Creative Zen Release Credit Card Sized Player

Creative Zen Release Credit Card Sized PlayerShinier than the beady eye of a well groomed Magpie, Creative’s new Zen looks a snappy number in its all-black suit, weighing just 65g and sporting credit credit card-sized dimensions.

The 11.3mm thick mini-player doesn’t shirk when it comes to storage space, with three models offering 4GB, 8GB and 16GB options, backed by a SD memory expansion slot. According to Zen’s calculations, you’ll be able wedge in 4,000 MP3s at 128kps on the 16GB model, which converts into 266 hours of non-stop music listening action/.
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MPixx 7000 and 4000 Budget PMPs By Grundig

Grundig Rolls Out  MPixx Budget PMPsThe German tech company Grundig has released the MPixx 7000 Fine Arts and the MPixx 4000 series of portable media players, which pack a fair bit of technology in a budget package.

MPixx 7000 Fine Arts
The MPixx 7000 Fine Arts, is touted as an advanced multimedia player and comes with a high-contrast 2.4 inch 262k TFT display and a snazzy blue illuminated touchpad (we like things that glow blue).
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Casio’s EX-Z1080 and EX-V8 Compacts For YouTubers

Casio's EX-Z1080 and EX-V8 Compacts For YouTubersThe crew at Casio are getting ready to release two rather ho-hum pocket size Exilim cameras packing YouTube compatibility.

Casio Exilim EX-V8
The Casio Exilim EX-V8 knocks out a reasonable 8.1 effective megapixels in a super slick package that manages to squeeze in a handy 7x super-quiet optical inner zoom lens.
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Access FaceBook On Your Mobile

Access FaceBook On Your MobileHigh octane socialites unable to wrench themselves away from their computers for fear of missing a ‘poke’ from an admirer or a last minute party invite should be delighted to learn that there’s now a ‘lite’ version of the social networking website.

Designed for accessing the site via mobile phones on slow connections, FaceBook users simply have to point their phone browser at http://m.facebook.com and log in as usual.
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Facebook Developers Garage London Review

Facebook Developers Garage London ReviewThe event took place at the T-Bar in the Tea Buildings in Shoreditch on Wednesday 15 Aug 2007. It was meant to start at 7pm but given the long queue at the door, the start was delayed.

Since Facebook made itself a development platform, people or companies can create applications to run on it. The Developers Garages events are organised by local folk with the assistance of Facebook (the company). They’re spring up around the world as developers try to suss out if there’s an opportunity.
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Smokin’: Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel Get Microsoft Fix

Smokin': Microsoft To Fix Xbox 360 wireless Racing WheelAfter some reports of problems with “smoking” when mains power units have been attached to Microsoft’s Xbox 360 wireless Racing Wheels, they decided to fix, or in their language “retrofit,” them.

Their use of language really is spectacular, beyond “retrofit,” they also say that the “AC-DC power supply is used to energize the Wheel.” Energize! What’s this? Star Trek?
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Ofcom Report: Internet & Mobile Usage Up. TV, Radio & Phone Down

Ofcom Report: Internet & Mobile Up. TV, Radio, Phone DownToday Ofcom have released their yearly Communications Market report, covering fixed and mobile telecoms, TV, radio and Internet use.

It’s a massive collection of information and statistics running to 332 pages, covering the habits and preferences of the UK population during 2006.
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