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MySpace is to launch MySpace Celebrity, a ‘channel’ (read Web page) on MySpace that bring to attention MySpace pages of ‘celebrities.’
The illusion they are trying to create is that MySpace users will be able to interact with their favourite stars. The likelihood is that they will in fact be communicating with one of the team responsible for running the site for the ‘celebrities.’
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We covered Apple surprisingly announcing the new 8-core Mac Pro launched at CES … in advance of MacExpo, their usual launch-fest.
Apple never announces anything in advance, but there are many rumours circulating on the various Mac user sites which we’re brought together for you.
Ultra-portable
Most people probably won’t remember Apple’s foray into the PDA market with the Newton. It flopped, though it was incredibly advanced for the time. It’s now time for an ultra-portable to come back on to the scene.
It’s likely to be a MacBookPro type device with a touch-screen/ stylus. There may only be solid state memory, so it starts quickly.
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Yesterday we brought you the first set of digital camera announcements from CES 2008, in this concluding part we give you three more.
Kodak V1273 and V1073 ultra compacts
These two new ultra compacts from Kodak come with optically stabilised lenses, stills output in 720p and 1080i HD formats and the ability to record video as MPEG-4 compressed 720i High Definition videos (1280 x 720 @ 30fps).
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It’s Macworld Expo time again (well next week from Jan 14th through Jan 18th in The Moscone Center, San Fran). Apple tend to use MacExpo for new product announcements with Mr Jobs in his familiar jeans and black turtle neck jumper delighting the Apple fans.
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There’s been a veritable motordrive of new cameras announced at this year’s CES show (Consumer Electronics Association) in Las Vegas.
Here’s some of the announcements that have caught our eye.
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Rumours are circulating that HD-DVD could be losing the support of another studio.
Yesterday, we covered Warner Brothers showing their cards and deciding to support Blu-ray in favour of HD-DVD, despite comments from Toshiba that there may be some legal contracts in place with Warners.
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Skype _will_ be coming to Sony’s PSP.
Following on from all of the faux-shyness of Skype and Sony refusing to officially confirm that Skype was going to be seen on the Sony PSP at CES, they’ve just released the news that … tad daaaa … it is. So no shock there and both Sony and Skype end up with some pre-CES buzz and everyone in the PR departments are happy.
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Seen lurking behind Bill Gates head in his presentation at CES 2008 was a photo of a new high-end Windows Mobile Palm phone, rumoured to be the replacement to the well-received Treo 750w.
According to Vodafone UK documents leaked on the web, the new Treo 800w (850w?) phone regales under the codename of the ‘Palm Drucker’, and packs a quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE with a tri-band 3G/3.6 UMTS/HSDPA radio, running Windows Mobile 6.1.
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Microsoft is currently developing a revolutionary change to its Windows Mobile 7 mobile device operating system, with an interesting touch and motion interface, according to an insider blog.
Hollywood studio big boys Warner Bros have dealt Toshiba and the HD DVD gang a mighty kick in the lasers by declaring that their high-definition DVD titles will soon be released exclusively in the rival Blu-ray disc format.