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After much debate in the office, here is the shortlist of the top gadgets to own in 2009, first we give you the list, then a few words about our choice…
1) MP4 Player
2) Touch HD Handset
3) HD TV
4) WII Fit
5) Internet Video Service
Okay, that’s the list, here is why we chose them:
1) MP4 Player
Lets face [...]

Those eponymous purveyors of the electrotech-ultrachic Apple bring out the MacBook Air. It has been on sale for a year now and has recently received an upgrade. But what is it? Just an extremely expensive functionally impaired slice of desk-top posing or are it’s undeniable limitations a compromise that allows Apple to point to a [...]

So, has anyone heard of TDP? If you have, the acronym won’t slow you down one iota. If you haven’t, I consider it a tad worrying. TDP- Thermal depolymerization process sounds about as interesting as watching a paint blog dry though may, if I am built for boldness, save humanity. Simply put TDP is a [...]

Until last week, I was convinced that my discman was more than sufficient for my mobile music needs. A satchel full of CD’s and spare batteries was a small price to pay for limited, jumpy tunes-on-the-move. Unfortunately, it seems the thirty third time of being sat on reduced it’s efficency to, er, broken. Down [...]

The mad scientists at Mozilla went back into the lab after releasing Firefox 3 and have cooked up something that may be even more impressive. Teaming up with Adaptive Path, Mozilla wants to introduce the Aurora concept browser
Aurora was designed with the intent of creating what the Web of the future will look like. Featuring [...]

Microsoft on Tuesday plans to release seven security bulletins, including a fix for a zero-day flaw in Windows that is already being used in cyberattacks.

As delegates to a global climate change meeting work to reach consensus, China and the U.S. are objecting to proposed emission caps. The world’s two largest polluters argue the targets are too low, and reaching them would be too expensive. They are expected to attempt to insert language into the final report that would weaken [...]