Samsung's CES announcements include a raft of new products heading for Australia this year. Heading the list are TVs with voice and motion control plus face recognition, somewhat reminiscent of Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360, but there's a lot more in the company's latest home entertainment ranges.

Amazon is tuning up its Cloud Drive and Cloud Player with unlimited music storage and an iPad player.

Music companies routinely downgrade the quality of recordings before releasing them to online retailers such as Apple's iTunes Store. But that could be about to change - at a price.

Searching for online music or video content is already fraught with danger.  Add the word 'free' to your search and you're very likely to land on a malicious site.

Kogan continues to diversify its range of low-cost consumer electronics. The latest addition is a $189 ebook reader.

iTunes is the only officially sanctioned app to manage and maintain your plethora of Apple i-devices – iPods, iPhones, and soon the iPad. Yet, for such a crucial app it really is behind the times and needs crucial fixes to keep pace with the needs of its users.

The first preview release of Internet Explorer 9 is available, and it's looking pretty snappy.

The Esiena iF360 is billed as a "complete home audio solution." It's not quite that, but it does pack a lot of great sound and nice features into its compact shell.

Canonical is privately beta-testing its own music store, set to go live with the release of Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx, later next month. The music store will offer both DRM-free and watermark-free MP3s.

Another barrier to Linux adoption is set to fall with next month’s major Ubuntu release – version 10.04, otherwise known as Lucid Lynx – bringing iPod support right out of the box.