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• 15 June 2007

• News: Archos launches Gen 5 PMP range

  Archos has launched its new WiFi-enabled Generation 5 PMP range, enabling users to stream and download content with or without a PC.

• 14 June 2007

• News: Windows Home Server RC1 released

  Microsoft has rolled out the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) edition of the near-final Windows Home Server (WHS) to 100,000 testers as one of the last milestones before the software shows up in turnkey systems this fall.

• News: Toshiba sees disappointing HD DVD sales

  Shipping numbers for Toshiba’s HD DVD players have been reduced in Northern America following low sales.

• 13 June 2007

• News: YouTube to promote French broadcaster

  France Televisions, France’s public broadcaster, is in talks with Google’s YouTube video-sharing site about plans to push its content online.

• News: Nokia announces Bluetooth rival

  The ultra low-power Wibree technology developed by Nokia will become part of the Bluetooth specification under an agreement reached by the Wibree Forum and the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG).

• News: Official PlayStation blog targets PS3 fans

  It took a while, but Sony Computer Entertainment America has now started a blog to report on all things PlayStation related

• News: Violin-playing Robot impresses in Euro contest

  Australia may boast great cultural icons like the Sydney Harbour Bridge but now the local ICT research community has developed an icon of its own, a robot that plays the violin.

• News: Nokia invests in web video firm Kyte.tv

  Nokia is the latest investor to inject capital in a new venture for sharing pictures and videos on the web.

• 12 June 2007

• News: Toshiba launches high-capacity HD DVD DVRs

  Toshiba will launch this month two digital video recorders (DVRs) that combine HD DVD with high-definition hard-disk drive recording.

• 07 June 2007

• News: Laptops work as HD-DVD, Blu-ray players

  Two manufacturers have announced laptop PCs that hook up to HD (high definition) TVs. The laptops then use their internal high definition optical drives to operate as either Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD players.

• 06 June 2007

• News: Friction TV brings free speech to the web

  Following a three-month trial, Friction TV has launched to the public. Like YouTube, Friction TV is a video-sharing site, but Friction TV focuses on freedom of speech and provides a largely uncensored online speakers’ corner.

• 04 June 2007

• News: Toshiba to show HD DVD-RW drive for laptops

  Toshiba will tomorrow unveil a slim HD-DVD rewriter suitable for use in laptops. Toshiba will launch the notebook HD disc drive at the Computex trade show in Taipei.

• 01 June 2007

• News: Apple TV to hit DVD player market

  Deutche Bank has warned that the Apple TV could cannibalise a slice of the $26bn DVD player market in the coming years.

• News: Cisco boss to head Joost?

  Former Cisco executive Mike Volpi is reportedly headed to Joost to be the online video company's next CEO.

• 31 May 2007

• News: Apple unveils quad-power TV

  Apple has started selling its Apple TV home-entertainment system with a hard disk four times the capacity of the original: a whopping 160GB.

• News: Apple TV links with YouTube

  Apple is bringing YouTube content to the living room with its Apple TV home-entertainment system. Beginning in mid-June, Apple TV will wirelessly stream videos directly from YouTube and play them on a user’s widescreen TV.

• 29 May 2007

• News: 20th Century Fox plans Sims: The movie

  The Sims game is to be made into a film, with 20th Century Fox securing the rights.

• News: Finnish court rules DVD DRM 'ineffective'

  A Finnish court ruling is prompting questions over the wording of a European copyright directive that prohibits publishing information that could enable illegal DVD copying.

• 25 May 2007

• News: Toshiba's SED TV delayed again

  Toshiba won't launch flat-panel TVs based on SED (surface-conduction electron-emitter display) screens this year after all.

• News: Sony, LG.Philips unveil flexible Oled displays

  Sony and LG.Philips, two of the world's biggest flat-panel display makers, unveiled flexible full-colour screens at a display industry show in California this week

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