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PC Forecast Slightly Rises

Worldwide PC shipments are forecast to total 202.1 million units in 2005, a 10.2 percent increase from 2004, according to a preliminary forecast by Gartner, Inc.

Dish to Introduce Portable DVR Product

Tentatively called the 'PocketDish', this portable DVR will be able to record shows from your TV satellite service as well as store other audio and video content.

Iomega Patents Storage Technology

Don't coundt Iomega out just yet, the company has just patented a new storage technology that puts 850GB on a single DVD disc.

PalmOne Buys Back Palm Name

palmOne announced an agreement with PalmSource, Inc. for palmOne to acquire full rights to the brand name Palm.

Philips Designs Chip for Portable Audio Use

Philips' Nexperia PNX0106 chip is low-power solution that will make it easy for manufacturers to build hard disk drive based portable audio players with optimal battery life.

Yahoo Debuts Personalized Movie Picks

Yahoo! Movies is now offering personalized movie recommendations, a free service that gives fans movie recommendations based on their individual preferences.

Blu-ray Gets Ready for Mass Manufacturing

Broad acceptance and adoption of Blu-ray Disc has led to the maturation of the complete disc manufacturing process.

Mobile Phones Sales up 17% in First Quarter

The mobile phone industry had a record first quarter with worldwide sales totaling 180.6 million units, a 17 percent increase from the first quarter of 2004, according to Gartner.

Nokia 770 Net Appliance

MobileBurn.com takes a look at the new Linux powered Nokia 770 Net Appliance. While its definately not a cell phone, it does rely on WiFi for its internet connections.

JBL’s New Studio L Series Speakers

The Studio L Series are eight models that incorporate design innovations and technologies directly derived from the company’s professional recording studio monitors.

Sonos Music System Review

Stream music all over your house wirelessly with the Sonos Digital Audio System. Wow your neighbors with the iPod like controller which shows album information and more.

Western Digital Ships 320GB Hard Drive

The Western Digital Caviar RE drives spin at 7,200 RPM, are equipped with either Serial ATA (SATA) or EIDE interfaces and are available in capacities up to 320 GB.

Infinium’s Phantom Console Loses Ground

Infinium Labs gaming console, the 'Phantom' was a no-show at this years E3 show, and it sounds like the company needs a $11.5 million dollar investment to stay alive.

Samsung’s 16GB Solid State Hard Drive

Samsung has developed the first Solid State Disk (SSD) based on NAND Flash memory technology for consumer and mobile PC applications.

Belkin TuneStage for iPod

The Belkin TuneStage lets you play music through your home network and home theater system using Bluetooth technology.

DirecTV Launches Local Digital/HD Satellite

DirecTV has successfully launched their new DirecTV 8 satellite which sill support local digital and high-definition content.

AMD Debuts New Geode Processor

AMD announced availability of the AMD Geode LX 800@0.9W processor, designed for use with mobile and embedded devices. The company is promising desktop-like performance from the chip

Microsoft May Face EU Fine in a Few Weeks

Microsoft and the European Commission are still not playing nice and Microsoft only has a few weeks to comply with the EU's ruling or they could be paying up to $5M a day.

Archos AV 700 Features 100GB Hard Drive

Archos is branding the AV 700 as having the mobilty and wide screen of a DVD player and the functions of a DVR, oh and did we mention the massive 100GB hard drive?

Microsoft’s Allard Downplays Graphics

Graphics are always downplayed when a companys gaming system is less powerful than the competition. Now Microsoft is making excuses.

The Cost of Gaming Goes Up

CNN has a cool article that breaks down what you can expect to pay for the new next generation consoles including the hardware that is needed to enjoy them.

Logitech G-series For Your PC

Logitech plans to introduce a line of extreme-performance peripherals made for the technologically demanding universe of PC gaming.

Netflix to Handle Walmarts DVD Rentals

In a move that surprised us all, Walmart will let Netflix handle the retailers DVD rentals program.

Matsushita Tells Toshiba to Give Up

The president of Matsushita told Toshiba to yield their position on a unified DVD format stating that Sony and Matsishita will not give in.

Samsung Develops 40-inch OLED Display

Samsung has successfully developed the world's first single-sheet, 40-inch active matrix (AM) OLED (organic light-emitting diode) for emissive flat panel TV applications.

Epson PowerLite 760c, 765c Projectors

Epson's new Powerlite projectors use 802.11G WiFi technology are are supposed to be super quiet.

DTS Sound Comes to Your PC

DTS launched its newest PC initiative, DTS Connect, designed to enhance the entertainment value of the PC platform.

Media Companies Compete for Your Money

This is one of those studies that have a knack for pointing out the obvious. NPD says DVD; CD and game manufacturers are all competing to earn your business.

Acer TravelMate 3000

Acer's new TravelMate 300 Ultra-Portable notebook features a 12.1" screen and has plenty of power, but won't break the bank.

Netscape 8.0 Focuses on Safety

America Online has finally released their Netscape 8.0 webb rowser based on Firefox 1.0.3.

Onkyo Goes Home Theater Crazy

Onkyo has introduced three new home-theater-in-a-box systems covering 5.1, 6.1 and 7.1 surround sound.

Konami’s E3 Game Line-up

Konami has released a list of new games they will be bringing out this year. Missing from the list are games for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.

Grand Theft Auto Hits the Sony PSP

Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories will be available for the Sont PSP handheld this fall. Like previous games in the series, you have an open environment to explore.

Make Free Calls With Yahoo! Messenger

Yahoo! has released a beta version of their messenger service for download. With the new Messenger program you can make PC-to-PC calls and even share photos with your friends.

Add a 2GB Memory Card to Your Sony PSP

If you have $350 dollars burning a hole in your pocket, why not buy a 2GB memory card for your new Sony PSP? Sandisk hopes you will anyways.

Report: Microsoft Ready to Take on VoIP

A report by IDC suggests that Microsoft is now stepping up its VoIP efforts and is poised for major initiatives in both the enterprise and carrier space.

Flat Panel TV’s Grow in Popularity

This should come as no surprise since flat panel prices are constantly plummeting, but CRT based TV's are still the hottest sellers.

LG. Philips Shows off New LCD Technology

Debuting at SID 2005, LG.Philips LCD will unveil its 47-, 42- and 37-inch wide full high definition (HD, 1920 x 1080, 2 megapixels) TFT-LCDs for true HDTVs and multimedia displays.