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Stories on
keys
CNET.co.uk has 49 stories on keys
Operators push for RFID in phones
News Mobile phones could have moved a step closer to being used as credit cards, car keys and concert tickets, after operators around the world said they would work together on the technology. A user could also use the phone to download a concert ticket...
21 November 2006, 8:44
Apple patents touch-screen keyboard
News One recently published patent covers a new method for "activating virtual keys of a touch-screen virtual keyboard". The virtual keyboard learns which keys are touched more often than others and adjusts the sensitivity of each key accordingly.
2 May 2006, 10:30
Technologies Time Forgot: The Dragon 32
News I must confess I too was drawn to its chunky keys. My mum and dad believed its keys were much more grown-up than the Spectrum's rubber horrors and it must therefore have been a far more serious machine.
8 February 2002, 11:00
High-tech keyboard takes cue from Etch-a-Sketch
News Instead of tapping independently on four virtual keys with a stylus to spell 'word', for example, consumers would put the stylus on 'w' and then carve a continuous trail all the way to 'd'. QWERTY keyboards, which were arranged to prevent...
12 July 2005, 9:48
News.blog: Eyes may make mice extinct
News Selections are made by pressing keys on the keyboard that have been redefined as right and left mouse keys. The mouse, like many of its technical counterparts, may become obsolete one day. Thanks to Swedish company Tobii Technology, that day may...
7 August 2006, 11:13
What not to eat -- over your keyboard
News Removal from keys is not challenging unless the pasta disappears completely from sight. If the trailing strand of pasta should happen to be coated with a sticky sauce, it is likely to adhere to the keys, or even descend between them.
15 March 2006, 10:00
Mazda swaps car key for USB in concept car
News With some radio-based ignition keys, thieves have set up receivers to steal the code and program a transmitter with the same code to steal the car. Car manufacturers have since developed keys with rolling codes to make it more difficult to steal a...
2 September 2005, 9:58
Logitech unleashes cordless desktop combos
News The 12 function keys have a second mode that allows the owner to programme separate actions such as going to a particular Web site or opening an email program. The device has seven customisable keys, including three smart keys.
17 August 2005, 10:12
Qwerty could be knocked from top
News Modern typewriter inventor Christopher Sholes initially experimented with arranging the keys in alphabetical order, but discovered that the bars holding the letters collided and jammed too often as they struck the paper.
23 December 2005, 9:36
Bypass found for Windows piracy check
News The threat is mitigated because the keys generated by the GenuineCheck tool expire "rapidly", the Microsoft representative said. Consequently, it would not do anyone much good to put up a Web page with a list of keys.
24 May 2005, 10:09
US passports to be fitted with RFID chips
News In addition, the passports will use 'Basic Access Control' -- a reference to storing a pair of secret cryptographic keys in the chip inside. In a recent paper, Ari Juels, David Molnar and David Wagner warned that the design of the encryption keys...
26 October 2005, 9:42
Windows Vista -- a preview
News SearchUsing Windows file search has long been the operating system equivalent to searching for your car keys in the morning -- you have a hazy idea of where they should be, but it'll take longer than you think it should to find them.
22 March 2006, 12:26
Images: Microsoft Office, then and now
News Then: Quick keys Would you rather press CTRL+S instead of selecting File and then Save in Office 2003? Now: ALT key In Office 2007 applications, press the ALT key at any time to display the quick keys next to their corresponding functions.
25 January 2007, 10:47
Microsoft to lock Vista pirates out of PCs
News New licensing systems will replace the current volume licence keys, which have been widely abused, Hartje said. Fifty per cent of the piracy, we think, uses keys issued to volume licensing customers," she said.
5 October 2006, 11:29
Behold the customisable keyboard
News Everyone's hands are sized differently, after all, and every player has a distinct way of darting around the keys to dodge a demon or win a fleet match of shoot and retreat. It's no surprise, then, that it was a game enthusiast who first conceived...
27 June 2005, 11:29
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Format wars: The tech that should have won
Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed
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