Pioneer are exiting the Plasma TV business. As reported by HDGuru, “…according to industry sources and confirmed by a Nikkei News report, Pioneer Corp. is ending production of its highly rated plasma HDTVs and will be exiting the TV business.” This is awful news. I know the world-wide recession is hitting companies hard, but for [...]
These are hard times for Sony. After projecting a loss of $1.7 billion for 2008, it’s facing 2009 with the prospect of trying to shift some seriously expensive hardware to an indebted market that’s all but dried up. That’s a tough call for Sony’s marketing department, who are tasked with the job of trying to [...]
In the battle for mobile music downloads, Nokia scored a bit of a hit during the summer with its appallingly-named “Comes with Music” download subscription service. Designed to take on Apple’s iTunes, Nokia’s music store equivalent seemed to have the edge, in that its Comes with Music phones can download tunes directly over the air [...]
Konnie Huq explains Blu-ray | CNET.co.uk I’m a big fan of ex-Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq, and I’m also quite fond of Blu Ray, too. Luckily for me, someone at CNet obviously shares my interests, as they’ve just released a video of Konnie explaining the delights of Blu-Ray to a sceptical audience. According to Konnie, [...]
One of the biggest problems with all mobile and portable gadgets of any form is their batteries, which tend to run annoyingly flat at the drop of a hat. Intel, though, thinks it’s solved the problem. It’s working on a series of technologies that effectively means mobile and portable gadgets will be able draw power [...]
I know things are tough in the retail sector at the moment, but it seems the January sales have already started! Gadget etailer IWantOneOfThose.com are already having a Christmas sale! With gadgets such as a USB Podcast kit, a Freeview DVD tablet, travel speakers for your iPod, a USB speaker hub, waterproof iPod Nano speakers, [...]
A new rumour suggests Apple is working on its own TV. This isn’t the first time Apple has been involved with the TV market. It’s less-than successful Apple TV set top box has been around for a couple of years now. However, the rumours suggest that Apple aren’t just working on another set top box [...]
Sharp have decided to jump onto the green bandwagon and have unveiled a couple of HDTVs powered by solar cells. At first, this sounds like a good idea. TVs generally consume a fair bit of power, and giant HDTVs with huge screens aren’t exactly small consumers of power. There is, however, one small problem. TVs [...]
I have always wondered what it would be like to have a sound track to my life, like they do in movies. When I am happy and it is sunny I can stroll down the street to something cheerful where as when I am in a mood I would hear something equally glum. Musinaunt, a [...]
Obviously it’s the night of the super-huge! After Panasonic started selling their 103″ HDTV, Smartpants have announced their new Smartpants SP3200WF Wi-Fi enabled digital picture frame, and it’s a big-un! 32 inches big to be precise. As you can see from the pic, it looks more like a picture than a photo, and at 32″, [...]
