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Yahoo launches Desktop search tool
12 January 2005 9:46 GMTYahoo has followed in the footsteps of other search engines and has launched a desktop search software. The tool, which will allow users to search e-mail and other files on their PC will go against similar services from Google, Microsoft and Ask Jeeves.
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Digital music christmas spells success for Creative and Apple
12 January 2005 9:27 GMTBoth Creative and Apple have announced huge sales of its portable music players in the run up to Christmas. According to figures from both company's we as a public bought over 6.5million iPod's, iPod Mini's and Zen Micros.
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Apple launches iLife 05, iWork and Final Cut Express HD at MacWorld
11 January 2005 20:35 GMTAlongside Apple's hardware announcements at Steve Jobs keynote speech in San Francisco Apple also announced three new software packages. Final Cut Express HD, iLife 05 and a new word processing package bundled with keynote 2 - iWork.
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Even Steve Jobs gets bugs in Keynote presentation at MacWorld
11 January 2005 20:20 GMTIt seems even Steve Jobs isn't immune to bugs and errors on the an Operating System when he demonstrated the latest Operating System for the Apple Mac due later this year.
Jobs was performing a live demo of a new search tool within Apple OS X Tiger called Spotlight.... -
Apple lauches Mini Mac at MacWorld
11 January 2005 19:52 GMTApple has brought Christmas to Apple fans 11 months early with the announcement from Steve Jobs in his keynote speech at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco of the Mac Mini, a small form Apple desktop computer.
Titled witht the subline "BYODKM" the idea behind... -
Apple launches iPod Shuffle at MacWorld
11 January 2005 19:50 GMTContinuing its dominance of the Digital Music Player Market. Apple has announced the iPod Shuffle, a 512Mb (120 songs) or 1Gb (240 songs) player for under £100.
Apple's announcement of the iPod Shuffle will spell good news for the consumer, but bad news for the... -
Nintendo sets date for DS in Oz
11 January 2005 15:08 GMTNintendo has set the launch date for its Handheld console in Australia ahead of a launch here in the UK in March.
The dates that our Commonwealth chums will be able to get their hands on one will be the 24th February and it will only cost them AU$199.95 (£70) -
Apple prepare to answer the rumours
11 January 2005 12:54 GMTApple and Steve Jobs is preparing to unveil its latest line up of products at the Mac World Expo in San Francisco as speculation reaches fever pitch.
Will it be the £260 headless Mac that everyone is getting excited about or the Flash based iPod to take the market... -
Elspa sites record year for games and software in 2004
11 January 2005 0:31 GMTElspa, the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association, has recorded another record year for the software and games industry in the UK.
The main figure to come out of the announcement is that sales of entertainment and leisure software across all... -
Post Office launch HomePhone service
10 January 2005 21:24 GMTThe Royal Mail in the UK has announced that it is to enter the landline phone market with the aim to attract 1 million customers by 2008.
The service will be called HomePhone claims to give users a saving of up to 20 per cent, while providing a single bill... -
Apple opts for editing time in Jobs keynote speech webcast
10 January 2005 21:13 GMTApple has confirmed that it won't be transmitting Steve Job's keynote speech from MacWorld live as in previous years.
The webcast will be available from “approximately” 6pm PST on Tuesday January 11 (which is 2am Wednesday morning in the UK). The transmission... -
GTA coming to a PSP near you
10 January 2005 17:28 GMTRockstar has announced that it will be bringing the GTA series to the PSP when it launches in the UK in March.
The news announced today from the Leeds based games company will be a huge boost to Sony and its Portable PlayStation handheld device.
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Griffin launch AirClick iPod remote at MacWorld
10 January 2005 16:50 GMTGriffin ahead of MacWorld in San Fran has launched a number of accessories for the iPod. The most notable of which is the AirClick, a remote control unit for the 4th gen music player.
Purportedly able to work over a distance of up to 60 feet the unit uses RF... -
Toshiba promise 2Gb 0.85in drive by end of month at CES
9 January 2005 18:46 GMTToshiba has announced that it's 2GB 0.85in hard drive suitable for mobile phones and other handheld devices will be available by the end of the month.
The company's European Storage Device Division has even gone as far as announcing some concept solutions that... -
Advent launches £799 slimline wireless Media Center 2005 PC
9 January 2005 17:08 GMTAdvent has launched a new wireless-enabled Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 system called the Advent MC3040.
The Advent MC3040 will be powered by the Intel Pentium 4 515 processor (2.93GHz clock speed, 533 MHz Front Side Bus, 1MB cache), 512MB... -
Yahoo picks 2004 best websites
9 January 2005 16:34 GMTA site about how to volunteer your time and skills for charity has been rated as one of the top ten websites of 2004 by Yahoo.TimeBank was created to help people who know their skills are in demand but don't know where to start in helping charities.
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Garmin unveils c330 and c320 in-car GPS systems at CES
9 January 2005 16:11 GMTGarmin seems to have taken a leaf out of TomTom's book with its latest GPS in-car navigation system.
The StreetPilot c330 features a large 3.5in touchscreen, auto automatic route calculation to any destination and turn-by-turn voice-prompted directions. -
PDA wristwatch sees light of day two years late at CES
7 January 2005 13:46 GMTFossil has finally released a Palm-powered PDA wristwatch two years later than planned and after reports that the product was never going to see the light of day.
The new wristwatch sized pda has 8Mb of memory, a 160x160 back-lit touch screen and runs standard... -
Is the CD single dead?
7 January 2005 13:38 GMTAccording to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) sales of legal downloads actually eclipsed physical singles sales in the last week of 2004.
The best week for download sales yet, with more than 312,000 sold compared to 282,000 physical singles sold in the... -
eBay battles phishing with own email service
7 January 2005 13:37 GMTWhile eBay is not trying to save the planet (here) they are trying to stop the increase of Phishing on its site.
eBay has announced that it will be rolling out a private messaging service to customers to make it easier to determine whether or not the announcement... -
Firefox may not be as safe as previously thought
7 January 2005 13:35 GMTThe current talk of the browser world, Firefox, might not be as safer browser as previous thought.
A security flaw has been found that allows hackers to spoof the URL displayed in the download dialogue box that appears when users of the programme choose a file... -
Format battle continues over Blu-ray and HD DVD at CES
7 January 2005 13:27 GMTThe Blu-ray assocation has announced that EA, VIvendi Universal Games, Sun Microsystems and Texas Instruments has pledged their allegiance to the recording standard.
The move sees Blu-ray gain support in the gaming industry, something which is it backing on with... -
Motorola previews mobile iTunes at CES
7 January 2005 13:23 GMTMotorola has previewed an up coming mobile phone that can play music from Apple's iTunes store.
According to US version of PC Magazine, who were at the preview briefing in Las Vegas, the phone in many ways mimics the iPod.
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eBay announces Rethink recycling website
7 January 2005 13:20 GMTeBay has announced that it has launched a re-cycling website to tackle what it calls “e-waste”.
The Rethink Inititive's main focus is a website (www.ebay.com/rethink) that centres around helping consumers and businesses learn about recycling and refurbishing.... -
Voice over IP comes to landline phones in the UK
6 January 2005 22:51 GMTBroadband phone services firm Vonage has quietly launched a Voice over IP service in the UK that can run directly through a users landline phone handset.
The system works by providing a convenient phone adapter/router which converts analogue signals to digital...
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