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London Mayor Boris Johnson pledged a blanket Wi-Fi coverage in time for the Olympic Games in 2012 while speaking at the Google Zeigeist event in Hertfordshire. The statement comes as the city continues to upgrade its infrastructure in time for the Olympic games in 2012. Johnson said his vision was that “every lamppost, every bus stop” in the capital would offer wireless internet access. Reportedly, [...]

United States of America is upgrading its GPS (Global Positioning System)  satellites in a bid to improve the accuracy of the technology and prevent outages.Their are currently 24 satellites and 30 new satellites are getting added 18 new satellites are being built by Boeing’s Space and Intelligence Systems and 12 by Lockheed Martin. The total budget is 8 Million US Dollar. The system [...]

Illinois based Heil Sound has which pioneered the live sound industry with clients such as the Grateful Dead, the Who, Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, Jeff Beck and scores of major touring acts of the 1960’s – 70’s had introduced the HC -6 Wide Response Microphone Element at the Dayton Hamvention at Dayton, Ohio in US. The new Heil Pro Set Elite is designed for commercial sportscasters, [...]

Putting an end to all the speculations, rumors and hype at the second day of the  annual Developer conference at Moscone West, San Francisco Google has unveiled the Google TV few  minutes ago , it promises to be the best market for developers, not content after taking the number 1 position in Online advertising, now Google is official in the ring for  the billion dollars Television advertising [...]

The Apple  iPad users in UK and other countries who have got the device from US -as its not internationally available until May 28 –  had no options for buying apps directly through the device from Apple iTunes store, and this was one of the more frustrating aspects of owning an iPad outside the US.  This  inability to access the App Store on device is now a thing of the past with Apple [...]

It’s not often that we find a technology company with such terrible service that we feel the need to advertise it to our reader-base, but on this occasion, we saw a serious need to expose the terrible practises that are at bay. This personal story below is printed as-is from a personal blog and is not the opinion of Sporkings.com. No, our opinion of Overclockers is much lower than this; It all [...]

Calvin Robinson, Editor of Sporkings.com discusses Facebook Privacy Policy issues on Channel 4 News in the UK: We previously wrote an article instructing users on the steps necessary to delete a Facebook account; Image via Wikipedia Whether you have concerns about Facebook’s privacy policies, or you simply don’t want to keep a profile on the website anymore, Facebook make it extremely [...]

Image via CrunchBase Yes. You read it right. Skype might have so far refused to grace Microsoft’s Mobile OS, however, it did not resist capturing screen on the most popular entertainment device. According to their website LG and Panasonic’s HDTVs with internet connectivity are been  embedded with Skype  which has  been tested in Skype’s labs in Tallinn, Estonia. To start [...]

Image by wallyg via Flickr It will be a red-letter day in the lives of London buses. The new London bus design was unveiled by London mayor, Boris Johnson yesterday. The design of the London Bus is based on the old Routemaster model which is an icon on London, but the iconic 1954 design is getting a much needed revamp. The new bus will be powered by eco-friendly hybrid technology. According [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Google will be releasing the latest version of its mobile operating system Android  later this month. The latest release of Android – 2.2 is christened Froyo. Google is expected to announce or release the Froyo update at the upcoming Google IO conference on May 16-18 at Google Headquarters. Android enthusiast’s and leading community androidpolice.com [...]