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Serpent or servant? The biblical scholars may argue whether the partner in crime in the Garden of Eden was a snake or a mistranslation, but all seem agreed that the instrument of humanity's downfall was a singular fruit.Take one bite when it is ...

Today's the first anniversary of the death of Apple co-founder and figurehead Steve Jobs. He died on October 5, 2011, after a long – and very public, thanks to the rapt attention of Apple fans and commentators – battle with ...

Today marks Sharp's 100th birthday, and to be honest the company looks slightly precarious at the moment.It finished the last year with record debts, saw its TV market share drop by a third, and is in the awkward position of waiting to see which ...

I've just spent the day at Datasat, and I think I may have seen the future of home cinema.  If you've not been paying attention to your movie posters of late, you may be forgiven for saying 'Datasat – who?'  Well, since May ...

Last November I wrote a blog piece suggesting that – in consumer electronics at least – 'Made in Japan' was in danger of giving way to a future in which products may still be designed by the big names, but they'd be made outside Japan by ...

Focal is France’s largest speaker manufacturer with a turnover of around €40m and just short of half the French domestic market. Like other companies of its size, Focal is expanding into new markets such as desktop speakers and headphones ...

We've been in France to visit speaker manufacturer Focal, and as you can read in our first blog, the company makes its high-end models in its factory in Bourbon Lancy.During the second part of our visit, we went to the firm's drive unit factory ...

Here's a brief round-up of some of the tech stories you may have missed while you were trying to keep dry under your red, white and blue umbrella, keeping away from Jubilee overload, watching Fearne Cotton finding everything 'amazing', saving ...

Think Mitsubishi, and most UK enthusiasts will probably visualise one of these,  while the plane-spotters on the WHFSV Forums will probably think...  However, Mitsubishi Electric is a TV force to be reckoned with in its home ...

It's been a turbulent week or so in the TV business, starting with the news that Panasonic and Sony, once the driving forces of TV manufacturing, are looking to form a joint venture to develop OLED TVs in order to maintain competitiveness with ...