Category: Top stories
DS games are "fantastic" says, er, Sony VP
First we had last week’s Bill Gates / Steve Jobs love-in, and now Sony is praising its arch-rival Nintendo. If this spirit of love and togetherness continues, maybe the consumer electronics firms will sort out the Blu-ray / HD DVD confusion. Okay, maybe not.
EMI partners with YouTube, makes its music available
EMI has finally struck a deal with YouTube to make its artists' videos available online. The deal that will see the likes of The Rolling Stones and Coldplay added to the video sharing site means that the two companies will…
Sony slash $100 off their BDP-S300 Blu-Ray player…trouble in Sony-land?
It was only four days ago that Tech Digest’s Andy Merrett was discussing Sony’s uphill struggle with Blu-Ray…and whoops, today’s news has brought with it a disturbing piece about their new BDP-S300 Blu-Ray player.
According to the BBC, the player now costs $499, $100 less than when it was first announced in February. The 1080p compatible player supports various video formats including MPEG2, MPEG4-AVC, and VC1, and as well as HDMI…
New brushed metal Apple iMacs being rolled out?
It’s obvious to anyone with a set of eyes that Apple are progressing to the more elegant, refined brushed metal aesthetics for their products, instead of churning out the almost-luminescent white items which have been copied by everyone and their pet dogs named Bilbo.
The latest rumour is regarding their iMac computers, which have had many different looks over the years, including a brief spell…
Microsoft's Zune not coming to UK until 2008?
That hefty piece of plastic we’ve been eyeing off for months now just keeps on blowing in the wind, as Bob Dylan would say. The US have had it since November 2006, and it’d been confirmed UK and Europe would be receiving it come Winter this year…until our good friend at Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, reportedly told a German publication it’d been pushed back until 2008.
The reason behind this horror of horrors? According to the interview Ballmer gave the German publication Wirtschafts Woche, it’s due to the fact that the Zune is still to prove itself to Microsoft as a cash-cow….
Steve Jobs: "Don't buy iPhone from an Apple Store"
What’s that? Surely Apple’s head honcho wouldn’t try and put people off buying the iPhone from the company’s own shops? But it’s true according to blogger Arianna Huffington, who had a chat with Steve earlier this week.
Cowon unleashes L2 GPS-equipped personal media player
We were impressed by Cowon’s iAudio D2 media player earlier this year, which shoehorned audio, video and radio into one sleek device. But now the company has trumped that with its new L2 media player, which adds GPS and digital TV reception into the equation.
Star Wars Chubbies: like Russian dolls with The Force
I always thought a Star Wars Chubby is what male sci-fi fans get during those scenes where Princess Leia is in her scanties. But no. Apparently, Star Wars Chubbies are a new range of toys being sold by Firebox, which are like little Russian dolls based on Star Wars characters.
Get Bob Marley's 'Exodus' album… on a USB memory stick!
We’ve had singles released on USB memory sticks before – Keane did it last October for example. But never a studio album. Until now, at least. Bob Marley’s 1977 album ‘Exodus’ is being re-released in USB Memory Stick and Micro SD Memory Card formats.
Me TV: How Ustream.tv and BlogTV will turn us all into broadcasters
In the week that Big Brother’s latest series kicks off here in the UK, there are probably 873 media commentators already wheeling out Andy Warhol’s ‘Famous for 15 minutes’ maxim, so I won’t labour the point. However, people always assume that there has to be Someone Else making us famous for that quarter of an hour – usually a broadcaster.
