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November 1, 2021 | 14:00

Inscryption Review

Welcome challenger. Why not sit down, and play a little game?

October 27, 2021 | 12:05

SilentiumPC Regnum RG6V TG Case Review

Budget in price, mainstream in aspiration.

October 21, 2021 | 09:43

Daily Mail prepares a bid for Yahoo

Goes head-to-head with Verizon.

April 11, 2016 | 14:36

Microsoft adds DVD playback to Windows 10

Charges £11.59 for it, though.

August 6, 2015 | 11:42

Intel digital TV plans hit by rumoured delay

OnCue not proving popular with partners.

September 30, 2013 | 10:00

Yahoo fires CEO over the phone

Yahoo parts company with its CEO Carol Bartz via a phone call.

September 7, 2011 | 11:49

Dynamode HD Media Player Review

Can you really get 1080p HD video playback for £33? We find out.

July 2, 2011 | 10:52

ASUS Eee Keyboard PC Review

We curiously inspect and inevitably take apart ASUS' concept Eee Keyboard PC.

August 2, 2010 | 08:17

Asus O!Play Air HDP-R3 Media Player Review

Asus tries to muscle in on the media player market with this dinky little device. Kitted out with 802.11n WiFi, Ethernet, HDMI 1.3 and mkv support - is its software and hardware a match for its strong competitors?

March 24, 2010 | 08:46

A.C. Ryan PlayON! HD Media Player Review

A.C.Ryan is back with a High-Definition capable media player that includes an in-build hard drive and compatibility with every video and audio format you can shake a stick at. How good is the interface and how intuitive is it to use though?

February 2, 2010 | 08:32

Rickets, Gaming and Righteous Fury

This morning, Metro, the UK's third largest newspaper ran a front page story with a headline clearly blaming gaming for a rise in a serious disease. We take a look at this wild claim, and what it has to say about the ways in which research and gaming are reported by the mainstream media.

January 22, 2010 | 15:44

Virgin Media to launch unlimited download service

Virgin Media is to launch an unlimited music download service later this year and, as a result, will be clamping down on online piracy on its network.

June 17, 2009 | 10:58

Modding the Acer Revo

At a recent press briefing we grabbed some internal shots of the upcoming Nvidia Ion based Acer Revo!

April 27, 2009 | 10:02

VIA brings 1080p video playback to small devices

VIA's new VX855 chip features hardware acceleration for H.264 video at 1080p, enabling netbooks to playback HD video.

March 13, 2009 | 15:00

Rumour: Acer to launch Wii-style PC console

Leaked presentation slides show a upcoming Acer PC could be based on Nvidia's Ion platform and come with a Wii-style controller.

February 26, 2009 | 14:56

Mozilla offers grant to develop Ogg

The Mozilla Foundation has put the Wikimedia Foundation in charge of a $100,000 grant to improve the Ogg Theora and Vorbis media codecs.

January 28, 2009 | 13:04

First Look: Boxee - The Social Media Centre

In a world of media players and home theatre PCs, Boxee enters the fray with an underbelly of the massively popular XBMC to carve out a niche in its social media playing idea. We get to grips with the alpha, to see if it has the potential to be the media centre we're looking for.

September 14, 2008 | 08:04

Have, well, tons of stuff in your car

COMPUTEX 2008: Funtoro, an MSI subsidiary, offers just about everything you'd ever need in a car - except the kitchen sink.

June 4, 2008 | 08:13

Cyberlink has PowerCinema for Eee PC and Edge TV

COMPUTEX 2008: With the Eee in mind, Cyberlink has developed a media player for Linux and also showed off TV over Edge.

June 4, 2008 | 01:28

Cyberlink PowerDVD 8 & Media Show 4

Cyberlink will release the latest versions of PowerDVD and Media Show next month. The two boast a bunch of new features and services that looked interesting when demonstrated to us. So much so that we decided to take a look at the latest beta to see how they're shaping up.

March 24, 2008 | 07:37

Icy Box IB-MP303S-B Media Player

Raidsonic blends a basic home theatre PC into an external drive enclosure to create a low power Mac Mini look alike. All you need to do is drop in a SATA hard drive and off you go! Is it really all that, or does it try to do too much?

March 13, 2008 | 10:47

TVersity to receive major facelift

Media streaming software TVersity is due to receive a brand-spanking new user interface thanks to a deal with design company Trifold Designs, and it's already looking pretty snazzy.

January 16, 2008 | 09:19

Netgear’s Digital Entertainer could replace HTPCs

CES 2008: Netgear's Digital Entertainer HD looks to be an incredibly smart device that could wipe out the need for an HTPC.

January 8, 2008 | 21:02

How To Spend Your Christmas Cash

Christmas is over and, thanks to unimaginative but rich relatives, you've managed to scrape together a little bit of cash with which to treat yourself. Unfortunately, you're so stuffed with turkey that you can't think of what to buy! Never fear though - bit-tech is here!

December 26, 2007 | 08:42

TVersity 0.9.11.3 released

TVersity has released the latest update of its free software and will now stream a greater variety of video and music from your PC to your 360 or PS3 without the need for transcoding.

December 4, 2007 | 09:28