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Pioneer Develops 400-GB Blu-ray Discs

July 8th, 2008 at 6:32 am » Comments (0)

Pioneer Corp. said on Monday that it had succeeded in developing a 16-layer read-only optical disc with a capacity of 400GB for the first time in the world. According to Pioneer, the discs manufactured using the same methods as those utilized to create the 400GB media may be used to create Blu-ray discs with similar [...]



O2 sells out of online iPhone pre-orders in hours

July 8th, 2008 at 3:49 am » Comments (0)

After confirming last week that it would host early hours on July 11th as the iPhone 3G launches, O2 on Monday confirmed seeing “unprecedented” demand for the device, citing sales numbers for pre-orders through its website. Pocket-lint reveals that the UK wireless carrier offered customers who pre-registered through its website the chance to purchase the iPhone on [...]



Pioneer to start making Blu-ray recorders

July 8th, 2008 at 3:29 am » Comments (0)

Pioneer Corp hopes to start bringing out Blu-ray DVD recorders within the year, the Nikkei business daily said on Tuesday, as the company takes aim at a rapidly growing market after the end of a bitter format war.
Pioneer’s product, which it hopes to launch by the year-end shopping season, will be developed with Sharp Corp  and [...]



GPSmile 61 by Holux , now official

July 8th, 2008 at 2:41 am » Comments (0)

Holux recently announced the availability of their new GPS, the GPSmile 61. The new addition was originally on display at CES 2008, but at that time it wasn’t known when it was going to be released. Holux recently confirmed that it’s going to be on sale soon.
The Holux GPSmile 61 sports a 4.3-inch TFT touchscreen, [...]