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Toshiba, Memory-Tech Develop Dual Layer DVD

Memory-Tech Corporation and Toshiba announced that they have jointly developed a dual-layer ROM (read-only) disc that can store content in both the HD DVD and DVD formats.

Fry’s To Carry Monster Cable Alternative

Accell Corp, a provider of premium audio/video interconnects, computer cables and mobile device accessories,announced that its products are now available at Fry's Electronics.

Consumers Not Receptive to Music Services

Portable music services will not have a big impact this year, according to Parks Associates' new report Digital Music: Analysis and Forecasts.

Designtechnica Reviews The iRiver H10

Sporting a 5GB drive from Seagate, the sleek looking H10 comes in four different colors and features a color display. But is it enough to convince you to buy?

Cingular Introduces BlackBerry 7100g

Cingular will begin selling the Quad-Band BlackBerry 7100g world-phone as part of its line-up.

Gateway Laptop Promises 10-Hour Battery

The Gateway M460 series notebook PC promises to deliver battery life up to ten plus hours, which is the best in it's class.

Pay For Parking With Your Phone

In February, Berlin will become the first German city to start using ticket-free 'mobile-phone parking'. Cool idea, complicated process.

Nokia To Ship RealPlayer With New Phones

Nokia will ship RealAudio, RealVideo and the Helix DNA powered RealPlayer on a wide variety of Nokia mobile devices.

Nokia Debuts Voice Messaging Service

Nokia's new Xpress audio messaging service allows an audio message to be recorded and sent with only a few clicks of a button.

Melodeo Unveils P2P For Mobile Phones

Mobile phone users will be able to securely send full tracks that they have purchased, from one mobile phone to another mobile phone via Bluetooth wireless technology.

Panasonic AK-HC900 To Capture Space Shuttle

NASA has ordered 30 of Panasonic's AK-HC900 compact high definition progressive scan cameras to capture the space shuttle's return in May.

What You Need To Know About Telecommuting

Designtechnica's Doug MacLean has written a great article that gives an overview of the latest technologies to help you telecommute from home.

Chip Demand In China Outpaces Supply

Semiconductor demand in China is expected to continue to outpace supply, according to a new study from PricewaterhouseCoopers.

HP’s Carla Fiorina Is Forced Out

The board of directors at HP have forced Carla out of the company, terminated immediately. Meanwhile, HP stock soars on Wall Street.

How To Judge Loudspeaker Sound And Accuracy

What do we really mean when we talk about 'loudspeaker sound'? eCoustics has an article up that tells you how to judge sound and accuracy.

Panasonic DMC-LZ1 Digital Camera Debuted

Panasonic's new DMC-LZ1 and DMC-LZ2 Lumix cameras feature 14 megabytes of built-in memory.

Benq P50 Handset To Be UMA Enabled

BenQ is collaborating with Kineto Wireless to develop UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) enabled dual mode GSM-WiFi handsets.

Multi-Room DVR’s To Increase In Popularity

You can expect Cable and Satellite companies to be offering multi-room DVR's in 2005 with more than 25 million being deployed by 2009 according to Parks and Associates.

Siemens SK65 w/BlackBerry Review

MobileBurn reviews the sweet looking Siemens SK65 cell phone with integrated Blackberry.

DigitalDeck MX1000 Home Network DVR

DigitalDeck has developed and is marketing an end-to-end platform for aggregating and managing entertainment content in the home.

TiVo Releases SuperBowl Viewer Stats

TiVo has released statistics regarding this years SuperBowl ads. It should come as no surprise that the ads pushing the envelope received the most attention.

Stream Music To Your Treo With Xdrive

Xdrive has announce their new music service which lets people enjoy digital music collection via their Treo cell phones and any Palm, Tungsten or Sony Clie PDA.

Plustek OpticSlim M12 Mobile Scanner

The OpticSlim M12 is capable of scanning A4-size documents and is power-cord-free, using a USB interface for power and communication with the computer.

Panasonic’s New Lumix DMC-LS1 Camera

Panasonic's new DMC-LS1 offers 4-megapixel resolution and 3x optical zoom along with sophisticated features like MEGA O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilizer).

Web Bowsers At Risk To New Spoofing Scheme

A newly uncovered vulnerability in most browsers can allow hackers to spoof the URL displayed in the address bar and the SSL certificate.

Elaborate Bytes Clone DVD 2.7.5.1

Elaborate Bytes Clone DVD extracts and writes any DVD to a single recordable DVD. Just make sure your favorite video game will work with this installed!

The CRT TV Fights Back

Engineers working on CRT tube technology have reduced their depth by a third to 35 cm and are shaving off another 10 cm to better compete with liquid crystal displays (LCDs),

Logitech Introduces ViewPort AV 100

Logitech's ViewPort AV 100 features an integrated camera, microphone, wireless Bluetooth headset.

Sony, IBM, Toshiba Announce New Cell Chip

Featuring supercomputer-like floating point performance with observed clock speeds greater than 4 GHz, the new 'supercomputer on a chip' was introduced at ISSCC today.

Toshiba Announces Satellite P35 Series

Toshiba today introduced the Satellite P35-S611 notebook, designed as a desktop replacement that delivers a powerful multimedia experience for $1,799.

Intel Set To Debut Dual-Core Processor

Intel has announced it has completed initial production runs of dual-core processors and provided further details about its multi-core plans to its customers.

Matsushita, Hitachi In Plasma Display Deal

Matsushita (Panasonic) and Hitachi will wrap up the deal today as the two companies try to get a handle on the current market as prices dive and competition increases.

Texas Instruments Preps 1080p DLP Chips

Trusted Reviews and DigiTimes are both reporting that Texas Instruments are prepping their 1080P chips for mass production.

Palm Tungsten T5 Review

The Tech Lounge reviews the new Palm Tungsten T5 PDA and is fairly happy with their new offering.

HVD Alliance Gets Six More Supporters

One Terabyte of information on a single disc sounds too good to be true, but its a reality. Using holographic technology you could store tons of movies on a single disc.

A Look On The Inside Of Nintendo’s DS

NE Asia Online has taken apart one of Nintendo's DS handheld gaming systems and identifies the parts inside. It's a very fun read.

Macrovision Offers Protection For PC’s

Microsoft has licensed some of Macrovisions patents and properties regarding managing and preventing unauthorized copies on analog video interfaces.

Sanyo’s Hard Drive Based Voice Recorder

Sanyo had to create this product because Chris Pirillo at Lockergnome talks so dang much! Just teasing Chris hehe.