! Posted by Mike Slocombe on 9 May 2008 | Tagged as: Gadgets, Reviews, Control Devices
It’s great having a living room stuffed full of the latest gadgets, but with just about every gizmo coming with its own easily-lost remote control, parlour games of “hunt the ruddy remote” and “where’s the chuffing battery gone?!” have become commonplace in some homes.
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! Posted by Simon Perry on 9 May 2008 | Tagged as: Services, USA, Search, Legal
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has won $110 million damages against TorrentSpy, a site that pointed to where TV programmes and films could be downloaded without them being paid for.
! Posted by Simon Perry on 8 May 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Europe, UK, Analysis
Following on from the announcement of the proposed deal between Best Buy and Carphone Warehouse’s retail operation, we thought this was such a significant deal, we’d carry an analysis piece on it.
! Posted by Simon Perry on 8 May 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Investments, Europe, UK
Best Buy, the US consumer electronics retail giant, is intending to buy 50% of Carphone Warehouse’s retail operation for £1.1 Billion.
Best Buy and Carphone Warehouse have known each other for a while, as CW have been selling mobile phones in concessions within Best Buy’s shops in the US over the last two years.
! Posted by Simon Perry on 7 May 2008 | Tagged as: Content, Mobile, Cellular, Gaming
After all of the hubub at the LG Secret, the KF750, global launch died down a little in London, we caught up with John Barton, LG UK Sales and Marketing Director, to find out more about the LG Secret.
After bits and pieces about the naming of the product —
Why is it called secret? His take - the phone reveals itself to the user as they use it — we got on to talk about the M-Toy feature.
! Posted by Mike Slocombe on 7 May 2008 | Tagged as: Platforms, Mobile, Cellular
HTC’s new Touch Diamond smartphone, successor to the popular HTC Touch (reviewed in June 2007) has just been unveiled in London.
Powered by a 528 MHz Qualcomm processor, the Touch Diamond eschews the pebble-smooth rounded lines of its 3-million selling predecessor and breaks out the piano gloss finish all over its rectangular lines.
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! Posted by Mike Slocombe on 6 May 2008 | Tagged as: Distribution, UK, BBC, HDTV
BBC and ITV are launching Freesat today, a new free-to-view satellite television service allowing viewers to gorge themselves on high definition television for nowt.
The two UK TV giants have teamed up to serve up a feast of 80 freebie television and radio channels which will be accessible to 98 per cent of homes.
The BBC have been talking about it for quite a while to the point where people stopped believing it would happen, through to a cautious ‘yes probably’ a year and a bit ago.
! Posted by Mike Slocombe on 6 May 2008 | Tagged as: Platforms, TV related, Sony
If, like us, you’ve become increasingly aware of the enormous, room-filling girth of your current cathode ray TV set, you may find your wallet being teased and titillated by Sony’s new Bravia V4500 range of sleek’n’slim LCD TVs.
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! Posted by Mike Slocombe on 6 May 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Microsoft, Yahoo
Shares in Internet old skoolsters Yahoo crashed by fifteen per cent on the weekend after Microsoft walked away from protracted takeover negotiations.
Microsoft had been waving a fearsomely hefty £24bn wad in Yahoo’s face since January, but gave out a firm “talk to the hand” instruction after their takeover deal failed to be accepted.
! Posted by Simon Perry on 6 May 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Apple, Vodafone, Mobile, Cellular
Vodafone have just announced that it has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten countries around the world.
Those countries are Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey.
When they will be available is currently unclear beyond, “later this year.”
The wording that Vodafone has used is interesting, saying they “will be able to purchase the iPhone for use on the Vodafone network,” which leads us to suspect that these might not be exclusive deals in these countries, a departure from the Apple iPhone deals have happened to date.
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May 09 2008
If you keep on losing remotes down the back of your sofa, the Logitech may be for you.
Apr 25 2008
Innovative clay-tastic graphics make this novel game a muddy treat.
Apr 11 2008
We test out some cheap and cheerful headphones for the budget-challenged.
