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In July 2000 Apple invited me to New York, where it was participating in the Macworld show. There used to be two each year, one in san francisco, one in New York - now there's just one, and soon there'll be none. There, Steve Jobs - remember him? - unveiled his 'one more thing', which turned out to be a computer shaped like a cube, eight inches on each side. Impressive. Expensive too.'So who do you expect to buy this?' I asked David Moody, then Apple's head of desktop systems. He insisted it wasn't just some flight of fancy: 'We had customers coming to us and saying that they wanted a class of product that nobody was offering. They wanted to have professional power but didn't want the baggage of the slots and big box on their desk.' You may know the rest of the story. The Cube was iced a year later. Sure, some people wanted its power but they also wanted to, but couldn't, add expansion cards and lots of memory. Those who liked its looks and didn't mind the lack of expansibility found t

Sometimes it's hard to distinguish fact and fiction on the Linux blogs. Take last week, for example, when Asus's apparent decision to join hands with Microsoft and proclaim that its netbooks were 'better with Windows' shook things up. Few saw that one coming, we'd bet; once it did, the shock and disbelief were enough to make many look around for the hidden camera.

Prods ISPs to use new Webwise add-on.Phorm has been called many unpleasant things in its time, but now the controversial behavioural advertising-based company seems determined to add the word ‘useful' to the list.

It's summer time - time to get ahead. Now that you're not taking coursework is the time to think ahead towards your dissertation. Here are 4 things you can do...

Sony took a time out at its impressive E3 press conference to peek into the future at some on-the-horizon motion-control technology -- PlayStation Motion Controller. The routine was familiar already: in fact, Microsoft and Nintendo had similar 'the future is motion' pit-stops in their 2009 E3 press conferences. Being last, it seemed, would be a disadvantage to Sony. Appearing onstage were two of Sony's team behind the PlayStation Eye and EyeToy, and the general nervousness seemed palpable. When the prototype device was revealed -- a black wand with a glowing purple bulb on top -- it almost seemed like a joke. But a funny thing happened: the longer the demo went on, the better it got. Watch our video of the demonstration after the jump.

Cameron Diaz is no stranger to plastic surgery. She had her nose fixed (after breaking it four times!) following a 2006 surfing accident. 'S*** just finds my face -- it's crazy!' she tells July's Marie Claire (on newsstands June 9). See photos of plastic surgery nightmares. But the 36-year-old actress says more radical forms of surgery are likely out of the question. 'I'd love a bigger... Join Us on Facebook and Twitter for even more up to the minute celebrity news and photos!

Cc:Betty has a cleaner, simpler way to view conversations and sort things like links and attachments. The service is also at work on ways that make it easier to use without having to manually carbon copy it.

Is Bing the Next Big Search-Engine Thing? Maybe it's the effectiveness of the Macintosh ads painting Microsoft as hopelessly square. Maybe it's landmark antitrust lawsuits a few years ago that seemed to cast Microsoft as the evil empire....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama plans to tell Arabs and Israelis to stop saying one thing in public and another in private when he speaks to the Muslim world in Cairo on Thursday.

Publishers' Web traffic measurements often differ from ComScore's independent calculations, but the company believes a new approach will sort things out.