Archive for February, 2008

3G iPhone arriving in June?

Another day, another 3G iPhone rumour, this time from analysts at investment firm UBS


Geneva Motor Shows goes green

The Geneva Motor Show kicks off next week – and eco-friendly people cars are at the heart of the innovations on display


Apple Store is down - new MacBooks imminent?

Apple online stores across the world are currently offline, fuelling speculation that new MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops are on the cards


Star Wars… as told by a 3-year-old

Some would say the script was written by a 3-year-old too


iPhone multi-touch spreads to MacBook Pro

Apple has finally updated its MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops, but the updates are incremental rather than being anything revolutionary


Toshiba consigns HD DVD to history, reveals new kit galore

Toshiba is attempting to put events of the past week behind it, giving scant regard to HD DVD as part of its 2008 UK product showcase. It prefers to deal with forthcoming products instead


Bikini babes offer to wash your iPhone… from the inside

Meet the I-Wash girls, plus the woman who got pregnant after she was won in an internet sex auction


Microsoft set to splash more cash on Vista

More stories I’ve written for TechRadar.com
 
Weird Tech: It’s only money, Mr. Ballmer
First he slaps down $44.6 billion (£22.3 billion) in front of Yahoo, now Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wants to blow even more money on Windows Vista, despite the fact that £250 million has been spent promoting it already. Does he think Microsoft is made [...]


The trouble with HD DVD

More stories I’ve written for TechRadar.com

HD DVD player sales collapse in January
Sales of standalone HD DVD players have collapsed since Warner Bros announced it was moving to Blu-ray. What’s more surprising is how well HD DVD was doing before the announcement - Warner Bros’ decision effectively knocked it stone dead.
HD DVD boost re-ignites format war
HD [...]


Pirate Bay set to walk the plank

More stories I’ve written for TechRadar.com

Surprise! Pirate Bay charged with piracy
Infamous file sharing site The Pirate Bay may be forced to close after Swedish prosecutors charged its creators with ‘promoting copyright theft’ among its 10 million peer-to-peer users.