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iPhone apps: Top gear for motorists

Shopping August 22nd, 2010

Need to find a petrol station quickly? Or forgotten where you left the car? Don’t worry – in that place’s an iPhone app to save the day
iPhone apps contain the eco-friendly Greenmeter and Take Me To My Car as antidote to retrieving your vehicle if forgotten where you’ve parked it
Vlingo (free)
(Also on Android, Windows Mobile, [...]

Ten of the greatest: British car designers

Shopping August 22nd, 2010

From Malcom Sayer’s second classic E-Type Jaguar to Peter Stevens’ McLaren F1 road car, DALE HARROW chooses Britain’s vertex ten motoring designers
1. JP BLATCHLEY
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Goya fruit pulp linked to typhoid outbreak

Shopping August 21st, 2010

Canadians are being warned to have nothing to do with Goya frozen mamey pulp because it has been linked in the U.S. to a typhoid-causing form of salmonella.
Goya frozen mamey pulp has been sold in Quebec and may be on store shelves in other parts of the country. (Centers in quest of Disease Control)
The Centers [...]

Walk, cycle to fight obesity: study

Shopping August 21st, 2010

People who walk or round of years for transport tend to be slimmer than those who rely forward a car to get around, according to a new study of 15 countries.
The study looked at the consanguinity between “active travel” — bicycling or walking instead of driving — and pertaining to physics activity, obesity and Type [...]

Online gambling a risk for provinces: experts

Shopping August 20th, 2010

A player for stakes plays online poker in his apartment in Chicopee, Mass., in 2007. Experts warn Canada’s provinces to fortify for hackers and cheats when they offer online gaming services. (Stephan Savoia/Associated Press)
Online gaming experts are warning provinces to brace themselves for hackers, cheats and flagitious gangs that target gaming sites.
The warning comes after [...]

Genetically modified corn planted in protest

Shopping August 20th, 2010

An Italian husbandman is pushing the government to allow genetically modified crops in the unrefined by planting genetically modified corn in two fields.
Giorgio Fidenato inspects well digested corn genetically altered to resist pests that just a day in the presence of had been trampled by 70 activists near Pordenone in northern Italy. (Paolo Giovannini/Associated Press)
Giorgio [...]