31st December 2007 Archive

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• Sony renounces rear-projection TVs

  RIP RPT

  Sony has decided to drop its rear-projection TV business worldwide in order to focus instead on two flat-panel technologies - liquid crystal display (LCD) and organic light-emitting diode (OLED). Sales of rear-projection TVs had been declining recently as LCD TVs gain in popularity and grow in size. Sony showed off a series of …

  HD 31 Dec 09:02

• Fujitsu pulls plug on low-profit plasma

  Euthanasia performed on its PDP TV range

  Japan-based Fujitsu has announced that it will end production of plasma screens due to poor profitability. The company was the first to commercially introduce this technology in 1992, but sales of plasma TVs have been falling behind those for LCDs. Fujitsu General, a subsidiary of Fujitsu Ltd, has already stopped most …

  HD 31 Dec 11:42

• Nintendo Wii hack opens door to homebrew games

  Jeux sans frontier

  Security researchers have hacked into a Nintendo Wii game console to run their own code in a move that makes it far easier to develop homebrew games for the popular gaming device. Up to now developers have only been able to write homebrew games for the Gamecube, not the Wii. That meant these homebrew games could be run on a …

  Consoles 31 Dec 11:44

• Kid's 'new' MP3 player was preloaded with smut

  'I wish I could take the thoughts out of her head'

  A US father got a lot more than he bargained for when he bought each of his three kids an MP3 player from Walmart for Christmas. One of the devices was preloaded with pornography and explicit songs. "Within ten minutes, my daughter was crying," Daryl Hill, the ten-year-old's father, told AP. "I wish I could take the thoughts …

  Media players 31 Dec 16:25