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Article | 2/10/2010 Apple TV jailbreak: Imagine the possibilities

The jailbreaking of Apple TV, days after shipping, is no surprise. The real delight will come in the weeks and months ahead, as hackers and developers...

Article | 1/10/2010 BenQ unveils new K61 e-reader with 6-inch touchscreen

BenQ launched its second-generation e-reader on Friday, a device able to download e-books via Wi-Fi or 3G networks and take notes using the touchscree...

Article | 1/10/2010 Foxtel launches On Demand video download service

Foxtel has launched an online video-on-demand service for its Foxtel iQ2 set-top boxes, allowing subscribers to purchase TV shows and movies directly ...

Article | 30/09/2010 Best sites for downloading music

In a day and age where music sharing is a bigger deal than Justin Bieber's haircut, it can be confusing to wade through Web sites looking for the best...

Article | 30/09/2010 Apple TV teardown gives App Store clues, says analyst

Apple will add App Store functionality to its new, miniature Apple TV in the near future, a Wall Street analyst said today.

Article | 27/09/2010 Sharp Galapagos Android devices to enter tablet fray

Sharp plans an aggressive foray into the tablet market this December--well, sort of.

Article | 27/09/2010 Sharp sets aggressive goals for Android e-book reader

Sharp will enter the e-book market this December with two Android-based readers that it collectively hopes will sell a million units within their firs...

Article | 22/09/2010 Sony 6X Blu-ray writer USB drive may be too fast for PCs

Sony will launch an external Blu-ray Disc rewritable drive this month that can burn BD-R discs that support 6X speed, but users hoping for fast transf...

Article | 23/09/2010 Beatles archive heads for the cloud

The man who took skiffle to the world half a century ago, Sir Paul McCartney, is 'getting a little help from his friends' HP to put his entire oeuvre ...

Article | 21/09/2010 Sony adds Blu-ray 3D support to PlayStation 3

Sony began pushing out a firmware update for the PlayStation 3 that will allow the consoles to play 3D Blu-ray Disc titles.

Article | 22/09/2010 Sony rolls out PS3 3D Blu-ray support, grief reporting

Sony's long-promised 3D Blu-ray update for the PS3 rolls out today, sooner than originally expected, and all it'll cost you is the time it takes to ap...

Article | 21/09/2010 Microsoft pushes Zune expansion outside the US

Microsoft plans to offer elements of its Zune music and movie services throughout Europe and other countries this fall in conjunction with the release...

Article | 21/09/2010 Chemical engineer unveils 'spray-on' wool T-shirt

Got a hot date? Pop out the spray can and spray on your very own personalized t-shirt. With your polymer-composite t-shirt you'll be hipper (or not) t...

Article | 20/09/2010 Foxtel plans full 3D TV channel

Pay TV operator Foxtel today announced that it would launch what it claimed was Australia's first 3D channel on 1 November, along with four new high d...

Article | 18/09/2010 Apple TV runs iOS, hackers likely ready

You can jailbreak your iPhone, your iPod Touch, and your iPad, but what about your brand new Apple TV?

Article | 17/09/2010 Avaya unveils 'desktop video device'

Avaya had barely announced its new portable video device on Wednesday when just about everybody started calling it the Flare Tablet.

Article | 17/09/2010 Barnes & Noble expects $1B in digital book sales by 2013

Book retailer Barnes & Noble expects to generate US$1 billion in revenue from sales of digital books, including e-books and e-textbooks, by 2013, the ...

Article | 17/09/2010 China video site signs deal to legally show Hollywood films

In a move that will legally bring more American TV shows and films to the Internet in China, Ku6 Media, an operator of one of the country's largest vi...

Article | 15/09/2010 Kindle marketing attack against iPad is misguided

Amazon is responsible for the mainstream acceptance of the e-reader thanks to the Kindle, and it has a virtually insurmountable dominance of the marke...

Article | 15/09/2010 IDF 2010: Intel Atom-based DVRs to run embedded Windows Media Center

Acer and ASUS DVRs powered by the Intel Atom C4100 processor have been shown at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.