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Return of the $100 PC

News The sub-$100 PC is back -- sort of. Recent Internet IPOs -- such as the stunner pulled off by Baidu -- and multibillion dollar acquisitions (like eBay buying Skype) resemble the sort of deals that occurred on a weekly basis back then.

11 October 2005, 9:53

Google seeks all the news that's fit to search

News Google is seeking to patent a technology meant to help its Google News section sort stories based on their overall quality, which could augment the current methods of ranking results by date and relevance to search terms.

3 May 2005, 9:05

The death of the smiley?

News Author Vladimir Nabokov said in a 1969 New York Times interview that "there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile -- some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket". It's kind of pathetic when the 'in group' is sort of half the...

14 March 2007, 10:41

VoIP wants to cut the computer cord

News The big question, however, is how exactly do all these companies plan to deliver a VoIP service beyond the PC and onto some sort of mobile device? But he's also a cutting-edge sort: he's using broadband Net access and lightweight software to save...

27 September 2005, 9:16

Driving Vista in the fast lane

News Certainly a year after a user gets a Vista system, if they do the sort of standard things we encourage users to do (install Windows updates etc), it should run the same as when they initially got it, said Gabriel Aul, a group program manager in...

9 August 2005, 10:51

Seagate unleashes home terabyte

News It includes Maxtor Drag and Sort software for organising files, which can identify and sort a range of different file types and put them in specific music, photo, movie, Web, software or documents folders.

12 July 2006, 10:05

Next Windows Explorer to fail Acid test

News We've dug through the Acid2 test and analysed IE's problems with the test in some great detail, and we've made sure the bugs and features are on our list -- however, there are some fairly large and difficult features to implement, and they will...

2 August 2005, 10:28

Internet search dives into the gadget fray

News That natural combination has helped fuel speculation that Google is set to unveil some sort of gadget that smoothly connects to Google's Internet services. It wouldn't be a stretch to drop that technology into some sort of device.

5 January 2006, 9:46

Nanotech makes paper waterproof and writable

News It was kind of a MacGyver-ish sort of thing," she said, referring to the 1990s TV series about a scientifically resourceful secret agent, much loved by Patty and Selma in The Simpsons. The apparatus sort of hurls it into the paper," said Ramsey.

10 August 2005, 9:12

E3 slogan: 'Everyone's a gamer'

News That may sound like a sort of pseudo-hippie manifesto of gamer democratisation, but it's also a gold mine for financial growth. As for Nintendo, while the company unveiled the 'Zapper' and steering wheel controllers at E3, the buzzworthy item among...

16 July 2007, 9:59

Photos: Windows Media Player 11 unveiled

News Choose to sort by album and you get a visual representation of each album you have. You can sort by title, date taken, size, keywords or rating. You can sort clips by title, length, release year, genre, actors, rating, size and parental rating.

16 May 2006, 12:09

Oyster's e-money plans hit the buffers

News Dave Birch, director of consultancy Consult Hyperion and organiser of the Digital Money Forum, told silicon.com: "What's become clear is that it's more complicated to sort out commercial arrangements than to sort out the technical arrangements...

9 May 2006, 9:40

Geeks to hold open-source camping weekend

News It's sort of like the place for a bunch of geeks to get together and work together and try to create something exciting by being in close proximity to each other," Smith said. I personally know enough people who are going to make it somewhat...

22 August 2005, 9:03

Threat from TCP hole 'small' - researcher

News I sort of pulled together all the pieces. Rather than unleashing the sort of massive packet flood that normally makes up a denial-of-service attack, an online vandal could send far fewer packets and still bring down a site.

22 April 2004, 8:05

News.blog: Intel quits OLPC project

News But the move sort of reminds me of NBC's Jeff Zucker, demanding a cut of iPod revenue in return for selling NBC shows through iTunes at Apple's pricing terms. It would be sort of like if Dell asked Intel to stop selling HP and Apple Core 2 Duo...

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4 January 2008, 9:18