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Ref-helping tech not ready for World Cup

News Basketball referees use replay systems to make sure players shoot within the time allotted by the shot clock. Shot information could take several seconds to reach referees. The Argentines thought so. A computer-assisted replay on German television...

20 June 2006, 10:31

News.blog: WiiWare launches with six US games

News Nintendo on Monday put its latest shot across the bow of Microsoft and Sony when it officially launched WiiWare in the US, its new online repository of downloadable games. Ostensibly a service where Wii gamers will be able to shop for new...

Tags: sony, developers, platform, xbox

13 May 2008, 9:04

News.blog: A new focus for photographers

News It's one of the oldest, most common problems in photography: that picture you thought would be the prize shot is out of focus. Refocus Imaging, a Silicon Valley start-up, thinks its technology can be used to make cameras that can fix that problem...

Tags: fix, field, research, raw

29 February 2008, 9:22

Nanotech golf ball delayed

News On its first shot, the nanotechnology golf ball has landed in the rough. The NDMX, a golf ball designed by material science specialist NanoDynamics that will correct for a slight slice or a hook, was supposed to be on store shelves this past spring.

6 October 2005, 9:15

Photos: Sony struts its latest stuff

News At its 2007 Line Show in Las Vegas, Sony introduced a slew of new cameras -- such as this Cyber-shot DSC-W80 -- and is pushing its facial recognition technology and ability to directly output photos in 'full HD' on to any of its Bravia televisions.

28 February 2007, 9:10

UK online shopping soars to £8.2bn

News Online shopping sales shot up to £8.2bn in the UK last year with consumers spending almost as much on the Web as they do in high-street department stores, according to the latest figures. The report from retail analyst Verdict Research found a 29...

14 February 2006, 9:17

NBA to create vast digital TV archive

News If you're a rabid basketball fan and have long wished you could get your hands on video of that one memorable shot by Michael Jordan from the Chicago Bulls play-off game you went to in 1989, the National Basketball Association may soon be able to...

12 December 2005, 9:36

Hate the paps? New tech stops digital cameras

News Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have come up with an inexpensive way to prevent digital cameras and digital video cameras from capturing that secret shot. The technology they've devised detects the presence of a digital camera up...

20 September 2005, 9:48

Airports the hottest Wi-Fi spots

News During the past year, Wi-Fi usage worldwide shot up by 44 per cent and the UK was blazing a trail with 75 per cent growth. Wireless Internet access is booming and nowhere more so than in public spaces such as airports, cafés, pubs and hotels.

7 March 2007, 9:27

iPhone unlikely to arrive in China soon

News Apple's iPhone is unlikely to hit Chinese shelves soon because of technical and fee issues, industry executives said on Wednesday, a day after shares in the company's stock price shot up on hopes of a deal with China Mobile.

Tags: stock, talk, chinese, executive

15 November 2007, 9:07

Photos: Apple debuts iPhone 'software road map'

News The SDK gives the hot-shot gadget its entrée into the business and even gaming worlds. Here are are some photos to help you feel like you were on Apple's guest list for the official launch of the company's iPhone software development kit on Thursday.

Tags: networks, jobs, president, iphone

7 March 2008, 9:49

Camera shake could be no more

News The technique is based on an algorithm that deduces the path that a wobbling camera took when a photo was shot, then uses that path to reverse much of the resultant blurring. Another hurdle comes from noisy images, such as those taken from lower...

10 August 2006, 9:30

The drive for multi-disk PCs

News I save hundreds of files for each shot on my computer before I burn them on CDs for my clients," the Palo Alto, California resident said of his near-miss. After nearly losing nearly 9,000 photos to a malfunctioning internal hard drive, commercial...

11 August 2005, 8:46

Apple Mac usage 'spectacular' in 2007

News Net Applications found that Mac operating systems represented more than 7 per cent of Web traffic during December, but that figure shot up after Christmas to just over 8 per cent on the last two days of the year.

Tags: cent, windows vista, statistics, operating systems

3 January 2008, 9:06

Email addicts get help in 12 steps

News Developed for cases such as a golfer who checked his BlackBerry after every shot, and lost a potential client who wanted nothing to do with his obsession, Marsha Egan's plan taps into deepening concern that email misuse can cost businesses...

21 February 2007, 10:44