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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Until we see proof that Laser TVs will be on display at CES, it looks like Plasma and LCD TVs will continue to rule the high-def TV roost, with continuing competition from DLP, LCoS and high-def CRTs. The other great hope to beat plasma and LCD, the SED is under lawsuit attack!
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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A new iPod or two, an iPod phone or two, the iTV, an 8-core Mac Pro, a 12-inch MacBook, the Mac Tablet, an OS X 10.5 demo, new ‘Universal’ software and more… everyone is expecting Apple to release something in just about every category they currently cover. Can Apple really deliver something in each category, and will the press only focus on what wasn’t delivered, instead of what was?
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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With Google’s Answer service gone, Yahoo’s Answers was the 800lb gorilla in the online answer space, where real users answer questions rather than results from a search engine. Now Amazon has decided to enter the race shortly after Yahoo Answer’s first year anniversary. The question is, can they succeed where Google has failed?
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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After being cancelled on the Mac platform back in 2003 thanks to the success of Apple’s Final Cut video editing software, Premiere is set to come back to Intel Macs only in mid-2007.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Mobile phone games developer, In-Fusio, who have turned previous Microsoft titles like Midtown Madness 3, Zoo Tycoon 2 and Age of Empires 2 into mobile phone games, claims that Microsoft is actively trying to stop it from releasing a mobile version of Halo.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Halo hungry Xbox 360 owners will get access to the Halo 3 beta in two interesting ways – one a guaranteed way, by buying new Xbox 360 game ‘Crackdown’, the other by playing Halo 2 on Xbox Live for three hours from the 1st to the 3rd of Febraury, and being one of the first 13,333 people to do so.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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The New York Times reports that Warner Bros is set to release a high-def disc that works in both types of next-gen players, potentially solving the problem of which player to buy. But in the short term it ads yet another disc for retailers to stock. Is it the solution?
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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LG announced they were working on a dual Blu-ray/HD DVD player last March, and less than 12 months later, they promise to release the unit in ‘early 2007’ after launching it at CES next week. Finally someone has the sense to launch a dual format player – but what will this do for sales of already expensive existing single format next generation players?
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Just in time be installed in the PS4, an Xbox 720, the Wii Wii, a TiVo for masses of HDTV recording, a computer running the successor to Vista or Mac OS X, Seagate wants you to store it all on a massive 300 TB hard drive.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Reports are emerging that despite the prediction that the PS3 will sell 75m units by 2010, the PS2 will still sell in the tens of millions over the next two years, continuing to outstrip the PS3, Wii and Xbox 360.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Google have plugged the email flaw that allowed hackers to harvest Gmail addresses from the address books of Gmail users surfing the web but still logged into their Gmail account. It’s yet another warning to big companies that security and our data are of paramount importance to us, and should be to them, too.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Last heard ‘launching’ two months ago in November, the US $100 laptop per child project, claimed by some to currently cost over US $200 per unit, ‘could’ start reaching children in third world countries in July, say online reports. Let’s hope the wait is worth it!
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Fellow iTWire journalist Stan Beer will be at MacWorld 2007 to report live on what Steve Jobs is set to unveil. But that shouldn’t stop us from doing a little speculation on what to expect!
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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For all the buzz the Wii generated in the US, it wasn’t able to outsell the year-old Xbox 360 – but was that just because Wii’s were in short supply, although available in much greater numbers than the PS3?
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by Mike Bantick
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A couple of announcements for two of the big gaming consoles this festive season as they woo the public with some free content.
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by Angus Kidman
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How can you get some Christmas headlines when your newest console is the oldest one on the market? For Microsoft, the answer seems to be: extend the warranty.
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by Adam Turner
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Sony's Father of the PlayStation, Ken Kutaragi, has "promised" a souped up multimedia-focused PlayStation 3 in the guise of an AV component.
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by Adam Turner
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From Dr Who to Faulty Towers, the best of British television is set to be available online - but only in the US.
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