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• 16 July 2008

• News: Nintendo demos gesture-controlled Wii Music

  Nintendo has given a real-time demo of long-rumoured title Wii Music at the E3 exhibition, demonstrating gesture-controlled instruments and the new Wii MotionPlus attachment.

• News: Sony overhauls PS3 Home at E3

  Sony demonstrated a visually overhauled PS3 Home today at the E3 exhibition in California yesterday, along with a video download and rental service for the PS3 and PSP.

• 15 July 2008

• Video: Day one at E3 brings lots of Xbox 360 news

  E3 is underway in Los Angeles and the big news from day one is a coup for Microsoft: The Xbox 360 will be getting Final Fantasy 13 on the same day as it appears on the PlayStation 3.

• 14 July 2008

• News: Third of TVs still rely on analogue signal

  Nearly a third of the UK's 60 million TVs still aren't connected to digital services from the likes of Sky, Virgin of Freeview, according to a new Ofcom study.

• 12 July 2008

• News: 8-step guide to watching TV on your PC and mobile

  What better way to relax than to curl up in front of a good TV show? PC Advisor explains how you can get your daily fix on your PC, wherever your travels might take you.

• 09 July 2008

• News: Who's Townshend slams iTunes as 'heartless'

  In his personal blog The Who guitarist Pete Townshend - and self-confessed "thinning-haired old rocker in my sixties" - angrily responds to an article by Simon Jenkins in The Sunday Times.

• News: Concerns of growth of DVD piracy in the UK

  The number of UK consumers making copies of their DVDs is on the rise reports a new survey.

• 07 July 2008

• News: Sony's Second Life-killer to open this autumn

  Sony has confirmed that its virtual world Home will launch this autumn.

• News: BBC plans pre-booking system for iPlayer

  BBC iPlayer users could soon be able to pre-book shows they want to watch a week before they’re broadcast. The new queuing system will be set up in such a way as to minimise the load on the network, with shows set to download at an "optimum time for the user, the UK internet and the BBC", according to the BBC. The new feature is only in the planning stage. Proposals to put the plan into effect have been put to the BBC Trust, which must give its permission for the feature to be introduced.

• News: Pioneer develops 400GB optical disc

  Pioneer has developed a 400GB optical disc, easily surpassing previously announced prototypes. The new disc manages to pack 16 layers, each with a 25GB capacity, into a conventional 12cm-diameter optical disc.

• 03 July 2008

• News: Google made to hand over YouTube user details

  A US court today forced Google to hand over details of the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube.

• News: Internet radio attracts 14.5m listeners

  Some 14.5 million people have listened to internet radio at least once a new survey reports.

• 02 July 2008

• News: BBC begins HD trial on Freeview

  The BBC has begun transmitting HD programmes on Freeview as part of a a trial of the service.

• News: Regulators halt BBC's Kangaroo video service

  Internet TV service Project Kangaroo has been referred to the Competition Commission by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).

• 01 July 2008

• News: Sony denies PS2 downloads coming for PS3

  Sony claims a screenshot showing PlayStation 2 (PS2) game downloads for the PS3 "must have been mocked up by an excited consumer",

• 30 June 2008

• News: BT to cut off file-sharing customers

  BT has become the latest ISP to join forced with the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in a bid to get tough with illegal file-sharers, announcing plans to cut off customers who use their accounts to illegally download software from P2P networks.

• 27 June 2008

• News: PS3 gets movie download service

  Sony is to launch a movie download service for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) this summer in the US.

• 26 June 2008

• News: BBC iPlayer gets an upgrade

  The BBC has overhauled the interface and added more functions to its iPlayer.

• 23 June 2008

• News: Sony launches 'green' 32in Bravia LCD TV

  Sony is adding to its Bravia LCD TV range with a new 32in model that consumes 25 percent less power on average than existing sets.

• 21 June 2008

• News: June 2008's 9 coolest gadgets

  With summer finally upon us, the sunshine's (sort of) beating down. The weather's getting (a bit) hotter, and so are the gadgets. Here's our top nine products announces in Japan this month.

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