A perfect example of a picture being worth a thousand words, there's not much we can add, apart from, it's just a prototype and hasn't gone into production - yet.

Google, through a post in the offical Google blog, has confirmed that it has bought comms company GrandCentral.

Money, or any terms of the deal, has not been revealed, but rumours set the price tag at around $50 million.

Google...

T-Mobile has launched its new dual download Mobile Jukebox service.

The service offers instant mobile access to over 500,000 music tracks, all priced at £1.

The tracks are available to download onto a range of more than 30...

Seven of the major Hollywood studios and six top consumer electronics manufacturers today announced the launch of the Blu-ray Disc Promotion, a summer-long promotional program intended to encourage customers to experience Blu-ray.

The promotion...

LG Electronics has signed an agreement with YouTube, the world's biggest video sharing website, to develop a mobile phone that will be optimised for YouTube.

LG said the upcoming YouTube-enabled handsets will feature a brand new LG user interface...

Philips has carried out extensive research into the human ear canal (lucky them) to develop the new SHE9700 in-ear headphones.

The SHE9700s combine a unique Angletube design with what Philips claims is outstanding passive noise isolation...

Soundcast has launched two wireless stereo speaker systems in the States.

SpeakerCast is a high performance wireless stereo speaker system with a 50 watt digital amplifier that uses Soundcast’s technology that claims to receive crystal-clear,...

ASUS, Taiwan has launched the PG221 LCD monitor and we don't mind coming right out and saying it looks like a beaut.

A 22-inch widescreen with quasi-military slash industrial design notes with great visual and audio specs, anyone in the...

Games mag Edge has revealed the best videogame of all time, and it's The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

The decision was to crown the Nintendo 64 title the best ever was made after several rounds of voting from a cross section of peeps....

Toshiba has announced the availability of its 46-inch, 47-inch and 52-inch Regza LCD TVs as well as the upcoming availability of its largest ever LCD TV, a 57-inch Cinema Series model.

With the new model additions, Toshiba's Regza range...

According to industry analysts Gartner, Microsoft's new operating system, Vista, has had "little impact" on PC sales.

Growth in the industry has instead come from emerging markets.

"The release of Microsoft Windows Vista operating...

With all this fuss about the "i" prefixed moby, it's easy to forget that Apple make other products, and that other companies make products for those products, if you follow.

"Case" in point (oh, the wit) are these rather spiffing DLO VideoShell...

The company behind the infamous and much parodied "For Dummies" series of know-how books is planning to launch a GPS unit in the States.

Unsurprisingly, the USP for this unit, also known as the FD-35, will be its ease of use and is touted...

The illegal music download site AllofMP3.com has finally been shut down by the Russian government.

The site, which had always claimed a loophole in Russian law allowed them to sell MP3 tracks without paying any kind of royalties to record...

O2 has launched "simplicity", a new range of pay monthly tariffs that provide competitive calling rates and can be ended on 30 day's notice at any time.

The new Simplicity tariffs bridge the gap between long-term contracts and Pay As You...

The results of the latest home phone and broadband Customer Satisfaction Report by uSwitch.com, the independent online comparison and switching service have been announced.

The report is the UK’s most comprehensive on customer satisfaction,...

Top Up TV, a provider of TV content on the DTT platform, today announced that its Digital Television Recorder (DTR - what's more usually known in the UK as a PVR) will now be available both in store and online from John Lewis priced £139.

The...

Nokia has joined Samsung and LG in licensing Immersion's VibeTonz technology to its range of handsets.

Nokia has signed up for a long-term, worldwide license for Immersion's VibeTonz tactile feedback system for mobile devices.

As Belkin points out, Surge Protectors are an essential piece of equipment in and not the first product people think of when you talk about design and style.

However the Belkin boffins are hoping all that will change with the launch of the...

To celebrate the new partnership between online games retailer GAME.co.uk and A World of My Own (AWOMO), customers are being offered an exclusive opportunity to trial the Beta version of the revolutionary new 3D virtual gaming community site and win a...

New and existing BT Total Broadband customers have been given free access to BT's Digital Vault service.

BT Total Broadband customers will now receive 5GB of storage with Auto Backup for their precious files and photos, which doubles BT's...

Amazon.com and Microsoft have teamed up to give HD DVD a boost in the States.

Appealing to the indie film making market they have jointly announced the 1000 HD DVD Indies Project.

This will give 1000 filmmakers a way to produce...

This really tickled us here at Pocket-lint.co.uk, although we are taking it with a pinch of salt.

Apparently Sony Italy has been providing Italian schools kids with sham books that allow them to play their PSPs secretly behind the cover....

The latest data from Enterbrain games magazine shows that Nintendo's Wii outsold Sony's PlayStation 3 by a ratio of over 6 to 1 in June in Japan.

Ninty flogged 270,974 units of the Wii in the 4 weeks ending June 24, compared with 41,628...

We love robots! We love webcams! We really love robo-webcams!

Styled like an old school robot this doesn’t boast particularly impressive specs but it's shaped! like! a! robot!

Not convinced? How about if we told you that its...