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iPaq leak shows Hewlett-Packard's hand(held)

News A slide show available on Thursday, but quickly removed by Friday morning, revealed two new hw6700-series Mobile Messenger devices -- the hw6710 and the hw6715 -- with a 1.3-megapixel camera. Prices were not disclosed, but the new iPaqs are...

15 August 2005, 9:53

Nanocars ready to roll

News Experiments conducted so far show that photons will turn the paddlewheel. Images show that, instead of sliding sideways, the car takes a turn first and then heads toward the tip. If it were spinning, you would expect it to slide from the front as...

24 October 2005, 10:52

Photos: Inside Windows Vista beta 2

News These include a slide show, an analogue clock and an RSS reader. The right column has been simplified to show tasks, such as Documents, Pictures, Music and Games. The tweaks to build 5381 appear to be aimed at a wider consumer market, providing...

24 May 2006, 13:07

Scanning the mobile TV landscape

News For years, stakeholders in mobile television have waited for mass adoption, but TV fans were turned off by the viewing quality of technologies such as streaming video, which, with its sometimes stalling, blurry images, tended to resemble a slide...

30 January 2006, 10:42

Vista tries to get snappier with photos

News Pictures can be shown in a slide show on the PC, tapping Vista's improved built-in graphics. Similar in many respects to Apple's iPhoto, the new tool was demoed by Bill Gates at January's Consumer Electronics Show.

25 October 2006, 10:57

Sony details Blu-ray plans and new products

News A new $500, 5.3-megapixel Cyber-shot will take TV-quality video as well as provide a slide-show display capability similar to that found on a PC, the company said. Other manufacturers, including Samsung, are announcing their own Blu-ray player and...

5 January 2006, 11:04

News.blog: How tech billionaires live

News Forbes.com has published a little article (plus a slide show and video) on the very big homes of America's tech billionaires. Ever wanted to be a fly on the uber-mansion walls of Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs or Michael Dell?

12 December 2005, 10:37

News.blog: Asus shows off Eee Monitor

News A PC World reporter at the Computex trade show in Taipei snapped a few photos of a company slide showing the Eee Monitor. Pictures of the Eee Monitor, the upcoming all-in-one desktop PC from Asus, have surfaced.

Tags: asus, inches, eee, imac

6 June 2008, 10:11

Photos: Apple presents Leopard and Mac Pro

News This year we've got 4,200 registered attendees, the largest WWDC ever," said Apple CEO Steve Jobs.iChat Theater creates a picture-in-picture view, showing chat participants alongside a slide show or keynote presentation.

8 August 2006, 14:57

Stephen Hawking's cosmological riff

News In a show of good timing, Hawking displayed an overhead slide showing a stone prison wall with his face peering through the bars of a lone window. We don't have good observations for how the universe is expanding again so rapidly after a long...

14 November 2005, 9:47

Price cuts on the way for plasma?

News The slide in plasma display demand came despite substantial price cuts over Christmas. DisplaySearch's research provides data for one of the lingering debates of the Consumer Electronics Show. It looks as if plasma is losing ground in the high end...

31 January 2007, 9:27

Photos: US mobiles show off at CTIA

News The semiannual CTIA trade show gives mobile companies the chance to show off their newest wireless wares. Here's a collection of some of the highlights from the show so far that will be available soon for customers in the US.

Tags: credit, nokia, windows mobile, iphone

3 April 2008, 11:06

Sidebar on show in next Vista preview

News Sidebar is a small panel at the side of the monitor that can be used to view photo slide shows, RSS feeds and other small programs, dubbed gadgets. Recently though, it has been featured prominently in discussions of Vista features, including Bill...

3 February 2006, 10:00

Videogames that stick it to 'The Man'

News Another barbed critique, which made its rounds on the Web, was 'Yours is a Very Bad Hotel', a 17-slide PowerPoint screed created in the late 1990s by two travellers upset with the DoubleTree Club Hotel in Houston.

6 February 2006, 10:07

Is YouTube too unpolished for ads?

News YouTube has successfully attracted a large following by becoming the master of ceremonies for an Internet variety show that offers a stage to homemade-movie makers. As cars continue to slide into each other, up comes a banner ad for Bridgestone tyres.

24 April 2006, 10:47