Topic: News

Samsung has announced that it has developed the world’s fastest, 2.5-inch, 256 Gigabyte (GB) multi-level cell (MLC) based solid state drive (SSD) using a SATA II interface, at the fifth annual Samsung Mobile Solution Forum. Samsung’s new 256GB SSD is also the thinnest drive with the largest capacity to be offered with a SATA II interface.

Speaking at yesterday's Wedbush Morgan Securities annual Management Access Conference, the Atari founder Nolan Bushnell suggested that game piracy will soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new chip.

Apple is continuing to expand on its newfound variable pricing policy for TV shows, an announcement for the UK reveals.

Representing the latest effort to compete with iTunes in the burgeoning movie download space, CinemaNow is now offering a variety of paid content services through Windows Media Center.

Activision is adding drums, bass guitar, and microphone to its popular Guitar Hero video game.

Samsung, a worldwide leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, today announced its one terabyte EcoGreen F1 hard drive with low power features.

Speaking at a summit yesterday, Nintendo of America's VP of sales and marketing Cammie Dunaway said that the Wii had sold more than 50 million units of software during the first 18 months that it has been on the market.

In the first quarter of 2008, global LCD television sales outpaced the sale of plasma televisions by a whopping eight to one margin.

Even before we get used to high-definition TV, researchers are planning to place "3D" TV in our homes - but without the funny glasses.

The speculation surrounding the Microsoft Xbox 360 has been confirmed by its product manager that the Blu-ray DVD format will not be coming to the video game unit.

CyberLink, a Taiwan-based provider of digital multimedia software solutions, announced an expansion of its cooperation with Asustek Computer by bundling its DVD Suite with Asustek's new notebook PCs starting in late May.

Napster, the digital music service, has opened the world's biggest MP3 download store with more than 6 million songs in a direct challenge to Apple Inc's iTunes store.

It is being reported by Gizmodo that someone very, very close to the 3G iPhone launch has said that Apple will announce their new model at the WWDC Keynote on June 9th. The second-generation iPhone will be available worldwide right after the launch, and not at year's end, as previously thought.

An Oregan man has pleaded guilty to selling more than a million US dollars worth of pirated software on online auction sites. It has been estimated that the pirate trousered around $400,000 in personal profit.

A partnership has been announced between Sony and YouTube that sees the integration of YouTube APIs to allow game developers to create games that enable direct upload of in-game video captures to the popular website.

Samsung will exhibit new products ranging from the 82-inch "Ultra-Definition" LCD with 120Hz Refresh, to advanced mobile products, at the Society for Information Display (SID) International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition.

Sony today announced a line up of highly-anticipated software titles set to launch over the remainder of 2008 and early 2009 exclusively for Playstation 3, PSP and Playstation Network.

LG Display is to demonstrate a pair of round LCD panels and will show them for the first time at the Society For Information Display's (SID) conference next week.

Plextor JP wil release the DVD super-multi-drive PX-820A and PX-820 SA seeries of 20x DVD burners in Japan by the end of the month.

An anonymous RIAA representative has come out detailing the organization’s methods in seeking out file sharers on college campuses in the United States. In many ways the method is almost identical to the way one searches for music on peer-to-peer networks, except it searches a lot quicker.