Alongside the SX 3000R iPod speaker system with FM radio, Kensington has this week also launched the portable FX 300, or as it’s also known, the Speaker to Go. The FX 300 is a protective case with an NXT SurfaceSound loudspeaker built directly into it, turning it into a lightweight speaker system with padding to [...]

Recent research suggests that iPod owners buy very little from the iTunes Store, an activity that Apple must place heavy reliance on to increase revenue. Jupiter Research found that owners buy an average of 20 tracks from iTunes, about 5% of their music collection. Most comes from ripped CDs and music downloads from other sites. [...]

Web 2.0: to hopeful entrepreneurs, it has the sweet smell of money about it. To those of a more cynical disposition, the scent is more akin to *ahem* dookie. Web founder Tim Berners-Lee has just weighed in on the Web 2.0 question in a podcast interview for IBM, and he’s not big on the term. [...]

Researchers from Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have developed a micromotor device powered by bacteria. The devices are likely to be very helpful in the medical arena. The 20 micron (1 micron = 1 millionth of a meter) diameter revolving motor has a 13-micron diameter groove etched into a silicon [...]

Microsoft now working on a technology called BrowserShield that it believes will help solve the problem of spam and malware once and for all. The program, being developed by Microsoft Research, looks at the code for every web page the user visits, and tries to intercept any sort of attack, such as downloading and executing [...]

Microsoft might have hurt the feelings of businesses a bit when it dropped the words “Small Business” from its accounting software (even though the newly named Office Accounting 2007 is still aimed at companies with 25 or fewer employees, a Microsoft spokeswoman said). However, new features that add a direct link between accounting and eBay [...]

TEAC’s new boombox features an FM/AM tuner, an LP player, and a CD recorder. It allows you to actually rip from the LP deck to a CD directly. It’ll play 33 1/3, 45, and 78′s of course. It can also remember the locations of up to 32 tracks. Stereo speakers are built in, along with [...]

Google hopes to improve the quality of image search results by leveraging the power of its massive audience. The newly launched Google Image Labeler is a “game” that allows players to help label the search giant’s enormous image collection with the help of a randomly selected partner. During each 90 second round, players will input [...]

Amazon’s upcoming e-book device had its details revealed when the FCC published a PDF on the device which included specifications and pictures. For those of who don’t quite remember, Amazon started out with the goal of being the premier online book store — of course today it’s much bigger than that. Amazon’s e-book reader, called [...]

Toshiba in collaboration with Memory Tech Japan have succesfully combined a HD-DVD and DVD to a single 3 layer twin format disk. The resulting disc conforms to DVD standards and can be played on DVD players as well as standard HD-DVD player too with a firmware upgrade. The resulting DVD disc will have Single Layer [...]

MetaMachine, operator of the eDonkey peer-to-peer file-sharing service, has agreed to pay $30 million to avoid copyright infringement litigation from the major record labels, the Associated Press reported. New York-based MetaMachine also agreed to immediately cease distribution of its eDonkey, eDonkey 2000, Overnet and other file-sharing applications, as well as take steps to prevent current [...]

Port Washington, N.Y. – The U.S. ringtone market is currently led by the rap/hip-hop genre, which accounted for 23% of all ringtone downloads in July, a month during which women downloaded 53% of all ringtones, according to a report from NPD Group. The next most-popular musical ringtone genres for the month were rock (17%), pop [...]

Funny prank for the unsuspecting guest. You record a message into the thing (up to 6sec) and it plays back when the toilet paper is unrolled. Get it here.

This new Toshiba stick will hold 16GB. There is also a 4GB version, and will be available in December, no price has been announced.

The 19″ (48cm) PV1955 is PhotoVu’s latest digital picture frame. You get a 1280 x 1024, 24-bit color LCD TFT display, built-in Wi-Fi or Ethernet connectivity and compatibility with Windows, Mac, Linux operating systems. It’s compliant with most USB flash devices, so the standard drives should work with the onboard USB port no computre required). [...]