PSA: Samsung's Galaxy S III is out in the UK today!

If you're European, or you pre-ordered Samsung's Galaxy S III, then you're already registering for that extra Dropbox space, playing with Flipboard or clutching your Olympics tickets. For everyone else, today's the day you can wander down to your local store and buy the flagship handset in the flesh.

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Sony CP-A2LAPKS Wind-Up USB Charger

With power becoming a bigger issue as more and more people accumulate a handful of portable devices wherever they go, having enough power to go around for them has become a very pressing concern. While most of the portable devices have enjoyed vast improvements in terms of longer battery life, still they can eventually go empty. And what if one can't seem to find any power source in order to recharge them. This new Sony CP-A2LAPKS Wind-Up USB Charger aims to, at least address such issues.

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Vodafone Iceland Deploys FTS End-to-End Billing Solution

FTS’ Leap™ Billing supports Vodafone’s mobile, fixed and broadband services Herzliya, Israel | May 30, 2012: FTS, a global provider of billing, customer care and policy control solutions for communications and content service providers, today announced that Vodafone Iceland has implemented the latest version of Leap Billing, FTS’ comprehensive end-to-end billing and customer care solution to enable flexible charging and billing for Vodafone’s entire line of business, including mobile, fixed and broadband services.

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Advanced Train Operators Gather to Discuss New Broadband Services

(Ledbury, 30th May, 2012) Train operators from across Europe, the Middle East and the US will gather in London next month to share their wireless know-how at Train Communications Systems 2012. Hosted by transport and wireless consultancy BWCS, the Conference will examine the issues associated with launching new broadband services to and from trains.“Train operators are beginning to feel the cold breath of competition on the backs of their necks and these new services give them something to fight back with,” argues Graham Wilde, CEO of BWCS.

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Oh, the places you'll go... with this shoulder-mounted telepresence robot (video)

In what's likely to be good news for mothers that just can't seem to cut the cord, a team of Japanese engineers from Yamagata University have crafted a tiny telepresence robot that mounts to your shoulder. Part of this year's IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, the unsettling cyborg companion, dubbed MH-2 for miniature humanoid, is designed to act like a virtual chaperon or comrade, all depending on the person remotely piloting it. Using a combination of flexible joints, the wee avatar can somewhat mimic its users movements, even going so far as to simulate breathing.

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Dell begins test deployment of ARM-based Copper servers

Back in February, Dell revealed its intentions to enter the ARM server field. Today, the company announced that it is shipping ARM-based Copper servers to a limited number of customers. Copper is lower power than x86 servers, and Dell thinks this makes it a good fit for energy-intensive platforms such as Hadoop. In that same vein, the company views Copper as a cost-effective option that can be used for light workloads and for testing performance. In addition to deploying its new servers to select clients, Dell will be looking to the open source community for help in further developing its ARM system (the platform currently runs Linux).

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Supposed new iPhone casings show up with tall body, tiny dock connector, tons of mystery (update: a bit of the front too)

When it rains, it pours - after a tiny drizzle of tall iPod touch leaks, we're suddenly faced with a deluge of photos of what might just be the next iPhone's back plating. If that's what we're looking at through photos supplied by a historically reliable uBreakiFix, talk of bigger iPhone screens might just pan out, as it looks decidedly taller than the iPhone 4S we use today. Apple may likewise be going all old-school iPhone on us, with a modern twist: we could be reverting to an aluminum back with more receptive materials (likely glass) at the ends, just in a much thinner form that keeps the steel antenna band.






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