Author: Katherine Hannaford
Vita Audio adds CD and iPod playback to their DAB radio – hey presto, it's the R4!
Flying through the airwaves and into Harrods, Selfridges, John Lewis and a few select other department stores, the R4 music system from Vita Audio combines an iPod dock, USB playback facility, DAB/FM tuner and aux inputs with, yep, a slot-loading CD drive, offering customers a stylish audio player for under £500.
Furnished in either a real wood veneer or piano lacquer (shown), it outputs 80 watts, has an integrated active subwoofer and their trademark RotoDial for easy iPod control, whether that be on the device, or detached…
Microsoft and RIM jump into bed together, offer Windows Live services for BlackBerry phones
Research In Motion has been extremely busy this balmy day, first announcing the Bold 9000 smartphone, and now a collaboration with Microsoft allowing for Windows Live services to be used on BlackBerry handsets.
Whilst BlackBerry phones have an IM service already, it’s rather limited as you can only talk with other BlackBerry owners. This new agreement between the two giants means BlackBerry users can enjoy MSN Messenger…
Shiny Video Review: Polaroid Freescape 4360 Wireless PMP
Zara, Shiny Towers’ PMP queen, takes a look at the 4360 media player from Polaroid. With 60GB of storage and Wi-Fi, will it impress her Archos fangirl heart?…
Comparison of RIM's BlackBerry Pearl 8110, Curve 8310 and Bold 9000 smartphones
The BlackBerry 9000 was officially announced by Research In Motion this morning, and within minutes I was on the phone to my mobile contract provider, arranging the return of the Pearl 8110 I’d just ordered. Even though the 9000 won’t be out until Summer, it’s still worth waiting for, in my opinion.
Or is it? Do you prefer the 45g-bar-of-chocolate-size of the Pearl 8110, or the BlackBerry Maps featured in the Curve 8310? Let’s take a look below the jump at the key features of the three feathers RIM has in its cap…
Shiny Video Preview: Gear4 Duo speakers
The lovely Lucy went along to the launch of the Gear4 Duo last Thursday, and filmed a little hands-on video just for you. Out in June, it…
Win £500 worth of tech vouchers – tell us about 'My Video Life' and win some fab prizes
You use your camera to shoot video. You use your phone to shoot video. You may even be capturing the world in high definition. Now’s the time to get your footage working for you by entering our competition and scoring a great prize.
We have teamed up with Visual Networking experts, Cisco, to offer shedloads of cool prizes and all you have to do is show us a video that illustrates ‘My Video Life’…
Shiny Video Review: Nikon P80 digital camera
After a massive protruding lens to compensate for a lack of size elsewhere? The Nikon P80 should do the trick, with its 18x optical zoom, 10-megapixel sensor and 2.7″ LCD.
Lucy’s had a few days to play around with one, and was impressed with the quality of the zoom, which you can see in the video above…
Pope Benedict XVI promises to send "daily inspirational text messages" to Australian Catholics
Turns out the Pope is a dab hand at texting, as he’s promised his Australian worshipers a little daily SMS fun.
He’s apparently visiting the country later this year, where he’ll send out “daily inspirational text messages” to all who sign up for the service, and in a spot of publicity you just can’t pay for (GOD PREFERS TELSTRA!), he’ll be using the phone network Telstra’s 3G service for reaching his internet-bound friends via webcasting…
CrackBerry.com gets hands-on with the unreleased BlackBerry 9000
After watching this video, I’ve decided I’m definitely trading in my Pearl 8110 for the upcoming 9000. Not yet released, CrackBerry.com acquired one of those handsets that mysteriously found their way on eBay at the end of April, and boy, is it impressive.
Watch the video above for size comparisons between the 9000 and previous BlackBerry models, and for a run-through of the new OS. Here’s…
Wii creator Shigeru Miyamoto honoured with top place in Time Magazine's Top 100
Voters who participated in Time Magazine’s recent ‘100 Most Influential People of 2008’ list obviously felt the same way as I did, with Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto crowned the year’s most influential.
Following him at number two and three are Rain and Stephen Colbert (you can view Colbert’s dance-off with the Korean popstar here), with the next notable technology luminaries being Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales at 18, ‘The Google Guys’ at number 20, and Microsoft’s Bill Gates in at 27th spot…
