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Article | 6/04/2011 BigPond Movies to stream to 2011 Samsung TVs with adaptive bit rate

New Samsung TVs and home entertainment products released in 2011 will be able to stream BigPond Movies On Demand, with an adaptive bit rate allowing u...

Article | 4/04/2011 Digital radio in your car: Just buy a new BMW

DAB+ digital radio is slowly making its way into cars, with an announcement on Friday that all new BMW 5 Series and 7 Series cars will be able to have...

Article | 30/03/2011 Kogan extends free HDMI cable offer indefinitely

Online retailer Kogan has extended its offer of a free HDMI cable to 'tricked' JB Hi-Fi customers indefinitely.

Article | 23/03/2011 Austar developing local media "wonder box"

Regional pay television operator, Austar (ASX:AUN), is developing a cross-platform user interface that could aggregate and beam content to multiple de...

Article | 22/03/2011 Microsoft alleges patent infringement by Nook eReader

Microsoft has taken legal action against Barnes & Noble, and its Android manufacturing partners, with both the International Trade Commission and the ...

Article | 22/03/2011 Microsoft sues Barnes & Noble over Android

Microsoft has filed a patent lawsuit against bookseller Barnes & Noble, accusing the company of running infringing software on its Android-based N...

Article | 21/03/2011 More than 400,000 digital radios sold in Australia since DAB+ launch

Data newly released by Commercial Radio Australia indicates that more than 400,000 DAB+ digital radios have been sold in Australia since the service's...

Article | 18/03/2011 ABC investigating international iView service, future local offerings

When the BBC announced an international iPlayer Web and iPad application, the possibility of an internationally available ABC iView video-on-demand se...

Article | 16/03/2011 Netflix dominates video streaming: there will be blood

No wonder everybody's gunning for Netflix. The video-streaming service is more popular than many of us imagined. A new study by market research firm T...

Article | 16/03/2011 Kogan gives away free HDMI cables to JB Hi-Fi TV buyers

In the latest of a series of publicity stunts, online retailer Kogan is offering "tricked" JB Hi-Fi TV buyers a free HDMI cable. Anyone who has bought...

Article | 16/03/2011 Apple's iPod killed Microsoft's Zune

Microsoft has nixed any future iterations of its Zune music and video player, according to a Bloomberg report, adding another name on the list of devi...

Article | 12/03/2011 Yahoo's TV widget store delayed for consumers

An online store for lightweight "widget" applications built for the Yahoo Connected TV platform will not open to consumers this month, as originally p...

Article | 10/03/2011 Microsoft Kinect hits 10 million mark, sets Guinness World Record

Microsoft has announced that it has sold 10 million Kinect motion-sensing systems. Kinect is designed to be used with Microsoft's Xbox 360 console and...

Article | 9/03/2011 How to eliminate Charlie Sheen (from the Web)

At some point the train wreck stopped being fascinating in a morbid kind of way and started being annoying.

Article | 9/03/2011 Acer unveils Revo 100 media centre PC

Acer today announced that it will launch a new media centre PC in April. The Acer Revo 100 includes a combination touchpad and touch keyboard that slo...

Article | 9/03/2011 Warner Bros. tests Facebook movie rentals

As if users needed another reason to spend more time on Facebook, Warner Bros. has started offering movies to rent or buy and view on the site.

Article | 4/03/2011 Star Wars Episode I to go 3D in 2012

Lucasfilm has been busy of late. First came the announcement that the Star Wars films would arrive in 2011 on Blu-ray Disc. Now, comes word that Star ...

Article | 3/03/2011 Analyst: Market for 3D TVs, portables to grow in 2011

Sales of 3D television sets and handheld devices will surge this year after a weak start in 2010 as manufacturers step up production and marketing, an...

Article | 2/03/2011 EU raids digital book sellers in cartel investigation

The European Union’s competition regulators carried out unannounced inspections into various companies that sell digital books on Tuesday on suspicion...

Article | 2/03/2011 Archos launches color e-reader, Android tablet for €129

French media player manufacturer Archos picked Cebit to launch a color e-reader with a 7-inch touch-sensitive screen, and also announced the first tab...