If DRM-free downloads is what you like then you may be happy to learn that UK music download service, 7digital, is the first to offer tunes from Warner Music International without copyright protection.
The Warner deal joins an existing one with publisher EMI, the first of the Big Four music studios to dump DRM for downloads. EMI has already got DRM-free deals with Apple and, most recently, Play.com, which has now entered the music download business.
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With radio becoming more and more versatile every day, Tangent has tweaked its popular and critically acclaimed Quattro Internet radio.
The new Tangent Quattro Mk2 adds an FM radio tuner, an Ethernet RJ45 port in addition to the in-built Wi-Fi and support for the new WPA2 Wi-Fi security protocol.
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Hauppauge is well-known for its TV cards for PCs and laptops but now it’s launched its first portable media player (PMP) at the CeBIT 2008 show.
Dubbed the Hauppauge pMP, it sports a 3.5in screen with a decent 320 x 240 pixel resolution and comes with the added bonus of Freeview onboard for picking up all those free digital TV channels while out and about. It also has an EPG and text functions.
The player measures 12 x 7.8 x 2cm, weighs 200g and the rechargeable Lithium-ion battery is good for a claimed 4 hours. It supports MP3 and WAV audio files, along with video formats like MPEG4 ASP, XviD, and DivX 4.0/5.0. There’s no internal storage, so make sure you stock up on those SD and MMC cards.
"Portable media is becoming more widespread, and Hauppauge has added the dimension of live TV to the mix with its new pMP," said Yehia Oweiss, Hauppauge Digital's Vice President of Sales EMEA. "This is a highly portable device that will allow customers to break free of the TV at home and watch live or recorded programmes wherever they are."
The addition of Freeview to the Hauppauge pMP is a nice touch and, while it may not win any fashion contests, you can’t really complain when all you’ll be paying from April is around £115.-Martin Lynch
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We’ve had Pentium and Centrino and now we have the ‘Atom’, Intel's smallest ever processor.
Atom is the brand name Intel has chosen for its new family of tiny, low-power processors designed to drive mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and a new class of cheap, Internet-focused laptops due, en masse, from manufacturers later this year.
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After 40 years of making Trinitron TV tubes for fat tellys, Sony is pulling the plug and will stop production of all cathode ray tubes (CRTs) later this month.
Sony started producing CRTs back in 1965 and in 1968, the Trinitron brand was created. In that time, 280 million CRT TVs were sold and at its peak in 2000, the production lines were churning out 20 million CRTs a year for TVs and PC monitors. And today?
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