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Cops want to attack terrorism Web sites

News Under the proposals, it would become an offence to fail to disclose encryption keys and to use the Internet to facilitate acts of terrorism. While the police have admitted that the time it takes to break some encryption standards has slowed...

27 July 2005, 12:30

Behold the customisable keyboard

News Everyone's hands are sized differently, after all, and every player has a distinct way of darting around the keys to dodge a demon or win a fleet match of shoot and retreat. It's no surprise, then, that it was a game enthusiast who first conceived...

27 June 2005, 11:29

Photos: Microsoft keyboard and mouse for Macs

News Among the features of Microsoft's Wireless Laser Desktop for Mac are a magnifier on the mouse (top left), a zoom slider on the keyboard (right) and dedicated keys for photo editing (bottom). The Wireless Laser Desktop for Mac -- an Apple-optimised...

1 June 2006, 9:42

Photos: Asia's top ten MP3 players

News Weaknesses: Stiff keys; bothersome sync adaptor; thicker than the iPod. 1. Creative Zen Vision:M (30GB) Price range: £186-£250 Strengths: Fast transfer speed; wide video-codec support; brilliant screen; improved vertical scroll.

3 July 2006, 11:24

Photos: Apple's MacBook back in black

News The keyboard features blocked keys with guttered spacing in between. The MacBook's outer casing has a smooth, matte-black finish, making the illuminated Apple logo stand out vividly. Fingerprints are an issue, although Apple does provide a cleaning...

18 May 2006, 13:15

Gadget theft can be stopped

News Lightweight and easy to conceal, handhelds, laptops and music players are sleek, valuable and often carried around as casually as a set of keys. As electronic products shrink in size, they grow in allure, not only to consumers, but also to thieves.

28 April 2005, 16:54

News.blog: Sony BMG links with Nokia music service

News After buying one of the devices, users will get unlimited free access to the music of Alicia Keys, the Foo Fighters or any Sony BMG artist for a full year. The concept behind Nokia's new music service 'Comes with Music' is starting to catch on with...

Tags: labels, nokia, concept, music service

23 April 2008, 10:22

News.blog: Google and Apple collaborating?

News In the Localizable.strings file inside the iPhoto app bundle, we find several intriguing keys, including one called GPSMapURL which is preset to 'http://maps.google.com/maps? A posting in a forum for enthusiasts of Intel-based Macs suggests that...

5 October 2006, 10:28

PC World bids farewell to the floppy disk

News The increasing use of digital downloads and photography means many files are now too large for a floppy disk to hold and with plenty of other storage devices -- USB keys, rewritable CDs, memory cards -- with significantly more storage capacity, PC...

31 January 2007, 9:36

The secrets of WoW's success

News And for Pardo to appear onstage at the Austin Game Conference and explain Blizzard's keys to building a successful game was a bold move, especially as many people are wondering what it will take for another company to come along and take Blizzard...

7 September 2006, 10:58

News.blog: Mouse-and-Qwerty-keyboard combo

News Its grip is similar to that of a regular mouse and its keys are arranged just like the right-hand side of a conventional Qwerty keyboard. If, as so many of us do, you spend much of your day in front of a PC, you are likely to move your hand from...

18 May 2006, 10:53

Photos: Computers of yesteryear

News This Xerox computer keyboard had dedicated keys for word-processing features like bolding text, creating italics, underlining and the like. A giant disk used for storage on the Xerox Alto computer, as seen at the DigiBarn Computer Museum in Boulder...

20 August 2007, 10:45

Photos: Apple iMacs through the ages

News The original model came with a 233MHz PowerPC G3 chip, a smaller keyboard with black keys, and a round 'hockey puck' mouse. Apple's iMacs now come in three sizes: a 17-inch, a 20-inch and a new 24-inch.

7 September 2006, 11:28

Photos: Gaming gear from E3

News It also includes microphone and headphone jacks, two USB ports and 95 programmable keys. GestureTek announced that Microsoft has licensed its video gesture-control technology for use with the Xbox Live Vision camera for Xbox 360.

12 May 2006, 12:10

Nokia unveils flurry of new phones

News The E61i emailer will be thinner than its ancestor; it will have shortcut keys to popular apps such as email and will also come with a camera, a new development for the E series. Nokia has kicked off this year's 3GSM conference with a raft of new...

Tags: nokia, apps, slider, dvb

13 February 2007, 9:24