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Photos: New York gets a mini Googleplex

News What game room would be complete without a videogame setup and electronic guitar setup? Following a year of speculation, Google has finally opened its new office in the Big Apple at 111 Eighth Avenue, in the heart of the Chelsea neighbourhood in...

3 October 2006, 11:08

News.blog: AMD revs up PC gaming

News AMD on Thursday announced a new setup for PC gamers that combines two dual-core processors and two graphics processors, which should keep plenty of processing power supplied to even the most demanding games.

2 June 2006, 11:03

Photos: A look at the Zune software

News The initial setup screen for the software offers a cheery alternative to the grey box that accompanies many Windows program install screens. The Zune software is free from Microsoft's Zune Web site. The main page for the Zune Marketplace, the...

16 November 2006, 10:41

Intel pushes WiMax around the world

News Intel announced a slew of new investments on Wednesday that build on its global vision of wireless networks over citywide areas, a setup also known as WiMax. The chipmaking giant said it signed a $1.12bn (£640m) contract for the M-Taiwan (Mobilize...

11 November 2005, 9:20

Photos: A peek inside the automated home

News The setup was centred around the Z-Wave open wireless standard, which was developed by Zensys for home appliance networking and automation. A chic loft apartment in New York City's Flatiron District was outfitted on Tuesday with a whole slew of new...

20 October 2006, 10:52

IBM brains capture a PC's soul

News The virtual computer user environment setup is called Soulpad, and you install it from your x86-based home or office PC. Researchers at IBM are testing software that would let you carry your home or office desktop around on an iPod or similar...

16 August 2005, 9:36

Pick up the tab with a text message

News The company's setup lets customers pay a bill using a text message. Forgot your credit card? Don't have cash on you? No worries -- just use your mobile phone to pay the bill. That's what some people in the US can now do if they sign up for an...

30 November 2006, 9:40

Dell to sell through PC World and Currys

News It has also signed a deal with UK retailer HMV to sell its PCs, which includes using its gamer-centric XPS models in a LAN gaming setup. Dell announced on Thursday that its desktops and laptops will be available through DSG International, one of...

Tags: dell, europe, products, desktops

14 December 2007, 14:48

NASA hosts space elevator competition

News Sponberg was overseeing setup and tests of the competition on Friday. Picture a ribbon stronger than steel that stretches from Earth to a satellite and acts as a kind of space motorway, on which robots transport materials back and forth.

24 October 2005, 10:51

HP to include Netscape browser on new PCs

News As part of the HP deal, consumers in the US and Canada will be able to choose Netscape as their default browser during computer setup, a Netscape representative said on Monday. In a move that harks back to the browser wars, Hewlett-Packard plans to...

4 October 2005, 11:14

Home networking to ride broadband boom

News But more importantly, better network configuration tools and easy-to-navigate user interfaces will assuage consumers' concerns about setup difficulties or application glitches. American households that are wired with entertainment networks are...

7 July 2006, 10:15

Europe PS3s less backwards-compatible

News In a statement, the company added that some additional titles would be made compatible through regular firmware updates -- a similar setup as in the US, where initially some previous Sony format games experienced problems, but many were fixed...

26 February 2007, 9:24

'WoW' battles server problems

News I don't know Blizzard's system setup. With 6 million subscribers, each of whom pays $15 (£8.99 in the UK) a month, Blizzard Entertainment's online game World of Warcraft has become a billion-dollar enterprise.

25 April 2006, 11:49

Photos: Fighting crime with 'nonlethal' tech

News This pistol-like setup from Jaycor is a more traditional-looking nonlethal option for law enforcement agencies. Cdr. Charles 'Sid' Heal heads the technology exploration program in the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.

Tags: law, station, wave, ground

31 October 2007, 9:51

Mac OS X hacked in half an hour

News The rm-my-mac challenge was setup similar to how you would have a Mac acting as a server -- with various remote services running and local access to users. Gaining root access to a Mac is "easy pickings", according to an individual who won an OS X...

7 March 2006, 11:05