Month: October 2006
Samsung X830 stylish swivel music phone
Samsung have revealed their X830 music phone with a swivel design that's just a little different to the current crop of clams and sliders. It's pretty compact, measuring up at under 2cm wide by 8.4cm long, with a depth of…
Ministry of Sound launch new DRM-free music download site
The Ministry of Sound has partnered with DJ Download and tomorrow will launch a DRM-free dance-focused digital music download service. It will feature 60,000 tracks from over 2000 record labels, all of which are playable on any MP3-capable computer or…
Get yourself a stone-age Flintstones car
Well, it looks like a stone-age car, anyway. It was actually made for the Flinstones Viva Rock Vegas movie, costing around $50,000. The car's been hand-carved out of foam to look like wood, before being slapped in resin and…
Zip-Linq's Road Warrior Kit 2 – first aid for your gadgets
Here's a nice idea – as we carry so much technology around with us (and as we're so reliant on it), how about a first aid kit for our gadgets – like this Road Warrior Kit 2 from Zip-Linq….
Sony to launch 4GB NW-S706 Walkman
Sony looks set to extend the capacity of its Walkman range, introducing the NW-S706, with 4GB of storage – heady heights for a Walkman. Details are scarce (because they’ve not officially been announced), but courtesy of Play.com, which has…
Rare PowerPoint Warning Released by Microsoft
A newly discovered security loophole in PowerPoint has prompted Microsoft to issue an alert, which in itself is not unusual, but the fact that it was sent out on a Wednesday, rather than ‘Patch Tuesday’, suggests that this one…
Rooting Out the Nasties
You may not have heard of Rootkits yet, but Propellerhead suspects that it won’t be long before you do. A Rootkit is a set of tools, for creating a stealthy wrapper, for concealing malware. The trouble is anti-virus programs…
eBay to challenge online retailers with eBay Express
According to a report in the Sunday Times, eBay is set to move away from auctions and into the online shopping arena with a new, more regulated selling service that will go under the name of eBay Express. All…
PC DAB radio – digital radio from your computer without a net connection
I was trying to work out why the PC DAB radio was a good thing – but then realised not everyone lives in a broadband/Wi-Fi world – and there could be times when you want some good quality radio…
Toshiba unveils first slim HD DVD write drive for notebook PCs
Toshiba has announced the world's first slim HD DVD drive for notebook PCs that can read and write to HD DVD, standard DVD and CD discs. The SD-L902A drive integrates a blue-violet laser diode that can read and write…