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Altec Lansing Launches inMotion iM5

Altec Lansing has officially launched their new inMotion iM5 audio dock for use with the Apple iPod product line.

Protect Your iPod nano With a Wrapper

UK company Wrappers has introduced a range of ultra-slim soft protective covers for the iPod nano.

Music Could Beat Mobile Game Sales

A recent study by In-Stat suggests that mobile music services could garner more interest among U.S. mobile customers than mobile games.

Study: BPL Hype Doesn’t Match Reality

Research firm Energy Insights attacks the Broadband Over Power Line alliance saying the "Hype Doesn't Match Reality". Ouch.

Kodak Ships First WiFi Digital Camera

Kodak has begun shipping what the company claims is the worlds first digital camera to feature WiFi capabilities - the EasyShare One.

HP Launches New iPaq’s, Mobile Printer

HP updates their iPaq product line and adds a new portable printer to the mix. More info and pictures inside!

Bluetooth Shipments Pick up Steam

According to research firm In-Stat, Bluetooth shipments more than doubled in 2005, the fourth consecutive year of doing so.

Motorola Releases RAZR V3x Details

Motorola's new RAZR V3x features two integrated cameras and the same RAZR styling we have all come to love.

Sprint: Create Your Own Ringtones

Sprint customers can now create their own ringtones using the new ToneMaker DJ software, but it will cost you - $4.99/mo.

Microsoft Releases New Xbox Live Details

Microsoft has revealed their new Xbox Live plans today, designed to work with the new Xbox 360 game console.

Nero Jumps on Blu-ray Bandwagon

Nero 6 Reloaded will be able to record video, audio, and DVD content onto Blu-ray optical discs.

Philips GoGear is Back in Black

The new Philips GoGear HDD1630 and HDD6330 jukeboxes look like the Cadillac of MP3 players and comes in 6GB and 30GB versions.

Acer TravelMate 4020

Acer has introduced their new TravelMate 4020 notebook featuring PCI-Express technology.

CinemaNow Hits the Archos AV 700

CinemaNow, the online movie service, will be able to deliver content to the Archos AV 700 and Gmini 402 portable media devices.

Latest Roxio Software Encodes DivX Format

Roxio's Toast 7 software is the first third-party application to support DivX 6 encoding.

IDC: Cell Phones Will Not replace Camera’s

Research frim IDC has released a new study that says cell phones will not replace digital camera's in years to come.

Westinghouse Adds LCM-19v5 to LCD Line-up

Westinghouse has announced their new LCM-19v5 19-inch LCD monitor to the companies product line-up.

Logitech V20 Laptop Speakers

Logitech's new V20 laptop speakers are both lightweight and compact, plus they run directly off of USB power.

Panasonic’s New SC-PM71 SD Micro System

The SC-PM71 is the first Micro System capable of of recording and playing music from an SD Memory Card.

Fujitsu Revamps Flagship Notebooks

Fujitsu has announced a new revamped flagship notebook and convertible tablet PC product line.

Samsung Unveils Its New Satellite DMB Phone

Samsung's new SCH-B250 mobile phone features a swivel screen and is the company's smallest satellite DMB phone yet.

SendStation Announces smartCharge

Sendstation has announced a solution for charging your iPod Shuffle in your car, the new smartCharge system.

Apple’s new iTunes 4.9 Supports Podcasts

Podcasting gets a large supporter today in Apple's new iTunes version 4.9 which will add a podcast subscription manager to its list of features.

CEA Responds to Grokster Ruling

The Consumer Electronics Association has released a statement regarding today's Supreme Court ruling.

Hollywood Can Sue For Media Piracy

The Supreme Court ruled today that that movie and music industries can sue technology companies that 'encourage' illegal file swapping over the internet.

IPTV Standards Forum Created

ATIS has launched an IPTV standards forum to help create reference architecture and standards for ITPV services and products.

Intel Releases 64-bit Celeron Processor

Intel has announced the release of their new 64-bit Celeron processor rounding out the company's 64-bit CPU family.

Akimbo Brings Video Blogs to Your TV

IPTV content provider Akimbo has added the ability to watch Video Blogs their programming.

NewsGator Releases New Podcast Receiver

NewsGator, one of the RSS readers we use here on Designtechnica, has released a new Podcast receiver that downloads audio and video to your media player.

Newest Roomba Cleans When You Tell It

iRobot's latest Roomba, called the Roomba Scheduler, cleans when you tell it to, thanks to an integrated scheduler.

Sony PS3 to be More Powerful Than Expected

According to Sony's Phil Harrison the Playstation 3 demonstrations shown at this years E3 show, were running on only 75% of the systems total output.

Fuel Cell Specs for Laptops Finalized

The Mobile PC Extended Battery Life Working Group has released laptop guidelines for the development of fuel cells.

P2P Still Rules the Download Scene

A report by the NPD Group shows that while pay-per download models are growing, the vast majority of downloads are still via Peer-to-Peer networks.

People Prefer Movies at Home vs the Theater

In a poll by both the Associated Press and America Online, results showed that people preferred to watch movies at home instead of a movie theater.

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX is the New King

NVIDIA has in a way has made history by announcing their new GeForce 7800 GTX video card and making it available on the same day. We have the scoop on the new 7800 GTX.

MSN Goes Local

Microsoft has released a beta version of their MSN Local Search service which will let people get local results from MSN search.

Microsoft Hopes to Sell 10M Xbox 360s

Some companies shoot for the stars, and others shoot further out - much further out. Microsoft wants to sell 10 million Xbox 360s within 12 to 16 months of its launch.

Portable Audio Market Tops $4.5 Billion

The market for portable audio players (both flash and hard drive based), is expected to reach more than 104 million units by 2009.