Wednesday 24 September 2008
Government to spend £300m on free broadband
Nearly every family in the UK is to have access to broadband at home, under plans laid out by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
In his keynote speech at the Labour Party Conference...
Tuesday 23 September 2008
Samsung HZ1: High zoom kicks off Photokina
Camera'd out yet? We've had announcements from just about everybody, and Photokina has only just started! In a novel twist, Samsung held off announcing its new swag...
Ricoh R10: Wide-angle compact bears down on UK
On first reports the Ricoh R10 was not slated to leave Japan, but like Godzilla wading out of the ocean ready to wreak havoc upon this green and pleasant land, the...
Dell Studio: Bedsit desktop PCs
Remember the Dell Studio Hybrid desktop we checked out a couple of months back? Sexy, wasn't it? Now Dell has decided to expand the range, with its Studio Slim and...
Google Android: Beyond the mobile phone
The first phone using Google's Android operating system will debut today, a model from T-Mobile, and more are set come. But some Android partners say the software will...
Kodak OLED Wireless Frame: Organic snaps
Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) televisions are so the future. In fact they're so so the future they're still pretty small. Kodak has cottoned on to the fact...
Monday 22 September 2008
T-Mobile G1: Google Android phone to launch tomorrow
As if it wasn't enough to be the world's largest search engine, Google is set to take over the mobile phone market with its mobile operating system, called Android. Tomorrow,...
Leica S2 and S system: We'd like one
If the megapixel race is plateauing in the camera market, it seems Leica didn't get the memo. The company has just unveiled the monster 37-megapixel S2 at Photokina....
Olympus Micro Four Thirds concept: Lounge lizard
Anyone who thought Panasonic had stolen a march on its co-developer should be impressed by the panache with which Olympus has pinched Panny's thunder right back. A gloriously...
Olympus E-A1: International camera of mystery
More news from Photokina -- although if we're honest, it's more of a heads-up than news. Olympus will show off the E-A1, a new dSLR, ahead of the camera's launch...
LG RHT399H: 935 hours of Freeview recording
You might think there's nothing on TV these days, but LG reckons there are at least 935 hours of programmes for you to plonk down on its latest PVR, which features a...
Stephen Hawking reveals steampunk clock
A £1m mechanical clock featuring a massive time-eating grasshopper made its debut at the University of Cambridge on Friday, and famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking...
Helium leak shuts down Large Hadron Collider
The world's largest particle collider has been shut down for at least two months due to a large helium leak stemming from an incident on Friday, officials said.
The...
Vodafone thwarts Ofcom scheme to speed up number porting
An attempt by communications regulator Ofcom to reduce the amount of time it takes to port a phone number from one mobile network to another has been derailed in court, following...
Friday 19 September 2008
Fit PC Slim: Smallest PC in the world (nearly)
Every now and then someone makes something so extraordinary it makes you think "wow, that's amazing." But that's usually followed by furrowed brows and people...
How small is the Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1? This small
The strength of the Micro Four Thirds standard is the compact size of the models that will use it, but the product shots of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 didn't give us a...
Crave Podcast 103: Netbooks not good enough, says AMD
Can you believe it's only been seven days since the last Crave Podcast? It felt like an eternity to us, so we were super-keen to jump back in the studio to scythe...
Fujitsu-Siemens ScenicView 'Zero Watt' monitor: Pigs might fly
Green is the new black. No, we're not talking about the latest trends at the London Fashion Show -- rather the current trend of making electronic...
Thursday 18 September 2008
Mercedes-Benz S400 BlueHybrid: Smells like Lithium Ion
Mercedes is gearing up to release the BlueHybrid S400 -- its first hybrid car. What's more, it looks as if this sucker will be the first production vehicle to...
Squeezebox: The world's best audio streamers, bar none
If you like music and gadgets and haven't heard of Squeezebox music streamers, go and get yourself a brew, because we want to tell you how your life could be better.Squeezeboxes...
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