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Beyond the digital TV switchover

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The massive digital switchover programme being co-ordinated across the UK right now is nowhere near the last word in digital TV. After all, it only just includes hi-def, and doesn’t make any allowances for mobile TV, or moving Freeview onto broadcast standards that make the most of its very limited bandwidth.
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Escient Fireball SE500i

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It’s a fair bet that in twenty years’ time we’ll look back and realise that, even by 2007, we’d hardly got the measure of the audio possibilities offered by music servers and the internet. Yet, we’re more clued-up today then we were, say, five years ago and hardware manufacturers are starting to capitalise on it in [...]

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iPhone 3G

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Apple is absolutely desperate to gain a foothold in the mobile market – what other explanation can there be for this incredible handset?
When the original iPhone launched, the tendency was to forget about its faults. After all, the handset had been a revelation since Steve Jobs first announced it at Macworld in January 2007.
The [...]

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