Author: Chris Cornwell
Sony trials new CD copyright protection scheme
It appears that Sony is the latest company to attempt to curb CD piracy: Sony has been trialing a new anti-piracy music CD, developed with 'sterile burning' technology from UK firm first4internet. These music CDs would have an embedded DRM…
iTunes adds Click and Buy payment in Europe
You can really rely on Apple to make it easy to spend money, and it looks like spending money on the music just got a whole lot easier with the addition of Firstgate's Click and Buy payment for European iTunes…
Skype wi-fi phone release 'later this year'
Although competitor Vonage has already stated that it's working on a wi-fi phone, as reported earlier, Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom has reconfirmed that we can expect to see a wi-fi Skype mobile and see it later this year. The phone…
Is that GPS technology in your pants, or…oh. It is.
Technology takes another big brother-esque turn with the release of these new forget-me-not panties. Using technology only previously available to the military (a little morsel of information that somehow fails to provide comfort), these pants will allow the tracking of…
The shocking fitness mouse
Does anyone remember that rash of fitness gadgetry that came out a while ago? You know, the ones that would help tone up your muscles by giving you small electric shocks? Questions of whether this approach actually works aside, if…
Samsung start producing more sophisticated NAND flash memory
Samsung has announced that it’s beginning to churn out more sophisticated NAND flash memory. This flash memory uses a new 70 nanometre process technology, smaller than the previous 90 nanometre industry standard. What does this mean in the real world?…
AMD launches its own dual core chips
Hot on the heels of Intel's announcement of dual core chips, as reported earlier on Tech Digest, is the revelation by AMD that it's going to be releasing its own set of dual core chips, set to be showcased at…
Toshiba: Unified format, but not anytime soon
The war between Sony and Toshiba over the next gen disc format took an interesting turn recently. After a seeming failure to reach a compromise between Sony's vaunted Blu-ray and Toshiba's HD-DVD, president of Toshiba Tadashi Okamura has stated that…
Yahoo launch new photo service
Yahoo launched a new photo service, imaginatively dubbed PhotoMail, for Yahoo mail today, albeit in beta. Yahoo's service will allow users to upload 300 photographs by dragging and dropping from the web, your hard drive or the Yahoo photos service….
Intel unveils new dual core processor line
Intel has announced the release today of its new dual core processors, aimed at home users. Called the Pentium D, the dual core processor is priced significantly cheaper than Intel's extreme edition chips, its original line of dual core processors….
