NXP have had a Set Top Box (STB) playing Flash for quite a few years now. They’ve moved this on now play Flash videos, enabling them to support YouTube and other Internet video services without the need for a separate computer – and from the comfort of the sofa.
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Win Tickets For A Private Screening Of Friday’s England Rugby Match – On Top of BT Tower!
We’ve teamed up with BT Total Broadband to offer four pairs of exclusive tickets for a private screening of England versus South Africa rugby match this Friday, 14 September, 2007.
The winners will enjoy a prime view of the action of the world cup match with a private screening at the top of BT Tower with VIP hospitality.
What sort of VIP treatment? The prize includes a drinks reception, Wine Tasting, South African and English themed menu, interview with Celebrities, the live screening and a post-match analysis from experts. Pretty good bundle eh?
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Vodafone’s New Handset Line Up Includes iPhone Rival, Samsung F700
Vodafone UK have announced details of their new handset lineup, which includes an exclusive agreement to offer the F700 smart phone from Samsung.
Touted as an ‘iPhone rival,’ the touchscreen- packing Samsung offers audio and video playback, 3G and HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) support – potentially providing speeds as high as 7.2Mbit/sec – and a ‘proper’ hardware pull-down QWERTY keyboard.
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iPlayer Petition Gets Bland Response From Gordon Brown
There was a petition put on to the Number 10 Web Site questioning if the iPlayer should only be available on the Microsoft platform. On the last look it had 16,071 signatures on it from members of the public concerned about it as well.
Just now the Prime Minister issued his response.
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Sony a700 dSLR Announced
Sony have officially announced a new model in the Alpha range, the a700. Headline features are 12.24Mpx, a new “responsive high speed processor,” 5fps continuous shooting, 3-inch 921k dot photo-quality LCD. It’s also got a tie-in across the product range feature of ‘PhotoTV HD,’ HD1080 image display on new BRAVIA televisions, via an on-board HDMI port.
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Japan Fund Google Rival: Are They Joking?
Japan has stuck €89m-€95m in to a research project to try and build a search engine to rival Google, reports the FT.
10 Japanese companies are pooling their talent, as they’ve just noticed that hardware isn’t selling so well, South Korea and Taiwan are making and selling just what Japan is – but much cheaper. Oh, and that software services are growing.
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iPod Touch Launches: The iDon’tPhone
Apple have launched the next generation of the iPod, the iPod Touch. Not surprisingly with a name like that, it’s got a touch screen, a la iPhone.
Think of it as an iPhone without the phone – let’s call it the iDon’tPhone shall we.
All of the big fuss that’s been jabbered about for ages on tons of news sites and blogs for the last month or so has come to pass – much the same as day follows night. Can you tell we’re pretty jaded about Apple at the moment? That and the _endless_ hysterical excitement associated with it.
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Microsoft Stumble On Open Doc Standard
There’s been general surprise at Microsoft’s failure to secure their ‘Open XML’ interchangeable document standard to be accepted by the ISO – International Standards Committee – and the IEC – International Electronic Commission.
It is important to Microsoft as Governments around the world are looking to allow simple document interchange between all of their systems.
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Sony Cyber-shot T200: Auto Smile Photos: Video: IFA
We got excited about face recognition in digital camera when we first heard about it – when the FinePix F31fd came out back in Septemeber 2006 – but now it’s becoming run of the mill.
Sony have taken it one step further with the Cyber-shot T200. Not only does it spot faces, but it will automatically take the photo when the person in shot smiles.
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Is Sony Making A Significant Shift?
Rick Rubin, he of Def Jam records, has been running Colombia Records, owned by Sony.
Yesterday, there was a 12 page piece in the IHT about Rubin and his attempt to change Colombia Records
Beyond the “‘You might never see me, I may never wear shoes, you’re not the boss of me,” demand that Rubin was supposed to have made, there’s also some meat that will be of interest to anyone who watches the shift of digital media.
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