When US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta first talked last month of a handover next year, jaws dropped in Whitehall.

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Earlier this week, a sch-amazing video of a dude in an orange jacket hacking video screens in Times Square with a balloon, a smartphone, and a tiny transmitter was being circulated on Twitter and posted on blogs with virtual jaws dropped at the incredibility of the stunt.

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Jaws literally dropped as Prof Randell delivered his lecture, he told the BBC.

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"We have had people down from the London universities and some of the major research institutions and their jaws have absolutely dropped to the floor when they have seen the quality of the facilities, " he said.

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And what's more, after they announced their new line of Network Walkman devices late yesterday, we discovered they even had intentions of adding WMA support, which just about dislocated our jaws, they dropped so hard.

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