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Sony are deep in the mud this time After Dell and Toshiba issued a battery recall for some (not all) of their laptop batteries, Lenovo (formely IBM’s PC Division) and Sony themselves have issued battery recalls for their laptops. The affected laptop batteries are made by Sony, and after recent incidents where a Dell exploded [...]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think the only thing that came out from Apple at Photokina today was Aperture 1.5. Though this is a let down to those who would have wished for new MacBook Pros, Apple have made significant improvements over the previous version of Aperture. The main new features of Aperture [...]

According to a poster in the MacRumors forum, who goes by the name Peace, the new Core 2 Duo iMac apparently has a 802.11n chip built in. Well at least, Vista ‘recognises’ the ‘chip’ that is supposedly there that it is a Broadcom 802.11n Network Adapter. The poster does stress that he did not fake [...]

Shorts for 24 September 2006. Amazon UK attribute the Zune to “Apple Computer”, recently fixed it (above) [link] Xbox 360 add-on HD-DVD drive adds 1080p, for $170, to be released on November 22nd in Japan [link] Digital fingerprint lock broken by MythBusters’ photocopied fingerprint! (video) [link]

It seems that in an attempt to create a new line of VAIO’s — which I have always liked the design of — Sony took some, or rather, a lot of inspirational design ideas from the MacBook. The VAIO N10 series is for everyone who wants a practical, general purpose notebook for use at home [...]

Today’s shorts for 21 September 2006. USBCell provides a rechargeable NiMH battery in the shape of an AA battery to use in normal devices (above) [link] Office 2007 details revealed for Mac, including new UI, with the ‘ribbon’ from Office 2007 for Window [link] Microsoft steals Zune P2P idea from WeedShare? [link] Apple sells 125,000 [...]

It seems that in the Apple announcement rush, we forgot that the original rumours about the event, stated that it was to be held one day before photokina, which is a photography event held in Germany on September 26th. It looks like that Apple may still hold this event, as UK press has received invitations, [...]

So the nano has been out for 2 days and iLounge already felt compelled enough to take the poor nano apart. If that was mine, I’d take better care of it Apple sure managed to squeeze a heck of a lot of things in there, it is so small! Beware: If you open up easily [...]

You know that cool browsing view Apple included into iTunes 7? Well it looks like they bought the technology from an individual developer. Well done to him! The coverflow website says: We are pleased to announce that all CoverFlow technology and intellectual property was recently sold to Apple. It has been incorporated into the latest [...]

Engadget were at Apple’s “It’s Showtime” press event today and they were able to get hands on with all the new releases, including the iTV prototype, which was a big shocker. Check out the links for all the juicy pictures. 2G iPod nano hands-on [link] 5G iPod v2 hands-on [link] iTV hands-on [link] iPod Shuffle [...]