Despite expansion into Europe, and hints that it may take on some of the stores left empty by Circuit City's present problems, Best Buy has been hit by the worldwide economic slowdown.

The retailer has slashed its profit predictions for 2009.

LG has sneakily launched a new phone.

The KC560 is a tri-band GSM (900/1800/1900) model with GPRS/EDGE connectivity.

Spec wise, you get a 2.4-inch 262K color QVGA TFT display, 3.2-megapixel camera with LED flash, FM radio, USB...

The Richard Solo 1800 is a rather nice looking 1800mAh battery pack, that you won't be ashamed of connecting your iPhone up to.

No price as yet though...

Orange France is on the verge of slashing the price of the 3G iPhone.

AppleInsider has found some ads that see the price of the 8GB phone going down to as little as 99 euros when bought with a service plan.

The catch could be...

Roberts has gone green and launched two new DAB radio models for the environmentally conscious.

The Ecologic 5 and 6 are both digital clock radios that are energy efficient.

The Ecologic 5 is a DAB, FM RDS digital clock radio...

For an exhibition entitled Blood on Paper, artists were given a book and asked to customise it.

Richard Shed got a 60-year-old Penguin Classics copy of The New Machiavelli which he digitised - scanning in every page - and then put the contents...

Credit crunch or no, we all have Christmas pressies to buy, and it seems we Brits are very organised about it.

IMRG and Capgemini have released a report in which they estimate we will spend more than £13bn online this Christmas.

Here's a new one - a computer interface that will recognise the thumbs up sign as a command to get on and do something.

Mgestyk's gesture-based interface technology will also scroll following a wave of the hand or even follow a flick of a...

If you want to send out something special this Christmas to all of your relatives around the world, why not check out the new Xmas card designs that Kodak has added to its online gallery.

There are hundreds of new templates, created by designers.

According to AppleInsider, the next MacBook Air could be ever lighter thanks to the use of carbon fibre.

Apple is apparently unhappy with the weight of its ultra-thin model and is allegedly working on getting it under three pounds.

The new Peli 1090 hardback laptop case is now available in the UK via JP Distribution.

The case is claimed to be dustproof, watertight and crushproof.

Inside it has a moulded plush foam liner to fit 15.4-inch laptops but also...

The Sanyo XW57 projector was launched in Japan some time ago but has now, finally, been made available elsewhere.

It delivers 2000 lumens brightness, a 1.2x optical zoom, as well as basic security features and thief protection.

Logitec Japan, which is a whole different outfit from the keyboard and mouse maker, has unveiled the LHD-ED1000U2L.

The 1TB external HDD with USB 2.0 with some Eco friendly features, including a Power Saving mode which will stop any HDD rotation...

Barack Obama is the hero of a new online game in which he has to collect American flags, dodge lipstick-wearing pit bulls, lobbyists and, of course, Sarah Palin.

Super Obama World - based on that old favourite Super Mario World - is free...

German software developer Magix reckons it can save all of your precious records and tapes.

The company had brought out a software package for digitising the content you have on video tapes, but has now turned its attention to vinyl records...

Research performed at Beijing's Military General Hospital could lead to the first ever official recognition of internet addiction.

According to the Chinese tea, the syndrom can be recognised by symptoms including using the Internet for more...

A designer named Jinwoo Han has combined a 500GB external drive with a built-in DVD and Blu-ray burner.

Ok so it's just a concept at the moment but here's hoping it makes it to the shelves.

Sigma has bought the company that has built the chips for all of its digital compact and DSLR cameras.

Foveon became known for its three layer, X3, image sensor technology, which Sigma has used most recently in its 14-megapixel SD15 DSLR,...

A Korean company is going to take on the iPhone.

Reigncom, which is the company behind the iRiver brand of MP3 players, unveiled its iPhone rivalling phone concept way back at CES.

But now the phone is to become a reality.

A new dashboard gadget allows drivers to alert others when they have spotted a speed camera.

Drivers need simply press a button on the controversial GPS device and it will then transmit the location of the speedtrap to a processing centre....

FremantleMedia - the production company behind Idols, The X Factor and the soap opera Neightbour, has done a deal with YouTube.

The agreement will mean that Freemantle will produce TV shows for exclusive use on YouTube.

The two...

He may be a fervent Obama supporter but Google chief exec Eric Schmidt has told a TV journo that he would not serve as technology czar in Barack Obama's administration if he was asked.

When quizzed by CNBC host Jim Cramer on screen, Schmidt...

NBC has teamed up with Mindshare Entertainment to launch an online spin-off of the US drama Heroes.

Heroes: Destiny has been created with the help of the fans, who choose the gender, name, special powers and other features of the new hero.

When RIM launched a competition stateside asking “What Would You Do for a BlackBerry Storm”, they probably weren't expecting what they got.

The winner, picked from 3000 entries, was T.J. from Toledo, Ohio, who showed his love of the handset...

Cyber criminals have managed to inflitrate Facebook and are targeting social networkers.

Nigerian fraudsters are using accounts to send messages to groups of friends pretending that the sender is abroad, in trouble and needs money.