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News.blog: Air guitar T-shirt rocks on

News Air guitar, that time-honoured musical tradition generally best left for performances in garages and basements, has just got a big boost from technology. By customising the software, Helmer and his team have also tailored the technology to make an...

15 November 2006, 9:59

News.blog: Lenovo, Fujitsu to use MacBook Air chip

News Apple is using in the MacBook Air. Apple asked Intel to design the special Core 2 Duo chip last year as it was putting together the design that would become the MacBook Air. The chip fits into a package that's significantly smaller than the garden...

Tags: laptops, designs, air, chip

1 February 2008, 8:53

News.blog: New MacBook Pros in the air?

News With Apple's MacBook Air almost on the shelves, it might not be too much longer before the company updates the rest of its laptop lineup. They did, unwrapping the MacBook Air, but said nothing about the rest of the Mac lineup.

Tags: boost, laptops, notes, air

5 February 2008, 9:28

News.blog: MacBook Air SSD price drops

News Apple has quietly reduced the price of the flash-memory version of the MacBook Air by £300. Before today, you would have paid a £2,028 premium if you wanted a MacBook Air with a solid-state hard drive, but Apple has reduced that premium to £1,719.

Tags: air, hard drive, memory, premium

4 July 2008, 10:17

Japan makes way for real-life air guitars

News Air guitars have just become a reality. This is a toy that allows anybody to sound and feel like a rock star," said Keishi Abe, who was demonstrating Takara Tomy's Air Guitar Pro. Air Guitar Pro has ten songs, including Deep Purple's Smoke On the...

29 June 2007, 11:07

Photos: Deflating a MacBook Air

News The Apple MacBook Air is thin, light and a testament to what good engineering and design can accomplish in a laptop personal computer. For the sake of full disclosure: our Apple MacBook Air is in working condition before we crack it open.

Tags: ram, board, hard drive, air

6 March 2008, 9:35

News.blog: iPods get in-air connectivity

News Air France, Emirates and KLM -- to configure in-flight iPod connectivity. United Airlines has been subject to some pretty bad press recently for being one of several American airlines to slap a $15 (£7.50) fee on checked bags, but here's a perk...

Tags: connectivity, flight, plane, planes

17 June 2008, 9:43

Discovery lands with its future up in the air

News Even after Discovery's safe landing at a California airstrip after a 14-day mission on Tuesday, the future of the US government's space shuttle programme remains uncertain. Originally designed in 1972 and first flown in 1981, the space shuttle...

11 August 2005, 10:18

Adobe's Apollo platform gets beta release

News Adobe on Monday plans to release a beta version of AIR, a software download formerly called Apollo that makes Web-native applications operate like desktop programs. The much-anticipated software, now called the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), is...

11 June 2007, 10:47

Apple patches Safari vulnerabilities

News MacBook Air to be hacked and two flaws in the Windows-only version of The company released the patches this week after a number of vulnerabilities were discovered in the browser recently, including one which allowed a security expert to take...

Tags: research, cent, released, air

18 April 2008, 10:12

Photos: X Prize's rocket fest

News The X Prize Cup competition was part of a three-day rocket fest/air show/expo that took place at Holloman Air Force Base, NM, over the weekend. For the first time ever, Holloman Air Force Base pilots showed off to the public the F22 Raptor, the...

Tags: force, racing, fly, mod

30 October 2007, 10:16

Xbox 360 makes debut in desert

News But as a member of the US Air Force stationed in Japan, he's not anywhere near a shop selling one of the next-generation videogame consoles. The gates to the event opened at around 4 p.m.on Sunday and hundreds of them sat around in the rapidly...

21 November 2005, 10:25

News.blog: Adobe Media Player 1.0 presses play

News Written with Adobe's AIR, AMP is a hybrid online/offline application that lets people subscribe to different video webcasts. Because it's written with AIR, people can be offline or online when they watch.

Tags: multimedia, videos, adobe, air

9 April 2008, 11:33

Adobe denies Office-rival rumours

News He said that Adobe would focus primarily on providing its development platform, AIR, rather than creating online Office-style applications. AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) would allow start-up companies to develop their own Web-based applications...

21 August 2007, 10:10

Photos: Robot cars go head to head

News Projects Agency (DARPA) raised the green flag on Saturday on 11 driverless cars to drive a 97-plus kilometres course at the former George Air Force Base in Oro Grande, California, or what race officials called DARPA city.

Tags: force, air, base, drivers

5 November 2007, 10:06