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  • 11 March 2008

  • News: Report: Blu-ray MacBooks & Xbox 360s planned

    Apple and Microsoft have been in discussions with Sony over the possibility of including Blu-ray Disc drives in MacBooks and the Xbox 360, according to Sony Electronics US president Stan Glasgow.

  • 10 March 2008

  • News: Reports: iTunes to get Beatles records

    Major media outlets are claiming that Beatle Sir Paul McCartney has made £200m through licensing the band's tracks to an online retailer.

  • 06 March 2008

  • News: YouTube tops 66m US users in January

    Google's YouTube continues as the preferred online video site of US users, with a popularity that dwarfs its closest competitors, according to Nielsen Online.

  • 05 March 2008

  • News: Video: Vodafone photo frame has built-in modem

    Vodafone is demonstrating a new twist on digital photo frames at the Cebit IT exhibition in Hanover. The company is showing off a digital photo frame with an in-built cellular data modem which allows it to remain constantly connected to the network so your friends and family can send new pictures by MMS or email.

  • News: YouTube to launch live video-streaming site

    YouTube has announced its plan to launch a live video-streaming site this year.

  • 04 March 2008

  • News: Taiwan presidential hopeful embraces YouTube

    Taiwan presidential candidate Frank Hsieh has opened an account on YouTube and is publishing videos of himself as a way to talk to young voters, he said in the first video.

  • 01 March 2008

  • News: The future of HDTV revealed

    Five years ago, just about any flat-panel television could induce oohs and aahs, and high-definition was a rarity. Research firm Screen Digest predicts that by 2010 just under half of the UK's TV-watching households will have an HD-ready set but they're common enough now and the gee-whiz factor has gone. So where do HDTVs go from here?

  • News: Four reasons Blu-ray Disc will fail

    Now that the smoke is clearing, and Blu-ray has officially kicked HD DVD's proverbial butt, why am I still waiting to buy a Blu-ray player? My colleague forked out his hard-earned cash over a year ago so he could be the first on his street to own one, but today, Blu-ray players are less than half the price.

  • 29 February 2008

  • News: 50 great, free ways to improve your software

    We rounded up more than 50 of our favourite tools and tips for unlocking extra value from popular browsers, productivity applications and multimedia tools.

  • 28 February 2008

  • News: PS3 games to get third-party advertising

    PS3 users may well soon be seeing adverts from a host of companies as Sony prepares to open up its in-game advertising to a wider audience.

  • 26 February 2008

  • News: Google beats BBC & Apple as UK 'Superbrand'

    Google has topped the UK Superbrands survey for the first time, knocking the BBC off the top spot in a Top 500 list that's compiled by a council of senior business leaders and through an independent survey of 1,500 professionals.

  • 25 February 2008

  • News: Xbox 360 HD DVD drive killed off by Microsoft

    Microsoft is to stop making external HD DVD drives for its Xbox 360 game console, but won't say whether it will switch to Blu-ray Disc drive instead. The company will continue to provide warranty and product support for existing HD DVD players, it said.

  • News: Web downloads to make Blu-ray irrelevant?

    Blu-ray Disc may have beaten HD DVD in the high-definition optical disc wars, but it now faces a new test against internet downloads, market researchers Gartner and iSuppli said.

  • 22 February 2008

  • News: BBC iPlayer delivers 500,000 shows per day

    Around 500,000 TV shows are being downloaded or streamed via BBC iPlayer per day, the broadcaster has announced.

  • News: Google AdSense for Video launches

    Google has encouraged 20 companies to sign up to a pilot programme designed to test the merits of video advertising.

  • 21 February 2008

  • News: $1bn joint venture to make PS3 chips

    Toshiba, Sony Corp and Sony Computer Entertainment are setting up a $924m joint venture to develop computer chips, including those that run Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) console.

  • 20 February 2008

  • News: BBC iPlayer coming to iPhone & iPod touch

    iPhone and iPod touch owners will be able to use the BBC's iPlayer on-demand TV service "within weeks", the broadcaster has confirmed. This will be the first time the broadband TV service has been available beyond PC and Mac computers.

  • News: Gamers to control characters with their brains

    A headset that allows gamers to control their play with just their thoughts will go on sale later this year. The neuro headset, which has been launched by Emotiv, picks up electrical impulses from the nerve cells in our brain. Non-invasive electroencephalography (EEG) technology is then used to read the impulses and send signals wirelessly to a computer.

  • News: doubleTwist releases media copying software

    DVD Jon, an infamous Norwegian hacker who was just 15 when he cracked encryption codes on DVDs, has released software that allows digital media files to be shared across devices.

  • News: Microsoft says HD DVD woes won't hit Xbox 360

    The death of the HD DVD format won't hurt the Xbox 360 console, according to Microsoft.

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