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• 14 June 2006

• News: The hard-labour truth about iPods

  Low-paid workers toil long hours at Hon Hai's Longhua, China, plant to produce Apple's popular iPod nano music player. The monthly salary of these workers is around £27.

• 12 June 2006

• News: Cool gadgets-a-plenty at Computex

  The thousands of booths at the Computex trade show in Taipei are enough to keep any gadget fan happy - at least for a week.

• 09 June 2006

• News: Philips unveils gaming screens, VoIP and music gear

• 08 June 2006

• News: Apple's 'unhealthy' iTunes attacked in Europe

  Pressure is mounting in Europe for Apple to loosen the ties between its iTunes music store and its iPod music players, with activity in Norway and the UK this week demonstrating opposition to Apple's policies. This follows legal moves in France that required Apple to allow iTunes songs to play on digital music players other than the iPod.

• 06 June 2006

• News: Intel looks beyond entertainment with Viiv

  For the moment, Intel's Viiv platform is all about digital entertainment, but that might not always be the case.

• News: Intel 'pushed in different directions'

  One year after Apple announced plans to use Intel processors in its computers, Apple is pushing the world's largest chip maker in different directions, a top executive said yesterday.

• News: Fujitsu's 1.8in HDD to launch next year

  Fujitsu will launch its first 1.8in hard disk drive in the middle of next year, a company engineer said at the Computex trade show today.

• 05 June 2006

• News: Parliament 'should not legislate DRM'

  In a report released today, a group of lawmakers advised the government not to make DRM systems mandatory.

• News: Toshiba claims highest-density hard disk

  Toshiba today released a 2.5in, double-platter hard disk drive that it said features the highest density yet of any such component.

• 01 June 2006

• News: MTV Urge chief quits

  MTV has lost the executive most instrumental to the development of its new Urge digital music service.

• News: Greenpeace to protest at Computex show

  Greenpeace plans to protest the use of toxic chemicals in electronics products from mobile phones to PCs at the Computex IT show in Taipei next week.

• 31 May 2006

• News: MTV to launch own-branded music players

  To support its Urge music service, MTV has reached a deal to produce branded MP3 players with Mini Media Europe Limited.

• News: AMD Live platform coming in June

  The first systems based on the AMD Live home-entertainment platform will hit the market next month, the company said today.

• 30 May 2006

• News: Apple fails in bid to control the press

  Apple has lost in its bid to create a two-tier system of journalism through its case against Mac news websites the company attempted to characterise as 'bloggers'.

• 25 May 2006

• News: Sony Ericsson plans more specialised mobiles

  After an enthusiastic consumer reaction to Walkman-branded mobile phones, Sony Ericsson is planning more handsets that are focused around a single, major feature.

• 24 May 2006

• News: UK is Europe's most digital market

  The UK has been declared Western Europe's most digital market, according to fresh research from Informa Telecoms And Media.

• News: Nike trainers talk to people via iPods

  Nike is putting the world's most popular music player to work in a system designed for its latest trainers that tells runners the distance and time they've covered in their daily jog.

• News: Jamster finds hope in Chinese piracy crackdown

  A promised crackdown on pirated mobile downloads will give mobile content provider Jamster a much-needed boost in China, the company's top executive said today.

• 23 May 2006

• News: SanDisk launches anti-Apple campaign

  SanDisk has launched an anti-iPod marketing ploy, called the iDon't campaign.

• News: Sony rootkit case ends with settlement

  Music fans who bought CDs with Sony BMG Music Entertainment's controversial XCP copy control software are going to get refunds.

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