Month: July 2005
What's New From Shiny?
What's happening at some of our other top blogs this weekend? Games Digest: Slimline PS2 for less than £70?, Sony Japan launches PSP Tv service, Zodiac exits stage left Shiny Shiny (Gadgets for Girls): Chocolate Fountain – Willy Wonka Stylee,…
V Festival to see launch of iTunes Phone?
Seems a good time to be an industry analyst; just about any piece of unsubstantiated conjecture will happily get reporters (like me) stirred up. Here's another in a long line of analyses which promises that the mysterious and highly…
Movies to turn digital
Seems strange really: since the DVD swiftly assimilated every kind of movie and as the MP3 rapidly becomes the adopted music medium, almost every kind of distributable entertainment medium is turning digital. Why then do cinemas still insist on the…
Watch Freeview digital TV in your car
Summer holidays are sadly upon us, leaving the streets teeming with the nation's young. It's bad enough trying to dodge them out in the open, so I can only imagine the horrors of being shut inside a slowly moving vehicle…
Fujifilm's Semi-SLR cameras
Fujifilm doesn't actually have an [edit: Entry Level] digital SLR camera in its Finepix range, but it does cater for those who want something that's smarter than the average point and click, without the scary price tag that comes with…
Today's top tech stories from the US
Ripe technology news handpicked for added freshness from the fertile land of the free. M-Audio mîcroTrack 2496 officially confirmed (DAPReview): The ultimate MP3 recording device and probably comes with the ultimate price tag. Color iPod Mini in October (?) (Gizmodo):…
Promise TV offers a week of telly
It's funny how, even with today's plethora of diversely themed channels, you can never find anything remotely interesting to watch because you've either missed it entirely or its only on in the middle of the night. Since the launch…
4GB SD Cards arriving soon
At last, an end to the confines of 512MB and 1 GB cards. Practically off the back of the announcement of the successful manufacture of 2GB SD cards comes word of an even more impressive 4GB breakthrough. This is…
Sharp announces new additions to Aquos range
Sharp seems to have been a little quiet on the LCD front this year, but the lure of the approaching HDTV era has put that to rights as it seeks to offer two new series of smart HD Ready LCD…
Branson heading for space
A major step towards commercial space travel has been heralded this week as Richard Branson announced a deal launching The Spaceship Company. This is a joint deal with aviation expert, Burt Rutan who famously won the Ansari X prize last…
