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Article | 12/03/2008 Nortel provides hope for future of IPTV

Television over the Internet -- known to many as IPTV -- is the technology landline operators hope will let them compete with cable providers and othe...

Article | 12/03/2008 YouTube rival Hulu debuts with TV shows, movies, sports

Hulu, a joint online video project of NBC Universal and News Corp., is set to go live this week with programming from Time Warner's television group, ...

Article | 11/03/2008 The first MP3 player in space

Heroic spacemen risking life and limb aboard the International Space Station are braced for their latest trial: not alien attack, nor a malfunctioning...

Article | 7/03/2008 Samsung, Adidas take on iPod, Nike

Samsung Electronics and Adidas have joined the race against Apple and Nike to offer people a device that plays music and keeps track of workouts.

Article | 29/02/2008 MySpace, Tudou join China Central Television for Olympic streaming

China Central Television (CCTV) will allow two China-based Web sites to offer streaming broadcasts of Olympic events, the companies announced Wednesda...

Article | 27/02/2008 Sharp, Sony to team on advanced LCD panel production

Sharp and Sony have reached a basic agreement to form an LCD manufacturing joint venture, in a move that continues a months-long realignment of key pl...

Article | 25/02/2008 Blu-ray Disc faces fight against downloads

Blu-ray Disc may have beaten out HD DVD as the high-definition optical disc format to replace DVDs, but it now faces a new test against Internet downl...

Article | 22/02/2008 Aussie scientists unveil 5Gps turbocharged wireless chip

The world's first transceiver integrated on a single chip that operates at 60GHz on the CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) process, which ...

Article | 22/02/2008 BBC iPlayer TV shows score 17 million hits

The BBC has revealed that the number of its TV shows downloaded or streamed on demand via BBC iPlayer has reached 500,000 a day, and that its partners...

Article | 21/02/2008 HD-DVD fallout: No cooling off, returns or refunds

Australian's who jumped in early with Toshiba's HD-DVD technology are left with an expensive upscaling device, CD/DVD burner and no future movies.

Article | 20/02/2008 Microsoft looking for ways to converge Windows Mobile, Zune

Microsoft appears to be looking for new ways to tie Windows Mobile phones and Zune media players together, although a Zune phone remains unlikely.

Article | 19/02/2008 'DVD Jon' offers beta version of content sharing tool

After cracking the encryption system that protected DVDs in order to play the discs he had bought on a PC running Linux, Jon Lech Johansen has his sig...

Article | 19/02/2008 BBC sells TV shows on Apple iTunes

BBC TV programs such as Life on Mars, Torchwood, Spooks and Little Britain have been made available for download from digital store iTunes.

Article | 14/02/2008 UK gov't mulls banning illegal downloaders from Internet

The UK government is considering cutting off Internet access for web users who illegally download music, movies and other digital media.

Article | 20/02/2008 Apple slashes iPod shuffle price, intros 2GB version

Apple cut the price of its iPod shuffle, the least expensive of its music players, by AUD$34, and will launch an AUD$89 2GB model later this month, th...

Article | 19/02/2008 Toshiba after HD DVD: What lies ahead?

By now Toshiba's decision to [[ArtId:1019495862 | no longer develop]], manufacture, or market HD DVD players and recorders is public knowledge. What'...

Article | 19/02/2008 Toshiba plans massive chip investment, JV with SanDisk

Toshiba and SanDisk will build a new state-of-the-art flash memory chip factory together starting in 2009, and will share the output from it, the comp...

Article | 18/02/2008 Sony hits greenhouse gas emission cuts target early

Sony is beating its own target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and will begin promoting a sustainable lifestyle to consumers through its product...

Article | 18/02/2008 Report: Toshiba halts HD DVD production, mulling future

Toshiba has halted production of HD DVD players and recorders and is close to making a decision on whether to throw in the towel on the high-definitio...

Article | 15/02/2008 Nanotech T-shirt can recharge MP3 player

Nanotechnology researchers have developed a shirt that brings new meaning to the slogan power to the people. They claim that what you wear may soon be...