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The iPhone: more questions than answers

News The lack of buttons -- except for the home button -- also fits in nicely with Apple's minimalist design ethos and will allow the company to use the same basic hardware footprint for a wide variety of programmable devices.But it's not really a...

11 January 2007, 11:21

Image navigation with a sci-fi touch

News Taking a page out of a science-fiction novel, Microsoft's research labs have come up with a way for people to navigate computer images using their hands to change their point of view. With TouchLight, people can use their hands to, among other...

19 July 2006, 9:34

Brazilian kids to get first $100 laptops

News Children in Brazil will be the first to get their hands on the much talked about $100 (£50) laptop. Fifty devices will be given to Brazilian school children for testing with 1,000 more in use from early next year, according to press reports.

28 November 2006, 10:35

Xbox 360 looks the business

News Over plates of olives, endives, red peppers and other snacks at Dogpatch Studios in the somewhat rundown San Francisco neighbourhood of Dogpatch on Monday, Microsoft finally pulled back the curtains on the new Xbox for a small crowd of journalists...

12 October 2005, 10:40

Firefox 3 gets a dummy run

News Although Firefox 2 was released just this autumn, Mozilla wants Web application developers and its own testing community to get their hands on the alpha version of Firefox 3. Mozilla has given software developers a first taste of the next version...

13 December 2006, 10:24

iPhones plentiful, queuing pointless

News Long queues for Apple's iPhone moved quickly on Friday evening on both coasts of the US, as the general public finally got its hands on what is perhaps the most hyped gadget in tech history. In both New York and San Francisco, queues that had...

30 June 2007, 16:43

Dyson switches from suck to blow

News Put your hands in, and a curtain of air travelling at 400 miles per hour removes the moisture. The drying area is relatively small -- you can't stick your head in, for instance -- but it will whisk away water on your hands in about 12 seconds or less.

25 June 2007, 9:36

Ten things not to do to your hard drive

News Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard drives, according to a data-recovery company that has released a list of the most remarkable cases of data loss witnessed this year.

17 November 2006, 10:23

News.blog: Google to turn over YouTube user activity

News Viacom is getting its hands on some of YouTube's sensitive user data as a result of the copyright infringement lawsuit the conglomerate filed a year ago. The two companies are in the discovery part of the case and must make certain information...

Tags: case, google, order, youtube

4 July 2008, 9:01

Eee 900 launches with limited stock

News PC, the Eee PC 900, but most UK customers are currently unable to get their hands on the popular subnotebook. Asus has officially launched the latest version of its Eee The Taiwanese manufacturer said in mid April that the Eee 900 would hit shelves...

Tags: stock, asus, shops, eee

2 May 2008, 9:21

Xbox 360 IPTV ready at year's end

News Now, Microsoft says the functionality will be in the hands of IPTV service providers by year's end -- and not necessarily those of consumers. The Xbox 360 fall update is just around the corner and speculation is rife about what features it will...

Tags: television, functionality, console, xbox

31 October 2007, 9:26

Sony Ericsson revamps flagship business smart phone

News Users keen to get their hands on the P990 will have to be patient, as it doesn't ship until the first half of next year. Sony Ericsson has released the latest in its smart phone portfolio, the P990. The P990 is based on Symbian 9.1, the latest...

12 October 2005, 9:30

Photos: Cracking open the Wii

News Bill Detwiler at CNET.co.uk's sister site TechRepublic got his hands on a Nintendo Wii a while back and took the thing apart piece by piece for readers' enjoyment. CNET.co.uk is publishing this excerpt.

28 August 2007, 9:48

Vista set for retail release 30 January 2007

News Mark 30 January 2007 in your diary because that's when the average consumer will be able to get their hands on Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system. Following months of speculation, Microsoft has revealed that Vista will be on shelves and...

10 November 2006, 11:30

BBC set to broadcast in 'Second Life'

News In the Second Life economy, more than $600,000 changes hands every day. Now the virtual world is set to play host to a BBC documentary about that economy and how people have made real money from it. The possibility of making real money from virtual...

1 June 2007, 9:38