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• 29 April 2008

• News: Sony and Samsung launch Blu-ray Disc recorders

  Sony and Samsung are releasing Blu-ray Disc products, confident that consumers are ready to start upgrading to high-definition video discs. Sony and Samsung were two of the biggest backers of the Blu-ray Disc format during its battle with rival HD DVD.

• News: New Prince of Persia game announced for PC

  Ubisoft yesterday confirmed the newest Prince of Persia game, slated for release on Xbox 360, PS3, PC, and Nintendo DS later this year.

• 28 April 2008

• News: Ofcom: BBC not accountable for 'web meltdown'

  The BBC should not be forced to pay for upgrading the UK's Broadband network, telecommunication watchdog Ofcom has said.

• 24 April 2008

• News: News Corp hired hacker to 'sabotage competition'

  News Corp employed a top hacker to develop pirating software, a court has heard.

• News: ITV shows now available on iTunes

  iTunesusers can now get their hands on a number of achieved ITV programmes including Cold Feet and children's show Captain Scarlett.

• 22 April 2008

• News: Sony's Second Life competitor delayed again

  Sony has once again delayed the launch of its PlayStation Home community online service.

• News: PS3 video downloads coming in July

  Sony will announce an online video service for PlayStation 3 (PS3) in the summer, possibly at the E3 exhibition in July at E3, according to reports.

• 19 April 2008

• News: 5 gadgets that will turn you into an artist

  You may have never been trained as a painter or musician, but today's tech tools make faking it easy. Here's our favourite IT apps and hardware products for the creatively minded.

• 18 April 2008

• News: Google to top ITV on UK ad revenue profits

  Search engine Google looks set to overtake the UK's most popular commercial TV channel, ITV when it comes to advertising revenue.

• News: BBC iPlayer attracts 1m users per week

  The BBC has reported strong growth for its iPlayer on-demand TV service, reporting that the total number of requests for downloads and streams of BBC programmes via iPlayer reached 17.2 million in March.

• 16 April 2008

• News: Apple TV update adds Flickr feature

  Apple has released Apple TV Software 2.0.2, adding a single new feature and a collection of unenumerated bug-fixes to Apple's set-top box.

• 15 April 2008

• News: Microsoft signs new partners for Silverlight

  Microsoft has signed new content partners for Silverlight – its competitor to Adobe's Flash - and provided details of a forthcoming digital rights management (DRM) technology for its multimedia platform.

• News: Mobile-phone TV tops agenda at NAB

  Samsung Electronics and several other vendors at the National Association of Broadcasters show this week are demonstrating a pending mobile-TV broadcasting standard that had been forecast for completion last year.

• News: Nintendo Wii to achieve 'impossible' graphics

  Poland-based games developer Nibris says the Nintendo Wii is capable of graphics previously thought to be restricted to Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3).

• 14 April 2008

• News: IBM streams HD video at 3Mbps

  A new encoding system that offers the ability to stream HD video at 3 Megabits per second (Mbps) is being launched by IBM.

• News: Modder builds PlayStation 3 laptop

  Ben 'Heck' Heckendorn, the modder who created an Xbox 360 laptop with a built-in camera, has turned his attention to the PlayStation 3 (PS3), building a laptop using the hardware components of Sony's console.

• News: World of Warcraft users exceed 1m in China

  World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade has surpassed one million concurrent users in China. That's the highest concurrency since the game was launched in China in 2005, according to the games developer, Blizzard.

• 12 April 2008

• News: In pictures: inside Microsoft's robot factory

  Members of Microsoft's Robotics Group are confident robotics is going to be the big story of the next five years

• News: 10 cool gadgets we can't wait to get our hands on

  The coolest gadgets almost always debut overseas. But we'll get them eventually, and we can't wait

• 11 April 2008

• News: Apple updates Final Cut Studio

  Apple has released an update for Final Cut Studio 2.0, its professional video suite

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