director Steve Gray, previously with Chrysler Jeep for many years, says that a Ssangyong franchise is a tremendous opportunity.