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  • 27 July 2007

  • News: US price cut for Xbox 360 HD DVD player

    Microsoft is cutting the price of an HD DVD player it offers as an add-on to Xbox 360 game consoles in the US and will give away five free HD DVD movies with player purchases, a sign the battle between the HD DVD and the Blu-ray Disc high definition formats is heating up.

  • News: PS2 is world's most popular console

    A new study reveals that Sony’s PlayStation 2 (PS2) remains the world’s most popular and most widely played console, despite the launch of the PS3, Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360.

  • News: Sony hit by by poor PS3 performance

    Disappointing sales of Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3) console have contributed to a $237m in Sony’s game division

  • 23 July 2007

  • News: Nintendo Wii exposed to Adobe Flash bug

    Symantec says a recently identified Adobe Flash vulnerability could affect the Nintendo Wii through the console’s Opera internet browser.

  • News: New Harry Potter film on Google Video

    A non-profit group has accused Google’s Google Video service of hosting potentially copyrighted videos, including recent full-length movies, concerts, as well as broadcast and cable TV programmes.

  • News: $5m lawsuit targets Xbox 360 failures

    Xbox 360 customers have filed a second lawsuit against Microsoft complaining about the Xbox 360 console scratching and ruining video game discs.

  • 20 July 2007

  • News: Tomy to sell world's smallest humanoid robot

    Toy robots have been in the dog house since Sony killed the Aibo, but another Japanese company, Tomy, hopes to change all that. In October it will start selling what it says is the world's smallest humanoid robot.

  • News: Nintendo Wii to overtake Xbox 360

    Global Nintendo Wii unit sales are less than 1 million away from total Xbox 360 worldwide sales of 10 million, according to recent estimates. At its current rate, the Wii could surpass Xbox 360 sales as soon as September.

  • 18 July 2007

  • News: New Xbox 360 games outshine Wii & PS3

    GamerMetrics has compiled the most anticipated games for the second half of 2007 according to online page visits in the US. Topping the list of prospective best sellers is Halo 3, followed by Madden NFL 08 and Grand Theft Auto IV.

  • News: YouTube's web dominance revealed in US

    Nearly 75 percent of web users in the US watched video online during May – according to ComScore says – with sites run by Google proving most popular.

  • News: PlayStation Portable to get mobile TV

    The PlayStation Portable (PSP) console is to get mobile TV functionality, after Sony announced details of the second-generation PSP.

  • News: Xbox boss quits Microsoft for EA

    Peter Moore has resigned as the president of Microsoft’s Xbox business, less than two weeks after the company revealed that it would take a $1bn charge due to widespread defects in the Xbox 360 console. The Briton will be joining Electronic Arts (EA), and will be replaced by Don Mattrick, a former EA executive.

  • 16 July 2007

  • News: Sony to kill 60GB PlayStation 3

    Sony grabbed headlines recently when they announced that the 60 GB PlayStation 3 (PS3) would be dropped to $499 (£250). But on Friday Sony also revealed that this model will be discontinued later this year, leaving only the $599 (£300) model for sale in the US.

  • 13 July 2007

  • News: NTT DoCoMo trials superfast mobile internet

    NTT DoCoMo has embarked on a month-long experiment of a Super 3G (third-generation) cellular system. NTT DoCoMo hopes to hit a downlink speed of 300Mbps (bits per second), it said today.

  • 12 July 2007

  • News: iPod users warned on digital music risk

    In an investigation of 46 UK insurance providers, the Consumers Association's Computing Which? Magazine found that less than half provided cover for music and other digital downloads.

  • News: Sony to release slim PlayStation Portable

    Sony plans to release a redesigned version of its PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld game system in the autumn. The new PSP, announced at the E3 conference, is 33 percent lighter and 19 percent slimmer than the original PSP model, which was first released in 2005. It also contains a faster Universal Media Disc (UMD) drive, used to load games and some movies, and features improved battery life.

  • 10 July 2007

  • News: UK, MSN and Live Earth set online streaming record

    Microsoft set a record for streaming by broadcasting the Live Earth concerts on MSN on Saturday. The UK concert was the most viewed, followed by Australia, Germany and Japan. MSN had expected that the US show would produce the most traffic, but it came in fourth.

  • 05 July 2007

  • News: Toshiba lawsuit targets German DVD maker

    Toshiba has filed a lawsuit against German DVD replicator EDD Bizz GmbH over the alleged infringement of DVD patents.

  • 03 July 2007

  • News: EU investigates Blu-Ray & HD DVD

    The European Union's antitrust regulator has asked Hollywood studios to turn over information about their negotiations with the developers of high-definition DVD formats, giving them until the end of this week to respond.

  • 01 July 2007

  • News: The iPhone killers: best products of 2007

    Apple’s iPhone is the most highly anticipated tech gadget of the year, but David Haskin believes it’s distracted us from other hot new products launched in the first half of 2007

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