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This is the news that UK based Broadband provider Bulldog from Cable and Wireless has just released 16meg broadband, covering a third of UK homes.

However, are they running before they can power-walk? With reports of the 8meg service coughing and spluttering, sometimes coming to a complete halt, should they really be going faster before their hypothetical engine works as it should? This blogger disagrees.

To me, they seem to be wanting to be the first major service to offer this amount. But with other services already offereing 24meg, aren’t they a bit slow on the uptake?

Bulldog 16meg costs �?£15/m and �?£25/m for the Anytime Plus and Unlimited Plus services respectfully.

MovieBeam ($250) by Disney is a box, box that comes preloaded with 250 movies and updates with 10 new movies every week, i couldn’t agree more that it’s an early glimpse into the future of our soon-to-arrive â�?��?entertainment, anywhere, anytime, on-demandâ�?� lifestyle. The movies come in DVD/HDTV and the box doesn’t interfere with any other TV or Internet offerings.

Over at LiveDigitally you can read a full review of the installation process, the on-screen setup, movie browsing and finally the watching experience.

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Tags: Disney, Movies, Moviebeam

It weighs 139 grams, and it’s the first compact camera to have 10 megapixels, but that’s not the only thing Casio Exilim EX-Z1000 can be praised about, Anti-Shake DSP is another feature that comes handy when you’re taking a photo in the dark or in a hurry.

More like 3x optical zoom, 1/1.8â�?�³ sensor and a relatively large 2.8 inch LCD display screen are also included, full review for tech junkies at dpreview.com.

Spring’s here and we went on a google search for gadgets that will make your camping and picnic easier and more convenient; We found KampKaddie ($36) which is a multi-purpose product.

Hang your candle-light, toilet paper, put your cutlery in the steady installation and worry no more about the garbage, a bag can be hung from the other side of the steel construction.

That’s not a spell in the headline, Wii (pronounced we) is indeed the name of the next-generation console from Nintendo, Revolution was apparently a codename and nothing more.

For more information check out the remade website, or for faster and more informative details you can check out the Wiki page of Wii.

Oggz (3 for $65) would make a great gift for a teenager or perhaps a nice thing to put on your newly opened Caf�?©-Restourant; They are wireless egg shaped lights (duh) that glow in 8 different colors, you can either put them on their stand where they can glow indefinitely or have them wherever you want for six hours of morphing light.

Nokia has just announced (not) another one of their cellphones: N73. Not only it looks marvelous, it’s also very technically-rich:

-3.2 megapixel camera

-Carl Zeiss optics & auto focus

-Uploading photos directly to Flickr

-Integrated speakers with 3D Sound

-Software: Nokia Nseries Multimedia

Expected arrival date: July, 2006.
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Tags: Nokia N73, Cellphones

Rumours are alive again while we wait for the PS3 price saga to end, expected salvation-date: 8th of May, 2006; The latest rumour tags the PS3 at $399 instead of $500.

And while the fans continue to speculate, Sony states a future loss of about 1 Billion Dollars for the start-up costs for its PlayStation 3 game machine.

Can the Black Holes¹ save us some green dollars?? The answer is yes. According to NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, Black Holes are the most fuel efficient object in the Universe.

The coauthor, Christopher Reynolds states: If a car was as fuel-efficient as these black holes, it could theoretically travel over a billion miles on a gallon of gas. Head author Steve Allen quoted:

“Just as with cars, it’s critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes. Without this information, we cannot figure out what is going on under the hood, so to speak, or what the engine can do.”

But according to Allen, despite the efficiency, the Black Holes take a long time to refuel.

1- A black hole is an object in the Universe that has such a strong pull of gravity, even light is unable to escape it. (More @ Wikipedia)

While LCD’s are getting thinner, Plasma TV’s are getting bigger, much bigger. This 103-Inch plasma TV made its’ first debut in Las Vegas and appeared shortly after at the CES (Consumer Electronics Show), dolling itself with no less than 2 million pixels and a resolution of 1920 x 1080.

Panasonic is responsible for the upcoming monster, which should be available in the market in December 2006, no word on the pricing yet.