Lexmark has a new printer on the market – the X9350 – an all-in-one printner with wireless capabilities, aimed at the home and small office user. The two big selling points are the option to use the printer wirelessly (which means less clutter and the option to network the printer for muktiple users) and automatic [...]

Good news for the environment, but perhaps not so good news for traditional battery manufacturers is a water-powered battery, invented by Susumu Suzuki. The inventor has been showing off his prototype to Reuters – made mostly of carbon-based compounds and activated by just a small amount of water – just a lick will apparently set [...]

Vodafone has joined the battle for your phone line, offering the Vodafone at Home package, which offers broadband and inclusive landline calls for £25 per month. The new package will be launched to Vodafone consumer contract customers on 8th January 2007. As well as unlimited broadband and inclusive landline calls, the deal also offers 25% [...]

While this picture may look like a few items pushed together in a corner then covered in wallpaper, it’s actually a new ‘bizhub’ from Konica Minolta, combining a printer, TV, DVD player, coffee machine – and for reasons best known to themselves – a 1960s-style lamp. It’s obviously a prototype, designed to offer an alternative [...]

The VW-J707S from Twinbird Japan is all set to make the TV truely mobile, as no longer TV viewing will be limited by availability of a power socket and antenna terminal. The unit consists of a transmission unit and the LCD. Once connected to your TV cable or AV equipment the transmitter unit encodes the [...]

Microsoft announced on Thursday that it will pay a portion of profits from the sale of its Zune digital media player to Universal Music Group, and offer similar arrangements to other labels. Figuring as Microsoft’s bid to challenge the market dominated by Apple’s iPod, the Zune is set to go on sale next Tuesday (Nov. [...]

A judge in Spain has ruled that those who download free music off the Internet for personal use are not criminals, The Register reported. Judge Paz Aldecoa, of Santander in northern Spain, called file-sharing “a practiced behavior where the aim is not to gain wealth but to obtain private copies.” The judge dismissed charges against [...]

External hard drives don’t have to be dull. Just ask LaCie, which has produced the Brick desktop hard drive, which looks not unlike those Lego building bricks you had as a child. Designed by “world famous designer” Ora-Ito, the LaCie Brick Desktop Hard Drive (as it’s officially known) hooks up to your computer via USB [...]

OpenBSD 4.0 was officially released this morning (Nov. 1, 2006). OpenBSD is an open source operating system released under the BSD license. Used by approximately 30 percent of BSD users and recognized as the second most popular BSD operating system, OpenBSD’s security enhancements and built-in cryptography and firewall support are of interest to the computer [...]

The CeeLite LEC Panel is so thin (how thin is it?) that you can flex it in your hands like a sheet of paper. It uses way less electricity than standard backlighting or neon tubing, and comes in panels of up to 2 square meters, making it ideal for signage. The applications for photography and [...]

Microsoft Corp. said it has filed more than 50 lawsuits and other legal actions worldwide against people it says sold pirated copies of its software using online auction sites such as eBay. The legal actions announced last week are the latest in a broad effort Microsoft has taken to curb widespread piracy of programs including [...]

Denial of service attackers now face up to 10 years in jail with updated computer crime laws coming into force this week as part of the new Police and Justice Act 2006. The long-overdue updating of the 1990 Computer Misuse Act also increases the sentence for hacking a computer from a maximum of six months [...]

According to Digitimes, US Court has upheld a patent infringement charge made by Philips against Taiwan optical disc makers Gigastorage and Princo concerning six Philips CD-R patents. A hearing will now be scheduled to determine damages, according to Philips Taiwan. Philips filed the complaint in early 2002, with the court delivering a summary judgment in [...]

I heard a DJ say once that the hardest part of his job is to carry the vinyl. Now, at last, they are getting smarter

HP claims it has started to make higher margins from open source than proprietary software in some instances, due to the support costs associated with migration. Speaking to ZDNet UK HP’s open source and Linux chief technology officer Bdale Garbee said that open source margins are sometimes higher than for Microsoft-based solutions. “In some cases, [...]