While the deal between Big Machine and Clear Channel suggests a step towards a larger resolution of the performance royalty war, it does not appear either side is ready to concede their positions any time soon.

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All the evidence suggests that, despite more than decade-and-a-half of goods being labelled in both metric and imperial, the British remain defiantly out of step with their counterparts across the channel.

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With Trinity, AMD has removed the battery life objection from ODMs, OEMs, and the channel, a huge forward step to increase their notebook business in 2012.

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The move follows the acquisition last year of blinkbox - recently voted the UK's best online movie service by Channel 5's The Gadget Show - and is the latest step in Tesco's strategy to offer customers new and innovative ways of accessing digital entertainment.

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Associate Professor Gregg Suaning, of the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering and a project leader in the national bionic eye consortium, Bionic Vision Australia (BVA), said the new, 98-channel microchip, now undergoing preliminary lab testing, was a major step towards the goal of a functional bionic eye.

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