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Article | 5/10/2007 CEATEC - Sony spinoff plans high-end FED monitors for 2009

A company spun off from Sony is developing a line of monitors based on FED (field emission display) technology, which offers faster response times, co...

Article | 5/10/2007 Apple fixes year-old QuickTime flaw

Apple updated the Windows version of QuickTime today to quash a 13-month-old bug that critics say it overlooked when it patched the media player in Ma...

Article | 5/10/2007 iPhone update puts kibosh on unlock market

Apple's move last week to stop hackers from modifying the iPhone has essentially killed the market for unlocked phones, a financial analyst said Thurs...

Article | 5/10/2007 Wireless carrier group warns against WiMAX hype

Mobile services lobby group the GSM Association says businesses and investors dazzled by the recent WiMAX World convention shouldn't buy into the hype...

Article | 5/10/2007 Microsoft, Toshiba team to advance HD DVD navigation

Toshiba and Microsoft this week announced plans to launch the Advanced Interactivity Consortium to extend interactive features in HD DVD, a high-defin...

Article | 5/10/2007 "Hot" iPods to hit the streets after bulk storage shed break in

Over 390 'hot' iPods collectively valued in excess of $70, 000 wholesale may be hitting the streets after a break-in this week, warn Police.

Article | 4/10/2007 Bose updates home entertainment products, extends sound offerings to PCs

Bose has updated its home entertainment product line in time for the Christmas buying period. Included amongst them is its first new acoustic audio pr...

Article | 3/10/2007 Microsoft launches enterprise 'get legal' program in US

Microsoft has amped up its antipiracy campaign, adding a program that targets large customers that need to "get legal" after being fingered for using ...

Article | 4/10/2007 MontaVista, Arm, others to build Linux UMPC platform

A group of seven companies including Mozilla, Arm and MontaVista Software are hoping to grow the market for a relatively new device category that sits...

Article | 4/10/2007 Microsoft looks to social networking for Zune 2.0 allure

Microsoft will take another crack at blending social networking with digital music next month with the release of new Zune music players and a renewed...

Article | 3/10/2007 Microsoft unveils new Zune players and community

Microsoft has unveiled three new models of its Zune portable digital media players featuring touch-sensitive buttons for navigating the device, the ab...

Article | 3/10/2007 Panasonic unveils new Blu-ray Disc recorders

Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic) kicked off the Ceatec show in Japan this week with the unveiling of three new Blu-ray Disc recorders.

Article | 3/10/2007 Sony unveils latest edition of Reader Digital Book

While it may not pack the sales bang of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the latest edition of Sony Electronics' Reader Digital Book could turn s...

Article | 3/10/2007 Toshiba prototype media player powered by fuel cell

Toshiba has unveiled a prototype version of its Gigabeat media player that's powered by a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) instead of a battery.

Article | 3/10/2007 Sony and Qimonda join for DRAM design venture

Sony and German memory chip maker Qimonda plan to form a joint venture chip design house to develop DRAM (dynamic RAM) for consumer and graphics devic...

Article | 3/10/2007 Qualcomm Licenses AMD 3D Graphics Technology

Qualcomm has licensed 3D graphics core technology from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), for integration with Qualcomm's wireless chip sets for mobile gam...

Article | 2/10/2007 Nokia buys mapping service for US$8.1 billion

Nokia has agreed to buy the digital mapping company Navteq for US$8.1 billion, supporting a plan to add navigation capabilities to more of its devices...

Article | 2/10/2007 Users pry XP reprieve from Microsoft

Microsoft, clearly getting an earful from corporate users over the rapid demise of XP to make way for Vista, has responded by committing to extend the...

Article | 2/10/2007 Adobe releases Media Player beta, boosts SaaS

Adobe Systems will boost its strategy of helping developers and users create desktop and Web applications that share a similar user experience at its ...

Article | 2/10/2007 Hackers post techniques for reversing iPhone upgrade

Owners of hacked iPhones have begun posting instructions on how to roll back a recent Apple firmware upgrade that rendered their mobile phones unusabl...