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News.blog: NASA 'earbots' keep robots well balanced

News The earbot is a Styrofoam golf ball-like structure containing clusters of micro electro-mechanical sensors used to sense direction of motion, acceleration and rotation, much like the cochlea measures head movement.

3 October 2006, 9:26

Motorola links up with Yahoo for mobile Internet

News On Tuesday, Motorola kept the ball rolling by unveiling a series of products and services intended to help home and business users access more data and stay connected whether they are on the road or in their home.

27 July 2005, 8:39

News.blog: The camera behind Google's Street View

News Thanks to our good friend Xeni Jardin at Boing Boing, we now know that many of the images, at least those shot outside the San Francisco Bay Area, were shot using this fairly disco-ball-esque device by the outside contractor, Immersive Media.

1 June 2007, 9:51

Google plans Chrome for Mac and Linux

News Walker said: "Once the design started to settle down, we started adding Mac and Linux engineers to the team, and they started getting the ball rolling on those platforms. Google has revealed it's already working on a version of its Chrome Internet...

Tags: linux, platforms, chrome, released

4 September 2008, 9:27

Early acceptance runs risks for PeopleSoft shareholders

News And if the offer price drops and they don't stay on top of it, the shares are sold at the lower price if they're not withdrawn before the deadline," said Tom Ball, a senior managing director at Morrow & Co.a New York-based proxy solicitor.

10 June 2004, 11:05

Londoners get sneak peek at 'Pro Evo 6'

News The ball doesn't stick to the feet in this version. As part of the London Games Festival, UK gamers got a sneak preview and the chance to play Konami's hotly anticipated Pro Evolution Soccer 6 for the Xbox 360 at HMV's Oxford Street store on Friday.

9 October 2006, 9:04

Microsoft and Yahoo re-enter talks

News And Yahoo, which sources told CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com, considered the ball to be in Microsoft's court since it was the one to walk away from the deal, faced the ire of its major shareholders after those deal talks failed.

Tags: proxy, deal, continue, advertising

19 May 2008, 10:21

Wii UK pricing and launch date announced

News Among the confirmed launch titles are The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Need for Speed: Carbon, Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam, and Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz. Nintendo has announced that its next-generation Wii console will hit Europe on 8...

15 September 2006, 16:38

Left-handers get their own input devices

News The company produces four types of pointing devices, with names such as SpaceMouse and SpaceBall, all intended to work in concert with a standard computer mouse or track ball. A spin-off of peripherals maker Logitech is betting that a lot of people...

26 March 2004, 7:30

News.blog: Samsung hybrid drives ready to spin

News Hybrid drives and technologies such as Intel's Robson are expected to get the ball rolling, but some laptop makers might experiment with all-flash laptops this year. It's almost too bad: if my IT department buys hybrid hard drives, I won't have...

8 March 2007, 9:45

Photos: High tech travel in Ford's taxi

News The silvery ball -- Ford calls it 'Sputnik' -- allows passengers to get cash to the driver. Ford Motor has long been a big-time supplier of taxis, from the Crown Victoria, with its generously proportioned sedan stylings to the Explorer Hybrid, with...

Tags: driver, connect, credit, auto

21 March 2008, 8:00

Sony lines up iTunes video challenger

News Unless the company can find a new approach, something that moves the ball forward, I don't see how this latest video effort is going to go in Sony's favour. To Sony, the weak spot in Apple's iTunes fortress could be in video downloads.

6 September 2007, 9:03

Intel's mobile phone plans still on hold

News But making communications chips for mobile phones is an entirely different ball game for the company, which faces strong competition from established players like Texas Instruments and Freescale Semiconductor, Motorola's former chip division.

10 March 2006, 10:10

Dell chooses Ubuntu for Linux PCs

News I don't think this is going to be a knock-the-ball-out-of-the-park home run," said IDC analyst Al Gillen, who still doesn't see a major Linux draw for most Windows PC users. Dell is trying a second time to sell personal computers with Linux...

2 May 2007, 10:07

Photos: Fighting crime with 'nonlethal' tech

News It fires pepper-ball projectiles. Cdr. Charles 'Sid' Heal heads the technology exploration program in the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. The program's goal is to identify and help develop technologies that may have some use for law enforcement...

Tags: law, station, wave, ground

31 October 2007, 9:51