Month: July 2006
Intempo PP-01 – DAB meets the picture frame
I'm a big fan of DAB – more music choice and better sound quality. Some look stylish, others look like they've been designed by technicians. You certainly can't say that about the latter about Intempo's PP-01 – the DAB…
TD Website of the Day
Welcome to a new feature at Tech Digest. Website of the Day is where we showcase a fun, interesting, useful, or just plain quirky technology-related website. There are no prizes for the site owners or those who nominate them -…
Dell and Acer announce pre-standard 802.11n wireless notebook cards
Dell and Acer have both announced that they are making wireless cards available for their notebook PCs, based on the pre-standard 802.11n wi-fi specification. 802.11n provides vastly superior speeds and reliability over existing wireless 802.11 protocols. It's all looking…
Powerpoint virus killed off. Shame…
Oooh, wow man, so like they've found a vulnerability in some Microsoft software? Yeah, it's not exactly earth-shattering news is it? Still, I got to stick a big bug on the PowerPoint logo, so it's not all bad… I know…
Get ready to celebrate MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger 7th birthday
I'm not sure we should encourage the celebration of birthdays for pieces of software – it's hard enough remembering human birthdays without sending greetings and getting cake all over your PC keyboard when a Microsoft product gets another year…
Work on UK digital switchover begins in Border
Work on the UK's switchover to all-digital terrestrial broadcasting started in Caldbeck today with construction starting on a 337m high mast for the Border region, which will be the first area to make the switch, in 2008. A second mast…
World Cup a real boost to UK flat-panel TV sales
I don't know – broadcast some minor sporting event and suddenly everyone wants to watch it on a big new TV screen. See the World Cup on the horizon, and watch a flat-panel TV being sold in the UK…
$4.5bn wasted every year on "No Fault Found" mobile phone returns
A recent study suggests that nearly two-thirds of mobile phones returned to the manufacturer by consumers are in perfect working order. Of these: * 38% were from users who gave up after trying to use a specific application, and…
Review: Cowon A2 Media Player
The Propaganda The Cowon A2 is "a movie theatre in the palm of your hand", so it basically will play you all your favourite films, whilst you’re sunning yourself in St Tropez or squashed into Economy Class. It also…
Advanced wireless communications system successfully used on London Underground
Good communication is key in an emergency situation, but existing systems on some of our transport networks is not as good as it could be. Anvil Technologies (Canada) and Primetech (UK) have developed the RECoN system which tests on the…
