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Photos: In sync with Microsoft's Live Mesh

News Live Mesh shows you your synced devices in an animated 'ring'. Microsoft's Live Mesh is an ambitious strategy to tie together all a user's devices and data. The first consumer-facing version of the technology is a product of the same name that...

Tags: devices, product, windows explorer, mesh

24 April 2008, 9:34

Brits fear 'phonelessness' as much as dentist

News Nomo-phobia joins other anxiety-based mobile neologisms, including CrackBerry, the nickname for the BlackBerry smart phone which plays up its addiction properties; 'phantom ring', when a mobile user reports hearing their phone apparently ring...

Tags: family, cent, contact, job

1 April 2008, 9:21

Photos: Cassini takes an icy look at Saturn

News If true, it would be the first discovery of a ring around anything other than a planet. This artist's depiction of a ring is exaggerated in density to show what a ring around Rhea might look like. Scientists believe that Rhea, Saturn's second...

Tags: water, earth, planet, ancient

13 March 2008, 9:21

Top topics ring in Mobile World Congress

News The 2008 Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona on Monday 11 February and CNET.co.uk and its sister sites will be heading out there to see what's floating the mobile industry's boat this year. In the spirit of sneak preview, here's a...

Tags: ads, dedicated, manufacturers, tech

8 February 2008, 9:31

Robots go to war

News Twenty-five finalist robots put up their fists to knock one another out of a ring on Saturday, showing off some of the latest moves in the world's biggest robot market. At Tokyo's 12th Robo-One Grand Championship match, two-legged robots jabbed...

Tags: christmas, companies, money, consumer

4 December 2007, 10:49

Photos: Roam the heavens with Google Sky

News This is a glowing loop of gas called the Ring Nebula. Google added a feature a couple of months ago called Sky -- which lets users roam the heavens from its Google Earth application. Effectively turning Google Earth on its head, users are given a...

Tags: navigate, earth, credit, star

29 November 2007, 9:53

Biometrics land at Gatwick

News Byrne added biometrics are part of a triple ring of security for the country's borders, which involves identifying individuals before they travel to the UK, checking them on the border and rolling out ID cards for foreign nationals in the UK from...

10 October 2007, 9:48

Mobile users disconnect from features

News It seems mobile phone users aren't that interested in using many of the advanced features -- such as Web browsing and TV -- that operators have been pushing. The proportion of mobile users using eight out of 11 advanced services has declined in the...

Tags: customers, sending, cent, mobile phone

21 August 2007, 9:43

Xbox repair process leaves gamers with the blues

News That's because the extension is limited to consoles that display three blinking lights, or the 'Red Ring of Death', as it is known to the gaming community. Microsoft's announcement that it will spend $1bn to fix problematic Xbox 360s seemed like a...

6 August 2007, 10:00

Panasonic developing lower-end dSLR

News Panasonic entered the market less than a year ago with its DMC-L1, a higher-end model that carries retro features such as a ring around the Leica lens to adjust lens aperture. Beefing up its attempt to penetrate a high-growth segment of the camera...

12 March 2007, 10:36

Future games to be like Wikipedia?

News Eventually, by self-organising into smaller groups that approached the problem from discrete angles, players were able to come up with the solution: that the codes designated pay phones around the world and specific times each would ring.

7 March 2007, 10:36

'Watchdog' tackles Xbox 360 complaints

News Watchdog highlighted two cases in which consoles that had just come out of the one-year warranty period had shown the dreaded 'ring of death' -- referring to the three red lights which appear on the console to indicate a fatal hardware fault.

15 February 2007, 11:10

Skype founders detail plans for Web TV

News They chose Joost because they like the ring of it, according to a spokeswoman. Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, the duo that brought the world Skype and Kazaa, have named their new online-video start-up.

16 January 2007, 9:38

News.blog: Phone for every mood

News If you crossed a mood ring with a mobile phone, what would you get? More importantly, why would anyone think of such a thing? The people at Panasonic and NTT DoCoMo have apparently done just that, and the result is a mobile phone that changes...

Tags: mobile phone, colours, mood, colour

20 November 2006, 9:26

Futuristic remote control to arrive in 2007

News He who bears the ring controls the universe, and the TV. Early next year, at least one undisclosed consumer electronics company will release the Loop, a ring-shaped remote control that lets you navigate by pointing at icons on the TV screen, rather...

9 November 2006, 10:32