br /What it doesbr /br /Are you looking for an alternative to surfing the web and accessing your best-loved pages in a different fashion? If that is the case, it is quite likely that a visit to this site will provide some food for thought. br brIn general terms, Visual Explorer is a new web browser that is built atop Internet Explorer. In practice, this means that it can only run on machines that have Windows installed, and several versions are currently supported. br brThis new browser comes complete with a set of features that intend to set it apart from the competition. These include an option for saving web pages as images for ulterior reference and a stealth mode whereby the browser is hidden after a period of inactivity. An enhanced download manager is also part of the premises, and it is also possible to access RSS subscriptions using the featured interface. br brThe user interface, incidentally, can be customized with the themes and skins that you see fit. Further customization is provided via the support of Internet Explorer add-ons. br brVersion 1.2 of Visual Explorer has just been released, and it can be procured free of charge at the site. Moreover, the website includes a comprehensive user guide that is augmented by a support forum where both other users and the technical team convene together and interact. br /br /In their own wordsbr /br /“Visual Explorer is an Internet browser designed to provide web users with everything they need for fast, smart and secure browsing in a single unified solution.”br /br /Why it might be a killerbr /br /There is always a ready demand for products that enhance the browsing experience in itself.br /br /Some questionsbr /br /What gives it an edge over other available offerings on the market today?br /br /Link: a href='http://www.visual-explorer.com'http://www.visual-explorer.com/abr /Our Review: a href='http://www.killerstartups.com/Comm/visual-explorer-com-a-new-web-browser-arrives'http://www.killerstartups.com/Comm/visual-explorer-com-a-new-web-browser-arrives/abr /br / nbsp;div class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=41HOJrFT"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=It3BAFyL"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=5JuD8HYW"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?i=5JuD8HYW" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=mHoKF8x6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?i=mHoKF8x6" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=O1epT1tH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=yGT9SCxd"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?i=yGT9SCxd" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/killerstartups/BkQV/~4/ZhAKEN3dV0Y" height="1" width="1"/

Overall Australian album sales in the lead-up to Christmas are well up on the corresponding period last year, according to figures published Thursday (Dec. 4) by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA).

AMD ditched its fabs to stay alive, but apparently that isn’t doing the trick. Today the chipmaker announced that its revenues from continuing operations for the fourth quarter ending Dec. 27, 2008 will be approximately 25 percent lower than third-quarter revenue of $1.585 billion. The company blamed weak demand across all markets. Indeed, PCs didn’t even rank among the top 10 purchases during the post-Thanksgiving Day shopping period in the U.S., despite big discounts. I think the entire PC ecosystem is feeling the strain of the weak economy; the hot items this season so far are lower-priced netbooks. Too bad AMD thought they were a joke. Now the joke’s on them! (Just kidding guys!)

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Any Google App could be unavailable for more than 21 hours on a given day, and the company could still claim they had 100% uptime. That’s the gist of an analysis penned by Pingdom, who took a closer look at the Service Level Agreement for Google Apps.

The most interesting tidbit in the SLA, which applies for Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar and more (emphasis ours):

“Downtime Period” means, for a domain, a period of ten consecutive minutes of Downtime. Intermittent Downtime for a period of less than ten minutes will not be counted towards any Downtime Periods.

…

“Monthly Uptime Percentage” means total number of minutes in a calendar month minus the number of minutes of Downtime suffered from all Downtime Periods in a calendar month, divided by the total number of minutes in a calendar month.

True enough, this exempts Google from admitting it had up to 21 hours of downtime in one day (worst-case of course, see Pingdom’s calculation for more information about that as well a more likely scenario), because it ignores all unavailability under 10 minutes, which by today’s standards is a very long period even for free services.

Google’s Apps SLA may guarantee 99,9% uptime, but this little loophole makes it darn easy for the company to honor that.

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Leave it to the folks behind the Grammys (that would be The Recording Academy) to put things right when it comes to movie music. Sure, they have a bazillion categories, but, unlike the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Oscars), they know a good musical score when they hear it and don't allow outrageous reasons to disqualify it.

Specifically, we're talking about The Dark Knight, whose composers James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer were disqualified for consideration because they listed too many people on the cue sheet, and There Will Be Blood, whose composer Jonny Greenwood was DQed because the Academy thought his score was "diluted by the use of tracked themes or other pre-existing music." Both scores were nominated for a Grammy last night, in the category "Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media." (Bear in mind that their eligibility period is different from the Oscars, which is why they're just now getting around to Blood.) Yay to the Grammy people for getting it right!

The other nominees for best score were John Williams for Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, Ramin Djawada for Iron Man, and Thomas Newman for WALL-E. More cool Grammy movie nominees include the title song from Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox Story (Judd Apatow, Marshall Crenshaw, Jake Kasdan, and John C. Reilly), plus American Gangster and Juno for "Best Compilation Soundtrack Album," alongside August Rush, Mamma Mia!, and Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

You can check out the complete list at the official Grammy site. Do you agree that they got it right, at least as far as the movie nominees are concerned? The awards show airs on February 8, 2009.

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width: 162.65pt; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt none solid solid -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext;" width="217" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"November 1 - December 1/span/p /td td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.75in; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium none solid solid none -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color;" width="72" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"$12,217/span/p /td td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.75in; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium none solid solid none -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color;" width="72" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"$12,025/span/p /td td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.75in; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium none solid solid none -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color;" width="72" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"-2%/span/p /td /tr tr style="height: 11.4pt;" td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 162.65pt; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt none solid solid -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext;" width="217" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"Pre-Thanksgiving/span/p /td td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.75in; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium none solid solid none -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color;" width="72" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"$10,035/span/p /td td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.75in; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium none solid solid none -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color;" width="72" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"$9,588/span/p /td td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.75in; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium none solid solid none -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color;" width="72" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"-4%/span/p /td /tr tr style="height: 11.4pt;" td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 162.65pt; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt none solid solid -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext;" width="217" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"Thanksgiving and Later/span/p /td td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.75in; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium none solid solid none -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color;" width="72" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"$2,182/span/p /td td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.75in; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium none solid solid none -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color;" width="72" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"$2,437/span/p /td td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.75in; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium none solid solid none -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color;" width="72" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"12%/span/p /td /tr tr style="height: 11.4pt;" td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 162.65pt; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt none solid solid -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext;" width="217" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"November 27 (Thanksgiving Day)/span/p /td td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.75in; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium none solid solid none -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color;" width="72" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"$272/span/p /td td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.75in; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium none solid solid none -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color;" width="72" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"$288/span/p /td td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.75in; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium none solid solid none -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color;" width="72" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"6%/span/p /td /tr tr style="height: 11.4pt;" td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 162.65pt; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt none solid solid -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext;" width="217" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"November 28 ('Black Friday')/span/p /td td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.75in; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium none solid solid none -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color;" width="72" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"$531/span/p /td td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.75in; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium none solid solid none -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color;" width="72" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"$534/span/p /td td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.75in; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium none solid solid none -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color;" width="72" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"1%/span/p /td /tr tr style="height: 11.4pt;" td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 162.65pt; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt none solid solid -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext;" width="217" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"November 29-30 (Weekend)/span/p /td td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.75in; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium none solid solid none -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color;" width="72" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"$645/span/p /td td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.75in; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium none solid solid none -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color;" width="72" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"$769/span/p /td td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.75in; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium none solid solid none -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color;" width="72" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"19%/span/p /td /tr tr style="height: 11.4pt;" td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 162.65pt; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt none solid solid -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext;" width="217" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"December 1 ('Cyber Monday')/span/p /td td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.75in; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium none solid solid none -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color;" width="72" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"$733/span/p /td td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.75in; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium none solid solid none -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color;" width="72" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"$846/span/p /td td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.75in; height: 11.4pt; border: medium 0.5pt 0.5pt medium none solid solid none -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color;" width="72" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"15%/span/p /td /tr /tbody /table p class="MsoNormal"emspan style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"*Corresponding days based on equivalent shopping days relative to Thanksgiving (October 27 - November26, 2007)/span/em/p p class="MsoNormal"strongspan style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"Consumers Seeing Less Foot Traffic in Retail Stores/span/strong/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"The most recent comScore holiday retail survey, conducted from November 28-December 1, revealed that some additional insights into consumers view of the 2008 holiday shopping season./span/p p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"Some of the key survey findings include:/span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Symbol;" span style="font-family: Times New Roman ; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" /span/spanspan style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"More than half (51 percent) of consumers indicated that the level of promotions and discounts is higher this year than last year, while only 12 percent said that there appeared to be fewer, suggesting that retailers are having to be more aggressive in discounting to spur consumer spending./span/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Symbol;" span style="font-family: Times New Roman ; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" /span/spanspan style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"39 percent of consumers said that there seemed to be fewer people out shopping in retail stores this year than last year, while only 7 percent thought there were more. /span/p p class="MsoNormal"strongspan style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;" /span/strong/p p class="MsoNormal"strongspan style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"Weekly Online Holiday Retail Sales/span/strong/p pimg src="http://www.comscore.com/images/pr1203chart.gif" border="0" width="550" height="354" //p p class="MsoNormal"strongspan style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"br //span/strong/p p class="MsoNormal"strongspan style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;" /span/strong/p p class="MsoNormal"strongspan style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"comScore 2008 Holiday Online Retail Spending Forecastbr /br //span/strong/p table style="width: 322.8pt; margin-left: 4.75pt; border-collapse: collapse;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="430" tbody tr style="height: 12pt;" td style="border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 322.8pt; height: 12pt;" colspan="4" width="430" valign="bottom" p class="MsoNormal"strongspan style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"Online Non-Travel (Retail) Holiday Consumer Spending/span/strong/p p class="MsoNormal"strongspan style="font-size: 8pt; 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Category: Lifestyle
Released: Nov 29, 2008
Price: $1.99

Description:
We know length of 24 hours as a sense because we live on the earth. Then, if we live on planets other than the earth? On the Mercury, morning will come in about 15 days, night will come in about 44 days, a day will end in about 59 days. On the Venus, morning will come in about 61 days, night will come in about 182 days, a day will end in about 243 days. On the Moon, morning will come in about 7 days, night will come in about 20 days, a day will end in about 27 days. On the Mars, morning will come in about 6.15 hours, night will come in about 18.45 hours, a day will end in about 24.6 hours. On the Jupiter, morning will come in about 2.5 hours, night will come in about 7.5 hours, a day will end in about 10 hours. On the Saturn, morning will come in about 2.6 hours, night will come in about 7.9 hours, a day will end in about 10.5 hours. On the Uranus, morning will come in about 4.3 hours, night will come in about 12.9 hours, a day will end in about 17.2 hours. On the Neptune, morning will come in about 4 hours, night will come in about 12 hours, a day will end in about 16 hours. On the Pluto, morning will come in about 1.6 days, night will come in about 4.8 days, a day will end in about 6.4 days. If the planet changes, length of a day changes, and it could indicate that time of each planet passes at each time. This application simulates time corresponding to the rotation period of each planet. Will you feel time different from usually?

Website: http://null-null.net/iphone-dev/
Support Website: http://null-null.net/iphone-dev/

Note: The description above is the official one supplied by the application developer and does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of this site or its staff.


Get it on iTunes: PlanetClock

We mentioned the availability of early versions of this a few weeks ago, but Handy Safe Professional Edition has now been formally released for all S60 3rd Edition phones, with a slicker desktop companion application. Features, changelog and links below the break.
The AAS team have sworn by Handy Safe for years because of its two-way sync from phone to desktop, so this is a new release that you should definitely try.
From the press release:
"Handy Safe Pro – a new Professional edition of the best selling Handy Safe application that guarantees secure storage and convenient private data control as well as two-way synchronization with PC on S60 smartphones - uses password protection and a strong 448-bit data encryption (Blowfish) that keeps your data private and secure."
"Handy Safe Pro special features:

• Store passwords, user names, credit card information, codes, accounts (private and corporate email, Internet, shopping, bank),
• software keys, web pages, addresses and contact information, travel info, insurance policies, and much more
• 35 unique information forms to store everything on your smartphone
• Custom templates to store specific information according to your needs
• Strong 448-bit data encryption (Blowfish) keeps your data private and secure.
• URLs are treated as hyperlinks
• Subfolders support
• Possibility to restore items in case of accidental deleting
• Autolock option when Handy Safe is in background or if you don’t use Handy Safe for a certain period of time

"Handy Safe Desktop Professional, the PC companion includes:

• Easy access to your smartphone information on PC
• Specially designed synchronization mechanism
• User defined database location
• Better usability: improved toolbar, database wizard, search results, hide password function and more
• Professional design and outlook"

Here's Handy Safe Pro in the AAS shop. Additional info and download links here on Epocware's dedicated page.



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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/95153?ns=guardianpageName=Environment%3A+G-Wiz+sales+slump+by+more+than+halfch=Environmentc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Travel+and+transport+environmental+impact%2CEnvironment%2CUK+news%2CBusiness%2CGreen+business+%28Business%29%2CCarbon+emissions+%28Environment%29c5=Business+Markets%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CEthical+Livingc6=Alok+Jhac7=2008_12_04c8=1128246c9=articlec10=GUc11=Environmentc12=Travel+and+transportc13=c14=h2=GU%2FEnvironment%2FTravel+and+transport" width="1" height="1" //divpJonathan Ross, Kristin Scott-Thomas and Jade Jagger all proudly own one. Even the Lloyds TSB chairman Victor Blank was snapped stepping out of one on his way to a meeting to discuss the takeover of HBOS. They may look like Noddy cars, but for the green-conscious urban motorist, the G-Wiz was the guilt-free answer to getting around town./ppBut all that star power hasn't insulated them from a drastic slump in sales: according to figures collated by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, a total of just 156 electric cars were sold in the UK from January to October 2008, compared with 374 for the same period last year. The vast majority of the sales (and the 58% slump) are G-Wiz cars, made by Indian car company Reva./ppExperts think the fall comes from a combination of factors, including the recent financial gloom, concerns about the safety of Reva's vehicle and the distant promise of electric cars from mainstream manufacturers./pp"The whole motor industry has seen a slump in sales like they've never seen before in the last 20 years," said Steve Hartridge, managing director of Goingreen, which distributes the G-Wiz in the UK. "That has to be borne in mind so I'm not going to make any grand plans for next year."/ppRichard Bremner, editor of cleangreencars.co.uk, who unearthed the electric car sales figures, said: "People have maybe woken up to the fact that the electric vehicles that have been offered to date, they're not hugely appealing other than for their green credentials and they're only suitable for short journeys around town."/ppHe added that the rising profile of proposed all-electric cars from Smart, Nissan and, more recently, an a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/03/bmw-electric-mini-e-launch"electric version of BMW's Mini/a, meant that potential customers may be delaying their purchases. /ppThere are more than 1,100 all-electric cars already on UK roads, with the majority in London. The sales slump comes as the only other player in London's electric car market, the Nice Car Company, went into administration. /ppSet up two years ago, the company had been selling an all-electric version of the French-made Aixam Mega. Nice had planned to bring out more models, including a two-seater and an MPV by the end of the year but, according to Bremner, sales had dropped lately to less than a single car per week./ppBremner added that consumers could also have been put off the G-Wiz after it failed a crash test last year. Because the vehicle is considered a quadricycle rather than a car, it does not need to pass the stringent crash tests of the other cars on the road./pp"Last year, they had some unfortunate publicity around the crash performance of that vehicle because Top Gear crash-tested one in the same way that you would a conventional car and it was found wanting," said Bremner./ppHartridge said the furore had no doubt had an impact on sales. "But we're through that period now. All the cars we sell now are crash-tested at 25mph."/ppVicky Wyatt, Greenpeace transport campaigner said the sales car sales slump was worrying. "Electric cars have a key role to play in tackling climate change as well as reducing our dependence on foreign oil supplies. /pp"Sales should be going through the roof, and the fact that they are declining points to a failure on the part of government and manufacturers to make them more attractive to motorists in the UK." /ppShe said the government should introduce lower road tax and excise duty, free parking, closed-loop battery recycling and urban plug in points./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/travelandtransport"Travel and transport/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/greenbusiness"Green business/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/carbonemissions"Carbon emissions/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/BqstmJanWApB47d9Jt6c5vy2aCk/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/BqstmJanWApB47d9Jt6c5vy2aCk/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/42418?ns=guardianpageName=Money%3A+House+prices+suffer+largest+fall+for+16+yearsch=Moneyc3=guardian.co.ukc4=House+prices+%28Money%29%2CProperty%2CMoney%2CHousing+market+%28Business%29%2CBusiness%2CUK+newsc5=Personal+Finance%2CCredit+Crunch%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CBusiness+Markets%2CProperty+Mortgages+and+Interest+Ratesc6=Hilary+Osbornec7=2008_12_04c8=1128513c9=articlec10=GUc11=Moneyc12=House+pricesc13=c14=h2=GU%2FMoney%2FHouse+prices" width="1" height="1" //divpa href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/houseprices"House prices/a slumped by 2.6% in November, despite aggressive interest rate cuts at the start of the month that reduced the cost of borrowing, figures showed today./ppThe UK's largest lender, Halifax, said a combination of high house prices in relation to earnings, constraints on household incomes and the decline in a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/mortgages"mortgage/a availability had resulted in the largest monthly fall in 16 years./ppHalifax's monthly snapshot of the housing market showed the average cost of a home fell by more than £4,300 in November, equal to £144 a day throughout the month. The price now stands at £163,605 having fallen by 16.2% from last November's figure of £195,092./ppThe lender's own annual change figure, which compares the past three months with the same period last year, shows prices are down 14.9% year-on-year./ppBoth figures are the highest ever recorded by Halifax, while the monthly decline is the biggest since prices started to fall in autumn last year and the largest since September 1992./ppThe November fall is bigger than that recorded in October, when a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/nov/06/house-prices-property"prices dropped by 2.4%/a and has been driven by a continued lack of demand for homes. /ppFigures from the Bank of England showed the number of mortgages approved for homebuyers in October a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/dec/01/mortgage-approvals-property"fell to just 32,000/a, and is continuing to put downward pressure on prices./ppHalfax's chief economist, Martin Ellis, said the fall in prices had made homes more affordable to buyers than at any point in the past five years, with the average price now just 4.65 times average earnings, compared with a peak of 5.84 in July last year./ppHe said: "There are also signs that the pressures on incomes may be beginning to ease. Retail price inflation has started to decline and is likely to fall significantly over the coming months, helped by lower energy prices and weaker food price rises."/ppHowever, buyers are still struggling to raise mortgage funding from lenders wary of taking on too much risk. Many have restricted loans to a maximum of 75% of a property's value, and a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/firsttimebuyers"first-time buyers/a are finding that if they are offered a loan it is often very expensive./ppHoward Archer, chief UK economist at IHS Global Insight, said that while a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/banks"banks and building societies/a remained reluctant to lend, prices would continue to fall./ppHe said Halifax's figures were "a real shocker" and in marked contrast to last week's figures from Nationwide, which showed just a a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/nov/27/house-prices-property"0.4% fall in November/a, and that they added "extra late pressure on the Bank of England to deliver a a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/dec/04/interest-rates-bank-of-england"very large interest rate cut/a today"./ppArcher said that housing market fundamentals remained largely unfavorable, and that tight credit conditions, stretched housing affordability on a number of measures, faster rising unemployment and muted income growth were weighing down on the housing market./ppDespite the severity of recent price falls, Halifax's index showed the cost of a home is only back to levels seen in July 2005 and is still 124% higher than in November 1998. At that point the average cost of a home in the UK was £73,129./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/houseprices"House prices/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/property"Property/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/housingmarket"Housing market/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/s292GjIHnWzSbk3WALjMQ32TKLQ/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/s292GjIHnWzSbk3WALjMQ32TKLQ/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

Nintendo DS game 'Professor Layton and the Last Time Travel' has topped the Japanese software sales chart for the period 11/24 - 11/30 shifting 347,360 units. PSP games also had a good week taking five of the top ten spots.

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The tough economy doesn’t seem to be slowing iPod sales, Kaufman Brothers analyst Shaw Wu said in a note to clients. He expects Apple to sell 21 million iPods in the quarter, up 90 percent from the previous three months, but down about five percent from the year-ago period.

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/atompunk.jpg" width="494" height="493" / Are you obsessed with Sputnik, the Space Race, Googie architecture and radioactive powers for superheroes? Look out, it seems like your fetish is about to get a name: "Atompunk." /p pAccording to a mailing list from the Netherlands, Atompunk is devoted to the cultural period (mostly of the United States) of between 1945 to 1965. While the moniker hasn't become a part of our country's vernacular yet (though I'm sure some of you already started using it iages/i ago), it sounds just annoyingly catchy enough to warrant a New York Times trend piece in about eight years. And the Dutch aren't helping, devoting a festival to it in Amsterdam for September 2009./p pFirst I had to shake off being labeled isteampunk/i because of my love for Jules Verne novels and Victorian-era science... iNOW/i I have to go around convincing people I'm not another type of punk just because I'd totally live in Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion home? Great, Dutch people. Thanks a lot. [a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/03/atompunk-fetishizing.html"Boing boing/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=91b1307b1fb71c0428065d30e4a1818cp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=91b1307b1fb71c0428065d30e4a1818cp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=91b1307b1fb71c0428065d30e4a1818c" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=5rTds1Pu"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=hZ0XZB1Y"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=j5nPnUzv"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=j5nPnUzv" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=7C3ixHEG"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=7C3ixHEG" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/002oo3-dKhA" height="1" width="1"/

Atompunk: a new Dutch movement dedicated to the appreciation of atomic-age aesthetics. They're having an exhibition in Amsterdam next September: About Atompunk the cultural period 1945-1965, Atompunk is a strictly pre-digital period, but it includes mid-century Modernism, the "Atomic Age," the "Space Age," and, especially, lots of Communism and communism paranoia in the USA. Communist analog atompunk is an ultimate lost world. Sovjet styling, underground cinema, Googie architectuur, Space and Sputnik, moonlanding, superhero-comi, art radioactivity, the rise of the US military/industrial complex the fall-out of Tsjernobyl Here Comes "Atompunk." And It's Dutch. So there...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3613e273de1da225646495a20a8c27e6p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3613e273de1da225646495a20a8c27e6p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=3613e273de1da225646495a20a8c27e6" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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