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News.blog: Yahoo Music switches off

News The Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday that Yahoo Music alerted customers in an email that it will no longer release keys to unlock digital rights management on its music. MSN took a public relations lashing in April after announcing it would...

Tags: keys, yahoo, transfer, protection

25 July 2008, 9:56

News.blog: Sony BMG links with Nokia music service

News After buying one of the devices, users will get unlimited free access to the music of Alicia Keys, the Foo Fighters or any Sony BMG artist for a full year. The concept behind Nokia's new music service 'Comes with Music' is starting to catch on with...

Tags: labels, nokia, concept, music service

23 April 2008, 10:22

Photos: In tune with the robot guitar

News Housed entirely in the body of the instrument, the Performer is programmed with 336 preset tunings, and can accommodate 96 programmable tunings and sort them into one of four tuning libraries (open tunings and keys, chords, modals and dissonant...

Tags: body, credit, self, libraries

27 November 2007, 9:29

Robot guitar holds a tune

News Gibson says the robot guitar is aimed at amateurs who have a hard time keeping their guitars in tune, as well as professionals who now use technicians during concerts to keep about 100 guitars tuned to different keys.

14 November 2007, 9:07

Photos: Computers of yesteryear

News This Xerox computer keyboard had dedicated keys for word-processing features like bolding text, creating italics, underlining and the like. A giant disk used for storage on the Xerox Alto computer, as seen at the DigiBarn Computer Museum in Boulder...

Tags: machine, collection, microsoft windows, steve

20 August 2007, 10:45

IBM tool helps the blind watch YouTube

News The multimedia browsing accessibility tool from IBM's Tokyo Research Laboratory will provide predefined shortcut keys to control multimedia on any given Web site. IBM has made a tool for Web browsers that will help the blind and visually impaired...

13 March 2007, 9:48

Nokia unveils flurry of new phones

News The E61i emailer will be thinner than its ancestor; it will have shortcut keys to popular apps such as email and will also come with a camera, a new development for the E series. Nokia has kicked off this year's 3GSM conference with a raft of new...

Tags: nokia, apps, slider, dvb

13 February 2007, 9:24

PC World bids farewell to the floppy disk

News The increasing use of digital downloads and photography means many files are now too large for a floppy disk to hold and with plenty of other storage devices -- USB keys, rewritable CDs, memory cards -- with significantly more storage capacity, PC...

31 January 2007, 9:36

Images: Microsoft Office, then and now

News Then: Quick keys Would you rather press CTRL+S instead of selecting File and then Save in Office 2003? Now: ALT key In Office 2007 applications, press the ALT key at any time to display the quick keys next to their corresponding functions.

25 January 2007, 10:47

Seagate thinks small with portable storage

News USB keys have -- to some degree -- acclimatised the public to carrying around large files. Seagate wants to lighten the load for customers who need all their data with them -- but not necessarily their computer.

5 January 2007, 10:39

SanDisk brings flash hard drives to laptops

News SanDisk got the bulk of its expertise in these drives when it acquired Msystems, an Israeli outfit that was an early pioneer in USB flash keys. SanDisk wants to replace the hard drive in laptops with flash memory, a swap that it says will make thin...

4 January 2007, 9:13

Operators push for RFID in phones

News Mobile phones could have moved a step closer to being used as credit cards, car keys and concert tickets, after operators around the world said they would work together on the technology. A user could also use the phone to download a concert ticket...

21 November 2006, 8:44

Microsoft to lock Vista pirates out of PCs

News New licensing systems will replace the current volume licence keys, which have been widely abused, Hartje said. Fifty per cent of the piracy, we think, uses keys issued to volume licensing customers," she said.

5 October 2006, 11:29

News.blog: Google and Apple collaborating?

News In the Localizable.strings file inside the iPhoto app bundle, we find several intriguing keys, including one called GPSMapURL which is preset to 'http://maps.google.com/maps? A posting in a forum for enthusiasts of Intel-based Macs suggests that...

5 October 2006, 10:28

Photos: Cameras aplenty at Photokina

News The emphasis is on simplicity for the controls and display -- the camera dispenses with multifunction keys and nested menus. Photokina, the biennial German imaging trade show, is taking place this week in Cologne.

26 September 2006, 11:07