Samsung’s latest light weight palm HD camcorder, the HMX-U10 has been released, marking Samsung’s foray into the growing market for HD pocket camcorders.

On Wednesday, Toshiba has announced their release of a 600GB, 2.5” hard drive (the MBF2600RC hard drive), according to an official release.

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Broadband Computer, a Newcastle based company, has launched a Linux laptop designed to encourage technophobes to conquer their fears of the online world.

After negotiations between Microsoft and the European Commission regarding its market power, Microsoft has agreed to loosen the grip of Internet Explorer, which accounts for 90% of the operating system market.

In accordance with regulations stipulated by Digital Economic Bill, Wi-Fi providers, such as cafes, hotels, universities, and libraries may have to register as internet service providers, according to recent reports. This will inevitably add to their operating costs, and will hold them responsible for monitoring their networks for illegal file sharing.

The release of the first alpha for Fedora 13 has been delayed by a week, in order to “verify blocker bug fixes and validate new builds of software necessary to fix those bugs,” according to Fedora Project spokesperson Jesse Keating, adding in an official mailing list post: “We will spend the next few days doing [...]

Lenovo’s latest edition of their reliable ThinkPad laptops is targeted to both businesses and for everyday use, with a sleek form to attract a new market. The market for slim and light weight laptops is a competitive one, but Lenovo is confident in The Edge’s success.

According to reports, Microsoft is ready to launch their MultiPoint Server 2010 soon, after development began in November of last year.

Three years after the original proposal to make a pornographic-specific domain name .xxx was dismissed, it seems another proposal will be made soon.

Virgin media has announced that it has launched a new application called ‘Get Social’. This is geared towards its mobile customers and includes social networking and e-mail applications.
Get Social allows users to perform instant updates to twitter, Facebook, Google talk, Yahoo! Messenger and virginmedia.com. This enables people to stay in touch and up to date with their [...]

Nearly everything this year has been about applications, mostly the iPhone app store. The app store is far ahead of everyone else and has set the benchmark for all of the other competing manufacturers.  Apple boasts over 100,000 applications. This places them far ahead of the mighty Google with only 20,000 applications for Android. In [...]

This is something you don’t see every day RIM and Microsoft have both come to terms with the dominance of the iPhone in the mobile phone market. This leaves the two companies playing catch-up to Apple.
According to the head of Microsoft UK mobility Phil Moore, who spoke at a recent Q&A session at the ‘Connect!’ Technology [...]

The EU announced this morning that it is dropping their antitrust charges against Microsoft. This comes after the software giant agreed to grant their OS users a choice from over 12 other web browsers. Additional browsers include Mozilla’s Firefox, Google’s chrome, Apple’s Safari and Opera.
Microsoft reached an agreement which will allow users to vote from [...]

Last week we talked about the technical launch of Freeview’s new HD service – technical because nobody can really access the service as the boxes are not yet commercially available. Although the launch was a success there could be bigger problems for consumers with misleading labeling leading some consumers to believe they’ve already picked up [...]

There’s been talk online for some time about the fact that Google will be developing their own mobile phone rather than simply selling their Android operating system to other manufacturers. This week these rumours have been confirmed by the Wall Street Journal – the phone is not only real but a prototype has already been [...]

Over the past few months, there has been rumour after rumour, conjecture and hearsay galore about the likelihood of a mobile phone handset from the mighty Google…
Although Google themselves has not yet confirmed or denied the rumours, Mario Queiroz – the VP of product management for big G did recently write on Google’s Mobile blog [...]

The INQ Chat 3g has now gone on sale with the Threee network, for just £15 per month (although you do need to sign an 18 month mobile phone contract with three network, on their ‘Internet Texter mobile tariff)
The INQ Chat 3g handset is made by INQMobile – a partner company of the three mobile [...]

The notorious men’s magazine ‘Playboy’ has recently launched an iphone application available via the iTunes App Store, accessible directly on the iphone handset.
The application is rated as over 17’s only, however it is said to contain no full nude content, which puts in question how popular it will be with the playboy magazine usual readership.
The [...]

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It has been reported that Acer are planning to release around 6 smartphones (Android) during the 1st 6 months of next year.
Roger Yuen, Acer executive, actually showcased a pretty wide variety of mobile phones based on the Android phone technology, and stated that Acer had a target of releasing up to 6 [...]

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The 5235 Smartphone handset from Nokia has been released, with the tag line of ‘Comes With Music’. This phone seems to be a cut down version of the seriously popular Nokia 5800 Xpress Music handset.
THe Nokia 5235 also comes with access to the online music stores provided by Nokia – Unlimited access [...]