Month: August 2006
Website of the Day: The Apple Museum
Today's Website of the Day is The Apple Museum, a walk through the long and chequered history of Apple Computer. Look at the hardware, software and peripherals of the past 30+ years….
IFA 2006: Philips GoGear SA9200 1/2Gb portable music player
Philips have announced their GoGear SA9200 portable music player, with Nano-esque slimness and fairly good looks. It will initally come in 1 and 2 gigabyte flash versions, so although initial storage isn't as much as a Nano, it's a good…
IFA 2006: new Sharp Aquos LCD models
Our roving reporter, Susi, has all the latest information on Sharp's latest range of LCD TVs….
IFA 2006: Philips to launch PC-free Skype phone
Philips announced today at IFA 2006 that it will make available a cordless DECT phone that will make Skype calls independently of a PC. The VOIP841 will connect directly to your broadband connection and should be available by Christmas. Philips…
IFA 2006: Daewoo shows off portable gadgets: DVD and multimedia players
Amongst everything else, Daewoo have been showing off a couple of their portable multimedia devices at IFA 2006. Their DPC-7800PDT is a portable DVD player with a 7-inch TFT-LCD display, built-in speakers, and an integrated DVB-T digital TV tuner. Looks…
IFA 2006: More Blu-Ray titles confirmed
Blu Ray took another step closer to becoming the next high definition disc format ahead of rival HD-DVD with most of the major movie studios lining up at IFA to announce Blu Ray titles from this November. Despite the very…
IFA 2006: Daewoo announce new sat-nav systems
Daewoo have announced that three new satellite navigation systems will be available in Europe soon. The DPN-3500 has a 3.5-inch LCD display and the DPN-5600 has a 5.6-inch display, and both sound to be fairly standard portable sat-nav devices. Daewoo…
IFA 2006: Daewoo plan for wireless high-def TV
A whole host of manufacturers have recently been teaming up with MetaLink, a company that specialise in wireless media streaming technology based on the draft 802.11n specification – the next generation, higher-bandwidth wi-fi that should have sufficient capacity to stream…
IFA 2006: Sharp launches XV-Z21000 and XV-Z3000 HD-ready DLP projectors
Sharp has used the IFA in Berlin to launch two DLP projectors – the full HD XV-Z21000 and the XV-Z3000, which hits the market today. The top-end model, the XV-Z21000, is a full HD DLP projector with a resolution…
IFA 2006: Blu-ray content for personal video players and Blu-ray recorders on their way
The Q and A session at the Philips/Fox press conference at IFA today threw up a couple of interesting snippets. Firstly while Philips gave details of a Blu-ray recorder for the PC it also said that a Blu-ray recorder for…