Category Archives: New products

Skype, not content with crushing the rest of the telco and VoIP world with their massive mindshare and user base, have improved their software yet again and have just released their latest version 3.0 beta. What’s new in the Skype zoo?  Read more... (730 words, 1 image, estimated 2:55 mins reading time)

With 1 in 7 pictures taken on a cameraphone being printed at last, especially as cameraphones reach 2 megapixels and beyond, Kodak wants to capture the lion’s share of this lucrative market. Will a new Kodak photo printer being exclusively sold through cellphone stores propel them to even greater cameraphone photo printing success?  Read more... (737 words, 1 image, estimated 2:57 mins reading time)

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The all-out war in the next-generation gaming space is finally heating up big time, with the aim of dominating the living room and home entertainment the jewel in the crown that everyone desires. Is it enough to fend off the Blu-ray threat of the PS3?  Read more... (665 words, 1 image, estimated 2:40 mins reading time)

Just a couple of weeks after the MacBook Pro was upgraded with Intel’s Core 2 Duo chip, an online vendor is offering a 13.3-inch Core 2 Duo MacBook for pre-sale, upstaging any Apple announcement. Is it for real, just a misprint or a malicious trick?  Read more... (447 words, 1 image, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Within 24 hours, the business version of Windows Vista will be complete, if the latest online report is to be believed. This time it comes from a source very close to Microsoft, who has been intimately involved with Vista for years. Can this source be trusted?  Read more... (543 words, 1 image, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Online reports over the weekend suggest Windows Vista has ‘secretly’ gone RTM (release to manufacturing), and is already on the way to manufacturers, beating Microsoft’s revised internal deadline of Wednesday, November 8. Is it true?  Read more... (631 words, 1 image, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

While older SD televisions with built-in hard drives already exist, LG has upped the ante by offering HD recording straight to a 250Gb hard drive built-into a new 50-inch plasma and a 42-inch LCD HDTV.  Read more... (708 words, 1 image, estimated 2:50 mins reading time)

The Windows Vista journey is about to reach the end of the beginning, with the official launch date of November 30 announced for the simultaneous launch of Office 2007 and the business version of Windows Vista.  Read more... (411 words, 1 image, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Promised for an October time frame, Apple just manages to meet this deadline by annoucning on October 31 (US time) that the Shuffle will be available worldwide on Friday 3 November.  Read more... (236 words, 1 image, estimated 57 secs reading time)

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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.   Read more... (779 words, 1 image, estimated 3:07 mins reading time)

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.  Read more... (625 words, 2 images, estimated 2:30 mins reading time)