Punters are scrambling to get their hands on used, second hand PCs, not just because of tough economic times, but because they come with Windows XP rather than Vista.

International prices of optical-grade polycarbonate (PC) - a key ingredient in disc production - have dropped by 11-17% due to falls in prices of crude oil.

Users who purchase Nero 9 will get an additional software package with three products included, as Nero announced today its Winter Special for 2008.

Toshiba is aiming to grab half the global market for solid state drives over the next 2 years with its plan to increase its output of SSDs 15-fold by 2010.

Pioneer will release the BDR-S03J, the company's first 8x Blu-ray disc burner in Japan in January, with worldwide shipments to follow.

Apple is expected to offer discounts on Friday at its online shop, in an effort to attract the holiday shoppers.

Plextor has just announced the introduction of a pocket-sized external hard disk.

TVCatchup.com, a web-based TV recording service which was shut down last year under pressure from broadcasters, has returned, and this time it assures us it's legal.

Panasonic has reportedly submitted a proposal to the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), for a Blu-ray Disc standard that stores movies in 3D.

Blockbuster's new digital media player brings fewer, but more recent titles from the Internet to consumers' televisions than a six-month old offering from Netflix.

The latest Google Chrome version - 0.4.154.25 -has been released.

Toshiba have updated their memory card line-up with the launch of a 16GB microSDHC card offering the largest capacity available in the market.

Today's boffer is this very tasty digital camera from Samsung, an ideal Christmas present for a budding photographer.

US electronics giant Best Buy is offering the current crop of Apple laptops at a $100-$150 discount.

Samsung has showcased a new mobile phone prototype with a foldable OLED display at FPD 2008 expo in Japan.

YouTube has quietly started testing out real HD quality videos on a smattering of its content.

The BBC have announced that as of this Thursday BBC One and BBC Two will be available to watch live online.

The surviving members of the Monty Python team are so miffed at people ripping off their videos on Youtube they have set up a channel on the site.

BBC proposals to launch a local online video service would have a significant negative impact on commercial providers, Ofcom says.

These Aigo digital audio players are nice and easy to use with a massive 4GB of internal memory - enough for around 4000 of your favourite tracks.