machines

How widespread are Xbox 360 problems?

News One thing you always say about these new machines is that the first units have issues. Quite a few postings, such as those appearing on game sites like Xbox-Scene, relate the experiences of some angry Xbox 360 owners whose new machines have already...

30 November 2005, 9:55

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

Phishing attacks take a new twist

News The technology, which records the keystrokes of people using infected machines, could be designed to help phishers stay one step ahead of honest folk. People can infect their machines with keylogger programs in numerous ways, including opening...

5 May 2005, 8:57

Robots go to war -- against each other

News The two machines race toward each other in an electrifying charge of kamikaze metal fury -- Biohazard zipping around fast, attempting to outmanoeuvre the dizzying spinning Megabyte. The matches are jarringly loud, enough to require ear plugs, as...

14 November 2005, 10:30

Photos: Behind the scenes at Vista

News Microsoft test manager Paul Donnelly looks at one of the many machines he has running Vista. As the release of Vista has drawn closer, Donnelly has added more test machines to his office. Mike Kirby stands by some of the machines Microsoft uses to...

10 November 2006, 11:07

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

Apple calls lawyers over phoney iPhones

News Paul O' Brien, founder of Windows Mobile community site Modaco.com, posted a screenshot of the iPhone user-interface and a link to another site where users were able to download and install the screenshot, which allowed the Apple icons to be...

16 January 2007, 9:11

Microsoft takes a stand on 'virtual' licensing

News Advocates argue that virtualisation lets companies reduce the number of servers they need by letting jobs run more efficiently on a smaller number of machines. Under the new policy, a company could choose to dedicate only two virtual machines to a...

11 October 2005, 9:06

Microsoft extends XP sales

News Microsoft also plans to keep XP on retail shelves longer and will allow computer makers in emerging markets to build machines with Windows XP Starter In recent weeks, several PC makers launched programmes that allow new PC buyers to more easily...

28 September 2007, 9:12

Apple attempts to patent 'tamper-resistant software'

News Apple describes ways of ensuring that code can be limited to specific hardware, even in a world in which operating systems can be run simultaneously, in so-called virtual machines. Apple's patent application comes as the company prepares to offer...

10 November 2005, 9:06

News.blog: Unimpressed with Blu-ray and HD DVD players

News That's not to say, of course, that all the Blu-ray machines were ugly. But to look at the machines, one definitely got a sense of being in an electronics store in 1983. Each of the formats was represented by machines from many of the leading...

10 January 2006, 10:51

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

Developers get taste of Intel-based Macs

News And though Apple won't start selling Intel-based Macs to customers until next year, the Mac maker is leasing test machines to developers for $999, starting this month. Bare Bones Software has had a team of workers testing code on the Intel machines...

13 June 2005, 9:43

Second IBM supercomputer speeds up the ranks

News IBM's Watson announcement will come two weeks before an expected bevy of such results, when researchers plan to release the latest list of the world's 500 fastest machines. IBM also rents out access to the machines.

13 June 2005, 9:09

Web site gives emailers a reputation

News CipherTrust is now sharing some of the reputation data it has gathered through those machines with the public through the TrustedSource Web site, the company announced on Monday. Entering a domain name -- cnet.co.uk, for example -- generates a list...

30 August 2005, 8:38