Apple has confirmed the rumours and announced a 3rd generation iPod touch, a new iPod classic, iPod nano and an update to the iPod shuffle in a full refresh of the company's music player range.

The basic stats are that the touch is getting...

At Apple's keynote event in San Francisco, the company poured scorn on handheld gaming devices from Nintendo and Sony.

The company talked up the multitouch interface, accelerometer, library of games, and game-buying experience, along with...

Apple has announced that version 3.1 of the iPhone and iPod Touch firmware will recommend applications to users.

In an attempt to sell yet more applications above and beyond the 1.8bn it has already shifted, the genius functionality from...

Apple has announced the launch of iTunes 9 at It's Only Rock and Roll event in San Francisco.

The new music download software will add a host of new features bringing with it a Snow Leopard style interface allowing you to access the navigation...

Perhaps rosy-cheeked is an exaggeration, but Steve Jobs took centre stage at the company's "It's Only Rock and Roll, But We Like It event" garnering a standing ovation from the Apple faithful.

Following rumours of the Apple CEO's health...

Microsoft Office 2010 is due next year, but a version has already leaked out to Bittorrent websites. It's the first that uses the term "beta", indicating that development of the software may be further along than previously believed.

The...

Apple's UK store has gone down, meaning that we're going to see some new hardware at Apple's keynote event later tonight. The event starts at 6pm, so make sure you're tuned to Pocket-lint then for the latest announcements as they happen.

The Dreamcast was 10 years old in North America on 9 September, and although it was discontinued just two years after its release, having sold 10 million units, it's still held in high regard as a console, thanks to ahead-of-its-time features.

Samsung's Galaxy i7500 Android appears to have hit even more delays, Pocket-lint can confirm.

The phone, which has been stuck in a perpetual delay quagmire for some time, is still out of stock in all O2 retail stores across the country,...

USB sharing tool, Leyio, has rolled out new firmware for its devices, along with a smaller 8GB version. Its personal sharing devices (PSDs) can share to iPods and other PSDs already, but the company is promising that it'll soon be able to share with mobile...

Flickr users on the iPhone haven't had too hard a time of things. They get a specially optimised version of the website, and the ability to email pictures to upload them, but it's not quite like having a native app to do that kind of stuff for you.

Opera has broken its in-house record by managing to rack up 10 million downloads of the newest version of its browser - Opera 10 - in the first week of its release. Apparently a considerably chunk of those were people who've never used Opera before.

HP has announced a total refresh of its Photosmart line of printers, adding touchscreens of different varieties to everything, along with Wi-Fi and numerous other improvements.

Five models feature in the new range. From low to high they are:...

Asus has announced a new set of screens that it's calling the T1 series. It's a monitor/television hybrid, meaning that it has the capability of displaying both computer signals as well as television ones. Of course, most televisions can do that already,...

At the start of July, AOL's Instant Messaging client AIM added the ability to view your Facebook and Twitter update stories in inverse chronological order within the software client.

However, at the time it was a one-way trip for your data....

A couple of Austrailian girls are facing an incredulous response from the web after getting trapped in a storm drain in Adelaide and updating their Facebook status to call for help, rather than ringing 000 - which is the number for the emergency services...

For some time, there've been rumours that one of the major UK phone networks was looking to buy T-Mobile. At one point or other, O2 and Vodafone have been rumoured, but Orange has been the most recent source of gossip on the matter.

Today,...

Picture the scene. You love the desktop version of Spotify, but you don't have a phone that works with the mobile version. So you go out to buy a smartphone. You've got to pick between an Android handset like the HTC Hero or Galaxy i7500, and the iPhone....

Community-powered product design site Quirky has come up with an idea for reinventing the mousepad, which is rapidly becoming extinct thanks to the prevalence of laser and darkfield mice. The idea? You can write on the mousepad.

Just like...

HMV has announced that it's closing GetCloser.com, the social network that it launched a year ago with a blaze of publicity. The original idea was that fans would discover content through the site and buy more music as a result.

A HMV spokesperson...

Wandering the halls of Berlin's IFA trade show, we came across a company called Krator, whose website claims it just sells speakers. It was exhibiting a lot more, though, including this awesome guitar controller for PC and PS3.

It's called...

In dark corners of the IFA trade show floor lie stalls from obscure Chinese companies that make the weirdest stuff. We've seen self-cleaning toilet seats, all the odd-shaped thumb drives you could imagine, and more circuitboards and cables than at a robotics...

Although we've seen press shots of Logitech's Darkfield mice, which claim to be able to track even on glass surfaces. Here's a few photos of what they look like outside of studio lighting. They're rather pretty, we think.

The larger, weird-shaped...

A Korean company called Moolsarang was getting a lot of attention at IFA 2009, so we took a closer look at its stand to see what the fuss was about. Turns out that Moolsarang makes all manner of toilet seats.

Its flagship product is the MS-3100,...

Prowling around the quieter corners of the floor of the IFA tradeshow, we discovered a company from Shenzhen in China called Hoshino that's selling what it claims is the world's first biodegradable USB flash drive.

We were told by the company...