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Singer Rihanna has been announced as the headline act at a free weekend festival in east London in June.
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The UK’s fertility watchdog has agreed to triple the compensation given to women who donate eggs to help infertile couples to have a child.
Donors currently have their expenses paid and up to £250 to cover lost earnings.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has decided to pay a one-off fee of £750 per course of donation.
Experts believe this will encourage more women to donate, but critics warn it may create financial incentives.
Under EU rules a donor cannot be “paid”, however, they can be “compensated”.
Juliet Tizzard, head of policy at the HFEA, said the current rules did not work and “some donors are out of pocket and they do feel undervalued at times”.
Samsung has postponed the launch of its Nexus Prime smartphone as a mark of respect to Steve Jobs.
The company said it would be the wrong time to introduce the device while the world was still paying tribute to the Apple co-founder, who died last week.
It had planned to unveil the Nexus Prime in San Diego on 11 October.
Samsung enjoys a close relationship with Apple, as one of its component suppliers. However, the firms are also suing each other for patent violations.
Courts in 10 countries have been asked to adjudicate an apparently tit-for-tat series of intellectual property claims.
Each company has accused the other of using their patented technology, without paying to license it.
In addition Apple has also accused Samsung of copying the overall look and feel of its iPad tablet, in its Galaxy Tab 10.1.
To date, the US company has fared best in court:
- The Galaxy Tab 10.1 is currently banned from sale in Germany.
- A ban on sales of Samsung smartphones is due to come into effect in the Netherlands in October.
- Samsung has postponed its tablet launch plans in Australia while its legal battle there is ongoing.
A ruling is expected this week in the Australian row and is also due shortly in the US where Apple is suing Samsung.
Prime candidateSamsung’s Nexus Prime is the latest in a series of smartphones produced by the Korean company, running Google’s Android operating system.
It will be the first commercially available device to run the new version of Android known as Ice Cream Sandwich.
The open-source platform has proved hugely successful for Samsung, which is now second only to Apple in the global smartphone race.
According to data from Nielsen, in August 2011, Apple held 19.25 of the market, while Samsung handsets accounted for 16.2%.
Despite the fierce competition, both on the high street and in the courts, Samsung makes a great deal of money from Apple, supplying parts for many of its devices, including screens for its smartphones and tablets.
The two companies are said to have agreed a components deal in February worth $7.8bn (£5bn).
Source : BBC.co.uk
Rihanna has scored the sixth UK number one of her career with We Found Love.
The song, which features Scottish DJ Calvin Harris, sold 87,000 copies and saw off its rivals, despite only being released on Wednesday.
The singer has now secured six chart-toppers in the past five years, a first for a female artist, the Official UK Charts Company says.
In the album chart, James Morrison held onto the top spot despite a fervent challenge from You Me At Six.
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The lacy leaves and wandering branches of a Japanese maple lend drama to the grounds of the Biltmore Estate near Asheville, North Carolina. Built in 1895 by George Washington Vanderbilt, the Biltmore is the largest private residence in the United States and includes more than 75 acres (30 hectares) of manicured gardens.
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Irreplaceable. That’s the word many use to describe Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and heralded tech luminary who died Wednesday following a protracted battle with cancer.
Yet as the tech sector remembers his legacy — the Mac computer, the iPad, the iPod, the iPhone and more — there’s still work to be done. Computers are still hard to use. Most of us still rely on a clunky keyboard and mouse at work, even though touchscreen tablets are so prevalent.
Who will save the day now? What other bright thinker could invent a computer interface that makes us all more productive, or finally figures out how to make a smartphone battery last longer than a day? Though it’s possible no one can fill Jobs’ shoes, these folks might introduce us to a whole new kind of footwear. Sandals, anyone?
Steve Jobs was a uniquely recognisable, charismatic and idiosyncratic leader. Here are some of the traits that made him the world’s most talked about chief executive.
Knowing what you want before you want it
Steve Jobs was not a fan of market research. He famously said “You can’t just ask customers what they want then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.”
Instead, he relied on his own instinct for refining existing technologies, developing new products and packaging them in a way that people would want to use.
Before the iPod appeared in 2001, there was relatively little interest in MP3 music players. Those products that did exist were chunky, often fiddly to use, and were largely bought by early adopter tech enthusiasts.
So appealing were gadgets such as the iPod, iPhone and iPad that the public quickly engaged with them. That was due, in no small part, to Steve Jobs’ ability as a salesman – explaining his products simply in a way that everyone could understand.
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World and business leaders have paid tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who has died at 56 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
US President Barack Obama and Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev said Mr Jobs had changed the world.
Microsoft’s Bill Gates said it had been “an insanely great honour” to work with him. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg remembered his “mentor and friend”.
The Twitter microblog site struggled to cope with the traffic of tributes.
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