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Blu-Ray/HD DVD Negotiations Come to an End

Sony's Ken Kutaragi has confirmed that negotiations between the HD DVD and Blu-Ray camps are over with.

ASUS Releases Sexy W5A Notebook

The ASUS W5A notebook takes on some design queue's from Apple with its slim design, and white casing.

Programming Jobs Lose Appeal

An article at Yahoo! News suggests that programming jobs are becoming extinct as jobs are shipped overseas.

MartinLogan Now Shipping Summit Speakers

If you are a fan of MartinLogan speakers, then you will be happy to hear they are now shipping their new Summit hybrid electrostatic loudspeakers.

Laptop Usage Tops 200M Users

Its hard to believe that Mobile PC sales have reached this number so quickly. According to the Computer Industry Almanac laptop adoption is seeing an annual growth rate of 16%.

Roomba Vacuum Gets Some Competition

Roomba, the popular robot vacuum cleaner, is getting some competition from Vorwerk in Hamlin, Germany.

DivX 6 Now Available

DivX has released version 6 of their software suite, with new enhancements that let you create video menus and video tags.

Boeing Wants Cell Phones on Planes by 2006

Connexion, a Boeing company hopes to be selling cell phone services to airline passengers by as early as 2006.

Cingular Opposes Calls on Airplanes

Cingular, the largest cell phone service provider here in America, has asked the FAA to ban in-flight phone calls, instead encouraging the use of text messaging.

IP TV Revenue to Grow to $7.2B in 2008

Broadband IP TV revenue is forecasted to grow from $635 million in 2004 to more than $7 billion in 2008 according to firm Research and Markets.

Spyware Maker Settles With NY for $7.5M

Spyware maker Intermix Media Inc. has settled with the state of New York in the amount of $7.5 million dollars.

Microsoft Releases Security Patches

Microsoft has released 10 new security patches to fix new exploits. Three of the patches have been deemed as critical by Microsoft.

Akimbo Lowers Player Price to $99

Akimbo, the popular IPTV service, has just lowered the price of their set-top box to $99 dollars, down from $229.99.

Samsung Phone Recognizes Your Voice

The new Samsung SGH-E620 mobile phone uses Bluetooth and voice recognition so you can command it without even touching the phone.

Napster and Ericsson Partner Up

Napster and Ericsson have signed an agreement to provide digital music services to mobile phone companies.

InterVideo WinDVD 7 Supports HDTV

InterVideo has officially taken the wraps off of their new WinDVD 7 software and announces HDTV, DivX and UPnP support with the new version.

Toshiba’s New Notebook Lines

Toshiba has announced a ton of new notebooks today in just about every product line the company carries.

Planar Debuts PX LCD Monitor Line

Planar's new PX LCD line emphasizes easy of use and sleek new ergonomic designs in 17, 19, 21, and 23 inch sizes.

World of Warcraft Tops 2M Subscribers

The popular MMORPG game has reached a company milestone topping 2 million paying subscribers and continuing to grow.

Nokia Taps Apple for Browser Software

What do Nokia and Apple have in common? Absolutely nothing...until now. Nokia is working with Apple to develop a mobile web browser.

Nokia Debuts Seven New Mobile Phones

At this years Nokia Connection 2005 show in Finlad, Nokia announced seven new phones for the WCDMA, GSM and CDMA markets, and we have the details.

LCD TV Shipments Soar to 125% percent

Research firm DisplaySearch released a recent report showing LCD TV shipments rise by 125% percent in the first quarter of 2005.

Vonage & Linksys Offer Trade-In Program

Vonage is offering customers a way to get a free 802.11g router when they turn in their old one.

Take Your TiVo Shows on the Road

The new TiVoToGo service will allow you to transfer recorded TiVo shows to your Windows based Portable Media Center device.

Google is Valued at $80 Billion

$80 billion is a number most companies dream of, but for Google it has become a reality.

HP and InkCycle Reach Settlement

HP and InkCycle have resolved their patent infringment lawsuit regarding the inks used in the refilling of certin HP ink catridges.

HD DVD-R Production Process Established

A group of four manufacturers have successfully developed a prototype HD DVD-R disc that can be produced at high volumes.

Mitsubishi Shows Off Latest Projectors

Mitsubishi and other manufacturers are showcasing their new digital projectors and digital signage products at this years InfoComm show.

T-Mobile Scores Highest With J.D. Powers

T-Mobile has been rated the highest ranked mobile phone carrier in overall Wireless Customer Care Performance by J.D. Power and Associates.

Sprint and Yahoo! Launch E-mail Service

Spring and Yahoo! are teaming up to offer so you can access your Yahoo! e-mail via your Sprint enabled mobile phone.

Daily Download: Rip Clip

Today's Daily Download is called 'Rip Clip' and this program will let you same web pages as extracted articles instead of complete web pages.

Seattle Tops ‘Unwired’ List

According to a survey by Intel, Seattle is now the most 'Unwired' city in America, meaning there are plenty of WiFi hotspots for people to use.

LG.Philips to Provide LCD Displays to HP

LG.Philips will continue to provide HP with LCD panels for HP's line of notebook PC's and LCD monitors.

Rambus Targets Samsung for Infringement

Rambus is taking Samsung to court in Northern California for patent infringement of its DDR2 memory products.

Uniden Adds Another VoIP Partner

Earlier today we reported that Uniden is making a custom VoIP phone to work with the Vonage service, it looks like they will be creating a phone for Packet8 VoIP as well.

Roxio Enters Ringtone Business

Roxio's new Xingtone software lets you create your own cell phone ringtones. Roxio is hoping to capitalize on the $4 billion dollar ringtone market.

Apple Makes a Switch to Intel

Undoubtedly today's biggest story, Apple has made the highly anticipated announcement that the company would be introducing new Apple computers based on Intel processors

Uniden Develops Custom Vonage Phone

Vonage and Uniden are teaming up to make available the Uniden UIP1869V, a cordless phone that works with the Vonage VoIP service.