Nintendo has announced its Christmas lineup for the year, which includes release dates for the three big titles that everyone's been waiting for - New Super Mario Bros on the Wii, Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks on the DS, and Wii Fit Plus on the Wii.

Spotify has announced that Premium users will shortly be able to access on their desktop the same "Offline mode" that exists on mobile versions of the streaming music company's software.

Subscribers will be able to right-click their playlists...

Sony has announced that the PSP Go, long rumoured, and eventually confirmed, has now arrived on the shelves in Europe. It's considerably closer to the iPhone and DS in terms of functionality with the arrival of "minis" - smaller, cheaper games with a...

French company Withings has announced the launch of its Wi-Fi enabled body scale, which it claims is a world first. It can automatically record your weight, lean and fat mass, and your Body Mass Index, and it'll upload it to a secure website or an iPhone...

Free All Music is a company, based in Atlanta, which still reckons ad-supported MP3 downloads is a viable business model. The company thinks it can do better than Spiralfrog and its similar proposition, which disappeared last year, by making users pick...

Apple appears to be up to something. The company very quietly purchased Placebase - an online mapping startup - back in July. It was announced in a tweet, but labelled as "all hush hush" by Fred Lalonde, the founder of openplaces.org.

However,...

Twitter has announced on its official blog that it'll be launching a new feature soon called "Lists". This allows you to create lists of Twitter users within a certain subset like, for example, Pocket-lint's Top 100 UK Tech Tweeters list.

Lists...

A survey of broadband standards in 66 countries across the world has placed the UK at number 25 - with its broadband labelled as "meeting needs for today", but not "comfortable for today" or "ready for tomorrow".

South Korea and Japan came...

Spotify has finally caved in to popular demand and added a PayPal payment option to its subscription services. Until now, the site only accepted Visa and Mastercard, meaning that many people without credit cards weren't able to switch to Premium.

Google has put together a set of maps for its Google Earth application that model and simulate the effects of climate change on the planet. In a introductory video, narrated by Al Gore, the company has outlined how the planet could change as a result...

Activision has unveiled the controllers that'll be bundled with Band Hero - due for release within the next couple of months - the company is still just saying "Autumn".

The new drums have a "floating" design, which Activision tells us is...

Avid, the company behind Pro Tools music software, has announced three bundles that combine the company's software wing with its hardware division - M-Audio. There's Pro Tools Vocal Studio, Pro Tools Recording Studio and Pro Tools KeyStudio.

Avid has announced an update to its family of Pinnacle Studio home movie-making software. The upgrades centre around HD content, but there are a number of other features too.

The family of products has been simplified and now consists of...

If things at Google HQ are running according to plan, then invites for Google Wave should be going out around now. The company told the BBC that it plans to open the service to 100,000 beta testers from 1600BST on 30 September.

Each of those...

For the first time in a major economy, the internet sector in the UK's advertising market has overtaken the TV sector. It's a significant milestone for both the burgeoning web economy and the the faltering TV medium.

UK advertisers spent...

Hercules - not the greek hero, the hardware company - has announced a pair of speaker sets that the company claims to be the thinnest 2-channel speaker package currently available. There's the Hercules XPS 2.0 40 Slim and the Hercules XPS 2.1 40 Slim.

Creative has unveiled a couple of headsets aimed at PC gamers who fancy amping up their sound a little. There's the Sound Blaster Arena Surround USB Gaming Headset, and the Fatal1ty Professional Series Gaming Headset MkII. Both have a new noise-supression...

Truphone has announced that its popular Android app is getting an upgrade, to version 2.0. The application will be benefiting from a completely new user interface, better account management and it'll also now run natively - meaning it'll run faster.

IWOOT has come up with a relatively budget portable media player that also includes television functionality. Although it's not branded, the player in the picture on IWOOT's site does say "August", though that's not a company we've heard of before.

Microsoft's free antivirus package, "Microsoft Security Essentials", is now available to anyone, just over three months after it went into a beta test period in June that was limited to US users.

But now everyone can grab the bare-bones security...

Panasonic has dropped us word of a camcorder that it'll soon be launching - the HDC-TM350. It's strictly limited edition - only 200 will be available - and it's a sister model to the HDC-TM300, which has won multiple awards.

It's rather on...

Vlingo has created a mobile app that will let you speak to your Nokia handset. The company behind it claims that you can say whatever you want into your handset and the phone will respond and perform, implying that there's semantic technology in there,...

Playfish has launched another casual game to appeal to the masses on Facebook. This one's called Quiztastic and lets players create and customise a TV-style quiz show to play against friends and Playfish users.

Playfish doesn't seem to be...

Lenovo has begun the Windows 7 battle with a shot across the bows of other hardware manufacturers. The company is claiming that it has the fastest boot and shutdown times out there - it says that its ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktop PCs will...

HP are reported to be offering free music downloads with new laptops that consumers buy. In a move that echos Nokia's questionable Comes With Music service, anyone that buys a new laptop will a scratchcard thrown in with a PIN number on it.