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There are two basic things you can rate speakers on. The most important is obviously how they sound. Harman-Kardon have a great track record in this area - I expect the GLA-55s sound amazing. They’ve got a 3.5″ mini-jack connection - designed for your PC or for an MP3 player …

The battle for the skinniest LCD TV continues this week with Sony unveiling the Bravia ZX1 at the IFA 2008 show, which is just 9.9mm at its thinnest. The ZX1 sure is anorexic and compares favourably to the other super-skinnys like the Hitachi UT …

According to Philips, its new 22OXW9 LightFrame LCD PC monitor is “proven to reduce eye fatigue,” making your PC-based life slightly easier to tolerate. It does this in the same way Philips’ range of HDTVs have been doing it for years - powering up a backlight to bathe the …

Leonardo Da Vinci might have worked painstakingly on the Mona Lisa and her enigmatic smile but the crowd at Mythbusters managed their own version in less than a second at nVidia’s NVISION event this week. Of course, the duo of Adam and Jamie were going to have to pull it off in style, if they wanted to demonstrate the …

In the present times, mobile phones have turned in to highly functional gadgets, which can perform more than one task in a simplified manner. It has come a long way since the times, when these were used only for conversing or exchanging messages. Nowadays, you can do very many things with a mobile phone handset. You may feel apprehensive about …

As was rumored back in May, Comcast has finally come out and officially announced that it’s capping its broadband at 250 GB per month as of October 1. Despite earlier reports, there was no confirmation of any overage fees for those who go beyond that. While I still think that tiered broadband is an overall …

Are you tired of paying those high monthly bills; and every time you turn around it seems as though your cable company is raising the prices on their services again? Well you do not have to take it anymore and this article is going to explain how to watch television online with PC satellite TV.That is correct if you have …

Internet users are increasingly time-shifting their media consumption by downloading podcasts to watch or listen later, according to a US study.A research group looking into the habits of web users, the Pew Internet and American Life Project, found that 19% of internet users had downloaded podcasts to listen or view at a later date.A similar study in August 2006 found …

We’ve pointed to plenty of examples concerning how pharmaceutical patents actually do more to hold back life-saving cures, and here’s another example. It’s actually a continuation of a story we wrote about a year and a half ago, about Indonesia’s decision to stop supplying bird flu samples to the World Health Organization, claiming it was worried that …

About Bose CorporationBased in Framingham, Massachusetts, Bose was founded by Dr Amar G Bose in 1964. Bose Corporation is an American specialist in high-end audio systems. Bose is world’s leading manufacturer in home theater speakers and professional audio market. It manufactures variety of model for home theater system including its own patented Wave radio system. The founder of Bose Dr …

We report on so many stories where technology is used in bad or oppressive ways, that it’s important to note when it’s being used in positive ways as well. Technology, itself, is just a tool that can be used in both good and bad ways (not to mention neutral ways), but somehow the good ways don’t always get as …

Netbooks are just too big a business for companies to walk away from these days and LG is the latest to be lured into the market with the upcoming launch of the LG X110 sub-notebook as announced at IFA today……

No, this isn’t another of the endless teasers about the Dell E, this is actually about the Medion Mini as announced at IFA 2008 today. The only problem is that Medion didn’t bother sending out any pictures and, what with the famous Dell pencil, it seemed like the perfect …

While the US gov’t clearly overplayed its claims that Gary McKinnon was the “world’s biggest hacker” after having him arrested for breaking into US military computers, that doesn’t mean that McKinnon hasn’t overreacted back in response. The US offered him a plea bargain deal that seemed fairly reasonable, given what he did — and he flipped out …

Last year, HP announced a special button that could be put on blogs to let users more easily print blog posts, without all the extraneous stuff on the website. At the time, we didn’t see the value at all, but plenty of folks responded in the comments that it seemed like a good idea. It wasn’t long …

So, the kind of upscaling that Toshiba was talking in their conference has come into force in the form of the Regza ZF range of LCD TVs as launched over here at IFA today……

Gary McKinnon, the British computer hacker who cracked open the Pentagon and Nasa systems in the US, has lost his appeal to the European court of human rights and could face immediate extradition to the US to stand trial. His lawyers indicated last night that they were urging the home secretary to allow McKinnon to stand trial …

Ofcom wants to plug the remaining holes in Britain’s mobile phone network, bringing coverage to remote areas that have never received a mobile phone signal.Launching its first ever comprehensive review of the mobile phone industry in Britain yesterday, the regulator also proposed scrapping the complex system of fees levied by mobile phone companies to connect calls, a move that could …

Viviane Reding, EU telecoms commissioner, is to propose new rules this autumn to force mobile phone operators to bill customers per second for “roaming” after accusing companies of overcharging for overseas calls.Reding’s plans, outlined yesterday, have opened a new front in her battle with the industry, which was already unhappy with her plans to impose caps on data roaming and …

Forget the fussball table, the Segway or the private plane. Your very own biopic could be the ultimate in oneupmanship among Silicon Valley’s movers and shakers after the West Wing creator, Aaron Sorkin, revealed he was working on a film about Facebook’s youthful founder. The plan, which led to online suggestions that it could be subtitled Revenge of the Nerds, …