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• 14 September 2007

• News: Mixalbum.com download store to launch this month

  Mixalbum.com, a download store featuring the world's first and only fully automated DJ system, is to launch this month

• News: Eizo launches 24in widescreen monitor

  Eizo has released the CG241W, the latest addition to its ColorEdge series.

• 13 September 2007

• News: Sony to ditch DVD recorders in favour of Blu-ray

  Sony will ditch DVD and use the high-definition Blu-ray Disc format in all future digital video recorders in Japan, the company said yesterday.

• News: Square Enix will produce Xbox 360 game

  Square Enix, the final major Japanese games developer not to have embraced the Microsoft Xbox 360 games console, yesterday said it would release a title on the platform.

• 12 September 2007

• News: Sony to launch new Blu-ray Disc recorders

  Sony has announced four new models of Blu-ray Disc recorders, due for release in Japan in early November.

• 10 September 2007

• News: UK Government tells BBC to open up iPlayer

  The BBC's iPlayer online TV download service should be made available to users of all operating systems "as soon as possible", says the UK Government.

• News: BBC iPlayer as popular as Apple iTunes

  Despite teething troubles, and restrictions on the operating system required to use it, the BBC iPlayer TV download service is as popular with PC Advisor readers as Apple's iTunes.

• News: Inexpensive cables put iPod touch on TV

  The Apple Store recently began listing the £35 Apple Component AV Cable and the £35 Apple Composite AV Cable on its site, noting they are compatible with the iPod touch announced this week, as well as the iPod nano third generation and the iPod classic. The cables allow users to connect iPod content to a TV set or sound system.

• News: HD VMD takes on Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD

  HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc have a new HD (high-definition) optical disc rival that is much less expensive than they are.

• 05 September 2007

• News: As it happened - Apple's big iPod, iPhone & iTunes announcements

  Apple launches new iPods, including the iPod Touch, the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store and a price cut for the iPhone during a high-profile event in San Francisco. Read on for the full blow-by-blow account

• News: Apple launches iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store

  Apple CEO Steve Jobs took a break from announcing a raft of new iPod digital music players to unveil the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, so you can download tracks while on the move.

• News: NEW! iPod touch: the iPhone without the phone

  Apple's all-new iPod is an iPhone that doesn't make calls. But it can browse the web - from £199.

• News: Apple ships 160GB iPod

  Apple has updated the classic iPod and doubled hard-disk size, but leaves the old click wheel interface - with the all-new iPod touch becoming the innovative iPod of choice.

• News: Nano nano! Apple's iPod nano does video

  Apple uses massive media event to show off new iPod nano range, and a red shuffle.

• News: Ring! Ring! Apple unveils iPhone ringtones

  At a special media event in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed plans to release a new version of iTunes this evening that will support all the products that are being announced today. The biggest new feature in iTunes will be ringtone support for the iPhone, which is expected to be released in the UK next month.

• News: Sony launches high-def LocationFree TV

  A new version of Sony's LocationFree TV, which can stream TV and video images around the house via wireless, will be released in Japan on December 1. But while the new LocationFree TV Home HD brings the long-awaited high-def support, there are still some things it can't do.

• News: PS3 price cuts on the way in the US

  Sony could announce a US price cut for the 80GB PlayStation 3 (PS3) at the Tokyo Game Show later this month, according to analysts.

• News: BT tops four million broadband users

  BT claims to have become the first UK broadband supplier to have over four million customers sign up to its service.

• 04 September 2007

• News: Philips working on TiVo rival

  Philips is developing a personalised video recorder (PVR) application that learns users' viewing tastes, and that could compete with TiVo.

• News: Evesham boss apologises to customers

  Evesham founder Richard Austin claims the PC maker is back on track after his company was rescued from administration in August.

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