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China planning a manned space mission in 2013, following a successful launch in 2012 - Talking Technology 2012 - Ep43
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:40:44
Publish Date: 2012-11-15 20:40:25
Description: Leon and Garry discuss issue including: Steven Sinofsky, the Microsoft executive who turned its Windows franchise around and just led the effort to release Windows 8, leaving the company, effective immediately after a clash with CEO Steve Ballmer. His job has been handed over to Julie Larson-Green is a 19-year Microsoft veteran Shares of Apple sliding to a five-month low as investors grew more uncertain about its ability to fend off unprecedented competition and untangle a snarled iPhone 5 supply chain. The Court of Appeal of England and Wales ordering Apple to pay Samsung’s legal fees on an “indemnity basis”, saying that Apple’s initial apology was “false and misleading” by virtue of referring to other cases outside of the UK (which Apple had won) to spin the whole thing in a sort of positive way. Taiwan's leading smartphone maker HTC reaching a global settlement with technology giant Apple, bringing an end to all outstanding litigation between the two companies. The deal includes a 10-year licensing agreement over patents Foxconn, the controversial Taiwanese manufacturer that has become one of the world's largest employers thanks to booming demand for the Apple products it assembles, reportedly planning to open factories in the United States. Executives of Google, Amazon and Starbucks getting grilled by MPs in the UK on the issue of tax avoidance. A judge in Australia ordering Google to pay $200,000 in Australian dollars to a man who accused the company of defaming him with search results that associated him with crime organizations. Nokia unveiling a new mapping and location services brand under the name Here and said it acquired a 3-D mapping company The latest statistics from research firm Strategy Analytics pegging Samsung's Galaxy S3 as the world's most popular smartphone model, holding 10.7 per cent of the global smartphone market in the third quarter. Pope Benedict XVI joining the Twitter-sphere, tweeting from a personal account along with the world's celebrities, leaders and ordinary folk. India has launching a new version of its ultra-low-cost tablet computer with a quicker processor and an improved battery, on sale to students at the subsidised price of $20. The Aakash tablet, dubbed the world's cheapest computer, has been developed as a public-private partnership aimed at making computing technology available to students in a country where Internet usage is only at around 10 per cent. The United Arab Emirates introducing sweeping new regulations that forbid web users from criticizing the government and organizing protests online   Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy burying Labor’s controversial internet filter for good. China planning a manned space mission in 2013, following a successful launch in 2012 NASA planning to deploy a robotic lunar rover on the Moon in 2017 to search for water and other resources necessary for space travel NASA engineers using a 3D laser printing system to produce intricate metal parts such as rocket engine components for its next-generation Space Launch System(SLS). British engineers developing smartphone-based electronic automatic transmission for bikes.
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