machines

Obama in sex video shocker? Oh wait, it's just spam

News The Trojan targets Windows machines and steals passwords and bank account data, Cluley said. Don't believe everything you read on the Internet: US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama isn't a terrorist.or a porn star.

Tags: sex, sophos, obama, barack obama

11 September 2008, 8:43

Segway-riding MP Opik risks arrest

News Opik, who can regularly be seen weaving along the country lanes on his Segway Personal Transporter around his home in Newtown, Wales, believes the machines will be legal on UK roads by Christmas. MP Lembit Opik braved arrest on Tuesday as he...

Tags: travel, transport, vehicles, car

10 September 2008, 8:47

eBay PC had 1 million bank customers' details

News She said: "Graphic Data has confirmed to us that one of their machines appears to have been inappropriately sold on via a third party. One million bank customers' details have turned up on a second-hand PC sold over auction Web site eBay.

Tags: credit, credit card, graphic, removed

27 August 2008, 8:38

Could 64-bit Vista finally be taking off?

News Among the factors leading to the shift are the fact that 64-bit machines, unlike their 32-bit brethren, can directly address more than 4GB of memory. If you build it, it appears they will come, eventually.

Tags: desktops, cent, models, gaming

5 August 2008, 9:19

Portable hologram projectors 'by 2010'

News The portable machines will capture and send 3D snapshots of the surrounding world, helping accident investigators, teachers and doctors work remotely by instantly relaying realistic depictions of car damage, injuries, medical scans or educational...

Tags: handsets, indian, holographic, gaming

20 June 2008, 9:37

Microsoft gives XP new life on low-cost desktops

News Cheaper machines, however, face no such threat. Microsoft has announced that manufacturers will be able to sell Windows on so-called 'nettops' -- that is, low-cost desktops -- in another move that looks set to keep XP alive for several years yet.

Tags: pcs, desktops, xp, laptops

5 June 2008, 9:28

Calls to lift UK Segway ban

News Lord Redesdale said: "I tried one of these machines 20 minutes ago… It took me a few minutes to learn how to use it and I was very impressed with it. Peers in the House of Lords have called on the government to lift the ban on the use of Segways on...

Tags: house, devices, government, safety

21 May 2008, 9:44

News.blog: XP death could be postponed

News It's a category that covers machines with slower processors, smaller screens and, in many cases, flash memory, rather than a traditional hard drive, for storage. The death of Windows XP may have been greatly exaggerated.

Tags: xp, windows xp, pcs, plan

25 April 2008, 9:22

Stolen computers 'phone home' to police

News Tracking technology has helped police sniff out thousands of stolen machines, uncovering UK computers as far away as Argentina, Macedonia and Saudi Arabia. Computers that 'phone home' after being stolen are guiding police to the doorsteps of...

Tags: tracking, computers, property, theft

15 April 2008, 8:49

Asus Eee PCs upgrade to Intel's Atom

News In an interview with Laptop Magazine published on Saturday, Jerry Shen also said that Asus may at some point incorporate hard drives, rather than solid-state storage, into the popular machines. In Europe, if we can supply the batteries, the sales...

Tags: storage, machines, processor, intel

11 March 2008, 8:53

Windows-based cashpoints at risk of hijack

News Security experts have hacked cashpoints to show how easy it is to steal money and bank account details from modern cash machines.Cashpoints today face the Internet-born threat of worms and denial of service attacks, as well as being at risk from...

Tags: machines, cash, face, encrypted

5 March 2008, 9:16

Professor warns of terrorist robots

News Terrorist robots and autonomous military machines wielding automatic weapons could soon be a reality, claims professor Noel Sharkey. With plummeting prices of robotic components he cautioned that the killer machines could replace the suicide bomber...

Tags: international, machines, weapons, robot

29 February 2008, 8:57

News.blog: Windows 7 to get hands on

News After decades of investing in things like speech technology and handwriting recognition, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said that users appear ready for new ways of interacting with machines. Gates has been a tireless proponent of the Tablet PC...

Tags: machines, terms, hand, speech

20 February 2008, 9:14

Microsoft to trial XP on OLPC laptops

News Child XO machines, and instead is developing a version of XP specifically for the XO. December, Microsoft plans to publish formal design guidelines early this year that will assist flash-based device manufacturers in designing machines that enable...

14 January 2008, 9:02

Photos: High-tech travel at St Pancras

News These are the e-ticket check-in machines for business travellers. The machines work in much the same way as those operated by airlines, with a reference code requested to confirm the booking before boarding tickets are issued.Credit: Tim Ferguson

Tags: credit, machines, station, train

28 November 2007, 9:45