Wise Words for You

Most of our time goes into pleasing others and making them happy. Often despite our best efforts we find that people do not appreciate what we have done. When we have tried hard to please someone we feel disheartened and upset. Whatever I do is for myself. When I recognise this fact, I will never do anything just to please others. When I am content with the effort I put in, I will never be dependent on others’ recognition of what I have done. When I enjoy everything I do, I will be truly happy. The more content I am, the more others will start appreciating my effort.

Visitors to the Olympic Park this month can take part in a self-driving vehicle trial. Those wanting to take part can hop aboard the free service in the north of the Park and experience a new and developing technology. The shuttle buses use state-of-the-art technology, including sensors, cameras and GPS mapping to navigate the route. And while there will be an operator on board to answer questions, the service will be completely autonomous, so everyone on board can sit back, relax and enjoy the scenery. It is similar inside to the pods used on the car park service at Heathrow T5, but only travels at walking speed.   Image courtesy of Haydn Davies Developed by Navya, a leading name in the progression of smart and sustainable mobility solutions, and delivered at the Park by Keolis, a leading global transport operator, with the support of Engie, Here East and Our Parklife, the 100% electric vehicles are being tested in response to the increasing demand for smart new mobili...

Launched alongside the headlining  E90 Communicator  in February 2007 were a whole bunch of Symbian smartphones all looking for their particular market niche. As was common with Nokia 10 years ago, you could have any feature you wanted..  just not all in the same device . The  Nokia N77  was a normal-looking "candy bar" phone 3G phone with the unusual addition of a DVB-H TV receiver. Whether you wanted to watch TV on a 2.4" QVGA screen or not was another question, and of course these days most video is streamed over high-speed networks which the N77 lacked. DVB-H was seen as a great hope ten years ago, with quite a few devices launched in between 2007 and 2009, at which point it fizzled out. Nokia N77 Looking a bit like any other Nokia slider (not exactly a huge range of devices, we know) the  Nokia E65  was a Symbian smartphone with 3G support and WiFi. The clever thing with the E65 was that you could integrate it into your corporate PABX system ...

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There has been some excitement that Nokia was re-releasing the classic 3310 handset from 2000. But would a company really be brave enough to try to punt something nearly two decades old to consumers? Well, the answer was.. no. The original  3310  was a simple monochrome phone, but it had a reputation for being tough, having a long battery life, swappable covers and also some simple games including the legendary Nokia snake. And that really was about it - no mobile data, no Bluetooth, no music playback and it didn't even have polyphonic ringtones. Nokia 3310 (2000) Superficially with a similar shape and footprint, the new  Nokia 3310  tries to relive some of the magic of the old one. The most obvious immediate change is the much larger 2.4" QVGA display on the front and the 2 megapixel camera on the back. Despite efforts, it's clear that the keypad reflects that this is a Series 30+ device as are all contemporary Nokia feature phones.. in fact, the specification ...

If you didn't know already, there have been some changes behind the scenes at  Casualty recently, with Lucy Raffety stepping into the shoes of series producer – taking over from previous boss Erika Hossington. Casualty  is already on top form at the moment having successfully delivered its groundbreaking one-shot episode earlier this summer, but fans can look forward to even more exciting times ahead through the autumn and into next year. We recently caught up with  Casualty's  new show-runner Lucy to get some exclusive teasers on what's ahead – and here are the 15 biggest pieces of gossip we learned in our chat: 1. The show wants to be more unpredictable  We all love a spoiler, but fans should expect the unexpected in future   Casualty   episodes as the show moves in an exciting, new direction. Keen to avoid being too formulaic, one of Lucy's biggest aims when taking over the role is for the team to be more creative in term...

Although the 3310 was a popular consumer handset of the early noughties, business users had a similar love for the  Nokia 6310i , launched in March 2002. Quite a bit taller than most competing phones, most of the front of the device was taken up by an ergonomically-designed keypad with a 96 x 60 pixel monochrome display on the top with tasteful blue backlighting. The 6310i supported tri-band GSM, GPRS data, Java, infra-red connectivity and crucially it came with Bluetooth which made it ideal for business users.. in fact, Mercedes even supplied built-in cradles for this exact model of phone. The two most common colours where an attractive two-tone silver and a fairly foul black-and-gold. Nokia 6310i (Black) Like the 3310 it was robust and had an excellent battery life with over two weeks standby time and a maximum of six hours talktime. Snake and a couple of other games gave a nod towards non-work use, but it certainly couldn't play music and it didn't even come with...