Britons' appetite for social networks is driving internet use on the go, according to the government figures.

not a binding treaty. Instead, it insists that ACTA is merely an "executive agreement." Of course, the only real difference is that an executive agreement doesn't require the Senate to ratify it. Basically, the US is calling it an executive agreement so that the administration can sign on without any oversight or scrutiny on the treaty. The Europeans, in the meantime, never got the "ix-nay on the inding-bay eaty-tray" notice from the US folks, and have been happily declaring ACTA a binding treaty as it clearly is.

this kind of agreement to be signed without Senate approval. Amusingly, Senator Biden -- back during the previous administration -- was one of the leading voices in trying to prevent President Bush from signing an "executive agreement" with Russia, without getting Senate approval. One wonders if he's magically changed his mind.

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It looks as if could have our old pal in Mountain View, her attention fixed on the development of another programming language. Avid programmers probably remember the company 's Go inform offering that was announced last year. Now, Google is looking to his right to the trademark for \ play "spot \." Sorting through the USPTO hocus-pocus, it 's clear that the project focuses on a coding language and the associated computer programs. Also worth mentioning: the Internet powerhouse devoured four major and related fields, including spotlang.com, spotlanguage.net, Spot and Spot lang.com lang.net. For those who See Spot Run , perhaps you'll be able to sprint over to the aforementioned URLs in due time.

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If you 're looking for a multimedia powerhouse - where' multimedia 'doesn' t come with built-in speakers - you should check out this notebook.

As the world stands on the threshold of the month of September the first of the autumn leaves were already starting to fall for many of us. There is a special time of year when Mother makes natural transition from trying to do us with months of unbearable heat, tornadoes and flooding its best to all of us in two seasons worth of hurricanes, a few more tornadoes and bone kill-freezing cold. We can not stop their mindless aggression, it is possible for the house in the morning feeling a little better prepared for the weather, count on us, thanks to The Weather Channel for Chrome to our browser extension dumped the week.

The Weather Channel for Chrome is a neat little extension that you located in your browser navigation bar. Designed to provide at a glance information about current weather conditions for up to nine different areas around the world, The Weather Channel for Chrome makes it easy to track what is going on outside, no matter where you are keeping. By clicking on the extension on the icon, users can get a detailed 36-hour forecast, including information such as UV index, temperature, wind direction and barometric pressure.

Oh, and for all of you masochists out there, the extension also provides access to the Weather Network's television programs to run. Who could ask for more?

Be sure you back with us every Thursday for another edition of Maximum PC, the browser enhancement of the week.

Another officer teardown, another predictable revelation: The new Sony Vaio Z 's guts are thinner, flatter, and, uh, more than its predecessor compressed. But at least this section will be performed by a real Vaio engineer who should know his stuff. In the video after the break, said Shinji Oguchi, like cooling has been improved with a series of tricks, such as cooling of your notebook 's courage through holes in the keyboard. He splits the innovative external media dock that connects via Intel 's Light Peak technology and uses a discrete GPU to the Vaio Z Pep few games. Finally, there 'sa separate, accelerated video by Shinji put everything back together from memory. The poor guy must be sick of it now.

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We prefer our robots stick to the household cleaning, a little DJing action itself, and then right back into the closet. But when we first saw this emoting machines from Korea 's Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, our fears subsided the day of reckoning robot slightly . The robot is built ETRI (ETRO or short) is currently "busy" as an ambassador for human-robot relationships in Daejon 's National Science Museum, the treatment of amused passers open professions of love by the LED-lit facial expressions backed . Presented as a promising Korean robotics industry growth - initially as a reading robots designed in 2003, version 2.0 of this humanoid helpers developed a greater cause in mind. Instead of the confusion of our economic interests whimsy, let 's just let the AI-assisted cuteness in the video below to concentrate.

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Gatehouse Media - a small newspaper chain, which was actually some pretty innovative things done online in the past - become really pretty crazy when it comes to intellectual property in recent times. First, the New York Times sued for linking to that, then it is threatening a forum site for the link to it, with headlines and LEDES (what most people consider fair use). Now it 's go further. Keyop points us to the news that the lawyers for a Gatehouse paper, the Utica Observer shipping threatened a local satirical blogger with claims trademark infringement on the great sin of mentioning the name of the Utica Observer shipping.

We would like to point out that the name, "The Observer Dispatch," that the property is GateHouse Media, protected by trademark rights and rights of the past. The use of such names is a violation of GateHouse 's rights under federal, state and common law. Our proprietary rights to names include the right to restrict the use of the name. It is important that we protect our right to exercise our name. He serves as an important and unique presentation of the origin of our products and the goodwill value of GateHouse Media.

The blogger, Ray Jadwick, definitely makes fun of the Utica Observer Dispatch on its site, but it certainly doesn 't seem to be trademark infringement. Making fun of the paper isn 't confuse probably an idiot in a hurry.

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The gas is 7,000 feet below the surface in the saline Mount Simon Sandstone Formation, which estimates the Department of Energy (DoE) has the capacity, all 250 million tons of CO2 produced per year by the industry in the Illinois Basin instead secrete.

To bring the Obama administration plans to use carbon capture, use and storage technologies within 10 years and wants five to 10 commercial demonstration projects online in 2016.

The DoE said yesterday the selection of 16 projects in 13 states to share $ 41m funding over three years, the target would continue.

Each project is the development of technologies to detect at least 90% of CO2 produced, and to focus the reduction of costs in power plants no more than a 35% increase in the cost of electricity.

"Charting a way to clean coal is essential for achieving our goals, clean energy and creates jobs in America, and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions," U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said in a statement. "It will also help position the United States as a global leader in the clean energy race."

Omnifone is privately owned and not a third party subscriber numbers, but accounts filed at Companies House show its revenues rose 29% to £ 4.3 million between 2009 and 2010. Nevertheless the company made a £ 15m loss, the £ 6.4 million of deferred bills contain. Its workforce has grown from 35 people four years ago to nearly 200 this year.

The company was created in 2003 by its chairman, Rob Lewis, a publishing entrepreneur and founder of successful technology news site Silicon.com. As record companies about a digital music revenue model, that the millions lost to piracy is to replace the cast, have a number of music executives took a strong interest in Omnifone.

Sony Music 's executive vice president of digital business processes among its directors is Michael Paull, and Universal Music Group' s digital business processes chef Rob Wells was a director until earlier this year.

Hughes said. "People who have a service to us, the world will we have the building blocks for other people to the models they want to want to start to build, but it can run on the same platform, so there are economies of scale. "

Omnifone services currently have fewer participants than Spotify, which is probably the largest "music rental" is a global business with an estimated 1.7 million subscribers in Europe and the United States. But there are signs that provide the online subscription model that has not been possible to make a significant contribution to the record corporate profits begin to decline.

The bulk of Spotify's 6 million followers use the service for free, but by placing tighter restrictions on the amount of free music available in May, Spotify added more than 500,000 paying customers in a month. Within months of this summer's US launch, Spotify had an estimated 175,000 subscribers.

If you were distracted by all the excitement this morning, Sony, Nikon also chose today to announce a gaggle of fresh cameras. Most of the new models are incremental updates that will demand in-depth reviews when they're released in September. In the meantime, however, two cameras stand out as warranting a bit of quick hands-on attention. Firstly, there's the Coolpix S1200pj priced at $430, which is the third generation of Nikon's line of projector cameras and appears to house some significant improvements. Next up, we have the $380 AW100, which represents Nikon's first foray into the all-weather niche since the days of celluloid. It's a rugged Rambo of a camera that is waterproof down to ear-stinging depths and is a heck of a lot more expensive than the Fuji FinePix XP30 we just took fishing. So, it was only proper that we harpoon pre-release versions of both these cameras in order to provide you with some initial impressions and videos, which you'll find directly after the break.

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