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Updated: It turns out that Seamus McGarvey was misquoted. From :

“I was talking about how up and coming film makers have access to a whole range of new technologies which expand our options as filmmakers. I mentioned that the iPhone and the Canon 5d Mk2 were devices currently used on many Hollywood productions. I used the Canon on some shots on Marvel’s The Avengers movie,” he stated to THR. “Unfortunately, this was edited to read that I shot some of the film with the iPhone. This is not true.”

The original story follows: The iPhone 4 has a great camera built-in — but it is good enough to film a movie? Read more…

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Blackberry have confirmed today that their email, internet and messenger services are now coming back online after a 3-day service blackout which has brought into sharp-focus the inability for RIM to communicate the problem to their frustrated customers.

In a statement this morning at 5.30am, RIM said there is “a significant increase” in Blackberry service level in Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa.

The three-day outage has been a PR disaster for the Canadian technology company, with thousands of customers taking to social networks the vent their frustration, RIM CIO Robin Bienfait apologised to BlackBerry customers for the disruption in a statement last night.

Youve depended on us for reliable, real-time communications, and right now were letting you down, he said.

We are taking this very seriously and have people around the world working around the clock to address this situation.

Benait said last night that RIM is working to clear the backlog of messages, he added that BBM is up and running, but web browsing was unavailable as their support team monitors the stability of the service, but hopefully will have the service online soon.

For those of us who use other handsets, namely the iPhone or Android – it seems rather odd that users internet access is dependent on RIM, for iPhone’s or Android’s or any other phone web access comes from the phone and the Wi-Fi  it has nothing to do with the manufacturer – so quite why Blackberry’s need to rely on a system that clearly has major flaws in it is quite worrying.

Especially worrying is the fact that many companies are heavily reliant on Blackberry and when the system crashes it leave millions in the dark – clearly the architecture of the system isn’t quite as bullet-proof as RIM has made us believe. Could this be the

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“Solar energy is forecasted to provide a significant fraction of the world’s energy needs over the next century, as sunlight is the most abundant source of energy we have at our disposal,” says Graham Fleming, Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California (UC) Berkeley who holds a joint appointment with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). “However, to utilize solar energy harvested from sun¬light efficiently we must understand and improve both the effective cap¬ture of photons and the transfer of electronic excitation energy.”

Fleming, a physical chemist and authority on the quantum phenomena that underlie photosynthesis, is one of four international co-authors of a paper in Nature Chemistry, entitled “Lessons from nature about solar light harvesting.” The other co-authors are Gregory Scholes, of the University of Toronto, Alexandra Olaya-Castro, of London’s University College, and Rienk van Grondelle, of the University of Amsterdam. T

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Are you a Samsung Galaxy Gio S 5560 user and looking for new features and enhancement available for your device?

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Dominique Leca, the co-founder of the much-loved Sparrow mail client, tells Business Insider that his team is working on an iPhone version of Sparrow.

BI: Isn’t one of Apple’s rules for the mobile App Store that you can’t “duplicate functionality”? DL: Yes, but on the Mac, they can’t really apply it, so you’ve got a way out. You can license your software without being considered a rogue developer, like you might on Cydia [the jailbreak app store for iPhone]. Developers have been selling Mac apps long before the MAS was introduced, whereas for most people, the only want to get content on an iPhone is through the App Store.

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