Archive for 2008/09


Kodak’s Zi6 pocket HD camcorder reviewed

Filed under: Digital Cameras
Comically (and accurately, might we add) described as being “about the size of a late 90’s mobile phone,” Kodak’s Zi6 was widely hailed as the first true competitor to the mighty Flip Video. As we completely expected, this bugger was found to be remarkably easy to use by critics at Gadling, though […]

Sky To Offer Premium Content Over Terrestrial Airwaves

Sky certainly can’t be accused of sitting on its laurels since the launch of rival services such as Freesat and it has recently expanded its HD range with an additional seven channels on the same day it slashed prices by half.
The next venture is rather more intriguing and regulator Ofcom seems to have given the […]

Laptops With ‘3G Inside’ Get $1 Billion Push

Laptop makers, chipset manufacturers and telecoms operators have banded together to promote 3G technology inside laptops and other mobile devices.
What’s more is that they have cobbled together a war chest of $1 billion to get the show on the road. They plan to create a new Mobile Broadband logo that will show consumers that […]

Rumour: Xbox 360 Slim Could Appear This December

It was way back in February that rumours of the PS3 Slim started popping up and to be honest we’re surprised it has taken Microsoft so long to respond.
We use the term ‘respond’ loosely here, since a purported slimline Xbox 360 is still strictly at the rumour-mill stage.
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VIDEO: Samsung Drops SSD Off Building

We’re not sure if you want to be trying this at home with your expensive new solid state drive [SSD] but if, like Samsung, you have a few hundred thousand of these lying around the place why not try throwing it off a roof to see if it will still work.
Those of you familiar with […]

Kids Wants Games For Christmas, Rhythm Titles Top List

Recently we looked at a rather surprising study that suggested 99% of teens in the US play video games and speciality retailer GameCrazy seems to have backed this up with its Holiday Gift Tracker Survey.
Results show that nine out of ten kids and teens aged between 8 and 17 want games or games consoles for […]

Sky Chops HD Box Price In Half

Sky has announced that it is cutting the cost of its HD box by half to £75 for October as it lines up 7 new HD channels.
The move comes just as free-to-air rival, Freesat from BBC and ITV announced that it has sold 100,000 Freesat boxes, which allow buyers free access 120 TV […]

Police Suffer Grand Theft Auto

Just hours after UK police seized a truck loaded with £600,000 worth of stolen computer games - including Grand Theft Auto IV - the truck was nicked back by some daring crooks from the police pound.
Seven pallets of games for the PS3 were first lifted from another lorry in Northampton when the driver was […]

VIDEO: New Samsung Pixon 8MP Phone

Samsung has barely just gotten its first 8MP camera phone out the door before news breaks on an even more interesting follow, the Samsung Pixon.
The new 8MP phone follows hot on the heels of the i8510 and is called the Pixon M8800. Sporting HSDPA 3G connectivity and quad-band GSM/GPRS/Edge network support, the Pixon will […]

Samsung, LG said to be releasing Android phones in Q3 ‘09 “at the earliest”

Filed under: Cellphones
Neither LG nor Samsung have ever gone so far to as pin down an actual release date for their promised Android-based phones, but it looks like they could each now be giving themselves yet more wiggle room, at least if the supposedly in the know Mirae Asset Securities is to be believed. According […]

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