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Friday, July 24, 2015

Google Glass going to take time, says Fadell

When Google paid $3.2bn (£2.1bn) to buy Tony Fadell's start-up Nest in 2014, it got much more than just an internet-connected thermostat and smoke detector.
It got the man dubbed the "the iPod's father" - the engineer/designer who sold Steve Jobs on his vision of a portable music player, and then worked to build it, update it and then repeat the process with the iPhone.
In January, Google's troubled Glass computer was added to his list of duties.
"It wasn't handed to me and said, 'Tony clean it up,'" Mr Fadell clarifies, "I offered."
"I remember what it was like when we did the iPod and the iPhone. I think this can be that important, but it's going to take time to get it right." More info: BBC NEWS

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Obama-mania in Kenya as US president visits

Barack Obama may not get quite the rapturous welcome he did when he visited Kenya as a senator back in 2006, but his presence in his ancestral home is something of a coup for the Kenyan leadership, and he is expected to be warmly received.
The country has never had a sitting US president visit before, and understandably there's a sense of enormous pride. More info: BBC NEWS

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Tony Blair: Labour must not assume 'electorate is stupid'

Tony Blair has warned Labour against shifting to the left, saying that when they did in the 1980s it suggested they thought "the electorate is stupid".
When Margaret Thatcher was elected, according to Mr Blair, the Labour party thought that meant people wanted a more leftist party and this lead to their successive election failures.
A new poll has Jeremy Corbyn leading the Labour leadership contest, he is the more left-wing of the four candidates. More info: BBC NEWS

Monday, July 20, 2015

Greek debt crisis: Queues for cash as banks reopen

Mass fly-past at Royal International Air Tattoo

Historical aircraft have taken part in a mass fly-past at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford. Up to 100,000 people have flocked to the sold-out event in Gloucestershire over the weekend. The display was the highlight of official commemorations honouring the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. The event, now in its 30th year, featured 250 aircraft including Vulcans, Tornados and the Red Arrows. More info: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gl...

Ukraine crisis: Shelling damages hospital in Donetsk


For the first time in several months, there has been shelling in the centre of the main rebel-held city in eastern Ukraine. Heavy shelling went on for several hours in Donetsk, and a hospital was badly damaged. More info: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-...

Friends and strangers pay tribute to elderly Melbourne man fatally hit by train


An 87-year-old Melbourne man hit and killed by a train has been fondly remembered as a great friend to all he met More info:http://www.9news.com.au/