Topic: News

At Ceatec 2008, Pioneer have on display a new half-height Blu-ray burner prototype, the company's first to support 8x recording for Blu-ray.

Apple is offering an unlocked version of the iPhone 3G in Hong Kong, allowing consumers to use it with any mobile phone carrier.

Nokia is expected to release its first touch-screen phone code-named "Tube" next week in a direct challenge to Apple's successful iPhone.

Nero have begun shipping three new exciting products, Nero TiVo PC, Move it and an updated media suite, now known as Nero 9

Erstwhile HD DVD heavyweight Toshiba has forecast the end of consumer optical media, and is to develop a series of set-top boxes and portable players all fed with digital content sold on SD card instead.

Lite-On has reportedly obtained orders from Japan-based Plextor to manufacture a 20x DVD burner, the PX-806SA, with shipments to begin in the fourth quarter of 2008.

Finnish academics have developed a mobile phone app which monitors sleep patterns and delivers a morning alarm when the user is naturally ready to wake up.

CMC Magnetics and Ritek are looking to raise disc prices by 10-15% for CMC while Ritek will look at order volumes before determining rates.

Sony Ericsson will launch a mobile phone service with unlimited music downloads within weeks, the company said on Tuesday, as it looks to take on Nokia.

Nokia is planning to introduce a rather remarkable new search service called Point and Find which allows mobile users to bring up real-time information of an object they are looking at.

Taiwanese company Pretec has introduced two new Compact Flash (CF) cards with high storage capacities.

Netflix has agreements to stream TV shows from both Walt Disney's Disney Channel and CBS in a move to attract more subscribers to its streaming service.

Plextor has launched its first Digital TV tuner that enables users to watch digital TV anywhere via their laptop/PC.

Buffalo have unveiled their new Blu-ray DVD Combo drives, the MediaStation 8x External Blu-ray Drive and MediaStation 8x Internal Blu-ray Drive.

The 2008 holiday shopping season is approaching quickly, and consumers are anxiously waiting to see how low Blu-ray players and HDTVs will drop in price.

Sandisk, Best Buy and Wal-Mart have announced "slotMusic", a new physical music format available on memory cards that come with pre-loaded DRM-free MP3 music.

Gigabyte's first annual overclocking competition, the GIGABYTE Open Overclocking Championship (GO OC 2008) is set to begin.

The 43rd steering comittee meeting of the DVD Forum approved among other the specifications for the dual layer DVD-Download discs.

Andy Parsons, chairman of the Blu-ray Disc Association, has openly stated that we shouldn't expect Blu-ray prices to go down any time soon.

In the last six months alone, dozy Londoners have left a whopping 55,843 mobile phones and 6,193 other handheld devices in the back of black cabs.