Topic: News

It has been described as the worst deal ever, but a brown bag full of crappy items is proving to be a huge hit amongst computer geeks throughout the UK.

Online retailer Big Pockets, bigpockets.co.uk, is struggling to keep up with demand for its quirky bag o’ crap offer which is selling at the knockdown price of £2.99. They have sold 4000 of them in the last 48 hours.

It has emerged that you can now download the shows on the BBC iPlayer using the MP4 format, which is used by devices such as the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and systems such as the Eee PC.

The Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator is now available as a free download on Xbox Live Marketplace when you request a token.

Gameloft has announced its intentions to develop games for the iPhone, with plans to release more than 15 titles by the end of 2008.

Samsung and Adidas are teaming up to compete with Apple and Nike's Nike+iPod program, introducing the miCoach workout tracking system. The miCoach system combines the miCoach phone with a heartrate monitor and stride sensor to provide accurate feedback about workout activities.

Film and television producer LionsGate has said that it is working with Apple to provide customers who buy certain DVD and Blu-ray movies with an included digital copy of the movie through iTunes as well.

Microsoft is planning a brand new Xbox that will include a Blu-ray drive. Confirming that Sony and Microsoft are in talks, a senior Sony President has claimed that the move will not hurt the Japanese consumer electronics company.

CMC Magnetics will not start commercial production of blank Blu-ray Disc (BD) discs until the global BD market emerges to some extent, according to company chairman, Robert Wong.

Plextor is extending its range of personal storage products with the new 320GB pocket hard disk ? Plextor PX-PH320US.

Last January Warner left the HD DVD format and immediately a destructive ball started spinning. Now that Blu-ray is the official high definition standard and the Blu-ray Disc Association owns the market, Toshiba could do two things: they could make their own Blu-ray drives, or buy one and integrate them in their notebooks/PCs.

Blu-ray's victory in the next generation disc market is all but assured. However, after years of a standards war, the major question for Sony and the Blu-ray camp is whether a physical format for HD still has any relevance to consumers in this era of Internet-delivered movies and video on demand, according to research firm iSuppli.

Microsoft said it will stop making HD DVD players for its Xbox 360 video game system after Toshiba ceded the high-definition video format battle to Sony's Blu-ray.

Gigastorage, a second-tier Taiwan-based maker of blank optical discs, has been fully utilizing its production capacity for DVD+R/-R discs during the first quarter of 2008, according to industry sources in Taiwan. Optodisc Technology, another second-tier maker, on the other hand, is set for a corporate restructuring to deal with tough times.

Following the demise of the HD DVD format, DigiTimes reports that Acer will "push" Blu-ray notebooks this year.

Major Japanese electronics stores have stopped selling HD DVD machines after their maker Toshiba conceded defeat to Sony's Blu-ray in the battle to set the next-generation DVD standard.

Demand for flat panel televisions is expected to more than double to 180 million units by 2012, driven by strong sales in China and the United States, a Japanese industry group said.

Shops are starting to heavily discount HD-DVD recorders in an attempt to reduce their stock mountains.

Now that Blu-ray Disc (BD) has become the next-generation blue-laser optical disc standard following Toshiba's decision to discontinue its HD DVD business, BD devices will become popular earlier than originally expected, according to Lite-On IT, which is the largest Taiwan-based maker of half-height optical disc drives (ODDs).

Catering to users who want to watch High Definition TV without requiring the purchase expensive LCD TVs, Asus has today released the new Asus HDTV Suite-HDMI.

British viewers will be able to download a selection of BBC programs from Apple's digital store iTunes, under a deal announced by the public broadcaster's commercial arm.