Month: July 2006
Inovix IMP-18 portable music player
With so many companies bringing out feature-packed players, you wonder how the basic players survive? Probably because some people just want a music player that does the job required without costing the earth – like this Inovix IMP-18 portable…
Samsung's two-way sliding SGH-B450 mobile phone
Forget one-way slider phones, it seems like the next 12 months is going to be all about two-way sliding. Following on from the LG-KH1000 comes the Samsung SGH-B450, described by the company as a "free folder" phone. The SGH-B450…
WOTD: Wireless Sensor Networks blog
Today's Website of the Day is the Marco Zennaro's Wireless Sensor Networks blog, which he says is a technology that looks really promising. He's covering the main news in this emerging field (no pun intended) – looking at the…
In-car sat nav summer holiday sales boom
A recent report shows that last month's sales of in-car satellite navigation systems were up almost 20% on last year, as the UK gears up for summer holidays. Some 70,000 units were sold, bringing the total over the past…
Kuro Dock – the smallest iPod nano dock ever
Sometimes bigger isn't better. If you don't want a huge dock/speaker system cluttering up the house when you simply want a dock to connect your iPod to a computer, if might be worth taking a look at the Kuro…
Wayne Rooney battles for his web domain
You'd think he'd have enough on his plate with his World Cup antics and the new season approaching – but, according to The Register, it seems that one of Wayne Rooney's main concerns right now is getting his website…
Review: HTC's first branded smartphone – Tytn
The Propaganda HTC have long been manufacturing Pocket PCs for other people, such as O2 and Orange, but the Tytn marks their first foray into this world under their own name. It's a tri-band 3G Pocket PC, with a full…
Yahoo offers MP3 download free from DRM
Anyone here like DRM? Digital Rights Management is a big pain for anyone who has legitimately bought music and other digital content and, quite rightly in my opinion, wants to use it as they see fit. Apple's been slammed…
UK digital switchover is still a mystery to many
A new survey from Digital UK, the champions of digital TV awareness in Britain, suggests that almost a third of UK TV viewers are still in the dark about digital switchover. Since Matt Lucas began voicing Digit Al, awareness…
Review: Imation Micro Hard Drive
What can make a portable 4GB storage device special? Well quite a lot it seems – the guys at GadgetCentre has been trying out an Imation Micro Hard Drive and are fairly impressed depite the relatively high price tag….
