Dean Evans

In Depth All of the big players in the consumer electronics business are lined up to announce their new products and technologies for 2009/2010 at IFA. Here's a preview of what you can expect:

Your complete guide to the HDMI 1.4 standard

Record, rewind and pause live digital TV with Freeview Plus, which has been called "Sky+ for Freeview"

It's easy to forget that Palm revolutionised mobile computing

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An angry IT worker who lost his job after lying about his qualifications, has been convicted of hacking into his former employer's network.

If you're a convert to Google's Chrome browser, Google has recently revealed the updates that have made their way into build 156.1 of the code.

During Microsoft's keynote speech at CES, a 12-year old girl named Sparrow created a virtual environment on the Xbox 360. It was the first public glimpse of Kodu, a new tool for building game worlds.

3D is all the rage at this year's CES. And it's one of the reasons why the Minoru 3D webcam is getting a lot of attention.

Tired of gaming in a 2D world, says Nvidia? Quite frankly, yes. It's why we're keen to get our hands on Nvidia's new GeForce 3D Vision kit.

Nvidia has launched two new graphics cards at CES – the dual GPU GeForce GTX 295 and the single GPU GeForce GTX 285.

SanDisk whipped the sheet off its new Sansa slotRadio Player at CES and the slotRadio music cards that go with it.

SD memory cards are due for a serious capacity boost with the arrival of a new format dubbed SDXC (SD eXtended Capacity).

The latest data from Freesat shows that sales of the subscription-free satellite service doubled in the run-up to Christmas. Over 200,000 boxes have now been sold.

The key strength of Sharp's new BD-HP22U and BD-HP16U Aquos Blu-ray players is their support for Profile 2.0, aka BD-Live.

The idea of convergence is alive and well at Sharp, which has announced the world's first Aquos LCD TV with a built-in Blu-ray player.

JVC's new TeleDock HDTVs are the first to offer an integrated iPod dock as part of their connectivity options.

Every CES has its share of stunning TVs. And this year LG is turning heads with its new LHX Slim Wireless LED Backlight HDTV.

LG is launching 12 HDTV lines at this year's CES – 30 new LCD models and seven fresh plasmas, with screens as small as 19 inches and as gloriously large as 60.

The Olympus SP-590UZ might have run off with 'world's most powerful zoom' at CES. But the 24x Kodak EasyShare Z980 isn't far behind.

Hot on the heels of its FE-series cameras and SP-590 Ultra Zoom model, Olympus is launching the tough-as-old-boots STYLUS-550WP.