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Rumbelows could return to the high street

It seems US retail giant Best Buy has considered nostalgia as a weapon for its coming-soon attack on the UK high street.

Best Buy has carried out research into resurrecting the "Rumbelows" brand name for shops in order to cash in on the consumer nostalgia associated...

Daily news roundup: HTC Incredible photos, Nexus One and more

Want to know what's been hot in the world of technology and gadgets today?

We have plenty of technology and gadget ingredients to make our Pocket-lint roundup stew as tasty as ever.

First up and we have news of some leaked photos of what could be the HTC...

VIDEO: Woogie Board electric washboard launches

News comes in of the launch by Saint Blues Guitar Workshop of the Woogie Board, which is believed to be the first production electric washboard.

The Woogie Board, which is sold in partnership with Cody Dickenson who developed the instrument, is now said to be...

VIDEO: Megawhat Tech Week in View - ebook prices, IE6, Flash and 3D football

This week's instalment of Pocket-lint and Megawhat's Tech Week in View show is fresh off the video editing suite and ready to go now for your viewing pleasure. As is customary each week, Stuart Miles takes the hot tech topics of the moment, chews 'em up, spits 'em out...

Spotify update revamps related artists

Spotify has rolled out a small update to its desktop client - the first in a few months. Bringing the version number up to 0.3.23, the update adds a "related artists" tab to artist pages which allows you to see what bands sound similar to whatever you're currently listening...

Five music hacks from the future

What did you do last weekend? Cleaned the house? Watched some football? Had a few friends over? In Stockholm, a group of coders were far too busy for any of that. Instead, they hunkered down and built the future of music at Stockholm Music Hack Day.

The event,...

Daily news roundup: New Sega console, low-light photography tips and more

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Top stories in today's roundup include a new Sega console hitting the shelves - hopefully in the summer and a video that shows you how to get your iPhone to look and feel like the Apple...

Radio execs to offer analogue trade-in scheme

Digital Radio UK, the organisation behind the analogue/digital radio switchover in Britain, has revealed that industry executives are considering a "scrappage scheme" for analogue radios that mirrors the Government's offer of a grant to car owners who swap their vehicle...

Daily Tech Deal: Creative Inspire S2 wireless speakers £99.99

We reviewed the Creative Inspire S2 Wireless speakers earlier in the month in which they performed pretty well and although they haven't had a price drop a few retailers seem to be charging over the odds.

You shouldn't be paying more than £99.99 and funnily...

Stylophone Vocoder brings your voice to the retro music party

Stylophone is planning on launching a new musicical instrument called the Stylophone Vocoder.

The new portable electronic vocalizer will come with the ability to harmonise your voice with the keyboard as well as three "exclusive" new sounds.

If that wasn't...

Boston Acoustics launches SoundWare XS 5.1

Boston Acoustics has announced a set of ultra-compact surround sound home theatre speakers called the SoundWare XS 5.1.

They're a little unusual-looking - shaped like a polyhedron. Boston Acoustics says that this is to clean up the sound by reducing standing waves....

Logitech launches "Loud Enough" earphones

Logitech has announced a pair of earphones designed for kids with delicate ears - the Logitech Loud Enough Noise-Isolating Earphones.

They include a built-in volume limiter that the company claims will reduce the volume of the original source by 16dB - about 30...

Teufel unveils Theater 100 speaker package

Teufel has just dropped us word of the Theater 100 - a 5.1 surround sound  home cinema and hi-fi speaker set that's meant as the replacement to the Theater 1.

The Theater 100 comprises of two unidirectional front speakers with 30mm mid-range drivers, and 25mm...

Blue Microphones launches pro USB mic for the masses

Blue Microphones, described as a "leading innovator in microphone technology and design" has announced the UK launch of a consumer model, which will be called the Snowball.

The company states that the Snowball can capture detailed sound unheard of in previous...

We7 launches subscription packages

Music streaming service We7 has announced a couple of subscription packages for its web-based audio offering. There's a version that just removes the ads, and a version that also enables mobile phone access.

The ad-removing version is called We7 Premium. It will...

Spotify's Premium service growing fast

At the MIDEM conference in Cannes, Spotify has revealed that it's managed to convert more than 250,000 of its total 7 million users to its paid service, which costs £10 per month. If our sums are right, that means revenues of about £2.5 million, before advertising is...

Vodafone claims most paying music subscribers in Europe

It seems Vodafone's DRM-free music is going down well with consumers as it has announced that nearly 450,000 Vodafone customers have signed up to its music subscription services since 2009.

Vodafone is claiming this customer base gives it the largest number...

Daily news roundup: Apple iTablet, MusicDNA and more

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If you just can't get enough of the news surrounding Apple's soon-to-be-announced iSomething device you've come to the right place as our two top stories will be sure to help sate your...

VIDEO: Megawhat Tech Week in View - Nokia Maps, Kindle KDK, HTML5...

This week's Tech Week in View for Megawhat sees Pocket-lint's Stuart Miles perusing the main tech topics from the last week.

First up Miles considers Nokia's move into free navigation with the Ovi Maps announcement seeing the phone co's mapping and turn-by-turn...

Motz introduces tiny wooden FM radio

Either our hands have suddenly got a lot bigger, or a Korean manufacturer called Motz has built what might be the smallest, dinkiest, radio in the world. It measures just 1.45 x 0.75 x 1 inches.

It's made of wood, comes with an LED indicator, aerial, on-off switch...

MagicBox announces Nocturne XP-2

MagicBox has updated the Nocturne XP-1 with the launch of the new XP-2 adding Wi-Fi internet radio to the music system.

Offering the ability to listen to thousands of radio stations from around the world via the Internet, the Nocturne XP-2 will also play music...

MusicDNA format proposed as successor to MP3

At the Midem conference in Cannes, a new audio format has been proposed by the co-inventor of the MP3 and a Norwegian company called Bach. It's called MusicDNA, and bolts a huge pile of extra rich media content on to the music.

The idea is to make buying legal...

HP computers get Omnifone preloaded

HP has announced that it'll be launching its own streaming music service that'll be pre-loaded on sixteen models of its desktop and laptop computer range. The tunes will be supplied by UK-based Omnifone, which also runs a mobile music service called MusicStation.

When...

What will the Apple iTablet look like? Something like this...

As the Apple rumour mill continues to reach fever pitch over the launch of what is expected to be the Apple iTablet on Wednesday 27 January, the latest claim is that the device, which has still yet to be confirmed don't forget, will look something very similar to the...

WSJ says Jobs wants to reshape businesses with iTablet

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that - as expected - Apple is to debut a tablet device next week, going as far as to state what it is Steve Jobs wants from the new launch.

"Steve Jobs is betting he can reshape businesses like textbooks, newspapers and...