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News.blog: Improve your looks with a digital camera

News That way, it can alter the person's appearance only subtly in a matter of minutes. According to the report, Leyvand showed before-and-after pictures to 40 people, and the majority of them said the software improved the person's looks.

11 August 2006, 10:18

Queuers give their iPhone to charity

News He was staying in a youth hostel, exploring the city, when he walked by the massive glass cube of the Fifth Avenue Apple Store on Monday and saw that the first person had already started queuing for the company's coveted iPhone.

Tags: scale, child, advertising, profit

30 June 2007, 9:28

Lego addicts chase the dream

News Regardless of which contestant or which city, the format of the test never varies: each person is given an hour to build their model, and an unlimited number of Lego bricks from six tubs. And at that pressure-packed event, at least one person will...

13 March 2006, 10:54

YouTube gets tough on copyright violators

News In a letter to Tur, YouTube lawyers told Tur that he should instead go after the person who posted the video, according to Tur's lawyer, Francis Pizzulli. That message is spelled out in YouTube's user agreement, as well as in a computer prompt that...

23 October 2006, 10:06

Cinema piracy law snags first victim

News Salisbury appears to have been the first person prosecuted under the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, which Congress approved in April in an effort to curb online piracy. One section of the law stipulates that any person who uses an...

28 September 2005, 8:59

Vodafone on verge of consumer 3G

News The 64 kilobit per second uplink is suitable for a person-to-person video link," Tillotson told ZDNet UK at an event to launch Vodafone's Mobile Connect 3G/GPRS datacard on Friday. Vodafone is planning a third-generation mobile service for...

2 April 2004, 16:40

Second 'WoW' expansion announced

News Then he discussed Zuluman, a new ten-person instance in the Ghost Lands featuring Forest Trolls battling against Blood Elves. The expansion pack will also introduce numerous five-person dungeons, as well as 10- and 25-person raids.

6 August 2007, 10:21

US passports to be fitted with RFID chips

News Over the last year, opposition to the idea of implanting RFID chips in passports has grown amid concerns that identity thieves could snatch personal information on them out of the air simply by aiming a high-powered antenna at a person or a vehicle.

26 October 2005, 8:42

Trust thy Internet neighbour

News Fake, whose company was acquired by Yahoo in March, was referring to technology that can verify the identity of a person online, or at least establish a person's credibility in a virtual setting or community.

22 June 2005, 9:46

Costly handsets stall Europe's 3G takeup

News A person who bought a phone this Christmas probably bought a GPRS phone. That same person buying a phone in two years' time is more likely to buy one that's UMTS [one flavour of 3G]. While the picture is looking bleak for 3G take-up across Europe...

20 January 2006, 9:58

The rise of the New Geek

News While many New Geeks are still obsessed with computer games, these are likely to be super-sophisticated, £30-plus first-person shooters such as Battlefield 2. New Geeks visit pubs, clubs and bars more than twice as often as an average person.

3 August 2005, 9:42

Face recognition in your photo album

News If a hard drive contains 100 photos of a person, it will pull up 70 of them, miss 30 and pull up seven or so mistakes, Shah said. The software looks at a person's face, but will also look at the shirt they are wearing and other cues to find a match.

14 March 2006, 10:14

Photos: Machinima Festival fuses games with films

News It was 'filmed' using the first-person shooter Counter-Strike, which is available for the PC and Xbox. Hancock is often credited with creating the machinima genre when he kick-started the trend of Quake movies, created with the iconic first-person...

9 November 2006, 11:15

Microsoft demos 3D multi-photo viewer

News In one example, Microsoft showed how a person could navigate through a three-dimensional photo representation of Piazza San Marco in Venice and pan around the square. In another scene, a person could view mountain climbers' progress and zoom out to...

10 November 2006, 9:20

Australia to outlaw suicide Web sites

News The proposed offences are particularly.germane to the] use of the Internet, email and other online applications and are intended to cover the range of activities that a person can engage in when using these," it notes.

27 June 2005, 9:08