Martyn Williams - Author - Good Gear Guide

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Article | 27/02/2007 Apple, Samsung, Sandisk sued over MP3

Little-known Texas MP3 Technologies is taking on Apple, Samsung Electronics and Sandisk with a patent-infringement lawsuit.

Article | 22/02/2007 Details of new Sony digital cameras hit the Web

They're not due to be officially announced until next week, but details of Sony's new line-up of digital still cameras hit numerous Web sites Tuesday.

Article | 20/02/2007 JVC revises down sales, profits forecast

Struggling consumer electronics maker, Victor Co. of Japan (JVC), won't make any money this year.

Article | 9/02/2007 Sony targets older consumers with new audio system

Sony is targeting consumers at or near retirement age with a new home audio system that pairs high-quality sound with a relatively low price and small...

Article | 6/02/2007 New from Sony: an iPod accessory

If you can't beat them, join them? Sony is getting into the iPod accessory market with the U.S. launch of an iPod docking station.

Article | 31/01/2007 PlayStation 3 price cut pulls down Sony profits

Sony's core electronics business more than doubled profits in the last quarter of 2006, but failed to offset price cuts to its PlayStation 3 game cons...

Article | 29/01/2007 Wii news channel debuts early in Japan

Nintendo Co. has started offering a new service that feeds national and international news headlines to its recently launched Wii console.

Article | 25/01/2007 Toshiba preps 2GB NAND flash memory chips

Toshiba will begin selling in April NAND flash memory chips capable of holding up to 2G bytes of data, the company said Wednesday.

Article | 16/01/2007 Toshiba plans HD DVD-R laptop for Vista launch

Toshiba will put on sale in Japan in late February the first laptop PC in the world with support for the write-once HD DVD-R optical disc format.

Article | 9/01/2007 CES - Sony to stream high-def broadband video to TVs

Sony has revealed a system that will allow viewers of its Bravia flat-panel TV sets to access broadband video content, some of it in high-definition (...

Article | 8/01/2007 CES - Toshiba cuts the cost of 1080p HD DVD

Toshiba is lowering the entry price to full-HD video with its new HD-A20 HD DVD player, which the company introduced on Sunday at the International Co...

Article | 8/01/2007 CES - Sharp unwraps 108-inch LCD TV

Sharp took the wraps off the largest flat-panel TV yet developed on Sunday. The company unveiled a prototype 108-inch TV during a news conference at t...

Article | 8/01/2007 Seagate plans to ship 1TB drive by June

Seagate Technology is planning to begin shipping a hard-disk drive with a 1T-byte storage capacity sometime during the first half of 2007, it said Thu...

Article | 8/01/2007 CES - Vault 360 seeks to make video conversion a snap

Getting digital video from one device to another can be a hassle, but a Massachusetts software company thinks it has the answer.

Article | 8/01/2007 CES - TDK to show 8cm Blu-ray Discs at CES

TDK will unveil prototype 8-centimeter Blu-ray Disc media at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that kicked off on Sunday.