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F1 fan receives bionic hand from Mercedes team - Telegraph - 0 views

  • Matthew James, 14, who was born without his left hand, sent a cheeky letter to Ross Brawn, boss of F1 team Mercedes GP Petronas, asking for £35,000 to pay for a top-of-the range artificial limb.
  • But Mercedes where so touched by Matthew's ''intelligent and moving letter'' they agreed to help him and teamed up with firm Touch Bionics, who create and fit hi-tech artificial limbs.
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  • versatile
  • 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.
  • chassis-style
  • congenital
  • prestigious
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What HP's TouchPad fire sale tells iPad rivals - Telegraph - 0 views

  • What HP's TouchPad fire sale tells iPad rivals For a short time this week, the TouchPad was the world’s most wanted gadget. Now with stocks sold out, HP is left to wonder what might have been.
  • Hundreds of thousands of TouchPads have been sold in days, after HP announced it would stop manufacturing its would-be iPad competitor.
  • The sudden desirability of the device was of course due to heavy discounting. Currys and PC World were selling their stocks off for just £89, down from the original RRP of £399.
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  • 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
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Apple adds earthquake warnings to iOS 5 - Telegraph - 0 views

  • According to users with access to beta versions of iOS 5, a new option in the Notification Centre settings will allow users in Japan to choose to receive earthquake alerts.
  • enabling
  • pan has had an online earthquake warning system since 2007. It provides anything up to two minutes warning before an earthquake strikes and that time can be
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  • for getting people to safety.
  • vital
  • Though no release date has been confirmed, it is thought likely that it will be released in September or October.
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Student hacker 'penetrated' Facebook - Telegraph - 0 views

  • A student hacker successfully “penetrated” Facebook during repeated attempts to illegally access the social networking site’s programmes, a court heard.
  • A student hacker successfully
  • Facebook during repeated attempts to illegally access the social networking site’s programmes, a court heard.
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  • penetrated
  • bypass
  • dominant
  • The student, from York, faces five charges, including that he “made, adapted, supplied or offered to supply” a computer program to hack into a Facebook server
  • Police sources described the incidents as one of the first investigations into attempts to illegally access the site
  • offences
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Google says it would pay more tax in UK - Telegraph - 0 views

  • Dr Eric Schmidt said Google would be willing to pay higher taxes.
  • The technology giant has come under heavy fire for using tax laws to avoid paying a more
  • The technology giant has come under heavy fire for using tax laws to avoid paying a more significant level of corporate tax in the past.
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  • tax in the past.
  • significant
  • level of
  • corporate
  • Mr Schmidt told the Edinburgh Television Festival yesterday that Google "loves" Britain and would pay more tax if it were legally required to do so. He said the company's hands were tied by Britain's low tax demands.
  • "It is true we could pay more tax but we would have to do so voluntarily. It's called paying the legally minimum amount of tax required," he said.
  • Mr Schmidt's comments come after months of
  • surrounding the UK's corporate tax system, which has seen campaign group UK
  • controversy
  • Uncut
  • target high street chains including Vodafone, Boots and Barclays.
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Buyers snap up cut-price HP TouchPads - Telegraph - 0 views

  • Buyers snap up cut-price HP TouchPads
  • HP’s discontinued TouchPad has been flying off the shelves in America, as
  • retailers slash
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  • prices.
  • Best Buy, the electronics retailer, cut the price of the TouchPad to $99 in an attempt to clear its stock. Best Buy was last week reported to have more than 200,000 of the tablets. The low price brought queues outside its stores and, according to one staff employee, a “stampede” from customers hoping to land a bargain.
  • HP's decision to discontinue its TouchPad product, Best Buy will now provide clearance pricing for all TouchPad 16GB and 32GB models regardless of previously advertised prices or promotions," Best Buy said. The company said that anyone who had bought a TouchPad after June 19 would be entitled to a refund.
  • Though Amazon.com has not discounted the TouchPad, the device still went to the top of Amazon’s bestselling electronics chart. The HP tablet took the top two places in the chart, ahead of Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader, which is usually a fixture at number one.
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