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News.blog: iPod nano pics

News Hence, the latest rumour/hint/supposition: the Web site MacNN says it has confirmed that there is indeed such a thing as the fourth-generation iPod nano, which has long been suspected as one of the highlights of Tuesday's "Let's Rock" event.

Tags: event, nano, ipod nano, confirmed

8 September 2008, 9:10

100Mbps for unconnected UK areas first

News UK regions currently without broadband should be at the head of the queue when it comes to the getting next generation networks, according to Ofcom. Chair of the Ofcom Consumer Panel, Anna Bradley, said the issue of serving broadband-less areas...

Tags: consumer, broadband, statistics, panel

5 September 2008, 9:20

Xbox 360 price drops for Japan and US

News The new price point makes the bottom-end model of Microsoft's console the cheapest current-generation console on the US market, undercutting the $249 (£140) Nintendo Wii by $50 (£28). But] We will sell more consoles this generation than Sony.

Tags: generation, sales, xbox, console

4 September 2008, 9:02

Broadband Britain loves to talk

News The report also reveals a generation gap, with over-65s very keen on landline phones -- with take-up of 99 per cent in the first quarter of 2008, some 10 per cent higher than the UK average. Brits are more comms obsessed than ever, according to Ofcom.

Tags: cent, broadband, connections, communications

15 August 2008, 8:13

Gaming's reach growing in Europe

News Of the current-generation home consoles, the Nintendo Wii is way out in the lead with 11.3 million people owning the console, while the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 are bringing up the rear with 4.9 million and 4.8 million owners respectively.

Tags: interest, playstation, gamers, figures

12 August 2008, 8:35

Faster FireWire approved for gigabit generation

News The IEEE has approved the new IEEE 1394-2008 specification that gives support for better bandwidth of up to 3.2Gbps -- the standard that is used by Apple's FireWire and Sony's iLink, among others. Most commonly called FireWire, it was initially...

Tags: compatibility, usb, serial, firewire

1 August 2008, 9:10

BT to upgrade 10 million homes with fibre

News BT is planning to spend £1.5bn on significantly upgrading its broadband network to support next generation super-fast Internet. BT says the planned investment is part of its strategy to deliver next generation broadband service across the country...

Tags: industry, generation, silicon, return

16 July 2008, 8:15

Mobile broadband boosts fibre diet

News Intellect, Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards said mobile broadband's rapid rise in popularity could help encourage fixed-line operators to invest in next-generation infrastructure, so they can offer high-bandwidth products and differentiate...

Tags: rate, generation, communications, businesses

7 July 2008, 9:32

BBC iPlayer gets 2.0 facelift

News The new version of iPlayer launches in beta form on 26 June and will run alongside the first generation service for the next few weeks. The BBC's iPlayer on-demand TV service has undergone a major facelift designed to make it more appealing and...

Tags: beta, section, listen, programme

26 June 2008, 8:58

News.blog: Android phones pushed to end of year

News Some developers of mobile applications, on the other hand, have been sidetracked by the announcement of the iPhone 3G, the second-generation version of Apple's ubiquitous handsets. Last we heard, we'd be seeing phones powered by Google's Android...

Tags: iphone, phones, powered, handsets

24 June 2008, 9:19

News.blog: Firefox 3 downloads pass 8 million mark

News Take this statistic with a grain of salt, but Mozilla has said more than 8 million copies of Firefox 3 were downloaded in its first 24 hours online. Mozilla, the not-for-profit organisation behind the open-source Web browser, was trying to set a...

Tags: firefox, downloaded, copies, downloading

19 June 2008, 8:27

Photos: Intel shows off future tech

News This second generation of Intel's Classmate PC is part of an ongoing project to design better and more useful personal computers for school children in developing countries. With two cameras on its hand, the device is able to autonomously recognise...

Tags: hand, handle, research, production

16 June 2008, 9:23

News.blog: Google co-founder books space flight

News Richard Garriott will be the first second generation astronaut to make it into space. Brin has put down a $5m (£2.5m) deposit to book a flight into space with the space tourism company Space Adventures.

Tags: international, training, clients, station

12 June 2008, 9:16

News.blog: Universal, Bebo start video blog series

News For Universal, creating an (ideally) hip show geared toward Bebo's young users could help recapture the attention of a generation that's turned away from the major labels and in the direction of BitTorrent.

Tags: label, part, universal, aol

11 June 2008, 9:05

News.blog: Google moving towards cloud computing

News We believe that you need to do a complete rethink to accommodate this new generation of employees. This is the vision of cloud computing and why we think this is the vision for the next generation of enterprise computing.

Tags: consumer, enterprise, translate, computing

11 June 2008, 8:59

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Format wars: The tech that should have won

Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed

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