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Top ten must-have gadgets for students

News Price range -- around £130 on pay as you go and free on a monthly contract What we thinkWe like the impressive range of connectivity options, Direct Push email and the ability to synchronise with our Windows PC, but it is a little too chunky

20 September 2006, 16:05

Seagate launches perpendicular drives

News With a transfer rate of 73-125MBps, the Cheetah 15K.5 range transfers data around 30 per cent faster than the Cheetah 15K.4, which does not use perpendicular technology. Momentus drives have a range of spin speeds from 4,200-7,200rpm and capacities...

19 April 2006, 9:12

Will RFID-guided robots rule the world?

News Take a closer look and you'll see the children wearing small electronic devices, tiny radio transmitters that signal the bot when the kids wander out of safe range. Today, tags range in price from 15 cents to as high as $100.

11 July 2005, 11:11

Gadgets on parade at CeBit show

News If you're considering investing in new displays, then it may be worth listening out for news from Sharp, which is expected to bring a wide range of new LCD monitors to CeBit. But a range of factors -- from the rise of Google and Web-based...

7 March 2006, 11:43

Bluetooth and UWB techs are combining efforts

News The move will allow developers and eventually consumers to take advantage of the high transfer rates of the Ultrawideband technology -- between 100 megabits and 200 megabits over a 10- to 20-foot range.

6 May 2005, 10:10

World of Origami further unfolds

News The latest tablets, code-named Vistagami because of their Windows Vista support, will come in a wider range of looks, including some models with keyboards. Using those chips would offer more power and open up phones to the wide range of software...

22 December 2006, 9:03

Shootout at the stun-gun corral

News The company's shares have since dropped to the $5 range. In addition, the Stinger device fires four darts instead of two, has a 79cm range compared with 53cm for Taser, and has an automatic shutoff after four seconds, rather than five.

11 October 2005, 9:25

OLED TVs still AWOL for consumers

News So far, Sony has indicated that it will be the first out of the gate with an OLED TV sometime next year, and the panels will likely be small, in the range of 11 by 27-inches wide. Considering the rate at which LCD television prices are falling...

22 August 2007, 11:09

Skype inks deal for Wi-Fi access in Europe

News This agreement delivers on our commitment to provide the widest range of Wi-Fi services to customers across Europe," Murphy continued, adding that the deal "marks the start of a real low-cost alternative to traditional telecoms services.

12 October 2006, 7:10

Photos: Drive and fly in the AirCar

News As a plane, the AirCar is expected to carry a maximum load of about 1,400 kilograms, cruise at 300 kilometres per hour, and have a range of 1,600 kilometres. The expected battery life of the ElectriCar is about two hours and the electric-only...

Tags: credit, car, auto, city

25 March 2008, 9:29

You're hired: Sky buys Amstrad

News The name Amstrad still resonates within the history of the UK computer industry -- the company made its own CPC home PCs, followed by the PCW range of word processor PCs and its own range of DOS/Windows machines, which took off successfully from...

1 August 2007, 9:14

Microsoft sales rise over $16bn mark

News For the coming quarter, Microsoft said on Thursday that it expects revenue in the range of about $14bn to about $14.5bn, and per-share earnings of around 43 cents to 46 cents. For its full fiscal year, which ends in June, the company estimated that...

Tags: share, range, quarter, revenue

25 January 2008, 9:29

EC suggests using TV spectrum for WiMax

News Even a relatively small part of this spectrum range could provide the basis, bridging the digital divide in rural areas in a scalable and cost-effective manner, as well as providing the basis for an alternative infrastructure competition in both...

14 June 2007, 9:09

Lights, camera, videogames!

News These technologies range from synthetic environments to facial performance capture and body performance capture. When the indies are empowered to create," he said, "then you see a truly wide range of art.

8 September 2006, 10:31

Laptops embrace the Core 2 Duo

News The new laptop chips fall into a 5xxx or 7xxx model-number range, with 7000-series processors offering more performance. The desktop chips use model numbers in the 4xxx and 6xxx range. The letter before the four-digit model number signifies how...

29 August 2006, 7:35