Apple’s iPhone is an interesting product, but its sales goal is not very high, Anssi Vanjoki, the head of the multimedia unit at Nokia was quoted as saying on Thursday. Apple unveiled its much-anticipated take on the smart phone on Tuesday, presenting a sleek device with a large screen that combines a phone, an iPod [...]

Warner Bros.’s new disc, called Total HD, is expected to hit stores in the second half of this year. The format will combine competing Blu-ray and HD DVD technologies on a single disc. “It behooved us to figure out a way to transition (consumers) from standard definition to high definition DVDs,” Kevin Tsujihara, president of [...]

Hitachi showcased playback of a four-layer Blu-Ray disc featuring a capacity of 25GB per layer. The company said that the drive used for reading was a standard Blu-Ray drive, at its booth at the 2007 International CES. There have been other academic reports of creating fourlayer (100GB) or even six layer (200GB) disc media by [...]

A new unofficial firmware update for the Sony PSP game device is claimed to offer ability to plays mp4-AVC videos at a resolution of 480x272p. Since its first release, Sony’s popular PSP portable game machine has been treated by enthusiasts as an experimantal device. The PSP cracking scene continues with pace, following the recent news [...]

The Pirate Bay, one of the world’s most popular websites for the illegal downloading of films through filesharing, has said it wanted to buy its own “island” in a bid to avoid copyright laws. “It’s not only about Pirate Bay, it’s more about having a nation with no copyright laws,” one of those behind the [...]

IAdea Corporation, a Taiwan-based licensee of BitTorrent technology, and Star Semiconductor Corporation, an affiliate of the semiconductor giant UMC Group, jointly announced the availability of STR9810/20 — the world’s first BitTorrent-optimized microprocessor chip. Most of the BitTorrent downloads today are done by software that runs on the PC. The new microprocessor will enable consumer electronics [...]

Pretty self explanatory. Very cool: “Small, portable, and battery operated, the SMS Guerilla Projector contains a mobile phone which enables the device to receive and project messages from other people.” “Fully functioning device that enables the user to project text based SMS messages in public spaces, in streets, onto people, inside cinemas, shops, houses.” Built [...]

NEC has partnered with Canada-based Carmanah Technologies to offer a solar-powered system for use with all its monitors. Offering a solar-powered system integrated with monitors is a world-first. According to TG Daily, “The system takes in solar energy throughout the day, and in well lit situations can bring in more power than is needed to [...]

Just after Seagate gave confirmation of there plans to give us a 1TB desktop HDD for the beginning of 2007, Hitachi is doing the same. However, according to Gizmodo, “The company, apparently, can’t keep a promise, since they originally claimed that it’d have one last year.” The Hitachi’s 3.5in Desktar 7K1000 will cost $399, 750GB [...]

Seagate has “sent out an e-mail to the media letting us know that a drive of that size will be coming in the first half of 2007.” Seagate has offered their 750GB Barrcudda since April 2006 and now it’s time to get bigger. The from e-mail Seagate says, “Seagate’s 1TB hard drive will be our [...]

Nokia today announced its next generation widescreen Nokia Nseries multimedia computer, the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. The N800 combines personal Internet experience with easy wireless connections, high resolution touchscreen display (800×480) and support for a variety of Internet applications. The N800 features QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), Bluetooth 2.0, built-in web camera, and capable of Internet [...]

Samsung Electronics claims to have created the first liquid-crystal display panel that can produce independent images on both sides of a single small LCD display. The 2.22-inch QVGA display is 2.6mm thick, featuring a 240×320 resolution, and support for 265k colors. This is due to a pixel design that allows separate control of the liquid [...]

EMI announced that every single CD it sells from now on will be free of DRM, and thus open to personal format shifting, such as the world should be. This means no DRM audio CD’s will be released anymore. In 2002 Bretelsmann (record companies BMG, Arista and RCA) were the first to use DRM. Initially [...]

WIBU-Systems USA, a German firm headquartered in Seattle, says it’ll pay that much to anyone who can strip its digital restrictions management software from a “protected” application. And if somebody can break the security software, maybe they’ll get a job, InformationWeek has the company saying. “If you’ve produced software that will tell an oil company [...]

In September, Ministryoftech posted news about Germany’s mini video projector. Now, Microvision is showing their version of a mini projector, the Pico Projector, or “PicoP”. These very small projectors will be of great demand for mobile devices like PDAs, mobile phones and even laptops. From Microvision site: Microvision is responding to inquiries from electronic manufacturers [...]