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Buying Guide: Best Christmas gifts for gadget-loving cooks
CNETAnalysis: Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat – don’t bother putting a penny in the old man’s hat, though, you’ll need that to put towards one of these culinary contraptions. If the technophile in your life is more excited about cooking the Christmas dinner than eating it, our round up of the top kitchen gadgets should give you an idea or two for what to...
Tutorial: How to speed up your wireless network
CNETAnalysis: How to speed up your wireless network Wi-Fi is a great technology, but how you set up and use it can have a huge impact on its efficiency. If you’re constantly waiting for web pages in general to load, then before you complain that your ISP isn’t supplying that promised 24Mb/s connection, spare a thought for what happens when that signal hits the airwaves in your house....
Leaked video shows Xbox 360 dashboard update
CNETAnalysis: A leaked video shows Microsoft’s forthcoming update to its Xbox 360 dashboard, due to go live on 15 November. The new update incorporates Microsoft’s “Metro” design language, as we’ve previously seen in Windows Phone 7 devices and the developers’ preview of Windows 8. Rather than the current panel-based dashboard, the new update integrates sparse...
IFA 2011: Netgear announces new home networking gear
CNETAnalysis: Networking company Netgear has announced three new products designed to shunt bits to your internet-enabled entertainment devices at IFA 2011 . The Powerline Nano Dual-port Set works like any other powerline adapter, with the advantage that the units themselves are small enough not to block a second outlet. The adapters come with two ethernet ports, and are capable of speeds of...
In Depth: Glasses-free 3D: when will it be in our homes?
CNETAnalysis: The race is on to bring glasses-free 3D to a high street near you. Using a variation of the displays seen on next-generation 3D mobiles like LG’s Optimus 3D, so-called autostereoscopic (or auto-3D) screens promise to free us from the tyranny of bespectacled 3D forever. But with manufacturers still embroiled in rows over current Active Shutter and Passive 3D goggles, just...
Tutorial: How to hack your wireless router firmware
CNETAnalysis: Everyone likes being in control – we don’t want to be told that we aren’t allowed to do something with our own hardware. In this world of locked-down operating systems, proprietary software and rights-removed content, anything that gives us control over our hardware is a good thing. One such area is the world of wireless router hacking. You might not have come...
AOC unveil new e2352Phz 3D monitor
We eff few exciting news now for those of you that are considering purchasing a new shielder for your home part, as we’ve fitting heard that AOC has late disclosed its new e2352Phz 3D guardian that’s not exclusive aimed at existence cheap, but rich to use as shaft.
As Cristian over on the tcmagazine.com website latterly noted, the upcoming AOC e2352Phz display – which features...
Competition: WIN! Media streamer, TV & LoveFilm subscription
CNETAnalysis: Listen up movie lovers! Want to watch the latest films on your TV but haven’t got the patience to wait for the DVD to land on your doormat? TechRadar has teamed up with Oregan Networks to offer one lucky winner the ultimate living room movie junkie bundle featuring a Digital Stream DPS-1000 powered by Oregan’s Onyx media browser, Sharp 32″ LCD TV and a year’s...
Closed: WIN! Media streamer, TV & LoveFilm subscription
CNETAnalysis: Listen up movie lovers! Want to watch the latest films on your TV but haven’t got the patience to wait for the DVD to land on your doormat? TechRadar has teamed up with Oregan Networks to offer one lucky winner the ultimate living room movie junkie bundle featuring a Digital Stream DPS-1000 powered by Oregan’s Onyx media browser, Sharp 32″ LCD TV and a year’s...
Gary Marshall: Digital Economy Act: the law’s still an ass
CNETAnalysis: I’m a fairly cynical chap, but even I was surprised when the Digital Economy Bill became the Digital Economy Act: it was badly drafted, rushed through without proper scrutiny and became a bad law. As I wrote at the time , the legislation “dropped its digital trousers and waved its digital arse” at the lot of us. You’d think common sense would prevail, and...
Cute Spotify Box uses RFID tagged magnets to play tunes
CNETAnalysis: Degree student Jordi Parra has created a gorgeous prototype Spotify player, the Spotify Box, that uses RFID-tagged magnets to play playlists from the music streaming service. The circular tags can be linked to music in your Spotify account and, when connected to the player, access the relevant music on Spotify using a Wi-Fi connection. Well, that’s the idea, but for now the...
Cute Spotify Box uses RFID tagged magnets to play tunes
CNETAnalysis: Degree student Jordi Parra has created a gorgeous prototype Spotify player, the Spotify Box, that uses RFID-tagged magnets to play playlists from the music streaming service. The circular tags can be linked to music in your Spotify account and, when connected to the player, access the relevant music on Spotify using a Wi-Fi connection. Well, that’s the idea, but for now the...
In Depth: The home of 2020: everything’s a screen
CNETAnalysis: The home of the future will be a living, breathing entity that reacts to our needs, provides entertainment in any room of the house and can even take care of you when you’re sick. In many ways, the vision of robotic butlers and multiple high-def screens portrays a false concept – in the future digital home, anything can be a screen and the home itself will be a robot....
UK’s TV habits revealed: we’re watching more than we think
CNETAnalysis: It’s easy to while away the hours in front of the goggle box, but new research from TV Licensing suggests that we’re watching more than we think. Adults in Britain told the researchers that they watch less than 20 hours of television a week, on average. However, the Broadcaster’s Audience Research Board bit their thumbs at the UK’s adults, whipping out cold...
Sony launches Music Unlimited in the US
CNETAnalysis: Sony’s cloud-based Music Unlimited subscription service has launched in the US, throwing down the gauntlet to iTunes across the pond. The service, which comes under Sony’s on-demand entertainment Qriocity umbrella, can be accessed primarily through connected Bravia TVs, Sony Blu-ray players and on the PlayStation Network. Music Unlimited launched in the UK back in December...




