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 Biting the hand that feeds IT Copyright: Copyright 2007, Situation Publishing Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:38:37 +0100 1,000 jobs at riskLexmark, the printer maker, is ending production of inkjet cartridges in Rosyth, Scotland and is transferring manufacture to a cheaper, unnamed country. Up to 1,000 jobs could be affected.… Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:45:33 +0100 Set-top maker buy puts Morotola in frame for full IPTVMotorola came out of the IPTV closet this week, spending an unspecified amount of cash to buy IPTV specialist set-top maker, Kreatel of Sweden.… Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:25:47 +0100 Can't compete in the digital eraKonica-Minolta today revealed it is to quit photography business after more than 103 years - with the loss of 3,700 jobs worldwide.… Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:11:34 +0100 They're free round the corner at the Apple shopPosh London department store Selfridges is to begin charging punters £65 for a 40-minute one-on-one iPod tutorial later this month - almost as much as it costs to buy the cheapest iPod.… Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:51:58 +0100 Accessory heavenAnother day, another iPod accessory from Griffin Technology. Today's is the iClear a transparent polycarbonate shell developed to keep your iPod Nano safe from scratches.… Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:33:57 +0100 Digital SLRs are the place to be, apparently35mm film has come to the end of the roll, Nikon has said. The camera maker this week revealed it is focusing its efforts solely on digital photography products.… Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:20:33 +0100 Turns portable player into home media centreGriffin Technology will soon ship a dock that converts any compatible iPod into a home media centre system.… Thu, 12 Jan 2006 11:20:58 +0100 The hottest Vegas showstoppers since LiberaceSo the delegates have gone home, the halls are emptying and, yes, Gates (and Elvis) have left the building. The gadget fest that was the Consumer Electronics Show 2006 is now history. Yet before we bury it for good, here's our list of the ten best gadgets to emerge at the show (in no particular order)...… Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:02:51 +0100 Open-source systems pitched at geeksNeuros is to update its MPEG-4 Video Recorder with a new industrial design and an integrated hard-disk drive. It is also preparing to revive its Digital Audio Computer (DAC) line of MP3 players, basing both systems on both a common hardware platform and open-source firmware.… Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:48:10 +0100 Splendid isolation?Review I've long stopped listening to portable music players on London's Underground. You have to turn the volume so high to rise above the background racket, it quickly gets uncomfortable. I began to worry about my hearing.… Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:24:22 +0100 'There are simply too many notes, Herr Mozart'A University of Leicester psychologist has concluded that modern listeners don't value music as much as their 19th-century counterparts did - and he blames the iPod and music downloading.… Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:31:49 +0100 Is that an iPod in your pocket or... oh, forget itJeans-maker Levi Strauss has designed a pair of denim trousers with an integrated iPod remote control. The jeans also provide an iPod dock and retractable earphones.… Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:56:50 +0100 Steve Iacocca goes car poddingMacworld A week after Microsoft and MTV pitched the Urge.com rival to iTunes, Apple Computer upped the ante in online entertainment and services.… Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:11:32 +0100 Record-breaking record sales...Christmas 2005 saw a new record set for downloaded music - with the last week of the year seeing more than 20m music tracks downloaded and paid for by US customers - three-times higher than the 2004 figure.… Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:28:48 +0100 Click-tasticYet another surge in demand for digital cameras helped boost sales at Jessops, the high street photographic retailer revealed today.… Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:22:12 +0100 Now you see it...It’s been difficult to predict how Apple will continue to develop the video iPod, given that it had such a poor start in signing up so little content for the device.… Sun, 08 Jan 2006 03:11:38 +0100 Reg hack escapes stoning undauntedCES Without question, the highlight of this year's CES (Consumer Electronics Show) for us was watching the Black Crowes play at an AMD-sponsored event. Not to gloat, but we managed to make our way backstage after the concert and meet the band. At least we think it was the band. The thick smoke – yes, that kind – made it tough to see.… Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:21:56 +0100 It's got a tiny OLED screen tooCES South Korea's Cowon this week demo'd at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas what it claims is the world's first micro media player based on a 0.85in hard disk drive.… Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:09:41 +0100 Tech ready for licensing as backers unveil playersCES The Blu-ray Disc specification has been completed, the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) announced last night, just three days after dotting the i's and crossing the t's on the format.… Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:33:05 +0100 At twice the price of an HD DVD rig, though...CES Samsung today pledged to ship a Blu-ray Disc (BD) player ahead of rival manufacturers, getting its BD-P1000 machine to consumers in the "April timeframe", according to Jim Sandowski, head of Samsung USA's digital product marketing.… Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:01:29 +0100 OK, digital binoculars will doCES Our first Consumer Electronics Show (CES) wrap covers a little bit of everything - from a new twist on binoculars to a pen-sized scanner. If gadgets are your thing, please proceed with pace.… Thu, 05 Jan 2006 21:25:49 +0100 4x version to follow, apparentlyCES JVC today announced the world's first single-sided, dual-layer DVD-RW media will ship in Q2 - more than a year after the company unveiled the technology.… Thu, 05 Jan 2006 20:35:43 +0100 An eVU that you can't buyCES Maybe the tiny video iPod screen doesn’t quite do it for you. Or, perhaps, you’re tired of lugging around a pretty clunky portable device just to watch DVDs. If so, you might want to check out the eVU device from e.Digital.… Thu, 05 Jan 2006 20:07:38 +0100 Let our powers combineCES XM Satellite has claimed a pair of firsts over rival Sirius Radio with the release of two new devices that can tune in satellite radio and play MP3s and the announcement that it has topped six-million subscribers.… Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:22:33 +0100 Philips to ship H2, tooCES Sony will ship Blu-ray Disc players to the US retail market in "early summer", the consumer electronics giant said yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show, held in Las Vegas.… Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:16:09 +0100 Record 5.1-channel soundtracks up to 30m awayCES Sony will next month ship a cute Bluetooth microphone accessory for members of its DVD camcorder line-up. The ECM-HW1 is designed as a pick-up for audio that the camcorder's main mic can't always catch, particularly since it can be located up to 30m from the recording device.… Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:09:28 +0100 Studio Canal spills beansCES HD DVD will come to Europe in 2006, it has emerged. France's Studio Canal, part of the Canal Plus media combine, this week said it will ship 30 titles on the next-generation optical disc format this year.… Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:53:43 +0100 Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy for real?CES Sony is to bring its Librié e-1000 electronic book to the US in March, the company annnounced at CES today.… Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:06:29 +0100 Cool VoIP and PSP apps and gadgets galoreCES Certified gadget obsessives Tech Digest and Shiny Shiny scour Gizmoville for the oddest digital goodies… Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:07:02 +0100 Tackles 'remote power' problem, still needs a socketJust a day after announcing that Ethernet power would drive all its wireless access points in future, Linksys unveiled a wireless webcam - which needs wires.… Thu, 05 Jan 2006 12:22:20 +0100 Route cause analysisTomTom - the satellite navigation service - is offering its punters free traffic updates after its service was interrupted last month. The service interruption, which TomTom blames on problems with its ISP, follows similar problems in September, originally blamed on a server migration falling behind schedule. Both glitches affected TomTom's website and its TomTom Plus traffic update service.… Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:20:31 +0100 Fad gadgetsVoIP giant Skype has announced a number of partnerships with telephony gadget manufacturers in a bid to reach a wider market with its internet telephony service.… Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:00:19 +0100 Weird shades from Moto, high def cams and moreCertified gadget obsessives Tech Digest and Shiny Shiny scour Gizmoville for the oddest digital goodies.… Tue, 03 Jan 2006 17:08:27 +0100 Mac-based GPS software developer beats the retreatRoute-planning software and GPS navigation hardware developer TomTom has successfully forced a small Mac software developer to stop offering code that allows users to maintain TomTom's Go device from a Macintosh.… Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:27:05 +0100 More compatible with the binaural worldHaving seemingly failed to persuade the digital music world to upgrade to MP3 Pro, the format's founder, Germany's Fraunhofer Institute, is trying again, this time with MP3 Surround, a multi-channel implementation of the hugely popular music codec.… Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:01:17 +0100 Where do you not want to go today?Nissan and Microsoft have partnered to show that they can deliver as much impotent grandeur as any other auto/software maker duo.… Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:07:00 +0100 and other high-tech shaggy dog storiesCertified gadget obsessives Tech Digest and Shiny Shiny scour Gizmoville for the oddest digital goodies, TV Scoop features all that’s cool in British telly and Propellerhead answers your PC queries… Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:03:52 +0100 MonsterSony will show off a monster 82in LCD TV in January - ten months after Samsung demo'd just such a beast of its own.… Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:29:00 +0100 R580 to debut on 24 January?ATI will announce - but not necessarily ship - its 90nm R580 graphics chip next month as the Radeon X1900.… Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:19:17 +0100 Electronic timesBelgian daily De Tijd is to be distributed electronically in what is claimed to be the first complete solution for portable electronic reading and writing.… Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:13:12 +0100 Shuffle sweet spotApple is wondering whether to offer a 1GB iPod Nano early next year, even as it prepares a redesigned iPod Shuffle with the same song-storage capacity.… Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:12:41 +0100 I heard that. Pardon.Music lovers are being warned that the popular 'earbud' headphones worn by users of iPods and MP3 players could lead to hearing loss.… Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:13:08 +0100 And the PS3 is on its way too
Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:13:51 +0100 Download tracks direct to the deviceMusicGremlin's upcoming digital music player will support direct-to-device song downloads, the company said today as it begins to pitch technology licences to device manufacturers.… Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:37:20 +0100 Gadgets and eBay goodies from the Shiny crewCertified gadget obsessives Tech Digest and Shiny Shiny scour Gizmoville for the oddest digital goodies, TV Scoop features all that’s cool in British telly and Propellerhead answers your PC queries.… Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:07:12 +0100 Recordable and rewriteableTDK has begun sampling recordable and rewriteable Blu-ray Discs that don't need to be kept in cartridges, the company said today.… Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:19:19 +0100 Intel-based iBooks to be USB 2.0 only, website claimsIs Apple about to drop FireWire - the connectivity standard it created and for so long fostered - from the Mac line-up?… Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:14:59 +0100 Wearing out the rewind buttonSonyBMG’s efforts to regain some credibility with PC users came unstuck again after it admitted that a patch for flawed content protection software included with some its CDs actually creates more problems for users.… Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:22:11 +0100 Rattling sabre to speed negotiationsCreative has once again touted its ownership of a key digital music player user-interface patent, though the comapny's CEO, Sim Wong Hoo, didn't go as far as to threaten any rival companies - guess who - specifically.… Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:31:41 +0100 Blu-ray vs HD DVD = PS3 vs Xbox 360The battle between the next-generation games consoles will determine the winner of the fight between the next-generation optical disc formats.… |
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