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• Planet Apple: views from around the globe

  01-02-2015 17:00
  
  The company’s size and international reach means it affects the lives of people across the world, from Shenzhen workers to Taylor Swift. Here’s how Continue reading...
  
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• Germany creates laws for driverless cars

  01-02-2015 16:42
  
  Competition from Google has created a strong will in the German government and car industry to get there first Continue reading...
  
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• Germany's Otto says currencies weigh on earnings - Handelsblatt

  01-02-2015 14:33
  
  Germany's Otto [OTTOG.UL], Europe's second-biggest e-commerce company, expects a "painful drop" in earnings for the 2014/15 fiscal year as the weak Russian rouble and euro weigh, its chief executive told the newspaper Handelsblatt. The Otto Group, a mail order firm founded in 1949 which made the shift into e-commerce, will lose money in Russia in the fiscal year ending this month, Hans Otto-Schrader told Handelsblatt in an interview to be published on Monday. Otto-Schrader sa
  
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• Review: Toshiba Satellite Pro R50-B-12U

  01-02-2015 11:00
  
  Introduction and featuresIntroductionToshiba has become one of the biggest names in business laptops thanks to its wide range of effective, no-nonsense office systems, and its latest attempt to nail the ideal corporate portable comes from the Satellite Pro R50-B-12U.This system includes a Core i5 processor inside a slim body for just $832 (about £532, AU$987) – a keen price that brings the R50 into line with some tempting competition. HP's Envy 15 x360 costs $1,015 (about £649, AU$1,175) and
  
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• iPad Pro and MacBook Stealth: are they one and the same device?

  01-02-2015 09:05
  
  Apple as a company has always been about the elegancy and simplicity of its products. In Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs he describes in detail just how intense Jobs' focus on beautiful products was, right down to the circuit board within Apple PCs which would never be seen by the majority of customers.This obsession with beauty and excellence has become a culture in Cupertino, spawning the iPod, iPhone, MacBook range, iMac, Mac Mini, Mac Pro and iPad, and it seems set to continue with
  
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• Fightback against internet giants’ stranglehold on personal data starts here

  01-02-2015 08:00
  
  With the Databox concept, scientists at British universities have begun an attempt to win back control of information about us Continue reading...
  
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• Land Rover Discovery Sport: car review

  01-02-2015 07:00
  
  Land Rover’s all-new seven-seat Discovery Sport is quite a mover and it looks funky, too Continue reading...
  
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