These photographs have clearly been altered. This is wrong. This man is clearly unfit to be a member of parliament. When you send out an election address it has to be right – his is not. So said Phil Woolas in 2005 when he accused the Lib Dem Tony Dawson of doctoring an election photo, an accusation Dawson strongly denied. Odd, then, that Mr Woolas should have put out a newspaper in the 2010 general election campaign which appears to use a clearly photoshopped picture to imply that his Lib Dem opponent Elwyn Watkins was having his collar felt by the the local constabulary. Nick Thornsby has the details, showing how a photo of Elwyn Watkins was pasted on top of an image of armed police found on the Internet. Phil Woolas is due in court over another election-related matter. ...

Rumours that Kinect was on its way to testers has proved true. Those lucky people on the Microsoft Beta testing program are starting to receive home deliveries of the Kinect, plus an automatic update to their Xbox ahead of its official release in November. No surprises then that the guys over at engadget have already gotten hold of leaked images of the camera peripheral tucked inside its packaging. We expect to see some early ‘unofficial’ reviews and rumours in the coming days from … [visit site to read more] Microsoft Kinect Beta photos leaked. is a post from: UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and Shopping Site - Gaj-It.com...

IFA 2010 is in full swing and we are going to give you low down on what has caught our eye including the world’s first 3D camcorder from Panasonic, the Galaxy tablet from Samsung, Toshiba’s Folio, ViewSonic’s tablet and LG’s 2.9 mm thick OLED. Panasonic were in bullish mood about their … [visit site to read more] IFA 2010: Panasonic 3D Camcorder, Samsung Galaxy Tablet, Toshiba Folio, ViewSonic Tablet and More… is a post from: UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and Shopping Site - Gaj-It.com...

Nick Clegg has confirmed that he is selling his constituency home, and will return any profit to the taxpayer – as promised earlier this year. From the Press Association: The Lib Dem leader, who has been the MP for the constituency since 2005, has referred to the house in Sheffield as “modest” and revealed he had bought it in a “complete state of disrepair”. Defending his expenses claims in respect of the house, he told the BBC’s Andrew Neil in April: “I think, unlike almost everybody else, I have said very clearly and very openly that my approach to this is that’s not my home, it’s a home on loan to me from the taxpayer and that when it’s sold every single penny of value gained is returned to the taxpayer.” On Friday, a...

As it was announced at the Apple Event on Wednesday the release date for the iPod Touch 4G is expected for the 10th of September which is next Friday, however if Wednesday’s Apple event … [visit site to read more] iPod Touch 4G Gets Torn Apart by FCC: Take a Peak Inside is a post from: UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and Shopping Site - Gaj-It.com...

Gift cards – the laziest gift of them all. You can get a gift card for everything these days – iTunes, an annual subscription to Good Horsekeeping, and soon… Facebook. Stores across the US are to begin stocking gift cards for the social network from this weekend, which come in denominations of $15, $25 and $50. What fresh hell does this mean, then? It allows 134 million users in the US to buy more virtual crapola than they know what to do with – social games, applications and virtual goods. Impossible as it may seem, but you can never spend enough money on time vampires like Farmville. The US is home to Facebook’s largest user base, but according to CheckFacebook, the second largest is the UK with over 28 million users, so it seems reasonable to assume that...

Everyone had their lunch? Right, well try not to refund it as we bring you the tale (or tail if you like) of the whole rat that was found dead in a catering-sized tin of beans earlier in the year in the UK. A post mortem (no, really) reportedly showed that the beast had fallen into the tin at the factory and had become ‘entombed during tinning’. Mmmm, entombed bean rat… Sadly, the identity of the offending baked bean manufacturer hasn’t been (bean?) revealed and the anonymous investigating local authority may take legal action against the company in the future. The food scientist leading the inquiry said that the rat’s presence in the tin indicated “severe failings somewhere in the food production process.” Fucking hell mate – understatement of the year there. This...

According to the BBC, former UKIP leader Nigel Farage is to throw his hat into the ring and attempt to get his old job back. The position became vacant last month when Lord Pearson stood down, admitting with surprising honesty that he wasn’t up to the job. Farage’s decision may have been prompted by suspicions that none of the other likely candidates are up to the job either. Farage, an MEP, failed in his attempt to unseat the Commons Speaker, John Bercow, at the General Election, finishing a disappointing third. An election day aircrash had left him injured and that, along with the pressure of his work in Brussels, had previously been given by Farage as reasons why he might not stand for the...

Video by World Cup group Freshlyground challenges Zimbabwe dictator to 'become the hero he used to be' – and step downRobert Mugabe has never been known for his sense of humour. So you wouldn't want to be the apparatchik at Zimbabwe's State House explaining to the president how a music video that lampoons him as a chicken is threatening to go viral.A latex puppet of Mugabe, redolent of 80s TV satire Spitting Image, is the star of a slick video by multinational African group Freshlyground, best known for their collaboration with Shakira on the official World Cup song Waka Waka (This Time for Africa).The song, Chicken for Change, has a bouncy and upbeat feel that belies its serious political message. The video depicts an aloof Mugabe riding in the back of a chauffeur-driven presidential...

You know how having an important piece of portable hardware which you could keep important files on needs to be as small as possible? Well LaCie have just released a USB drive known as the MosKeyto which measures at just 20mm long – the USB connector takes up 14mm of this length, … [visit site to read more] 20mm USB Drive from LaCie: Is Smaller Better? is a post from: UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and Shopping Site - Gaj-It.com...

Brighton & Hove City Council webcasts many of its meetings and makes the footage available for people to watch again afterwards. Cllr Jason Kitcat (Green) extracted from the footage examples of himself asking questions, put the footage on YouTube and blogged about the questions on his own site. He only used footage the council has already made available, he didn’t alter the footage and he had a good reason for using his own copy rather than the council’s original (because at the time the council’s way of presenting the footage made it hard for people to go direct to a specific point in the coverage of a long meeting). All in all a good example of a councillor using the internet to communicate with the public, perhaps? The story here being that the councillor is up...

Though it seems Google Chrome’s been around forever it is in fact only two years. So, Happy Birthday Google Chrome. Google have said “it is amazing to see how far the browser has come over two years. In August 2008, Javascript was 10 times slower, HTML5 support wasn’t yet an essential … [visit site to read more] Google Chrome version 6 is released to celebrate its second birthday is a post from: UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and Shopping Site - Gaj-It.com...

Commuters and touirsts rejoice! London is bracing itself for a series of strikes on the tube, beginning on Monday. Talks between the RMT and London Underground have broken down with no date for further negotiations in the diary. Beyond the 24 hour strike which starts on Monday evening and continue throughout Tuesday, there are three further 24 hour strikes planned – on 3 October, 2 November and 28 November. In a separate dispute, members of the TSSA union are taking industrial action on Tuesday, and depot works on the Northern and Jubilee lines are striking for 24 hours from Sunday evening onwards, which is also likely to cause problems. Excuse my French, but for fuck’s sake, people. What does it all mean for you? The walkouts begin on Monday from 5pm but are staggered, and...

Toshiba has issued a voluntary recall in conjunction with the U.S. consumer Product Safety Commission and Health for the T series line of notebooks (the notebooks in question being the Satellite T135, T135D and the Satellite Pro T130) after it was revealed that the … [visit site to read more] Toshiba T Series Burn Hazard: Voluntary Recall and BIOS Update in Effect is a post from: UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and Shopping Site - Gaj-It.com...

Facebook seems to be encouraging stalking with its latest feature. It is said to be testing out a new subscription feature that allows users to receive alerts any time a specific ‘friend’ ‘takes certain actions’ on the social network. Therefore with this new addition to … [visit site to read more] Facebook to add ‘friend subscription’ feature is a post from: UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and Shopping Site - Gaj-It.com...

There aren't rude enough expletives for this. Because . . . Oh God . . . David Tennant has become Roger Delgado. Or Criss Angel. Or Captain Jack Sparrow.Thanks to the keen eyes of Slashfilm, feast your eyes and souls on the new, more guylinery David Tennant. If you remember the original Fright Night vampire movie, Roddy McDowall's version of Peter Vincent was a lot more tweedy. This character reboot has David Tennant playing a cheese-ball Vegas magician. No doubt he will use this platform to tell the world that he can connect with the "dark side," specifically vampires. Or maybe he's pretending to be a vampire on stage — from the looks of that beard, it's possible. Anyway, when a frightened teen, Anton Yelchin, runs into a REAL vampire, Colin Farrell, [Tennant's] character is the one he...

A man has pleaded guilty after his bag containing snakes broke open on a luggage belt at Kuala Lumpur International airportA Malaysian man has pleaded guilty to wildlife smuggling after his bag bursting with 95 live boa constrictors broke open on a luggage conveyer belt at Kuala Lumpur International airport, an official said.Keng Liang "Anson" Wong, 52, who was previously convicted of wildlife trafficking in the United States, was charged on Wednesday in a district court for exporting the endangered boas without a permit, said Shamsuddin Osman, an official with Malaysia's wildlife department. The offence carries a penalty of up to seven years in prison and a fine, Shamsuddin said.Wong was arrested on 26 August after airport authorities found the boa constrictors, together with a few other...

For the second year running, the bestselling author's books are the most-donated to the charity shop chainDan Brown has hung on to the dubious honour of being the author whose books readers most want to get rid of, topping the list of writers most-donated to Oxfam shops for the second year running.The bestselling American author, whose latest cryptographic thriller The Lost Symbol – filled with such gems as "Is there life after death? Do humans have souls? Incredibly, Katherine had answered all of these questions and more" – was published last autumn, is joined on Oxfam's most-donated line-up by the likes of John Grisham, Patricia Cornwell and Alexander McCall Smith.The rants of Jeremy Clarkson, meanwhile, have made the Top Gear presenter the first non-fiction writer to enter the...

The Royal Mail have finally gone and done the thing we’ve all been yearning for. We’ve waited years, but at last, it is here. Ladies and gentlefolk, the Royal Mail has made an intelligent stamp. We know that you lot have been itching for something like this. We’ve had millions of emails stating that you’ve long stared a postage stamps and wanted something more from them. Even our editor, Mr Dawson, has been known to scratch away at them in an attempt to find hidden extras inside. WELL WAIT NO LONGER! The Royal Mail’s latest stamp works with image recognition technology, which means that, when you scan it with your smartphone, you get a whole bunch of useless shit. The new stamp, which is part of the Royal Mail’s Great British Railways edition, will...

All you video-calling lovers out there will be happy to know Skype have released their latest beta version for v5.0 (currently only for Windows users) which will allow users to have 10-way video calling. The previous beta allowed 5-way video calling, but it seems Skype have been working constantly on their software to reach a double figured e-conversation. visit site to read more] Skype Release their Latest v5.0 Beta: 10-Way Video Calling is Coming is a post from: UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and Shopping Site - Gaj-It.com...

Butt, Asif and Amir interviewed by Metropolitan police for second time over allegations of bowling no-balls at Lord'sThe three Pakistan cricketers at the centre of an alleged betting scam were today being questioned by police.It is the second time Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir have been interviewed by the Metropolitan police since the allegations surfaced that the three had agreed to bowl no-balls in specific overs of last week's fourth Test at Lord's in return for money.They were initially questioned last weekend when the News of the World broke the story and had their mobile phones seized by the police.The trio were yesterday suspended by the International Cricket Council, pending a tribunal, despite the ICC having indicated that they would not take any action before the...

Disciplinary panel suspends pathologist, who carried out first post-mortem examination on Ian Tomlinson, for three monthsThe pathologist who carried out the first postmortem examination on newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson, who died at the G20 protests, was today suspended from the medical register for three months.A General Medical Council disciplinary panel previously ruled that Dr Freddy Patel acted in a way that amounted to misconduct in two earlier postmortem examinations, meaning his fitness to practise was impaired.The panel also ruled that Patel had displayed deficient professional performance in a third examination.He has already been suspended from the Home Office register of forensic pathologists after questions were asked about the autopsy carried out on the body of 47-year-old...

Mark Thompson photographed with memo revealing Andy Coulson's 'concern' that BBC gives context to cuts coverageThe BBC has been forced to defend its impartiality after Mark Thompson, the director general, was photographed yesterday going into a meeting in Downing Street to discuss a season of TV and radio programmes about the government's spending cuts.Thompson was photographed carrying an internal email from Helen Boaden, the BBC News director, saying that she had had lunch with Andy Coulson, the coalition government's director of communications, at which he had expressed concern "that we give context to our Spending Review Season".Boaden's email went on to provide Thompson with briefing notes on the season – which begins next week across BBC TV, radio and online services – for his...

Although it seems like an unfair consolation prize for the Samsung Epic 4G not coming to the UK, the Samsung I5510, which has been sighted at IFA, is looking to be released in Europe in the not so far future. The device’s specs are still looking pretty good though. It … [visit site to read more] Android Froyo 2.2 Sighted on Samsung I5510 QWERTY Slider: A Samsung Epic 4G Sibling? is a post from: UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and Shopping Site - Gaj-It.com...

Home Office to announce review of arrangements with US and EU after rows over McKinnon and Ubani casesThe Home Office is to announce a review of extradition arrangements, including those with the US and EU countries following high-profile rows over the way they are operating.The main impetus has been the row with Washington over the Gary McKinnon affair, in which the 43-year-old has been accused of hacking into US computer systems.But the review will also look at the operation of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW). Serious questions have been raised about its working after a dispute between British and German police and prosecutors over a criminal investigation into the accidental killing of a 70-year-old patient in the UK by the Nigerian-born German doctor Daniel Ubani.The Home Office...

Former deputy prime minister says police refused to tell him whether his phone was hacked by News of the World journalistsJohn Prescott today called for a judicial review of the conduct of the Metropolitan police force in relation to the allegations of phone hacking against the News of the World.The former deputy prime minister was speaking after the paper confirmed it had suspended a journalist while it investigates new allegations of the unlawful interception of voicemail.The police have come under pressure after the New York Times quoted unnamed detectives alleging they had cut short their investigation because of their close relationship with the News of the World.Prescott said the police had repeatedly refused to tell him whether his phone was hacked by News of the World journalists...

No more of this, thank you very much. We Brits love booze don’t we? That’s because Britain is a crushingly okay place to live. We don’t have wars, rioting or anything like that… so we drink ourselves into a stupor and dream of looting electrical shops and stealing high performance sports cars in some imagined post-apocalyptic world. Right? Wrong. See, we’re drinking less alcohol than we used to. Apparently, the average Brit sank the equivalent of 89 bottles of wine during the year, down from more than 94 bottles, according to new stats. This may seem like a lot, but this is the sharpest drop since 1948. That was the year records began on our intake of booze. The figures include sales from both supermarkets and pubs. This means we’re either getting...

The Guardian reports: IPC Media’s Essentials will no longer feature models or celebrities on its front cover after a survey of readers suggested they preferred to see “real women”. The October edition of the monthly is entirely model- and celebrity-free and is the climax of a social media campaign to find 10 real women to put on its front cover. The magazine claimed it was a “UK media first for women’s glossies”. Essentials’ editor, Jules Barton-Breck, said: “So many of these women look, and are, amazing that we wanted to celebrate them. In our recent reader survey 70% told us that they would rather see a real woman on the cover of a magazine than a celebrity, so we’re excited to be the first magazine in the UK to do this every...

Tens of thousands told to vacate islands off North Carolina as US east coast braces for hurricane-force winds and rainTens of thousands of people were told to evacuate islands off North Carolina last night and hundreds of thousands more warned to expect hurricane-force winds and heavy rain across the US north-eastern coast, as hurricane Earl came within about 85 miles of the shore.More states along the east coast declared emergencies as shelters were prepared and residents as far north as New England were told to expect fallen power lines and trees over the Labour Day holiday weekend.Despite signs that the hurricane's force was weakening and its centre would miss much of the US mainland, families from North Carolina through Virginia to Delaware were warned to act on their own disaster...

So, here is a quick trivia question. What’s the name of Android 3.0 OS? What did you say, Gingerbread? I am sorry, you lose. The correct answer is Honeycomb. According to the rumors, poor Gingerbread has been demoted to incremental release status and would be released as … [visit site to read more] Is Gingerbread Android 3.0? is a post from: UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and Shopping Site - Gaj-It.com...

Regulatory agency says findings should not stop medicinal use of oral bisphosphonatesLongterm use of drugs that are commonly prescribed for osteoporosis may be doubling the users' risk of developing cancer of the oesophagus, a study warns.The drugs are routinely used to either treat or prevent osteoporosis and other bone conditions and are taken by many hundreds of thousands of patients.Research in today's British Medical Journal links the use of oral bisphosphonates to an increased risk of getting one of the more severe forms of cancer, although no links were found to stomach or bowel cancer.Experts from the University of Oxford's cancer epidemiology unit and the government's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) analysed data from a UK GP practice database on around...

UK research identifying loss of key protein in mice eggs is seen as a breakthrough that may help prevent birth defectsScientists have made a breakthrough in understanding why older women become less fertile, suffer a miscarriage or have a baby with Down's syndrome.The discovery could ultimately lead to treatments that would increase the chances of a successful pregnancy for growing numbers of would-be mothers in their late 30s and early 40s.Researchers led by Dr Mary Herbert, an expert in reproductive biology at Newcastle University's Institute for Ageing and Health, have identified why some older women produce abnormal eggs, according to findings published in the journal Current Biology.It has been known for a long time that would-be mothers who are nearing the end of their fertility are...

• Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif charged• Pakistan players had withdrawn from one-day series against EnglandSalman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir have been provisionally suspended by the International Cricket Council.The game's governing body has charged the Pakistan trio with "various offences under Article 2 of the ICC Anti-Corruption Code for Players and Player Support Personnel relating to irregular behaviour during, and in relation to, the fourth Test between England and Pakistan at Lord's last month".The three players have been at the eye of a spot-fixing storm since claims in the News of The World last Sunday, and today they withdrew from the Twenty20 and one-day series against England which is due to begin on Sunday.But they would not now be eligible for...

Israeli and Palestinian leaders begin framework talks on a peace deal which could encompass borders, Jerusalem, Jewish settlements and securityThe Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas, met for the first day of direct talks in Washington today and agreed that a peace deal could be achieved within a year.George Mitchell, the White House envoy who joined the negotiations, said the two leaders decided to begin putting together a framework agreement on all major issues – such as borders, Jerusalem, Jewish settlements and security – that will "establish the fundamental compromises necessary" to flesh out a comprehensive peace deal.Mitchell said Netanyahu and Abbas agreed to meet again in a fortnight in the Middle East and every two weeks after that. The US...

Warning extended to include Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard in MassachusettsHurricane Earl blew towards North Carolina today with winds of up to 125mph (200kph), putting the east coast on alert. Federal emergency management agency (Fema) administrator Craig Fugate said there was no longer time to wait on the next forecast to see how close the eye of the storm might get to shore.A hurricane warning for the tip of Massachusetts, including Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, joined earlier warnings and watches for hurricanes or tropical storms that stretch from North Carolina up to near the Canadian border."They really need to focus today on what they're going to do before the storm gets there," Fugate said. "Implement your plans and be ready to heed evacuation orders."Earl was a dangerous...

Website barackobama.ir promises 'an Iranian viewpoint on Barack Obama's opinions'A group of Iranian journalists sympathetic to the world view of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has launched barackobama.ir, a website set up to address "an Iranian viewpoint on Barack Obama's opinions".The news of its creation first appeared this week in a series of government-sponsored websites and news agencies, which endorsed it as an independent source of information about the life of Obama, his administration and issues such as 9/11, Israel and Iran's nuclear programme.The website has attracted nearly 100,000 visitors in its first week. It introduces itself as a group "that believes that Barack Obama isn't only a name but a political phenomenon".It depicts the American president as someone "who insists on...

Lord Sacks accuses astrophysicist of logical fallacy in book excluding possibility of supernatural creationThe chief rabbi, Lord Sacks, hit back at Stephen Hawking after the astrophysicist said God did not create the universe.In his new book, The Grand Design, published next week, Hawking concludes that science excludes the possibility of a deity and that it is unnecessary to "invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going".But his finding were described by Sacks as an "elementary fallacy" of logic.Writing in the Times, the chief rabbi said: "There is a difference between science and religion. Science is about explanation. Religion is about interpretation. The Bible simply isn't interested in how the universe came into being."Sacks also said the mutual hostility...

Senior Whitehall figures concerned that Tory party employees have been given civil service rolesThe coalition has quietly appointed a string of party employees to civil service roles – including one aide to the foreign secretary, William Hague – in a move that has raised concerns among senior Whitehall figures, the Guardian has learned.Hague today said he felt forced to give yesterday's unprecedented personal statement about his marriage to "put the record straight" after intense speculation about his relationship with a special adviser in a row that has cast light on the propriety of political appointments.Separately, several Conservative party and MP employees have been given civil service roles in the Cabinet Office, Department for Education, Foreign Office and Downing Street,...

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Apple has been in the news recentely as doctors have started to replace stetehscopes with an iPhone app and now yet again we see how their prodcuts can extend beyond simple consumer electroincs and function as usefull tools in various situations. One of the first suggested uses of the iPad … [visit site to read more] Free iPads given to school children is a post from: UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and Shopping Site - Gaj-It.com...