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After months of resistance, retailer Circuit City opened up its books for Blockbuster to complete the process of due diligence to acquire the consumer electronics retailer.
Blockbuster made a public offer in April of up to US$1.33 billion to buy Circuit City, in a deal that would allow the movie rental company to put media content [...]
While the fabled ‘digital home’ is still yet to materialise in any meaningful way, it’s certainly a lot closer now than it was five years ago.
Media streamers that wirelessly stream music and movies from your PC onto your living room television, are now widely available.
And some people think that the next step is for people [...]
Japan’s Cultural Affairs Agency has proposed adding a fee to the price of Apple iPods and other digital music and video devices to partially compensate rights holders for revenues lost to piracy.
The proposal represents an extension of an existing program that adds the fee to the price of blank recordable media and products such as [...]
Microsoft has told TechRadar that the COFEE tool it has built to help the Police look into PCs believed to have been used for criminal activity is still in Beta and has not yet been made available to forces in the UK.
Microsoft had announced that its suite of programs – named the Computer Online Forensic [...]
Alienware’s latest gaming laptop behemoth has landed in the US, and the Area-51 m17 should be plenty powerful enough to play the latest titles.
The 17inch screen and packed-in components make the m17 very much a desktop replacement rather than something you will be lugging round with you on your Sunday foray to Coffee Republic. But [...]
Asus officially launches the EeePC 900 in the UK this week, in a range of colours including pink for girls, blue for boys and black for, well, anyone who likes black.
Asus is running a marketing campaign in conjunction with the DVD release of movie The Ugly Duckling and Me, with a roaming photo opp on [...]
Microsoft’s ebullient CEO Steve Ballmer has been included in TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people list.
The larger-than-life Microsoft man has become an increasingly influential figure at the Redmond company since Bill Gates announced that he will step down in June this year.
Ballmer’s on-stage antics – a famous monkey dance, throwing a MacBook Air to the [...]
We’re all for the end of evil things like child pornography and terrorism on the internet. But news that Microsoft’s latest piece of hardware allows the police to quickly break through a PC’s security to scan through the hard drive has to be described as a little Orwellian.
The USB device can be plugged into a [...]
It’s been a busy old weekend in the world of tech, but as usual we have scouted round to bring you the most vital (and quirky) stories from over the weekend.
Firstly, late on Friday Microsoft confirmed it would be appealing against the massive fine it has been hit with by the European Union for defying [...]
Microsoft has announced that it will cut the price of its XP operating system for ultra-low cost PCs that are built for emerging markets.
Although it has yet to confirm that XP will be handed a stay of execution for PC manufacturers, the OS will remain for the ultra-portable market and for projects that are trying [...]