With HD-DVD and Blu-Ray players available in top-of-the-line laptops from Toshiba and Sony, and with Samsung and Panasonic launching their Blu-Ray players in the past couple of weeks, Toshiba’s standalone consumer HD DVD player has launched in Australia at last. 

Nokia sells tens of millions of mobile phones every year, more than Apple sells iPods. If you think that most phones have a digital camera, they sell millions of digital cameras and mp3 players (as part of their phones) every year. Now Nokia wants to do GPS, too.

With talk of virtual click wheels, full screen iPods and even iPod phones, speculation and debate has raged on how Apple might outdo its existing iconic design. A touch controlled bezel is one possibility Apple is publicly considering through a US patent application. And that iPod phone? It’s already here. Want to see it?

Or should that be Microsoft beware: some of your users are about to jump ship to a free Office alternative, whether the next version of Office is 10 years ahead of the competition, or not.

Ever wondered what a mobile phone from Bang and Olufsen would look like? Armed with Samsung’s technical expertise, they’ve applied their design brilliance to creating one of the most unique mobile phones ever seen. The name? Serene. The price? US $1275.

When Windows Vista is lauched, it will be internally known as Windows 6.0. With build number 6.0.5920.16384 just released, the magic RTM (release the manufacture) build is nearly here. Also updates on other Windows Vista news.

Think you’ll be able to run Windows Vista on your existing hardware? If all the visual bells and whistles are turned off, it’ll probably run just fine, and should even make your hardware run better. But Dell’s CEO thinks you’ll need more memory, with 2Gb the sweet spot. Is he right?

You can listen to music purchased at Apple’s online music store iTunes on your Mac or PC, or your iPod - but not on portable MP3 players from other manufacturers. Apple uses a security system to stop you from using MP3 players from other manufacturers.

It seems these days that Microsoft’s biggest competitors are free - Windows against Linux, Office against OpenOffice, and of course Explorer against Firefox.

Want to listen to music underwater, or while surfing? It’s all possible with a totally waterproof iPod case. Fully compatible with the latest 5th generation video iPods, you could even watch Finding Nemo underwater, while looking for him amongst the coral!

Despite leading the race against Intel with the Opteron and the Athlon 64 over the past couple of years, AMD needed a partner with vast chip manufacturing experience of its own to strike back at Intel’s recent resurgence. What does the future hold for the newly merged company?

Motorola’s RAZR phone redefined cool like no other phone so far this century. Sleek, slim and sharp, it spawned an avalanche of clones that delivered everything but the design sophistication the RAZR still has to this day. Can HelloMoto do it again?

In the seven months since the Xbox 360 launched on Australian shores, over 100,000 consoles have sold along with 400,000 games titles, setting new records in the Aussie market. Can Xbox 360 maintain the pace with Wii and PS3 hot on the trail?

With so many delays to Windows Vista over the last few years, what’s two or three more weeks between friends? With the RTM scheduled to be finished in the US today (the 25th), two reports say it’s now coming early November. Read on to find out why.

Microsoft is the last company in the world to finally deliver a working, reliable and free anti-spyware solution for their own OS, Windows XP. Better late than never, it works remarkably well, and for most home and small business users, is a must-download new program.

Security software firm eEye Digital Security have launched Blink Personal Edition free of charge, a sophisticated firewall with intrusion prevention and more, yet forgot to include an inbuilt anti-virus package. Do Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro, ZoneLabs or Microsoft have anything to worry about?

But where are the Macbooks? As I and others have predicted, Apple have finally launched Core 2 Duo based MacBook Pros onto the world market. Already for sale from all major Apple websites including Australia, Apple’s greatest chance at gaining new Mac converts has arrived.

Just found some pics on the Internet of the Space Shuttle launching from the International Space Station (the ISS)!

Core 2 Duo chips are everywhere these days, winning the speed crown from AMD, available in desktop PCs, iMacs, PC based notebooks and perhaps by next week, in Apple’s ever versatile MacBooks and MacBookPros.

Flash drives keep on getting bigger and bigger. In the early days, we dealt with flash drives in sizes of a few megabytes and larger, but today 1Gb flash drives and cards are common. Now a 32Gb model has finally landed, with the promise of a 64Gb version coming soon… but have you seen the price?!