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The Shortwave Set's first album went largely unnoticed, except by an impressive group of musical luminaries who began queuing up to work on their second album. Hence Replica Sun Machine, produced by Danger Mouse, of Gnarls Barkley and Gorillaz ...

Yesterday, we reported on the new deal on net piracy between the BPI (British Phonographic Industry), the Motion Picture Association of America, and the six biggest Internet companies in the UK.The deal obliges the web companies – BT, Orange, ...

Speaker manufacturer B&W has teamed up with Peter Gabriel and his Real World Studios, to create Music Club, a new download service dedicated to high-quality digital distribution and the promotion of new artists. At the exclusive launch ...

Bush will offer the cheapest Freesat HD receiver at £120 The official launch event of Freesat is currently in progress in central London, and whathifi.com editor Andy Clough is in attendance, busily sending us the news using the very latest ...

In advance of today's big announcement on the launch of the UK's first free-to-air satellite TV service, we sent our man Andy Kerr to interview Richard Lindsay-Davies, commercial director of Freesat. Asked what was most significant ...

New Xbox 360 consoles will be shipping with integrated Blu-ray drives during the third quarter of 2008, writes Dominic Dawes. There is no announcement from Microsoft as of yet, but reports suggest a company called Pegatron has secured orders ...

Apple is expected to announce today that it has signed an important deal with major movie studios to sell their movies on its popular online iTunes store. In news that will have DVD (and Blu-ray) disc manufacturers and retailers quaking, ...

Toshiba is launching the new Regza range, a huge series of LCD TVs, of which this is the first we've seen. The 32XV505 is a full HD screen and the price is very reasonable, but can it beat its rivals in this fiercely competitive ...

Samsung has launched a new premium LCD TV designed by fashion guru Giorgio Armani. The new TV, available in 46in and 52in screen sizes, was unveiled at the Milan International Furniture fair. It's a full HD set, and features a four-mode ...

Since the announcement that O2 are offering the 8GB Apple iPhone for just £169, rumours have been rife that the beginning of June will see the launch of the new 3G iPhone, writes Dominic Dawes. And as we all know, rumours like company. The ...