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Chip Demand In China Outpaces Supply

Semiconductor demand in China is expected to continue to outpace supply, according to a new study from PricewaterhouseCoopers.

HP’s Carla Fiorina Is Forced Out

The board of directors at HP have forced Carla out of the company, terminated immediately. Meanwhile, HP stock soars on Wall Street.

How To Judge Loudspeaker Sound And Accuracy

What do we really mean when we talk about 'loudspeaker sound'? eCoustics has an article up that tells you how to judge sound and accuracy.

Panasonic DMC-LZ1 Digital Camera Debuted

Panasonic's new DMC-LZ1 and DMC-LZ2 Lumix cameras feature 14 megabytes of built-in memory.

Benq P50 Handset To Be UMA Enabled

BenQ is collaborating with Kineto Wireless to develop UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) enabled dual mode GSM-WiFi handsets.

Multi-Room DVR’s To Increase In Popularity

You can expect Cable and Satellite companies to be offering multi-room DVR's in 2005 with more than 25 million being deployed by 2009 according to Parks and Associates.

Siemens SK65 w/BlackBerry Review

MobileBurn reviews the sweet looking Siemens SK65 cell phone with integrated Blackberry.

DigitalDeck MX1000 Home Network DVR

DigitalDeck has developed and is marketing an end-to-end platform for aggregating and managing entertainment content in the home.

TiVo Releases SuperBowl Viewer Stats

TiVo has released statistics regarding this years SuperBowl ads. It should come as no surprise that the ads pushing the envelope received the most attention.

Stream Music To Your Treo With Xdrive

Xdrive has announce their new music service which lets people enjoy digital music collection via their Treo cell phones and any Palm, Tungsten or Sony Clie PDA.

Plustek OpticSlim M12 Mobile Scanner

The OpticSlim M12 is capable of scanning A4-size documents and is power-cord-free, using a USB interface for power and communication with the computer.

Panasonic’s New Lumix DMC-LS1 Camera

Panasonic's new DMC-LS1 offers 4-megapixel resolution and 3x optical zoom along with sophisticated features like MEGA O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilizer).

Web Bowsers At Risk To New Spoofing Scheme

A newly uncovered vulnerability in most browsers can allow hackers to spoof the URL displayed in the address bar and the SSL certificate.

Elaborate Bytes Clone DVD 2.7.5.1

Elaborate Bytes Clone DVD extracts and writes any DVD to a single recordable DVD. Just make sure your favorite video game will work with this installed!

The CRT TV Fights Back

Engineers working on CRT tube technology have reduced their depth by a third to 35 cm and are shaving off another 10 cm to better compete with liquid crystal displays (LCDs),

Logitech Introduces ViewPort AV 100

Logitech's ViewPort AV 100 features an integrated camera, microphone, wireless Bluetooth headset.

Sony, IBM, Toshiba Announce New Cell Chip

Featuring supercomputer-like floating point performance with observed clock speeds greater than 4 GHz, the new 'supercomputer on a chip' was introduced at ISSCC today.

Toshiba Announces Satellite P35 Series

Toshiba today introduced the Satellite P35-S611 notebook, designed as a desktop replacement that delivers a powerful multimedia experience for $1,799.

Intel Set To Debut Dual-Core Processor

Intel has announced it has completed initial production runs of dual-core processors and provided further details about its multi-core plans to its customers.

Matsushita, Hitachi In Plasma Display Deal

Matsushita (Panasonic) and Hitachi will wrap up the deal today as the two companies try to get a handle on the current market as prices dive and competition increases.

Texas Instruments Preps 1080p DLP Chips

Trusted Reviews and DigiTimes are both reporting that Texas Instruments are prepping their 1080P chips for mass production.

Palm Tungsten T5 Review

The Tech Lounge reviews the new Palm Tungsten T5 PDA and is fairly happy with their new offering.

HVD Alliance Gets Six More Supporters

One Terabyte of information on a single disc sounds too good to be true, but its a reality. Using holographic technology you could store tons of movies on a single disc.

A Look On The Inside Of Nintendo’s DS

NE Asia Online has taken apart one of Nintendo's DS handheld gaming systems and identifies the parts inside. It's a very fun read.

Macrovision Offers Protection For PC’s

Microsoft has licensed some of Macrovisions patents and properties regarding managing and preventing unauthorized copies on analog video interfaces.

Sanyo’s Hard Drive Based Voice Recorder

Sanyo had to create this product because Chris Pirillo at Lockergnome talks so dang much! Just teasing Chris hehe.

Skype For Mac OS X And Linux

Skype announced the availability of its feature-rich Skype for Mac OS X Version 1.0 and Skype for Linux Version 1.0 software applications

Diamond MM To Use SnapStream’s Kits

Diamond Multimedia's new XtremeTV tuner and personal video recorder will use SnapStreams tuner, remote control and software bundle.

Napster Rolls Out Portable Music Service

The Napster to Go service allows you to purchase DRM protected songs from Napster and take them with you on your digital audio player - just like you can do with Apples iTunes.

MSI Launches Mega Stick 527 MP3 Player

MSI's new Mega Stick 527 may look like a kids toy, but it has some cool features like 18 hours of playback on a single AAA battery and a USB 2.0 connection.

Sony PSP To Be Available March 24th

Priced at $249 dollars, the Sony PSP portable handheld gaming system will be available here in the US March 24th.

Gateway’s New SHD-3010 30-inch LCD TV

Gateway has introduced their new 30-inch HD-Ready LCD TV, the SHD-3010, with a price of $1,799.99. Click on the story to see a picture.

Macrovision And Microsoft Working Together

Macrovision announced it is working with Microsoft to provide support for interoperability between Microsoft Windows Media DRM and Macrovision's copy management solution.

Kodak Says They Lead In Digital Cameras

Kodak has released an announcement that says they are leading in U.S. digital camera, snapshot printer, photo kiosk, and online picture sharing markets.

US Phone Subscribers to Reach 236M By 2010

The penetration of mobile telephone service among U.S. consumers is expected to climb from 61% in 2004 to over 75% by 2010 according to researcf firm The Diffusion Group.

Fujitsu Gives LifeBook P7010 Speed Increase

Fujitsu's new LifeBook P7010 notebook comes in two flavors of processors which are running at faster speeds than before, for under $1500 dollars.

Rotel To Develop Sirius Enabled Tuner

The RT1084 tuner is Rotel's first satellite enabled unit, and will be able to play three different channels of Sirius radio at the same time in separate rooms.

Verizon Wireless And Music Video Downloads

Verizon Wireless will offer free music downloads initially, then plans on charging $399 per music video download evetually.