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Wednesday 6 August 2008

AMD ships new 790GX gaming chip

The new chipset is is aimed at the performance gaming community and features 'Advanced Clock Calibration' for safe overclocking More

Friday 1 August 2008

Faster FireWire approved for gigabit generation

The new IEEE 1394-2008 specification will support bandwidth of up to 3.2Gbps, a fourfold increase, and will be available in October More

Thursday 15 May 2008

News.blog: Can Bill Gates kill the mouse and keyboard?

It wasn't exactly Minority Report, but Gates' demonstration at Microsoft's CEO Summit may be remembered as the end for the keyboard and mouse era, writes News.com blogger Charles Cooper More

Friday 11 April 2008

News.blog: Nvidia takes fight to Intel

Nvidia wants to show you how to build or buy a PC that's 'balanced' -- you're better off spending less on the CPU and more on a graphics card, writes News.com blogger Rich Brown More

Tuesday 18 December 2007

FireWire speed set to quadruple

Backers say a new electrical specification will see the speed of the data-interfacing standard rise from 800Mbps to 3.2Gbps -- which would make it practical for HD TV signals More

Tuesday 8 May 2007

Wave a futuristic goodbye to the mouse

The technical advisor on Steven Spielberg's Minority Report has started a company that's trying to bring the film's dramatic hand-waving interface to every desktop More

Monday 30 April 2007

BT trials motion-sensing tech for laptops

BT Balance is a motion-sensing technology that will enable mobile devices such as tablet PCs and laptops to work with movement, in the style of an Etch A Sketch toy More

Wednesday 24 January 2007

AMD selling graphics to the masses

The chipmaker wants a bigger slice of the market to care about graphics performance, particularly with Vista coming out -- and it wants to sell them cut-price graphics processors More

Thursday 18 January 2007

User-generated podcessories at Macworld

Accessory maker Mophie solicited iPod case designs, picked three winners and produced samples by the end of the week More

Thursday 11 January 2007

Photos: Sling shows off at CES

Sling Media has made some big product announcements at CES, including SlingCatcher -- we've got some images straight from the show floor More

Thursday 14 December 2006

Nike+iPod exposed as tracking device

Research that shows how the Nike+iPod RFID transmitter can be used to track an individual is dubbed 'very scary' More

Thursday 30 November 2006

AMD blasts off Quad for PC gamers

The new Quad FX Platform gives AMD an answer to Intel's quad-core PC chip -- but using two Athlon FX processors in two different sockets More

Tuesday 28 November 2006

New navigation device from 3Dconnexion

The SpaceNavigator offers an alternative to the mouse movement and keystroke combinations currently used to navigate 3D environments More

Friday 3 November 2006

NHS develops bug-busting keyboard

Researchers at a London teaching hospital have come up with a "clean" keyboard that could help in the fight against hospital bugs More

Friday 13 October 2006

News.blog: Using the Force via USB

Flash drive maker Mimoco has released a USB memory stick in the shape of Darth Vader, writes News.com blogger (and Star Wars nerd) Candace Lombardi More

Thursday 28 September 2006

Slingbox gets new US siblings

Sling Media is targeting more than high-end tech wizards with three variations on its placeshifting technology -- the Slingbox Pro, Slingbox AV and Slingbox Tuner More

Thursday 21 September 2006

News.blog: iTV has a 'small' hard drive

Disney president Bob Iger has revealed that Apple's forthcoming iTV will come with a small hard drive, writes News.com blogger Tom Krazit More

Thursday 14 September 2006

Microsoft demos Vista-friendly peripherals

The new keyboards, mice, webcams and headsets are designed for multimedia lovers and multitaskers, and sport features for the upcoming Vista operating system More