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With 2m sold worldwide in a couple of months, and queues still outside Apple Stores, the success of the iPad looks pretty much assured – even though some are hailing it as the future and others aren't too sure what it's for.However, the consumer ...

 Imagine a building where you could choose from a selection of 20,000 music CDs/DVDs, plus 80,000 musical scores. Where you can also buy, learn and listen to a vast array of instruments, from £100,000 grand pianos to the latest in 'silent' ...

We’re just on the bullet train heading back to Narita airport, so finally have time to publish the full details of the Spring 2010 products Yamaha has been showing us at its HQ in Japan over the last few days.Home cinema amplifiersAs mentioned in ...

3D could be come the de facto entertainment standard in as little as a couple of years – that's the view of Avatar director James Cameron, speaking at a technology forum in South Korea this week.Cameron told the Seoul Digital Forum that he sees ...

 Watch our video news report from the store opening I spent today at Lakeside, Thurrock, taking a behind-the-scenes look at the first Best Buy store in the UK, opening this Friday in time for the Bank Holiday weekend.The 50,000 sq ft ...

Not sure where else to put this, but thought you might like to be kept up to speed with what's going on with moves to bring 3D TV into the home. No, not just the Blu-ray stuff, but proper telly in 3D, too.Panasonic showed three major elements of ...

Shares in Arisawa Manufacturing Co rose 7.4% yesterday on the Tokyo stock exchange.Why should that mean anything to anyone? Well, the increase in value was all to do with reports that the company is planning an increase in manufacturing and sales ...

For those of us brought up on the old order, where the big Japanese companies held the technological high ground and the upstart Korean rivals carved out a market share with aggressive pricing, here comes a culture-shock.Sony has announced plans ...

While we wait for Sky to announce the go-date for its consumer 3D offering, and broadcast services supplier Technicolor has the dress and all the accessories, just no party to go to yet, in Korea the broadcast providers are supporting their local ...

Cliff Richard did it. So did John Noakes, and Reg Varney. In the 60s and 70s, the skidpan at London Transport's Chiswick Works was a magnet for film and TV crews: we all saw buses pirouetting across our screens with varying degrees of elegance, ...