CES: Sony sees the future on telly

At CES, Sony's President Kunitake Ando has told of his company's belief in the television as being the centre of digital entertainment. He said the TV will be 'reborn as the centre of broadband entertainment'. To this end, he demonstrated products already available in Japan such as Sony's CoCoon media server and RoomLink which wirelessly routes your digital entertainment to TVs and PCs around the home. ...more

'Lots of people download movies illegally' - shock findings

A movie industry survey has made the shocking discovery that lots of people download movies off the Internet. The survey, commissioned by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), reveals that one in four Web users download movies illegally off the net, amassing a total of 2.6bn files copied each month. ...more

Nokia trumpets the N91 as mobile jukebox

Nokia has introduced a new sub-brand Nokia Nseries dedicated to presenting multimedia content. The phones - the N91, N90 and N70 - were unveiled at a Destination Multimedia event in Amsterdam, where Nokia has been proclaiming 'the next step in digital convergence' with major support for mobile multimedia content. Leading the way is the N91 (pictured, left), which is marketed as a mobile music centre as much as a phone, with its storage for up to 3,000 songs on a 4GB hard disk and its support for transferring music files from a computer and sharing playlists, a la iTunes. ...more

Lifeboat thrown to notebook users

The Chief Technology Officer of IBM's PC Division, Brian Connors, was in London today briefing journalists on IBM's vision for the PC (see IBM lays out the future for idle computers). Also at the event, Michael Vanover demoed forthcoming IBM emergency recovery software for ThinkPads. (Vanover was the architect of IBM recent work on embedded security - IBM aims to reduce lifetime cost of PC. ...more

New Palm, more memory

If you've been holding back buying yourself a new organiser, then the latest Palm product might just catch your interest. The new Palm M105 is based upon the budget M100 design but this time the company has increased memory fourfold to 8Mb, which is more than enough to store even the most popular person's contact book. The M105 also comes with the Palm Mobile Internet Kit that allows users to access the Internet and check their mail using a compatible mobile phone. ...more