New NW-A800 Series MP3 player to compete against iPod Nano. Sony launched in Europe the NW-A800 MP3 & video player featuring from 2GB to 8GB capacities. The ultra thin MP3 player sports a 2-inch LCD screen with up to 30 hours of battery life for music and 8 hours for video. Like Apple iTunes, you […]

This is a cool device, although the individual features are mediocre, it’s just sweet because they’re all crammed into one little gadget. Takes still photos at 640 x 480, captures video at 320 x 240, audio recording, webcam, and 128 MB USB flash drive. Available for $195 USD.

Buffalo is introducing a new mouse that offers a D-pad to replace the typical scroll wheel button. The Buffalo BOMU-JK/M has a D-Pad button that allows for scrolling vertically and horizontally, the same D-Pad buttons found on the Playstation and XBOX 360 controllers. This allows for better control for scrolling but scrolling lengthy pages might […]

In a move that is probably of greater benefit to Apple, Cisco have agreed to drop their iPhone trademark lawsuit, allowing both companies to use the name for their intended purposes. Both companies agree to drop any pending actions over the trademark, and the joint statement issued also alludes to ‘exploring opportunities for interoperability’, whatever […]

“We will be looking very carefully at the iPhone,” is the warning to Apple from Southampton-based touch sensor specialist Quantum Research, which already has one lawsuit proceeding against Apple for patent infringement, and is prepared to bring another. “The description of the iPhone suggests it uses a rear-surface touch screen, and has proximity sensing which […]

Warner Music’s chief executive Edgar Bronfman said the mobile industry is not doing enough to exploit the vast potential of downloading music to handsets. Speaking at the 3GSM World Congress, Bronfman said the market for mobile music is being held back by ‘cumbersome’ systems for transferring songs to phones. ‘It’s expensive, complicated and slow and […]

Mexican airline now serves peanuts, drinks, and iPods for $5. Airline Volaris is the first airline to offer 30GB iPods for free but will soon start charging 50 persos per flight. The iPods are pre-loaded with Mexican TV shows and popular music. American TV shoes and music will soon be loaded as well. American airliners […]

Samsung introduced the Mobile WiMAX USB Dongle SPH-H1200, a device that easily enables PCs to connect to WiMAX or 3G. The device measures 9.6 x 4.6 x 1.5cm - not much smaller than a mobile phone, in fact. Samsung said it will ship with connection manager, SMS and phonebook software. Samsung also showed off the […]

Vodafone customers in key European markets will get YouTube content directly from Vodafone live! on their mobile phones. The agreement states that YouTube will provide a selection of new videos on a daily basis especially for Vodafone customers. But that’s not the best part; users can upload their own videos from their mobile phones onto […]

Microsoft is developing a new version of its Zune portable music and media player that doubles as a cell phone — in direct competition to Apple’s recently announced iPhone — according to CrunchGear, a TechCrunch Network blog. It will be a smart phone that will work with the Zune marketplace. Further, it will likely not […]

New multimedia Ultra Smart F700 with touch screen and QWERTY keyboard. Samsung today announced its Ultra Smart F700 mobile phone, aimed to compete against Apple’s iPhone. Showcased at 3GSM World Congress, the F700 features a 2.78-inch touch screen as well as a QWERTY key pad. A “Drag and drop” method of touch screen was adopted […]

Apple may begin replacing hard drive based iPods with solid state NAND flash memory. The move in using an all Flash based iPod would make way for smaller and thinner iPods, and improvement in battery life, according to a report from Prudential Equity Group analyst Jesse Tortora. “We believe that the video iPod transition from […]

Spansion today announced the availability of a Flash memory subsystem that provides security protection from viruses, attacks and service thefts on handsets. Traditionally, security in handsets has been handled in software and the baseband processor, which are inherently vulnerable to system attacks. By providing security in the same physical package as the memory, Spansion offers […]

In June of 2006 consumer agencies in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden charged that Apple was violating contract and copyright laws in those countries by not enabling customers to purchase, download, and play tracks from iTunes on their non-Apple portable players. A Norwegian official today revealed that French and German consumer groups have joined the Scandinavian […]