April, 2009

UPDATE: Whoops! It seems Motorola’s set top box won’t be running Android after all, but the KreaTV platform based on Linux.


Android is not, as recent attempts at an Android Netbook attest, just for mobile phones. Google’s free operating system is set to appear on a range of consumer electronics, including a TV set-top box for Japanese manufacturer KDDI.

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Acer Aspire Revo gets UK price

The Acer Aspire Revo, Acer‘s first attempt at a cut-price desktop to take on the Asus Eee Box, has just popped up for pre-order in the UK. Don’t even bother to tell the bean-counters, this one’s a bargain! Read on for specs, shipping and pricetag.

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Sony’s head of hardware marketing, John Koller, has served Microsoft a verbal battery, accusing the rival console maker of writing cheques to cover up its lack of confidence in its first-party game line-up. Koller‘s reasoning is that Microsoft pays out for exclusives like The Lost and Damned because it doesn’t feel its own games can cut the mustard.

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The iPhone OS 3.0 beta has just been updated by Apple, prompting a renewed scrabble around for signs of new features in upcoming Apple handsets.

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The Philips Cinema 21:9 ultra widescreen TV just got a tasty little teaser website that shows you just how good that screen ratio can be, right from your monitor!

Head on over to cinema.philips.com and you’ll be presented with the option to watch a short film inside a mocked up Philips Cinema 21:9 TV. It’s a clever little crime thriller with astonishing special effects, and well worth a gander. It also accurately demonstrates why Cinema 21:9 is worth getting excited about.

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LG Viewty Smart

The Viewty II is due in June, and now we know what it looks like, and what it’ll be called. Ladies and gents, meet the Viewty Smart. Full specs and more pictures follow below.

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Grab a napkin and sit down to tuck into all the latest tech news today. It’s all rounded up on to one plate for you, right here in the lunchtime lowdown.

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Killzone 2 creator, Guerrilla Games, has ruled out the possibility of two-player co-operative modes coming to the game. Shooters like Killzone 2 are often tipped for co-op gameplay – where two or more players can play through the main campaign together – and in the past a number of developers have thrown around the idea of adding it later as downloadable content, or DLC. Sadly, when it comes to Killzone 2, it’s just not going to happen.

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