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PC World stocking Atom mini laptop
News World's machine, also manufactured by MSI, comes only in a Windows XP flavour and has a 10.2-inch screen. The UK computer-store chain PC World is claiming to be the first retail outlet in the country to offer a netbook using Intel's
Tags: intel, windows xp, laptops, viewing
8 July 2008, 8:50
Asus Eee Monitor photos leaked
News It is hard to tell at this point what components are inside the machine, but it's likely that they will not be dissimilar to those inside the Eee Box, which is set to launch in August. The photographs appear to show at least six USB ports on the...
Tags: machine, wi fi, ports, asus
3 July 2008, 8:34
Photos: Gibson frets over custom guitars
News The company believes this step is better done by a machine. These two future guitars have had a set of holes and channels cut into them by machine, one of the only steps in the entire manufacturing process not done by hand.
Tags: channels, body, shape, production
1 July 2008, 9:16
Nokia to form open-source Android killer
News Milanesi dismissed LiMo as a major factor in the establishment of the new Symbian Foundation, saying it had "so far has proven to be a PR machine than has been unable to deliver consistency across the Linux platform".
Tags: community, linux, ericsson, lg
25 June 2008, 9:13
Asus Eee Box ready for August release
News The machine is likely to go on sale in the UK in August, an Asus spokesperson told CNET.co.uk's sister site ZDNet.co.uk on Friday. On 3 June, however, Microsoft quietly announced that it was extending this strategy to 'nettops', like the Eee Box...
Tags: linux, box, operating system, xp
23 June 2008, 9:09
Portable hologram projectors 'by 2010'
News The powerful onboard processor on the Infosys machine would build a series of 2D shots taken, for example, from a digital camera, into 3D holograms using algorithms called 'Fourier' transformations to calculate the extra third dimension.
Tags: handsets, indian, holographic, gaming
20 June 2008, 9:37
Mac cloners offer software updates
News Machine backup feature, the Character Palette and Keyboard Viewer, CD and DVD sharing, and DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), a technology that allocates IP addresses. We have released a couple of fixes for things like Time Machine, as...
Tags: mac os, operating system, pre, automatic updates
29 May 2008, 8:50
News.blog: Can Bill Gates kill the mouse and keyboard?
News For his part, Gates appears confident this is the future direction of man-machine relations. It wasn't exactly Minority Report, but Bill Gates' technology demonstration at Microsoft's CEO Summit on Wednesday may be remembered years from now as a...
15 May 2008, 9:29
Photos: Living green in La Casa Verde
News The backyard includes 3,330-gallon cisterns to collect rainwater, which flows into the home's toilets and laundry machine and could conserve as much as 17,000 gallons every year, according to the owner.
Tags: water, natural, city, house
12 May 2008, 9:38
Photos: Fill 'er up with yeast and sugar
News It's a personal refinery system that hooks up to a water source, a power source and a waste water disposal outlet -- "just like a washing machine", as Floyd Butterfield, The MicroFueler's display control, which does look surprisingly like a...
Tags: press, water, credit, conference
9 May 2008, 9:56
Stolen computers 'phone home' to police
News When a stolen machine is connected to the Internet it will contact a monitoring centre to report its Internet Protocol address, allowing police to trace its location through the Internet service provider.
Tags: tracking, computers, property, theft
15 April 2008, 8:49
Photos: Control your iPod with a wink
News KomeKami Switch: close both eyes for a second to start the iPod and blink again to stop the machine; to replay a tune, wink strongly with the left eye for one second, or wink with the right eye to skip to the next song.
Tags: eye, ipod, switch, university
5 March 2008, 9:28
Windows-based cashpoints at risk of hijack
News They also reset the cabinet cashpoints software using a piece of wire jammed into the receipt slot, giving them access to the engineering mode where they could control the machine. Security experts have hacked cashpoints to show how easy it is to...
Tags: machines, cash, face, encrypted
5 March 2008, 9:16
Photos: A touch of power for new MacBooks
News Available in 500GB and 1TB models for £199 and £329, respectively, Time Capsule, which works with Time Machine in OS X Leopard, provides automatic backup for the new laptops. Apple on Tuesday announced that it is boosting the processing power of...
27 February 2008, 9:35
Elonex to launch £99 laptop
News But, so far, the Elonex machine looks to be the cheapest option for UK customers, due in part to the lack of local pricing from the other vendors. PC maker and services company Elonex is to launch a £99 laptop aimed at students, at an upcoming...
Tags: children, laptop, education, educational
19 February 2008, 10:15


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