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Apple has updated its iPhone and iPod Touch lineup, doubling the memory and setting a new premium price for its high-end models.
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Online retailer Amazon is to become the largest shareholder in DVDs-by-post company Lovefilm in a deal that will bring together the two firms' competing UK film rentals businesses.
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Companies have been trying, and failing, to get PCs into the living room for several years, so why should Asustek succeed with a cut down Linux-based solution, when the likes of Intel, AMD, Microsoft and Sony, among countless others, have all had their efforts rejected by consumers?
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Kingston Technology announced it is adding a 16GB Class 4 SDHC Flash memory card to the current line of SDHC products. The new 16GB card is the largest capacity in Kingston's line of SDHC cards, which include 4- and 8GB SDHC Class 2/4/6 versions.
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In theory, everyone in the U.S. who has an iPhone is an AT&T customer, as this telecom has an exclusive contract with Apple. In reality, more than one-quarter of iPhones have been unlocked so that they can be used with other telecoms.
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Neil Young has apparently decided to skip a traditional CD release for the first in a series of releases which are intended to form a retrospective of his career from the 1960s through the present day.
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When it comes to peer-to-peer file-sharing, as soon as one site is shut down, another takes its place. The current darling of the P2P world is The Pirate Bay, a search engine for BitTorrent files across the Web.
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P2P directory Pirate Bay has managed to sign up its 10 millionth peer making itself the world's largest P2P tracker.
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The British Board of Film Classification has caused a bit of a rumpus by approving for general release on DVD the famed "video nasties" which were 20 years ago deemed unfit for human consumption.
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The battle of the recordable DVD formats - DVD+R/RW versus DVD-R/RW - is finally and officially over more than five-odd years after it began, and several years after the fight became largely symbolic.
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Woolworths stores will stock only Blu-ray high-definition movies from March in the latest setback for the rival HD-DVD format.
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Sony Ericsson said it had signed deals with 10 music labels to add content to its PlayNow service, which lets users download music via their mobile phones.
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Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a different kind of heads-up display that takes the approach of imprinting the screen on a contact lens-type of device that sits on the eye itself. The image is presented to the viewer overlaying the real-world.
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Asian LCD makers who have bet big on flat screen TVs are starting to see returns as the booming sector matures, but only a handful of companies with strong brand clients or exposure to the most advanced TV panels will see a significant profit boost.
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Super Bowl XLII is expected to drive the purchase of approximately 2.4 million high-definition television (HDTV) units, according to the third annual "Sports and Technology" survey.
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Social music site Last.fm claims to be the first to offer free, global, on-demand access to a huge catalogue of music after striking up partnerships with all four major record labels.
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Recent HD player sales data provided by market research firm NPD point to bad month for the HD DVD camp: Blu-ray extended its market share to 93% in the second week of the month up from a virtual tie with HD DVD in the first week.
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HP and Sony will team up to launch a DVD video service. The offering will allow customers to order Sony Pictures Home Entertainment movies and TV shows on discs which can be individually printed for each order.
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In Japan, Sony have blamed technical problems for delaying the planned introduction in late January of a Skype Web phone service for PlayStation Portable (PSP) users.
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Stateside, Sony has introduced a new High Definition version of its spherical digital living system - the VAIO TP Home Theater PC.
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