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Intel touts suede laptops

News Of those who admit to glancing at others' laptop PCs, 76 per cent are checking out its style or design, the chipmaker said. 'Chic' was the word on Intel's lips this week as it showed off a new line of concept laptop PCs that the chipmaker believes...

1 December 2005, 9:16

Blogs spiral in information overload

News But bloggers as a whole have begun to play a critical role in accelerating news cycles, fact-checking media and political figures, and undermining public relations campaigns. The blogosphere is in the middle of a big bang.

7 February 2006, 10:17

Yahoo takes the mobile plunge

News The initial applications will be Yahoo Widgets Engine -- small applications that perform tasks for users like checking for the presence of a wireless network -- and Yahoo dashboard, which provides one-click access to Flickr photos, Yahoo Messenger...

6 January 2006, 11:00

Why Google hired Vint Cerf

News Cerf's comments in the July interview seem to indicate he was already thinking about Google's future, as well as projects considerably more ambitious than checking out the General Tsao chicken at a local Chinese takeaway.

12 September 2005, 9:12

'Finance-phobic' consumers open to fraud

News Just checking your accounts once a month when your statement comes through simply isn't enough and it's important that people keep a daily check on what is coming into and going out of their accounts.

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23 November 2007, 8:42

Another way past Windows antipiracy found

News The primary WGA checking mechanism uses ActiveX, which is not supported in all Web browsers. Microsoft's efforts to fight counterfeiting have hit another snag with the posting of a new method that apparently gets around a Windows piracy check.

8 August 2005, 8:43

Mozilla looks forward to Firefox 3.0

News Changes made to Firefox 2.0 include an updated user interface, built-in anti-phishing, inline spell checking, improved tabbed browsing and search capabilities, browser session recovery and an updated add-ons/extensions manager.

18 October 2006, 9:29

UK PS3 launch events delayed for security

News Game and GameStation advise checking with local stores to see what each has planned for the launch. UK gamers wanting to get their hands on a PlayStation 3 at midnight on Friday 23 March in London just lost a few options.

21 March 2007, 9:41

Can Mickey and Frodo revive virtual worlds?

News That brought more new players into the game space, a number of whom are now back into checking out other games in this space," said NCSoft Austin executive producer Richard Garriott, whose Ultima Online game was the first big massively multiplayer...

1 June 2005, 8:56

Bosses get into Bond gadgets

News Consider checking for patches and updates at least weekly. More and more business executives are investing in secret agent-style hardware to make sure their top secret company plans stay under wraps. Bug-detectors disguised as fountain pens...

20 November 2006, 9:49

Dell chooses Ubuntu for Linux PCs

News There definitely are those who are Linux zealots, but we did some checking as well," he said. Dell is trying a second time to sell personal computers with Linux preinstalled, this time using the up-and-coming Ubuntu version of the open-source...

2 May 2007, 10:07

Buy Vista for the security, Allchin says

News As an example of double-checking, Allchin said Microsoft has marked the OS services to know which network ports they should open and which OS functions they should call. Microsoft was in the process of checking the parsing of all kinds of files and...

30 January 2006, 10:14

Microsoft taking the desktop 'Live'

News Other more advanced features include spell-checking, antiphishing features and Photo Mail, according to Microsoft's blog on the subject. Microsoft started testing Windows Live Mail Desktop this week. It will let people manage their Hotmail -- or...

3 April 2006, 10:21

Driven to distraction by technology?

News A study by Hewlett-Packard earlier this year found that 62 per cent of British adults are addicted to their email -- checking messages during meetings, after working hours and on holiday. The typical office worker is interrupted every three minutes...

22 July 2005, 10:00

Photos: BT Labs' secret future tech

News It has also been used to help test Rolls-Royce engines -- wrapped in copper to shield the cable from the intense heat -- by checking the engine is making the right noise. To show off some of the cor-blimey stuff being dreamt up by eggheads in its...

3 October 2006, 9:14