January, 2009

That plain old, single room stereo getting you down? Multi-room audio is what you need, letting you juggle music across rooms.

The technology required has made leaps and bounds in recent years, including one in a downward direction on the pricing front.

Still confused about what does what though? Not to worry: here’s the products you can use in every price category to sling sound around your home, whatever your budget.

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Google aren’t doing much laurel-resting when it comes to Android. Nope, the big G is currently beavering away on a new build of the mobile operating system dubbed “Cupcake”, and pictures of the new virtual keyboard have just popped up online.

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We don’t know about you but we’re itching to hit the mean streets of Liberty City again when the first installment of GTA IV downloadable content comes to the Xbox 360. And now we know how much it’s going to “carjack” out of our wallet.

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Last week we reported on Vodafone’s trialling of 16Mbps mobile broadband, aka HSPA+ – and figured that it would probably be a good few months (or even longer) until the tech was locked and ready to rock. Well, it seems it could be a lot closer than we first thought.

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LEGO Batman: probably not the first game you think of when there are cries of ‘Games are corrupting our children!’ being thrown around. Nevertheless, the title has earned the ire of the Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood, an organisation “devoted to limiting the impact of commercial culture on children”.

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With both Apple and Amazon leading the mainstream charge away from Digital Rights Management for downloadable music it makes perfect sense to offer a new downloadable music service that offers open files that can be moved freely between devices. Which is why Microsoft’s new MSN Mobile Music service, er, does the opposite.

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10-inch Acer Aspire One launched

We first heard about it back in November 2008, but now it’s here and it’s official: Acer has launched the 10-inch version of its Aspire One netbook.

The original Aspire One sported an 8.9-inch screen, but Acer has finally matched its rivals by offering a 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 display with LED backlighting.

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It’s lunchtime and we’ve got one humdinger of a lowdown for ya. So grab yourself a sarnie and your choice of hot or cold beverage, take a breather and feast your peepers on the morning’s biggest tech stories.

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