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Abbey Road Live offers instant gig recordings

EMI has launched a subsidiary called Abbey Road Live to offer gig-goers the chance to walk out of the venue with a recording of the concert they just attended on their mobile phones. The service has been available previously at gigs, but only on CD-R.

The company...

Windows 7 available in USB stick edition

Microsoft has quietly issued a variant of its brand new Windows 7 operating system that can be copied to a USB stick and used to install the OS on computers that don't have a CD drive, which includes many netbooks available today.

In our review of Windows 7, we...

Transformers: USB drive and mouse in disguise

When was the last time you saw a USB drive do the above? Bonkers right, but not as crazy as the optical mouse that turns into a dinosaur.

Toshiba has teamed up with Hasbro to launch four official 1984 Transformers in the shape of a USB drive and optical mouse...

Pioneer teases DJ release

Pioneer has released a series of teaser videos for a new DJ product that it's launching on 17 September. The videos, one of which can be seen above, feature big name DJs talking about the product, dropping a few clues.

It seems like it has a USB port, and a...

Dinky Denon D-F107DAB+ mini system launched

Denon has dropped us word of a mini system that it'll soon be launching which measures just 25cm x 25cm. The D-F107DAB+ can play back from CD, iPod, USB drive, FM, AM, DAB and DAB+, and has - according to the company - "musical fidelity that you would never expect".

Next iPhone will charge via micro-USB

Apple has signed up to an EU-wide "harmonization" of phone chargers, which Pocket-lint first brought you news of back in September 2007.

The iPhone-maker has joined Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG, NEC, Qualcomm, RIM, Samsung and Texas Instruments in signing...

Seagate FreeAgent dock comes with hidden USB hub

Seagate has launched a docking station for its FreeAgent hard drives that gives users a USB hub at the same time.

The Seagate FreeAgent Go Dock+ includes three available USB ports to act as a USB hub, so you can try and remove some of the supposed clutter on...

Denon launches F-Series compact hi-fi system

Denon has announced the availability of its new F-series compact hi-fi system, complete with CD player, AM/FM radio and a USB port for plugging in MP3 players.

The package comprises of the company's DRA-F107 amplifier, DCD-F107 CD player, and a pair of SC-F107SG...

LaCie turns USB drive into a key

For storage hounds looking to take files with them on the go, LaCie has launched what it believes is the ideal solution. The company famous for its desktop hard drives has announced that it will be launching three USB drives that are designed to look like your house keys...

Credit Crunch Christmas: USB mains charger

Here's a great little gadget that's not only priced at nicely under a tenner, but very practical.

Very simply it's a USB charger that plugs into the mains. Just stick it straight into a wall socket, connect your USB device into the port and before you know...

LaCie launches colour-coded Flat Cables

LaCie has launched a "practical and fun" new line of products for the home and office, the LaCie Flat Cables created by product design company "item".

The colourful LaCie Flat Cables claim to bring functional improvements along with a "stylish new look to the...

VIDEO: Tech week in view 21-11-08

In this week's roundup - the woes of Yahoo, BT threatens to put its super fast broadband plans on hold as more jobs cuts are announced, the worrying rise in online ID theft, and last up, our views on USB 3.0.

Hit the arrow button above or the link below where...

USB 3.0 specificaton completed

The USB 3.0 Promoter Group has announced the completion of the USB 3.0 specification.

This spec is described as "the technical map" for device manufacturers to deliver SuperSpeed USB technology to the market.

SuperSpeed USB is said to bring significant...

USB port launches

This word-play has apparently come from the fact that the word "port" can only be used by Portuguese wine makers. Clever.

Art Lebedev create the Folderix flash drive

USB drives come in all shapes and sizes. You can get large ones, small ones, ones that look like beer barrels, ones that look like swords, pretty much anything you want so why never a computer folder icon? Beats us.

Still, the idea didn't past by the guys at...

3 hits a million dongles milestone

3 has announced that it has reached the milestone of one million mobile broadband customers across Europe.

The countries that have made this milestone include the UK, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Austria.

Taking this opportunity to highlight...

Will mobile broadband make Wi-Fi redundant?

There have been a few headlines floating round cyberspace of late proclaiming that mobile broadband will very soon be the death of Wi-Fi.

We decided to put this puzzler to the tech-savvy Pocket-lint readership to see what your thoughts on this particular issue...

Chicken foot-shaped flash drive

What can we say? What could be said? Is this the craziest novelty flash drive we've ever seen? Possibly. It's certainly not the cheapest at $44.

SanDisk introduces two Cruzer USB flash drives

SanDisk introduced Cruzer Professional and Cruzer Enterprise, two USB flash drives that deliver strong security and state-of-the-art speed, aim at business users.

Cruzer Professional and Cruzer Enterprise offer password
protection and "ironclad" data security...