Motorists are already beginning to embrace the idea of satellite-navigation units in cars.
And in a few years, sat-nav will be doing far more than simply telling drivers how to get to their destination.
This week, the first test satellite in Europe’s 3.4bn-euro (£2.3bn; $4bn) Galileo satellite-navigation system blasted off on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome […]

Jonathan Ive, the man behind Apple’s iconic iPod and iMac, has become a CBE in the New Year Honours list.
He is widely seen as one of the key figures in Apple’s resurrection.
Mr Ive started working for Apple in 1992 but exerted a big influence on its products only in 1997 when Steve Jobs returned […]

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A previously unknown flaw in Microsoft Corp.’s Windows operating system is leaving computer users vulnerable to spyware, viruses and other programs that could overtake their machines and has sent the company scrambling to come up with a fix.Microsoft said in a statement yesterday that it is investigating the vulnerability and plans to issue a software […]

Web users entering the words “miserable failure” into the popular search engine are directed to the biography of the president on the White House website.
The trick is possible because Google searches more than just the contents of web pages - it also counts how often a site is linked to, and with what words.
Thus, members […]

The European Commission has threatened to fine Microsoft up to 2m euros (£1.36m; $2.4m) a day until it gives rivals more access to its systems.
Brussels said the software giant had failed to supply adequate information about its server programs.
Microsoft has five weeks to provide improved documentation before the daily penalties are imposed.
But the company pledged […]

Ford Motor Co. has begun notifying some 70,000 current and former white-collar workers that their sensitive personal and financial data has been stolen. The information, which included the employees’ names, addresses, and Social Security numbers, was contained on a computer that was stolen in November.
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Microsoft has advised Mac users of Internet Explorer (IE) to switch to rival browsers such as Apple’s Safari.
The advice came as the software giant formally announced the end of IE for Apple Macs.
Microsoft initially said it had stopped work on the browser in June 2003.
No more security updates will be provided as from the […]

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