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Article | 7/01/2008 CES - Samsung to show 14, 31-inch OLEDs, quad-HD prototype TV

Samsung Electronics unveiled Sunday two ultra-thin TVs and a prototype LCD (liquid crystal display) TV with four times the definition of today's most ...

Article | 7/01/2008 CES - Toshiba defiant on HD DVD: It ain't dead yet

Two days after it lost an important ally in the high-definition format battle, Toshiba put on a defiant face at the Consumer Electronics Show and decl...

Article | 7/01/2008 CES - Warner Bros dumps HD DVD, to go Blu-ray exclusive

Warner Bros., the only major movie studio to release titles on both of the rival high-definition video disc formats, has decided to drop HD DVD and ex...

Article | 28/12/2007 CES - Panasonic to unveil thinnest Blu-ray Disc drive at CES

Panasonic has developed a Blu-ray Disc drive for laptop computers and plans to unveil it at January's Consumer Electronics Show, the company said Thur...

Article | 26/12/2007 YEAR END - TOKYO EDGE - 2007's coolest gadgets

The end of the year provides us with the perfect excuse to look back at some of the coolest gadgets that have come out of the consumer electronics gia...

Article | 18/12/2007 Toshiba shows first HD DVD-RW laptop

Toshiba will begin selling later this week the first laptop computer to feature a rewritable HD DVD optical disc drive, the company said on Monday.

Article | 7/12/2007 Toyota premieres violin-playing robot

Toyota unveiled on Thursday the latest two creations from its robot project, including one that can play the violin, and said it is targeting the earl...

Article | 3/12/2007 Vivendi, Activision to create computer games giant

European media group Vivendi plans to acquire a majority stake in leading computer games publisher Activision and merge the company with its own gamin...

Article | 28/11/2007 Nissan adds a robot helper to its concept car

Imagine a passenger in your car that is never wrong with directions, keeps you in good spirits and will check your e-mail while you're driving. That v...

Article | 28/11/2007 Samsung's dual-format HD disc player coming in December

Samsung looks ready to make good on its plan to release a dual-format Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD player in time for the year-end holidays.

Article | 14/11/2007 TOKYO EDGE - November's coolest gadgets

The hundreds of thousands of people entering the Tokyo Motor Show are getting a chance to see more than just the latest cars -- there's a whole sectio...

Article | 13/11/2007 Xbox 360 outsells PlayStation 3 in Japan

Microsoft's Xbox 360 has outsold Sony's PlayStation 3 in Japan for the first time, according to a closely watched weekly sales ranking.

Article | 8/11/2007 Google's Android just a press release, says Ballmer

Google's plans to enter the mobile industry with a cell phone platform might have impressed many in the industry but not Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microso...

Article | 7/11/2007 Ceatec's coolest gadgets

Japan's largest electronics show, Ceatec, kicks off October every year with all that's new and upcoming from the country's consumer electronics vendor...

Article | 6/11/2007 Samsung to target enterprise servers with new SSDs

Samsung Electronics is moving towards commercialization of solid-state disk drives (SSDs) that use the high-speed SATA II interface, the company said ...