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Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge LED View Cover review

Robbie Khan — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 10:58:01 +0000

A beautiful phone deserves to be shown off, but beauty has its shortfalls. Such a phone often requires protection from the trials of everyday life. Does the LED View Cover have form and function? Read more...

Bing testing expanded content view on homepage

Brad Sams — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:50:46 +0000

It appears, thanks to a screenshot from a tipster, that Microsoft is testing an expanded content view for Bing. The idea seems to be to provide more content on the home page with an an expanding pane. Read more...

Gmail threading gets kill switch

Joshua Seed — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:57:39 +0000

Google announced today the ability to disable Gmail's email threading (conversation view) feature. Conversation view has been one of its most hotly debated features since the service launched in 2004. With more corporations and large organizations... Read more...

Musician chases Street View car to promote himself

Matthew Hopson — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:22:58 +0000

A musician from Saskatoon, Canada has succeeded in promoting himself online by getting his picture onto Google's Street View. Getting himself ahead of the car when it visited his town earlier this year wasn't easy,... Read more...

Pressure mounts on Google's UK street view service

Tom Warren — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:31:46 +0000

Google's UK version of street view for Google Maps launched last week in the UK and has created a media circus ever since. The Google Maps feature, which allows users to browse through popular cities... Read more...

Boring lawsuit against Google dismissed

Matthew Hopson — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:35:58 +0000

A lawsuit made by a couple who claim that Google's Street View violated their privacy, has been dismissed by a federal judge, according to BBC News. Christine and Aaron Boring claimed that the photographs, taken... Read more...

Google Maps street view rips hole in space-time fabric

Brad Sams — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:56:37 +0000

Google Maps street view is a massive undertaking by Google. The idea of bringing a street level view to almost every major road in the country is nothing to scoff at and then to... Read more...

Japanese group wants Google to stop Street View

Matthew Hopson — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:50:20 +0000

Google received another request on Friday to stop its Street View service, this time from a group of Japanese lawyers and professors who say the service violates their right to privacy. Talking to Reuters,... Read more...

PC manufacturers view piracy as "hidden benefit"

Marcel Klum — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:37:42 +0000

id Software's CEO Todd Hollenshead has stated that he believes PC manufacturers' acceptance of piracy and the sharing of content the user does not pay for is the PC hardware industry's "dirty little secret". According... Read more...

Google's Street View Captures Drunken Moment

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:14:40 +0000

A man who fell asleep in a drunken stupor on the grass outside his home was horrified to find his embarrassment posted on the internet. He had been drowning his sorrows over the death... Read more...

Windows Vista at 1 year: A computer maker's view

Steven Parker — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:22:32 +0000

I've been working for a while on an upcoming story coinciding with Windows Vista's first year on the market, and I've talked with a variety of people who have been using and working with the... Read more...

A child's view of the $100 laptop

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:12:22 +0000

What will a child in the UK make of a laptop designed to help children in the developing world? Rory Cellan-Jones brought an XO home to find out. In late November I returned from Nigeria... Read more...

Google Earth given celestial view

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:17:06 +0000

The constellations of Andromeda, Hydra and Vulpecula are now just a mouse click away for amateur star-gazers, following the launch of Google Sky. The tool is an add-on to Google Earth, a program that allows... Read more...

The camera behind Google Maps 360-degree View

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:39:45 +0000

In case you missed it, Google recently launched a new feature on its mapping service that allows people to see a 360-degree view of many streets in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Las... Read more...

DeluTube offers users a way to view deleted YouTube videos

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:22:55 +0000

DeluTube, as its name implies, can serve up some video clips even after YouTube has purged them. That includes clips that contain copyrighted music and many clips that aren't work safe. Delutube allows visitors to... Read more...

Microsoft Takes the Long View With Zune

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:27:30 +0000

Finally, the gloves come off. After months of hints and speculation, Microsoft announced that, yes, it is headed for a showdown with Apple. In one corner is Microsoft with its billions to invest in R&D,... Read more...

Google offers Mountain View free wireless Internet

Michael Stanclift — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:36:54 +0000

Internet giant Google is offering to cloak its home city in Silicon Valley with free wireless "Wi-Fi" computer service, the company confirmed. Google's proposal to "unwire the city" will be considered by the... Read more...

Sharp Debuts Dual View LCD Display

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:40:12 +0000

Sharp will begin mass production of the world's first dual-view LCD, enabling viewers to see 2 totally different images when looking at an angle to the left or right of the screen. This breakthrough is... Read more...

Point of View GeForce 6600 GT Review

Steven Parker — Fri, 13 May 2005 11:45:45 +0000

I got this in my mail this morning and thought it could be interesting for some of us that don't have big bucks to spend on a powerhouse GFX card, heres a snip from the... Read more...

Sun's Looking Glass Provides 3D View

Sun, 15 Aug 2004 02:58:04 +0000

Recently Sun Microsystems released to its developers more code containing its 'Project Look Glass" technology. Project Looking Glass will offer users a 3D Desktop. Sun is hoping that this technology will give users... Read more...

Spider-Man 2: New footage swings into view

Fri, 04 Jun 2004 14:41:23 +0000

The webbed wizard returns next month but you can see him in action now. With Spider-Man 2 now little over a month away from release, we've got a brief clip of the... Read more...

Hardware review: Point of View GeForce FX 5500

Steven Parker — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:37:32 +0000

Cheers Hilbert for this submission.. NVIDIA is 'replacing' well ... renewing some of their products as we speak, among the new products is the GeForce FX 5500 well new ... This NV34... Read more...

Third Thief gets third-person view

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:33:07 +0000

Eidos announces new camera option for the previously first-person stealth series, confirms rumored title. New screens inside. Eidos confirmed today what GameSpot reported last week: the third installment in the Thief series... Read more...

Folder View 1.1 beta

Tue, 04 Nov 2003 13:35:18 +0000

Navigating between folders on the computer or the (company-)network is one of the big annoyances when working with a computer. The searches for folders and files take much time and many mouseclicks, no matter how... Read more...

Outlook 2002 Documentation: Microsoft Outlook View Control

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:12:55 +0000

Quick Info File Name: ovcref.exe Download Size: 62 KB Date Published: 2/9/2003 Version: 1.0 Overview The original Outlook 2002 View Control poses a potential security risk. ... Read more...

Windows Remote View

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 00:19:10 +0000

Thanks Arnaudt for this..(XP Media Centre freestyle/mira) Windows Remote View Help file. About The Hardware that comes with Windows XP Media Center Edition Microsoft Windows XP Media Center edition includes... Read more...

One reporters view of MacWorld Expo NY 2002

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 16:29:11 +0000

Ian Fried, one of the staff writers for CNet News has an interesting story regarding his visit to this years MacWorld Expo, recently held a few days ago in NY. There are a... Read more...