CMC Magnetics and Ritek are looking to raise disc prices by 10-15% for CMC while Ritek will look at order volumes before determining rates.

Sony Ericsson will launch a mobile phone service with unlimited music downloads within weeks, the company said on Tuesday, as it looks to take on Nokia.

Nokia is planning to introduce a rather remarkable new search service called Point and Find which allows mobile users to bring up real-time information of an object they are looking at.

Taiwanese company Pretec has introduced two new Compact Flash (CF) cards with high storage capacities.

Netflix has agreements to stream TV shows from both Walt Disney's Disney Channel and CBS in a move to attract more subscribers to its streaming service.

Plextor has launched its first Digital TV tuner that enables users to watch digital TV anywhere via their laptop/PC.

Buffalo have unveiled their new Blu-ray DVD Combo drives, the MediaStation 8x External Blu-ray Drive and MediaStation 8x Internal Blu-ray Drive.

The 2008 holiday shopping season is approaching quickly, and consumers are anxiously waiting to see how low Blu-ray players and HDTVs will drop in price.

Sandisk, Best Buy and Wal-Mart have announced "slotMusic", a new physical music format available on memory cards that come with pre-loaded DRM-free MP3 music.

Gigabyte's first annual overclocking competition, the GIGABYTE Open Overclocking Championship (GO OC 2008) is set to begin.

The 43rd steering comittee meeting of the DVD Forum approved among other the specifications for the dual layer DVD-Download discs.

Andy Parsons, chairman of the Blu-ray Disc Association, has openly stated that we shouldn't expect Blu-ray prices to go down any time soon.

In the last six months alone, dozy Londoners have left a whopping 55,843 mobile phones and 6,193 other handheld devices in the back of black cabs.

Imation have announced the first 6x Blu-ray recordable (BD-R) and Blu-ray recordable double layer (BD-R DL) media for the U.S. retail market.

DisplaySearch, the research firm, says worldwide sales of standalone Blu-ray players will hit 2.38 million this year, compared to 700,000 in 2007.

Imdb.com has begun showing more than 6,000 feature films and television shows submitted by CBS, Hulu.com, Sony Pictures Television, and more than 500 independent filmmakers.

Credit-crunch stricken gamers rejoice, because Microsoft has finally announced a long overdue European price cut for its Xbox 360 range.

Gemalto has started embedding a tiny DVD into the plastic card holding a new SIM chip, enabling Italy's Wind service to bundle 50MB of connection software and manuals in the same envelope as the SIM.

Pioneer have announced the launch of two new Blu-ray recorders in October in Japan. The BDR-WD900 has a 1TB hard drive, while the BDR-WD700 is fitted with a 500GB HD.

MySpace has landed itself a whole host of advertising deals for its MySpace Music venture, meaning that the website will soon be able to stream free music to its millions of users.