The new browser extension helps identify OpenID participants and manage them across the Web. Good timing, considering Facebook Connect is about to make its big debut.

The new browser extension helps identify OpenID participants and manage them across the Web. Good timing, considering Facebook Connect is about to make its big debut.

Why Ethiopia is pulling its troops out of Somalia

h4Worth a ponder if imaging performance is a priority/h4 pstrongReview/strong Samsung is getting serious with its cameraphones. Having recently landed its first eight-megapixel phone in the UK, the a href="http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/10/25/review_mobile_phone_samsung_i8510/"i8510/a, it's now doubled its tally with the Pixon M8800, its debut 8Mp touchscreen phone..../p

Canada's opposition parties join forces to try to topple PM Stephen Harper and his minority Conservative government.

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One of Twitterrsquo;s main competitors, Pownce, started off with a lot of hype but inexorably lost out to Twitterrsquo;s charms. Now, itrsquo;s new owner Six Apart, will shut the service down, promising...

A l’occasion d’ICT 2008, la conférence européenne sur les technologies de l’information et de la communication qui s’est tenu à Lyon du 25 au 27 novembre 2008, retour sur quelques présentations glanées dans les allées du salon.

ElderGames est un projet de recherche européen qui vise à développer des jeux pour les personnes âgées.

Le matériel se présente sous la forme d’une table de jeu pour quatre personnes équipée d’une table-écran et de caméras pour suivre les actions des joueurs. Les jeux proposés sont des jeux de cartes et des jeux de mémoire qui, comme tout bons jeux, ont avant tout pour but de divertir et socialiser les participants. Mais ils ont également un autre objectif : aider à la détection précoce de la détérioration des capacités cognitives des joueurs.

Ces jeux se veulent aussi thérapeutiques, puisqu’ils sont sensés aider les plus âgés à faire travailler leur mémoire à court terme ou leur attention. Le jeu surveille les résultats des joueurs, session après session, et est capable de lancer une alerte dès que les résultats se dégradent. Plus intéressant, le niveau de difficulté des jeux s’adapte à chaque participant pour mieux équilibrer les parties. La table permet donc de faire jouer des personnes aux capacités cognitives différentes et de mieux se mêler à l’hétérogénéité des publics des maisons de retraite par exemple.

La table devrait être commercialisée prochainement et pourrait bientôt équiper des lieux de socialisation pour personnes âgées.

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When Pioneer first introduced its unicorn-like 16-layer 400GB Blu-ray Disc, we weren't sure if the thing would make it beyond the drawing board, let alone be compatible with existing BD decks. Over at the IT Month Fair in Taipei, Pioneer showed up to showcase the capacious disc, and better still, a DigiTimes report asserts that these are indeed compatible with Blu-ray readers already on the market. Currently, the 400GB disc is slated to hit mass production sometime between now and 2010, while rewritable versions won't hit until 2010 to 2012. Not like it really matters though -- a 1TB disc is on track for 2013, and you know you'll be waiting for the latest and greatest.

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France's former world champion athlete Eunice Barber is fined for resisting arrest and biting a policeman.

An ex-hospital worker pleads guilty to selling medical files of stars including Britney Spears and Farrah Fawcett to a newspaper.

Nokia today used its own Nokia World expo to establish a touchscreen phone as its new leading device and its best chance against the iPhone. The N97 has a full 3.5-inch touch LCD that shares the same Symbian S60 5th Edition platform as the 5800 XpressMusic but also hides a slide-out QWERTY keyboard that locks into a more natural typing angle like the ATT Tilt. Accordingly, the phone is pitched ...

h4No place like home hub/h4 pNokia wants applications for its smart home box, but it's also sniffing around for companies interested in selling the Linux-based home-automation gateway with their own branding..../p

Pakistan and India have battled and bickered for 60 years and now their next six decades could be shaped by how they handle the Mumbai attacks.div class="feedflare" a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?a=DLaeRyEb"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?a=omFvW5HZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?a=T7vBXJtg"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?i=T7vBXJtg" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?a=fAcmj9k3"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?a=DGJ8aAKX"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?i=DGJ8aAKX" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/rss/cnn_world/~4/Mpre0FEJ6t0" height="1" width="1"/

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/29042?ns=guardianpageName=Technology%3A+Hacker+in+final+showdown+to+avoid+extradition+to+USch=Technologyc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Technology%2CHacking+%28Technology%29%2CLaw+and+technology%2CComputer+security%2CUS+news%2CUK+newsc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CCorporate+IT%2CConsumer+Electronicsc6=Bobbie+Johnsonc7=2008_12_02c8=1127395c9=articlec10=GUc11=Technologyc12=Hackingc13=c14=h2=GU%2FTechnology%2FHacking" width="1" height="1" //divpThe British man accused of hacking into US military computers will have his final showdown in the UK courts next month./ppAfter almost four years of fighting extradition to the US as a result of what prosecutors have called "the biggest military computer hack of all time", Londoner Gary McKinnon will face a judicial review conducted by the high court on January 20./ppMcKinnon – who used the online name Solo – is accused of hacking into computers belonging to the Pentagon, Nasa and US armed forces in raids conducted between 2001 and 2002./ppProsecutors say he shut down thousands of machines and caused up to $700,000 worth of damage, while the 42-year-old claims he was searching for evidence of UFOs./ppOver the course of the case, defence lawyers argued that McKinnon will face unduly harsh punishment for his actions and should instead face trial in the UK, since the alleged hacking attacks were conducted from a house in north London./ppBy the time the decision is made, it will be almost seven years since McKinnon ended his activities. During that time a succession of arguments have been made against his removal – including that he faces up to 60 years in prison or detention at Guantánamo Bay, and that he should receive leniency because he suffers from Aspberger's syndrome./ppSuch protestations have so far proved unsuccessful, however, with a string of decisions against him, including rulings by the law lords and the home secretary. McKinnon's last chance to avoid removal to the US will come in next month's judicial review./ppProsecutors acting for the government argued that McKinnon's review should take place today but his lawyers succeeded in pushing it back until the new year./ppThe news brought cheer to some campaigners who see the date as an auspicious sign. Coinciding with the inauguration of Barack Obama as president, supporters at the Free Gary website suggested the date could be the equivalent of "waving a couple of fingers" at the Bush administration./ppIn recent months campaigners – including a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/nov/03/gary-kinnon-hacker-aspergers-extradition"former home secretary David Blunkett/a have argued that McKinnon should be tried in the UK because of his medical condition. /ppHis supporters are hopeful that they can sway the final judgment, particularly after Gordon Brown spoke about the case publicly for the first time last week and hinted that McKinnon may not end up in a US jail./ppDuring prime minister's questions last week, Brown was asked about McKinnon's situation and said that existing conventions would enable him to serve any prison sentence in Britain, rather than in the US./pp"The UK and the US are signatories to the Council of Europe convention on the transfer of sentenced persons, which enables a person found guilty in the United States of America to serve their sentence in the UK," he told MPs./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/hacking"Hacking/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/law"Law and technology/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/security"Computer security/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usa"United States/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Hf_g_y-z4kF8AEzJrzRnlm7p92M/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Hf_g_y-z4kF8AEzJrzRnlm7p92M/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

h4But having a strikemeatshield/strike passenger reduces the risk/h4 pAnother study coming out of the University of Utah Applied Cognition Lab has concluded that driving while talking on the phone is a really bad idea, even if using hand-free kit..../p

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Figures from Enterbrain show the latest iteration on the handheld match performance of DS Lite

psmallEgan Orion a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/"the Inquirer/a, Tuesday 2 December 2008. 12:07:00/small/ppi Be careful out there /i/ppJUST IN TIME for holiday shopping, the FBI reminded the US population to beware of the various types of online frauds that tend to ramp up around this time of year. It warned wibblers against spam emails that might contain malware or attempt to lure them into phishing traps..../pimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.theinquirer.net/c/554/f/7127/s/27b6764/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=FBI reminds shoppers of holiday scamslink=http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/12/02/fbi-reminds-shoppers-holiday" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=FBI reminds shoppers of holiday scamslink=http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/12/02/fbi-reminds-shoppers-holiday" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24193229038/u/89/f/7127/c/554/s/41641828/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24193229038/u/89/f/7127/c/554/s/41641828/a2.img" border="0"//a

If you're like us, you haven't seen nearly enough of the N97 yet... right? Well fear not, faithful reader, as our intrepid comrade from Engadget Spanish, Drita, has nabbed a tasty hands-on with the phone in question. As you can tell from the pics, it's not quite as thin as its nearest competitors, but fairly sleek and stylish all the same (metal bezel and all), and that QWERTY keyboard looks practically edible. We're salivating at the thought of getting one to thoroughly put through its paces, but until then, let's all just sit back and soak in the handsome gallery below.

Gallery: Nokia N97 hands-on

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When I profiled the Metropolitan Life Tower (and an unusual postscript) a couple of months ago, I mentioned that Daniel Libeskind was working on an addition to the building that would dwarf the iconic clock tower. New York magazine has a rendering of what the building might look like, taken from the architect's new book.

Initial designs show a glass-curtained tube with cutaways spiraling up and around the facade to reveal segments of terraced verdure, like cultivated patches on the side of a steep alpine slope. "We didn't just fill up the tower," the architect says. "We've taken space away [from the apartments] to create the gardens," which are actually balconies tucked within the envelope. "It's as if nature has come back into the city," he says.

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Emotiv's "mind-reading" controller is a press darling, mainly because it's really cool. Apparently, though, Emotiv won't have the headset ready to go for the planned December release, because it...

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/emotiv.jpg" width="550" height="358" /Emotiv's a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/project-epoc-lets-you-control-video-games-with-your-noggin-240760.php""mind-reading" controller/a is a press darling, mainly because it's emreally/em cool. Apparently, though, Emotiv won't have the headset ready to go for the planned December release, because it doesn't, strictly speaking, well, emwork/em./p pBased on electroencephalography technology (or EEG to the interested layman), a properly functioning Epoc isn't out of the realm of possibility. But after a series of failed press appearances, starting just after the announcement and culminating in an glitchy gaming failure which I witnessed firsthand at the a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/idf"Intel Developer Forum/a, the product just doesn't look like it's ready. /p pBigDownload spoke to a PR rep for the company, who said that the product is being held back until it "work[s] as planned", which translates to a release "sometime in 2009". Stuff like this is fascinatingmdash;I mean, who can honestly say they don't want to control a game with their brainwaves?mdash;but little startups like this can only hold on for so long without bringing a product to market. The price, as far as we know, is still set at $299. [a href="http://news.bigdownload.com/2008/12/01/emotiv-epoc-brain-wave-pc-controller-delayed-until-2009/"BigDownload/aemmdash;Thanks, John/em]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=905c391ba266b257bb38f848602e7292p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=905c391ba266b257bb38f848602e7292p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=9