(Credit: RoboLabs) With yet another autonomous lawnmower rolling out this year, manual mowing looks to be going the way of the antique gershunters coupling hook and iron dibber (warning: photos of old farming tools contained in this link may give you nightmares). The latest entrant to the field of mowers …
First tech casualty of 2009? UIQ has finally thrown in the towel and reportedly applied for bankruptcy in the Swedish courts.…
Old bug, new tricks Mobile phone security vendors were rejoicing last night when it emerged that an obscure bug in an old version of the Symbian OS could allow an attacker to crash a target’s mobile phone with a specially-formatted text message.…
Staff, not patents, this time Research in Motion is suing Motorola for not allowing laid-off employees to seek work with the owner of the Blackberry brand, who is hoping to scoop up some cheap engineers now that Motorola is shedding so many.…
Stick-on lenses If you’re an iPhone owner who’s disappointed with that oh-so-popular device’s oh-so-limited camera, there’s good news from Hong Kong gadgeteer USBfever: stick-on lenses.…
FCC proposes smut for all FCC Chair Kevin Martin has proposed dropping the content-filtering requirement attached to the AWS band, in the hope that someone will build a network if they’re not required to remove all the pornography.…
Yes, it’s a refurb Although the rumors of a $99 iPhone 3G from Walmart recently died an ignominious death , that yearned-for two-digit price point has again resurfaced – and this time it’s real. To make the deal even sweeter, if you buy before December 31 you can knock another fifty bucks off the price.…
German monopoly rules in Christmas rewrite Deutsche Telekom (DT), Germany’s incumbent telco, has agreed to cooperate with at least one rival on next generation broadband investment, following political pressure from Brussels.…
I’m on the front bench…er, no I’m not Government ministers Tom Watson and David Lammy are among MPs who have signed up to a portal of parliamentarians’ Twitter feeds…
Extra £10 per month for better streams Analysis The executive in charge of the BBC iPlayer has suggested that internet users could be charged £10 per month extra on their broadband bill for higher quality streaming.…
