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Set-top box boasts P2P content at push of button

News The latest movies and television shows, playable on your television at the press of a button. 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...

Tags: television, material, linux, peer

1 December 2005, 8:52

Apple releases its first multi-button mouse

News For Apple purists, it can also act as a single-button mouse. However, the company has stuck by its single-button design, refining it and adding a Bluetooth wireless version, but maintaining only a single-click option.

3 August 2005, 11:05

News.blog: Microsoft launches 'click the cops' on IM

News UK users of Windows Live Messenger or MSN Messenger can click a new button in the chat application to contact police with reports of suspicious behaviour and instances of inappropriate sexual conduct online.

23 August 2006, 10:34

HP's Memory Spot crams data onto sticker

News About the same size as a shirt button but thinner, a Memory Spot can be stuck onto the corner of a family photo. The chip itself is about the size of a mark from a felt pen -- the packaging turns it into a button-sized item.

17 July 2006, 11:19

News.blog: Apple tries slider-style iPhone?

News The current iPhone famously comes with only one hardware button that returns the user to the home screen, with the rest of the buttons enabled in software. Apple CEO Steve Jobs has said several times that the beauty of the touchscreen approach is...

Tags: iphone, buttons, hardware, style

2 July 2008, 10:00

Apple finally answers call for iPhone

News It incorporates a wide, 160-pixel-per-inch touchscreen, a single 'home' button, 2-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi capability and a mobile phone. The Mac OS X-based iPhone is most akin to an iPod in design, but allows users to listen to music, make phone...

10 January 2007, 10:27

Photos: Busting up a PlayStation

News Removing the case's top half also exposes the PlayStation 2's metal shielding, tiny cooling fan, heatsink, power button PCB and a tiny bit of the mainboard. On the front of the PlayStation 2, you'll find two memory card ports, two controller ports...

Tags: ports, post, chip, cable

1 February 2008, 9:53

'Trusted displays' suggested as online security boost

News The user would then approve the transaction by hitting the Accept button on the device, or kill it by pressing the Deny button, Steeves said. Security of online transactions could be bolstered by adding a display and a set of buttons to a smart...

14 June 2005, 10:16

Images: Top ten extensions for Firefox 2

News A simple button in the Firefox status bar quickly and easily switches sites to IE and back. Tab Mix Plus Don't like the new close button on each tab? The latest major update of Mozilla Firefox incorporates functionality from the most popular...

17 November 2006, 10:40

Talk to your car with new tech

News There's fairly significant demand for 'button-intensive' features in the car like dual climate zones and satellite radio," the US equivalent of DAB that has more than 120 channels, said Jim Pisz, national manager for partnerships at Toyota.

24 January 2006, 10:31

Digg bears the brunt of riggers

News The users hit a thumbs up button, giving it a 'digg' if they like the story or a thumbs down button if they don't like it. Digg became one of the top sites for tech news because it lets Web-savvy geeks decide what's newsworthy, offer up stories...

5 December 2006, 9:39

Photos: Inside the iPod touch

News However, this one contained a few important parts -- the power button and the Wi-Fi antenna. The connections between the circuitry, the USB interface and the on/off power button are very delicate ribbons lurking under the battery.

Tags: fi, battery, wi fi, clip

4 December 2007, 11:15

Microsoft gaming mouse gets laser power

News Significantly, Microsoft rival Apple last month also broke with mouse tradition to launch its first multi-button mouse. Similarly, the products' game toggle enables them to easily shift between favourite weapons or program frequently used action...

7 September 2005, 10:03

Photos: Up close with the iPhone and Apple TV

News Apple was able to maximise screen space by moving some controls to the side of the device and whittling down the number of buttons on its face to one 'home' button. This PR photo from Apple shows the menu users see after clicking the 'home' button...

Tags: apple, displays, press, iphone

10 January 2007, 9:54

Images: Microsoft Office, then and now

News CTRL+F, for instance, will press the Office logo button in the upper-left corner. Now: No more File Office 2007 eliminates the File menu, and places many of the former File commands underneath the Microsoft Office logo button in the upper-left...

25 January 2007, 10:47