Consumer Electronics
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Queues Form An Entire Week Prior To iPhone Launch
Tuesday 8 July 2008 – 10:30
It looks as though a group of people in New York City are hell bent on breaking a Guinness record for the longest time spent waiting in line. ... read more
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Apple Orders 50 Million 8 GB NAND Flash Chips
Friday 4 July 2008 – 09:50
Cupertino (CA) - In a move that is believed to help Apple to secure low NAND flash memory prices as well as create artificial shortages for ... read more
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Sony Pulls Latest Firmware Update For PS3 Following Complaints From Users
Friday 4 July 2008 – 09:30
Earlier in the week Sony released the much awaited v2.40 firmware update for the PlayStation 3. While some gamers have installed the update and ... read more
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Apple Rumored to be Preparing iPhone With Slide-out Keyboard
Thursday 3 July 2008 – 03:40
What seemed impossible so far could become a reality next year - an iPhone with a physical keyboard that slides out from behind the screen.read more
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PS3 Expected To Remain The Main Force Behind Blu-ray Sales
Wednesday 2 July 2008 – 12:00
Chicago (IL) - The Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) released its 2008 annual report with a wealth of data revealing the most trends in ... read more
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Innolux Rumored To Have Secured Touch Panel Orders From Apple
Thursday 26 June 2008 – 04:50
Innolux Display is said to have secured touch panel orders from Apple, with shipments slated to begin soon, according to industry sources.read more
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HP To Outsource Notebook Orders To Flextronics
Thursday 26 June 2008 – 04:50
Flextronics recently announced that its computing segment has been chosen by Hewlett-Packard (HP) to design and manufacture a high-volume ... read more
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Panasonic To Unveil Atom-based Toughbook
Monday 23 June 2008 – 07:30
Panasonic will later this week add a rugged mini tablet PC to its Toughbook line of products.read more
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Motorola And Kodak Announce The ZN5
Monday 23 June 2008 – 07:10
We’ve been hearing about Motorola’s 5 mega pixel camera, er, phone for a while now so it really came as no surprise to get the press release ... read more
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iTunes Music Sales Top 5 Billion Songs
Thursday 19 June 2008 – 04:40
Cupertino (CA) - Apple today said that more than more than five billions songs have been sold through its iTunes music store so far.read more
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Flirt And Order Drinks With The Microsoft Surface Bar Table In Vegas
Thursday 12 June 2008 – 03:50
Las Vegas (NV) - The Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino is adding six modified Microsoft Surface tables to one of its bars.read more
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Vizio LCD TV Maker Amtran Says It Paid Royalties For MPEG-2 Patents
Thursday 12 June 2008 – 09:30
Taiwan-based Amtran Technology, a major shareholder of US-based LCD TV vendor Vizio and also a major manufacturer for the brand, has stressed ... read more
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Taiwanese Temptress Lures Us Into Coral's Suite
Thursday 5 June 2008 – 05:20
Taipei (Taiwan) - Did you know that Corel now owns WinDVD?read more
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Portable Gadget Copies Flash Media Onto DVDs
Thursday 5 June 2008 – 03:10
Taipei (Taiwan) - You never know what you'll find at the Computex tradeshow in Taipei and we spied a portable flash media copier for both cops ... read more
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Las Vegas Resort Buys 3889 IMacs
Thursday 5 June 2008 – 03:00
In a landmark deal with Apple, the company behind the Fontainbleau resort will put an iMac in each of its 3889 rooms.read more
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Apple iPhone Sold Out Online
Wednesday 14 May 2008 – 03:30
Cupertino (CA) - Oh where have all the iPhones gone?read more
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Apple Says It Will Showcase Development Platforms Of Mac OS X And OS X IPhone At WWDC
Wednesday 14 May 2008 – 03:30
Apple is revving up its marketing machines for its upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), stating that it will move the Mac OS X ... read more
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HBO Shows Start Selling On iTunes With Increased Prices
Wednesday 14 May 2008 – 03:10
Apple and HBO have announced that they are to begin selling shows such as “Sex and the City” and “The Sopranos” via iTunes.read more
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Texting More Expensive Than Downloading Data From Hubble
Tuesday 13 May 2008 – 11:50
Leicester (UK) - Here is an interesting math exercise that, if you are really into text messaging, can get you thinking twice whether you ... read more
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RIM Announces The Latest Addition To The BlackBerry Family: The BlackBerry Bold
Tuesday 13 May 2008 – 11:50
Blackberry manufacturer RIM has announced that the latest addition to the company’s smartphone family will be available ‘around the world’ this ... read more
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Apple Sees "Company-Wide" iPhone Sell Out
Tuesday 13 May 2008 – 11:40
Reports that the iPhone has sold are further fuelling rumours that a 3G version of the smartphone is on the way.read more
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Vodafone to sell HTC Touch Diamond as well as the iPhone
Tuesday 13 May 2008 – 11:30
Earlier in the week HTC announced the launch of the HTC Touch Diamond phone, which was quickly dubbed the iPhone’s biggest competitor. Now it has ... read more
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Japan Proposes 'iPod Tax'
Monday 12 May 2008 – 10:30
Tokyo (Japan) - The Japanese government has proposed a new tax on iPods and other digital music players.read more
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Eee PC-like Notebooks Unlikely To Become Blockbusters, Says IDC
Friday 9 May 2008 – 11:30
San Mateo (CA) - There is an undeniable excitement that surrounds so called ultra low-cost notebook PCs these days... But will they really catch on?read more
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Sony Over-exaggerating OLED TV Claims?
Friday 9 May 2008 – 11:20
New York (NY) - Sony's organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV has been drawing a lot of attention, but at least according to one research firm ... read more
