Sony Electronics Asia Pacific expands its Walkman family to include two new series of stylishly slim video MP3 players, the NWZ-S730F and NWZ-E430F. Ideal for today’s mobile consumers, the NWZ-S730F series is the only video MP3 player in the market with a noise cancelling function that effectively reduces ambient noise to ensure quality entertainment.

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Affordability might have been the killer feature of last year's batch of global-positioning-system navigators but this year's models pack some genuinely innovative new features. Mio's internet-connectivity is one such addition - instead of relying on a fixed database of "points of interest" preloaded at the factory.

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That's the deal that routed a refurbished Sandisk Sansa M250 from Newegg to my front door last summer. I suspected it'd make a fine Prying Eyes patient, and as it turns out I was right. Let's see what's inside, shall we? Removing a small Philips screw at one end of the backside battery compartment, along with jimmying loose a series of plastic tabs along both sides of the unit.

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Stephen Harris, or "Stevomaru," as he's known to his online friends, watched coolly from the back of Spring Hill Mall's center court as Annie Leung, or "Ecstacy," took on and slew challengers on "Guitar Hero" one by one.
Harris, an avid gamer from Milwaukee, smiled when asked if he's into gaming. "You could say that," Harris says. "I'm semipro."

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DENVER—Sony execs came out swinging at the company's 2008 CEDIA Expo press conference, with pointed jabs at the competition, revealing sales figures, and some impressive additions to its line of home theater products. Sony's Sr. Vice President of Home Products, Randy Waynick, started things off by highlighting the success of the Blu-ray format.

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LaCie announced earlier this week the addition of USB Speakers by Neil Poulton to their product line. The speakers provide universal usability in both PC and Mac environments through bus-powered connectivity, and feature internal cable storage. The LaCie USB speakers can plug into a PC or Mac without installing any additional drivers.

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Red Hat is moving into virtual desktops with the acquisition of Qumranet, a firm specialising in virtual infrastructure. The move will enable Red Hat customers to centralise the provision of Windows and Linux clients as server-hosted virtual machines for greater security and reduced management overheads, according to the firm.

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That avalanche of TVs, fridges, iPod docks, and iPod dock fridges that some people like to call IFA 2008 but I call Satan's Hell on Earth, agonized to its end this week. About bloody time. To me, the star of this fair wasn't the Sony ZX1, the Samsung X360 or even Addy's bags, but one now-ancient gadget that saved my life not one, but two times at the show: my good old trusty iPhone.

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Generally, Korean gizmos are well designed. The Averatec Buddy from TG Sambo is no exception. The mini-laptop sports nice white design, making it look sophisticated. I am sure it'll look great in the hands of corporate suits. Nothing much is known about this light weight machine (1Kg) except that it is powered by an Intel Atom processor, and offers 10.2-inch widescreen display.

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Here’s a little trivia - bamboo is a type of grass and not a tree, and it is one of the fastest growing grass in the world when it works at it. Hence, the Vers 2x Bamboo Sound System that is made from the highly sustainable, renewable material that augments whatever audio which comes out through it.

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All this while you thought you couldn't do without your handycam, phone, musicplayer etc. but if Sony has its way, you may be able to have just one gadget that does it all for you. It will be your mobile phone, still-camera, video recorder, PDA, music player; in short everything bundled together.

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A cool new blue Zune was spotted at Fry's today, complete with some new features. The first, “Device to Cloud,” allows users to access wireless hotspots to update music collections, browse Zune Marketplace, refresh Channels (another feature), exchange favorites, and buy tagged FM songs.

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Median recently displayed it's new solid state disk for mini-notebooks at IFA 2008. The SSD offers 16GB storage capacity, and can be easily installed even by a layman. No word on read / write speed. Though no word on release date, we think it wouldn't be too late before it hits Korean shelves.

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When you’re feeling the need to cook up something, especially if you’ve never cooked it before, you’re likely going to need a timer. Now, the odds of only having to time one item are fairly slim. Actually you might need to time several things. That is unless you have the scheme set up and down to an art.

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I often wonder about the number of devices one needs to make a new age entertainment system work. First, you get the Flat screen TV then put it on the wall and you have cleared out all the junk you had to deal with CRT TVs. However if you look at it this way then with the coming of Digital TV and the HD decoder added to the digital nuisance we have to deal with.

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