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Acer TravelMate 4020

Acer has introduced their new TravelMate 4020 notebook featuring PCI-Express technology.

CinemaNow Hits the Archos AV 700

CinemaNow, the online movie service, will be able to deliver content to the Archos AV 700 and Gmini 402 portable media devices.

Latest Roxio Software Encodes DivX Format

Roxio's Toast 7 software is the first third-party application to support DivX 6 encoding.

IDC: Cell Phones Will Not replace Camera’s

Research frim IDC has released a new study that says cell phones will not replace digital camera's in years to come.

Westinghouse Adds LCM-19v5 to LCD Line-up

Westinghouse has announced their new LCM-19v5 19-inch LCD monitor to the companies product line-up.

Logitech V20 Laptop Speakers

Logitech's new V20 laptop speakers are both lightweight and compact, plus they run directly off of USB power.

Panasonic’s New SC-PM71 SD Micro System

The SC-PM71 is the first Micro System capable of of recording and playing music from an SD Memory Card.

Fujitsu Revamps Flagship Notebooks

Fujitsu has announced a new revamped flagship notebook and convertible tablet PC product line.

Samsung Unveils Its New Satellite DMB Phone

Samsung's new SCH-B250 mobile phone features a swivel screen and is the company's smallest satellite DMB phone yet.

SendStation Announces smartCharge

Sendstation has announced a solution for charging your iPod Shuffle in your car, the new smartCharge system.

Apple’s new iTunes 4.9 Supports Podcasts

Podcasting gets a large supporter today in Apple's new iTunes version 4.9 which will add a podcast subscription manager to its list of features.

CEA Responds to Grokster Ruling

The Consumer Electronics Association has released a statement regarding today's Supreme Court ruling.

Hollywood Can Sue For Media Piracy

The Supreme Court ruled today that that movie and music industries can sue technology companies that 'encourage' illegal file swapping over the internet.

IPTV Standards Forum Created

ATIS has launched an IPTV standards forum to help create reference architecture and standards for ITPV services and products.

Intel Releases 64-bit Celeron Processor

Intel has announced the release of their new 64-bit Celeron processor rounding out the company's 64-bit CPU family.

Akimbo Brings Video Blogs to Your TV

IPTV content provider Akimbo has added the ability to watch Video Blogs their programming.

NewsGator Releases New Podcast Receiver

NewsGator, one of the RSS readers we use here on Designtechnica, has released a new Podcast receiver that downloads audio and video to your media player.

Newest Roomba Cleans When You Tell It

iRobot's latest Roomba, called the Roomba Scheduler, cleans when you tell it to, thanks to an integrated scheduler.

Sony PS3 to be More Powerful Than Expected

According to Sony's Phil Harrison the Playstation 3 demonstrations shown at this years E3 show, were running on only 75% of the systems total output.

Fuel Cell Specs for Laptops Finalized

The Mobile PC Extended Battery Life Working Group has released laptop guidelines for the development of fuel cells.

P2P Still Rules the Download Scene

A report by the NPD Group shows that while pay-per download models are growing, the vast majority of downloads are still via Peer-to-Peer networks.

People Prefer Movies at Home vs the Theater

In a poll by both the Associated Press and America Online, results showed that people preferred to watch movies at home instead of a movie theater.

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX is the New King

NVIDIA has in a way has made history by announcing their new GeForce 7800 GTX video card and making it available on the same day. We have the scoop on the new 7800 GTX.

MSN Goes Local

Microsoft has released a beta version of their MSN Local Search service which will let people get local results from MSN search.

Microsoft Hopes to Sell 10M Xbox 360s

Some companies shoot for the stars, and others shoot further out - much further out. Microsoft wants to sell 10 million Xbox 360s within 12 to 16 months of its launch.

Portable Audio Market Tops $4.5 Billion

The market for portable audio players (both flash and hard drive based), is expected to reach more than 104 million units by 2009.

Blu-Ray/HD DVD Negotiations Come to an End

Sony's Ken Kutaragi has confirmed that negotiations between the HD DVD and Blu-Ray camps are over with.

ASUS Releases Sexy W5A Notebook

The ASUS W5A notebook takes on some design queue's from Apple with its slim design, and white casing.

Programming Jobs Lose Appeal

An article at Yahoo! News suggests that programming jobs are becoming extinct as jobs are shipped overseas.

MartinLogan Now Shipping Summit Speakers

If you are a fan of MartinLogan speakers, then you will be happy to hear they are now shipping their new Summit hybrid electrostatic loudspeakers.

Laptop Usage Tops 200M Users

Its hard to believe that Mobile PC sales have reached this number so quickly. According to the Computer Industry Almanac laptop adoption is seeing an annual growth rate of 16%.

Roomba Vacuum Gets Some Competition

Roomba, the popular robot vacuum cleaner, is getting some competition from Vorwerk in Hamlin, Germany.

DivX 6 Now Available

DivX has released version 6 of their software suite, with new enhancements that let you create video menus and video tags.

Boeing Wants Cell Phones on Planes by 2006

Connexion, a Boeing company hopes to be selling cell phone services to airline passengers by as early as 2006.

Cingular Opposes Calls on Airplanes

Cingular, the largest cell phone service provider here in America, has asked the FAA to ban in-flight phone calls, instead encouraging the use of text messaging.

IP TV Revenue to Grow to $7.2B in 2008

Broadband IP TV revenue is forecasted to grow from $635 million in 2004 to more than $7 billion in 2008 according to firm Research and Markets.

Spyware Maker Settles With NY for $7.5M

Spyware maker Intermix Media Inc. has settled with the state of New York in the amount of $7.5 million dollars.

Microsoft Releases Security Patches

Microsoft has released 10 new security patches to fix new exploits. Three of the patches have been deemed as critical by Microsoft.