Andy Lynn News Archive 
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Philips launches new LCD and Plasma IDTVs with Freeview
HD's coming...eventually 30 June 2005 22:51 GMTFor some people, even the one-off payment and lack of contract for Freeview Digital Services is too much to contemplate. Philips has decided to solve this by making the tuner part of the TV cost across its two quartets of LCD and Plasma screen televisions, allowing Digital...
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Toshiba Refreshes LCD TV Range
Highly defined 30 June 2005 22:34 GMTBuoyed by the tie-up deal with Microsoft earlier this week, Toshiba has turned its attention to the screen you'll be watching its Microsoft-controlled HD DVD discs by launching its High Definition ready ‘WL56' LCD TV collection with three large screen models. They measure...
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Creative Takes Zen Approach to combat iPods
2 March 2005 15:11 GMTCreative has turned to the cashback deal in order to try and steal a march in the neverending chase after Apple's iPods.
The new Zen Micro 4GB MP3 player will effectively debut at $179.99 after a $20 cashback voucher is sent back to Creative. For people wanting... -
Arise Sir Bill - Gates Knighted
2 March 2005 14:55 GMTBill Gates has become the latest recipient of an honorary knighthood at Buckingham Palace for his contribution to British Enterprise and on another note, his philanthropy in the shape of large overseas donations for food and/or vaccination programmes, primarily in Africa.
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GTA: San An gets Ad Ban
2 March 2005 14:35 GMTGrand Theft Auto: San Andreas (GTA:SA) boasts an impressive, stand-out advertising campaign, but for some people the in-game footage in the two advertisements, largely set to music, were too violent. After drowning in the flood of 8 complaints,the Advertising Standards Authority...
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The Sony Walkman Calls on mobile phone market
2 March 2005 13:49 GMTSony's Walkman reached a quarter of a century as long ago as last summer. (see here.) However time and competition marches on, so with an established hold in the mobile phone market, it was only a matter of time before the brand found itself combined with a mobile phone...
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Be safe for the day with Personal Firewall Day
15 January 2004 16:54 GMTToday is Personal Firewall Day. It doesn't quite have the same emotional warmth and fuzziness as Mother's/Father's/Grandparent's/No Smoking Day to immediately name four other more exciting or worthy celebrations, and we certainly won't be sending Personal Firewall Day cards...
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Royal Mail produces UK’s first printable digital stamp
15 January 2004 16:06 GMTThey were pioneered and introduced in America four years ago, but the digital stamp has now been released by Royal Mail for Britain.
The principle is the same as the US version; stamps are paid for online, and then sent electronically. The user can then print... -
Kodak’s Digital Transfer makes APS format fade away
15 January 2004 15:49 GMTIt's been seen as a late move but the full impact of Eastman Kodak's move to total digital camera manufacture in the US and Europe was unveiled, as it revealed that its own APS camera will also be conspired to history.
35mm camera manufacture will be scaled back... -
Tough Competition takes its toll on Dixons Maiden Chain
14 January 2004 10:29 GMTThe Computer World aka Tiny and Time as they were, are now on their third major rebrand as The Computer Store and with every relaunch there are store closures as shop rents and leases expire or are folded to save money. It's a sign of the company's strength that as the association...
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Reports of Win 98’s Death Greatly Exaggerated, XP SP2 in summer 2003
14 January 2004 10:27 GMTFirst we were told the plug would be pulled on Windows 98's support on 15th January 2004 including the Second Edition previously excluded from the Christmas 2003 clearout. However business pressure from companies eager to pay Microsoft (MS) for more support, ordinary users...
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KaZaA Lite shut down- By KaZaA
18 December 2003 10:25 GMTSharman Networks, original developers of KaZaA, see quite a future in their ad-supported and spyware riddled peer-to-peer software and don't want a rival based on its code impeding their growth. Therefore, every link accessible from within K++ was rendered inaccessible from...
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Coca Cola to launch UK Music Download service
18 December 2003 10:22 GMTSensing the disquiet in the UK about closed American download stores, Coca-Cola are to launch a paid-for download service. Like the drink the service is expected to go global. Hooking up with OD2, who already supply Tiscali, Freeserve, HMV, Tower Records BT/Dotmusic and...
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Real Gun Pulled at LA Multiplayer Games Tournament
18 December 2003 10:16 GMT"All over bar the shooting" would be an unfortunate way to view the events at a recent Counter-Strike Gaming Tournament organised by CXG. Let's let Joseph F Hill of CXG take up the story in his own press release;
At 4:30am (CST) I was informed by CXG staff and... -
Microsoft in Xmas software clearout
18 December 2003 10:12 GMTWhile ordinary folk rush to catch the final rubbish and recycling collections before the holiday disruptions, Microsoft are doing much the same thing. The difference is, Microsoft's "junk" consists of old utilities and Operating Systems which are finally being deleted and...
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Half Life 2 Source code leaked
3 November 2003 1:03 GMTUPDATED OCTOBER 15 2003:
While PC Owners all over the world enjoyed Halo instead, Valve are now treating this theft with the same force that the RIAA treats downloaded music. They will be suing anyone hosting the code or anyone they track down with the stolen section... -
Halo for the PC: GearBox Co-operating nicely
3 November 2003 0:42 GMTSpeculation about Halo for the PC intensifies but today news emerged from Gearbox Software that the PC version will have officially supported co-operative multiplayer, a mode neglected in Western-developed first person shooters for some time. It may not ship with the game...
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Unreal Two: Multiplayer Add-On Under Development
2 November 2003 23:58 GMTNobody was all that happy with Unreal II back in February when it took the Max Payne approach and stayed resolutely short and single-player. Whether it was always in development and cut at the last minute or never intended for it, the game will receive a multi-player game...
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Yahoo! buys dotmusic and GamesDomain content
2 November 2003 19:59 GMTThey were already teamed up together to shore up BT's broadband provision and allow the telecoms giant to let go of the heavily promoted BT Openworld service, creating BT Yahoo! Broadband. A dialup service will be launched soon.
Now Yahoo has added two more established...
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