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  • Sony trials vending machines

    12 June 2006, 18:02

    Sony USA is testing out vending machines - much like those used for sandwiches and drinks - for flogging a variety of its smaller lines in airports and shopping centres

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  • The Commandos : Interview

    29 May 2006, 11:29

    The Commandos

  • HEXUS.beans :: The demise of Reuben

    10 May 2006, 00:12

    Reuben, HEXUS' hidden 'man' is no more...

  • Bands sue Sony for massively underpaying music-download royalties

    2 May 2006, 10:58

    Sony could end up being sued by most of its recording artists for massively underpaying royalties on legal music downloads after a class-action suit was started by the Allman Brothers ...

  • Ofcom report explores UK digital lifestyle

    28 April 2006, 14:21

    According to Ofcom, more country folk are on the net than town dwellers, more than 99 per cent of premises are connected to broadband-enabled exchanges and mobile phone users send ...

  • HDCP will be cracked!

    25 April 2006, 08:25

    HDCP (High Definition Content [Copy] Protection) is designed to stop you from making a perfect copy of HD movies. However, it seems as though this protection technology will inevitably be ...

  • O'Reilly intros Flickr Hacks book

    21 April 2006, 14:46

    O'Reilly's latest book is aimed at those wanting to get the best out of the Flickr online photo management and sharing site. Flickr Hacks (£17.50) is written by Paul Bausch ...

  • N-Gage Arena Battle the Commandos Tournament: Take on real commandos

    11 April 2006, 09:11

    Are you big enough to take on the Commandos?

  • Enigma cipher machine on sale NOW on ebay

    3 April 2006, 17:52

    ebay has been used to sell some remarkable items but, amazingly, there's a live auction right now for a German WWII Enigma cipher machine. With under three hours left to ...

  • April Fool's Day hoaxes round up

    3 April 2006, 12:49

    Wikipedia has a round-up of April Fool's Day hoaxes. Among our favourites are The Economist's announcement of plans to genetically engineer pet dragons; and the DivX Head Up Display (XHUD) ...

  • E-bullying of kids on the rise say researchers

    31 March 2006, 13:11

    Text messaging and email are increasingly being used to bully children, according to a BBC report from the annual conference of the British Psychological Society

  • Crabtree's first blog - it's a corker (he says)

    30 March 2006, 17:24

    Over at HEXUS.blogz are write ups of some of the interesting (and daft) things that we at HEXUS get up to. Check out Bob Crabtree's first blogging effort entitled, The ...

  • Intel Viiv - bullsh1t baffles brains again?

    29 March 2006, 12:16

    Over at CNET.com.au, Asher Moses sets out to show why the forthcoming update to Intel's Viiv will see the media centre PC move from the living room back into the ...

  • Review: Go to work on a USB stick drive

    22 March 2006, 15:31

    Is it really possible to easily create a practical working environment on a USB stick drive? Indeed it is - and without having to get down and dirty with Linux

  • Review: Panasonic unveils full product line up

    15 March 2006, 21:41

    This week, Panasonic is showing UK retailers its line-up for the coming season, with new and recent products ranging from ice-cream-makers to in-car entertainment

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  • Robot Wars- German Style

    10 March 2006, 19:11

    Robo Kings at CeBIT 2006

  • Who needs Intel Viiv and AMD Live?

    28 February 2006, 14:33

    Are the PC industry's two bitter CPU rivals muddying the pond with Intel ViiV and AMD Live - their enhancements to Windows XP MCE ?

  • 'Broadband rules; digital TV on the up' - Office for National Statistics

    23 February 2006, 16:31

    Social Trends 2006 - the latest report from the government's Office for National Statistics - shows that broadband has move far ahead of dial-up and that digital terrestrial TV is ...

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  • LG & BenQ license Flash Lite for portable devices

    13 February 2006, 18:46

    LG Electronics and BenQ Mobile have signed up to license Flash Lite technology for portable devices, according to announcements made by Macromedia's new parent Adobe to coincide with this week's ...

  • Pressure from EFF on CD copy-protection firm SunnComm pays off

    7 February 2006, 01:00

    Pressure from Electronic Frontier Foundation on SunnComm over its MediaMax music-CD copy-protection software appears to have paid off. Responding to EFF's open letter, the company has set out how it ...

  • InterVideo patents dispute - Winbook Computers bends at the knee

    6 February 2006, 10:27

    InterVideo InstantON patent dispute - Winbook Computers bends at the knee in front of the US International Trade Commission enquiry

  • VideoForum 2006 preview

    3 February 2006, 20:49

    London's Earls Court 2 plays host next week (Jan 7-9/Tues-Thurs) to VideoForum 2006 - the leading UK show for serious amateur camcorders users, video editors and DVD authors, and also ...

  • Adult Entertainment Expo 2006

    2 February 2006, 02:03

    Nick Haywood and Tarinder Sandhu took time off from the serious business of putting out a daily newspaper at CES to check out the Adult Entertainment Expo – all in ...

  • Uni lectures on your iPod? That'll do nicely!

    26 January 2006, 12:05

    Apple USA is now running a free hosting service for universities and colleges - iTunes U - allowing them to make educational content available for download 24/7

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  • DVdoctor - some predictions for 2006

    10 January 2006, 16:13

    John Ferrick of DVdoctor Inc looks at the year ahead in his crystal ball

  • Yahoo! Go: Beyond the browser

    7 January 2006, 12:26

    Yahoo! yesterday announced its latest scheme to spread its services across more than just the browser. Yahoo! Go is available for the Desktop, Mobile and TV, allowing information to be ...

  • Review: All the news from CES 2006

    5 January 2006, 14:06

    All HEXUS.CES reports, stories and headlines can now be accessed from a single page

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  • CES speeches underline shift to digital home and online media

    4 January 2006, 00:46

    Confirming the massive shift towards the digital home and online media, the keynote speeches at this week's 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show look set to be dominated by the giants ...

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  • Kicking off CES 2006

    3 January 2006, 17:23

    You may have been thinking that the special time of year was over. Indeed, Christmas is behind us, but hardware and software companies from all walks of the industry have ...

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  • Microsoft Life Squared

    8 December 2005, 20:35

    A renovated turn-of-the-century primary school in Chelsea Harbour, south London is the rather unusual venue for Life2 (Life Squared) - Microsoft UK's showcase of the near future of IT at ...

  • HM Customs clarify importing

    17 October 2005, 23:02

    With more people than ever before buying over the Internet, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) today warned of the extra costs that many online shoppers face from import duties and ...

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  • IBC 2005 :: Sour grapes or personal experience?

    11 September 2005, 00:00

    Some may think that the comments made at IBC by NDS president Dr Abe Peled about Microsoft as a rival IPTV solutions-provider are just sour grapes but visitors to IBC ...

  • IBC 2005 :: Welcome to the real world of the jet-setting journo

    10 September 2005, 00:00

    It was taken at around 4am but don't go thinking we’d returned late from a trip to a coffee house.

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