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CNET.co.uk has 243 stories on hands
News.blog: Photosynth goes public
News If you're a Mac user looking to get your hands on some Photosynth action you'll have to keep waiting. Photosynth, a technology demo from Microsoft Live Labs, is graduating from its "ooh, that's pretty" status to being a viable Web service for...
Tags: managed, photographs, labs, collections
21 August 2008, 9:16
Robocop on the beat by 2084?
News Sharkey said in a statement: "These robot developments could be extremely beneficial in the protection of citizens and police in the hands of benevolent governments. But in the wrong hands, as warned in the movie, robot law enforcement could be a...
Tags: human, expert, bank, cars
14 August 2008, 9:06
News.blog: Microsoft quiet before iPhone 3G day
News We have more applications and more phones in the hands of people and that's what matters at the end of the day," he said. When Apple launched its App Store on Thursday before the release of the iPhone 3G, I checked to see if I could find anything...
Tags: noise, browsing, developers, windows mobile
11 July 2008, 9:01
Photos: Legless photographer snaps from ground up
News It's his series of digital photos that show strangers looking at him as he rolls by on his skateboard that he propels with his hands. Kevin Connolly, a 22-year-old photographer born without legs and self-described 'camera geek', is probably best...
Tags: shot, shots, exhibition, skateboard
4 July 2008, 9:28
News.blog: Google to turn over YouTube user activity
News Viacom is getting its hands on some of YouTube's sensitive user data as a result of the copyright infringement lawsuit the conglomerate filed a year ago. The two companies are in the discovery part of the case and must make certain information...
Tags: case, google, order, youtube
4 July 2008, 9:01
Eee 900 launches with limited stock
News PC, the Eee PC 900, but most UK customers are currently unable to get their hands on the popular subnotebook. Asus has officially launched the latest version of its Eee The Taiwanese manufacturer said in mid April that the Eee 900 would hit shelves...
2 May 2008, 9:21
Photos: Green packaging eliminates 'wrap rage'
News More companies are using clamshells built to be opened with bare hands. It tucks a blade and wheel into a smooth plastic grip, protecting the hands. This thick plastic packaging looks about as hard to crack as the laptop lock it contains.
Tags: package, board, consumer, hands
1 May 2008, 9:45
Windows XP SP3 to roll out at end of April
News The alleged schedule for the release of XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) -- obtained by the Neowin Web site shows that manufacturers and volume licence customers will get their hands on the upgrade on 21 April.
Tags: schedule, pack, vista, service
17 April 2008, 8:58
Windows becoming 'too monolithic'
News Around half of the managers and executives gathered in the room raised their hands. Microsoft's Windows juggernaut is collapsing under its own weight, as it tries to support 20 years of applications and becomes more complicated by the minute...
Tags: silver, vista, computing, architecture
14 April 2008, 8:59
Gates: Windows 7 ready 'in the next year or so'
News Gates said new versions of Windows would help revolutionise mobile phones and run the desk of the future, which would have a touch surface display allowing users to call up items using their hands. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said on Friday...
Tags: development, operating system, vista, comments
7 April 2008, 9:17
News.blog: iPhone SDK downloads hit 100,000
News Several would-be iPhone developers reported problems actually getting a copy of the SDK in their hands during the first day or so it became available. Despite some early problems managing the flood of developers seeking access to the iPhone...
Tags: apple, developers, problems, event
13 March 2008, 9:06
Photos: Hands-on robot joins space station
News On Tuesday, astronauts on the space shuttle Endeavour will have a special Canadian visitor when they rocket off on their trip to the International Space Station (ISS). Canadian Space Agency's Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, aka "Dextre", is...
Tags: objects, base, installed, space
11 March 2008, 9:04
Photos: Apple debuts iPhone 'software road map'
News X-Fighter through space, steering by using the iPhone like a pretend control wheel, with both hands on the side. The SDK gives the hot-shot gadget its entrée into the business and even gaming worlds. Here's the scene at Apple's Town Hall auditorium...
Tags: networks, jobs, president, iphone
7 March 2008, 9:49
News.blog: Windows 7 to get hands on
News I still don't know much about what Windows 7 will do or what it will look like, but I can tell you that you won't have to rely on a keyboard and mouse to use it. After decades of investing in things like speech technology and handwriting...
Tags: machines, terms, hand, speech
20 February 2008, 9:14
News.blog: Intel quits OLPC project
News Negroponte went on American news programme 60 Minutes in May and accused Intel of dumping Classmate PCs below cost in order to keep OLPCs out of the hands of needy children. We have said for a long time that we don't believe there will be one...
Tags: hands, laptops, children, laptop
4 January 2008, 9:18


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