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Happy Birthday : The Computer Mouse is 40

Happy Birthday : The Computer Mouse is 40

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Invented by a team of researchers led by Doug Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute in California in 1968, computer’s most dynamic input device, the “mouse”, has entered into its 40s on Monday.   The first-ever mouse was made from a wooden block with wheels mounted on its base, and featured a red button on top of its case, and a cable at its back, which probably made one of the researchers to nickname it as...



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Razer offers Switchblade CPU details

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High-powered gaming device... with an Atom?

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Peripherals specialist Razer has offered up a few more tantalising details about its attempt to take the world of PC gaming on the road with the hand-held Switchblade games console.A distinct switch (sorry) in direction for the...


A proper first look at Apple's OSX Lion

A proper first look at Apple's OSX Lion

Real world review for real people with real Macs

Reviews Software

By now you will probably have seen dozens of enthusiastic reviews for Apple's latest operating system OSX Lion 10.7. Most, like Ars Technica's extraordinarily detailed 27,000-word essay, will have been written based on gold...


Rumour: Windows 8 to bring Xbox 360 game support

Rumour: Windows 8 to bring Xbox 360 game support

Various claims investigated

In-Depth Consumer

Evidence is mounting that - as unlikely as it may seem - Windows 8 will bring with it the ability to play Xbox 360 console games on your PC, ending the often long wait for timed console exclusives like BioWare's Mass Effect to...


Cisco Announces Virtualization Experience Infrastructure

Cisco Announces Virtualization Experience Infrastructure

News Cloud

Cisco has announced a new line of software and hardware products designed to simplify desktop virtualisation.According to the company, the Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) will simplify migration to a...


Review: Hands on with iLife 11

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Fun and games with Apple's media manipulators

Reviews Consumer

I've just looked up from my monitor for the first time in about six hours and realised it's dark outside. The last time I missed such a large chunk of a day was playing through the final levels of Fallout 3. I received a copy of...


Top five best laptops available now

Top five best laptops available now

Today's best buys tested, selected

Reviews Hardware

Trying to find a value-for-money notebook these days is not an easy task, not because they’re hard to find, but because the complete opposite is true, you can’t turn around without someone offering even more of a...


Top Five best-value netbooks money can buy

Top Five best-value netbooks money can buy

All the PC you really need

Reviews Software

Buying a netbook is a minefield but to help you make a decision here is our choice of  the five best-value netbooks available in the UK today. We've had hundreds pass through our hands in recent months. We've selected the...


Exclusive: A preview of the £99 ElonexONE laptop

Exclusive: A preview of the £99 ElonexONE laptop

News Mobile & Telco

Tomorrow, Elonex is going to unveil a brand new laptop which costs only £99; this laptop is almost certainly a rebadged product, although Elonex vehemently disputes this.It is unsurprising that Elonex chose to release a...


ATEN Launches World's first KVM Switch with IPMI-Enabled Function

ATEN Launches World's first KVM Switch with IPMI-Enabled Function

News Hardware

ATEN International, a designer, manufacturer and distributor of advanced connectivity solutions, launches the KH98 of its ALTUSEN product line. The 8-Port Health Manager KVM Switch is the market’s first KVM solution to provide...


Raritan's Remote Management System on a Chip Gains Momentum

Raritan's Remote Management System on a Chip Gains Momentum

News Hardware

Raritan has demonstrated the KIRA100 - the industry's first KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse) switch on a chip solution for remote server access and control - at the last Intel Developers Forum.Helping to accelerate server repair and...


Building a business case for Windows Server 2003

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A recent survey on theITportal found that a third of organisations are still relying on Windows NT Server (NT4) as their primary operating system. With life support for NT4 ending this year, and with many of these businesses...

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