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Microsoft to add 'black box' to Windows

News Think of it as a flight data recorder, so that any time there's a problem, that 'black box' is there helping us work together and diagnose what's going on," Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said during a speech at the Windows Hardware Engineering...

27 April 2005, 15:31

George Lucas thinks outside the box

News If you put everyone inside the box, they all think the same," Lucas said. And if they are all inside the same box, you can't get to that. Filmmaker George Lucas envisions turning classroom computers into something as ordinary as pencils -- and, no...

Tags: class, students, computers, skills

19 September 2007, 10:41

News.blog: Asus Eee Box details released

News Word got out a little early yesterday morning regarding Asus's small Eee Box, which will be available in early July. There is no optical drive, but the Eee Box does feature a user removable hard drive to simplify upgrades and repairs.

Tags: hard drive, box, linux, lan

3 June 2008, 10:47

Asus Eee Box ready for August release

News Eee Box desktop version of its popular Eee PC mini laptop -- and it will include Windows XP, which has now been given a reprieve on some desktops, as well as Eee PC-type mini laptops. Eee Box will use Intel's 1.6GHz Atom chipset.

Tags: linux, box, operating system, xp

23 June 2008, 10:09

Photos: Apple MacBook out of the box

News Even the box is slim for the new Intel-based MacBook, which now comes in black in addition to the traditional white. The top of the MacBook box flips up for quick access to the computer. Accessories for the MacBook include the MagSafe power cord...

17 May 2006, 15:39

Photos: Futuristic PCs think out of the beige box

News Move over beige box. That was theme enthusiastically embraced by winners of the fourth Microsoft-sponsored Next-Gen PC Design Competition, which this year encouraged entrants to dream up futuristic designs that not only feature eye-catching...

Tags: fantasy, entry, human, shape

20 June 2008, 9:57

News.blog: Last.fm thinks big 'In a Box'

News Last.fm, the music-focused social site that CBS Interactive acquired last year, announced on Wednesday the launch of a project called 'Last.fm In A Box', which distributes the site's ad-supported streaming radio services to partner companies.

Tags: ad, interactive, networks, television

5 June 2008, 10:28

Set-top box boasts P2P content at push of button

News A Dutch company is offering a new Linux-based home media player designed to give Internet users easy access to content from a variety of peer-to-peer networks, including BitTorrent and eDonkey. Called the LamaBox, the VCR-size player is "fully...

Tags: television, material, linux, peer

1 December 2005, 8:52

Nintendo's big E3 surprise comes in a little box

News Nintendo, once the unrivaled king of the home video game business, has released details of its planned new game console and unveiled a new mini-portable device called the Game Boy Micro in Los Angeles (at E3).

18 May 2005, 10:28

Jaws drop as UK device records a week's TV

News When Cory Doctorow visited last weekend's OpenTech conference in London, he was stunned to see a box about the size of a 1990 VCR boasting some pretty futuristic capabilities. The box was a prototype of a digital video recorder from Ascot start-up...

28 July 2005, 11:21

Perspective: Boot Camp is a gimmick

News This contraption was an expansion box that fit around the Mac so you could run PC and Mac software. Apple launched its 'switcher' campaign in 2002, featuring advertisements quoting people who said they'd switched from a PC to a Mac, but as the...

11 April 2006, 10:18

Yahoo hooks up with digital TV

News Starting today, consumers will be able to schedule recordings on their TiVo box from a special Yahoo portal. From any Yahoo TV episode page, users can click the 'Record to my TiVo box' button, the companies said.

7 November 2005, 9:53

Microsoft TV dealt blow Down Under

News Telstra had been in discussions with Microsoft to conduct a trial using the Microsoft TV IPTV set-top-box software but decided it was premature to move forward. Last month, Swisscom said it would postpone the commercial launch of its Bluewin TV...

23 June 2005, 10:00

News.blog: 'WoW Burning Crusade' collector's edition revealed

News Contained in the spiffy box -- Blizzard released a similar collector's edition box with the original version of WoW in late 2004 that these days fetches in excess of $300 (£160) on eBay -- the collector's edition will include the game on CD and...

5 October 2006, 11:41

Photos: Apple's 'showtime'

News This little box connects a Mac or PC to your TV or home-cinema system over a wireless network. At San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, chief executive Steve Jobs touted some of the company's newest products, including a new video iPod...

13 September 2006, 11:23