TG Daily: The Xbox 360 will not become popular in the China market in the next two to three years mainly due to its high price, according to Jun Tang, president of Shanda Interactive Entertainment, the largest provider of on-line games in China, as reported by China-based media Sina.com.

TG Daily: CyberHome Entertainment (originally named Protop Innotech) has received OEM orders for portable DVD players from Sony, with shipments to begin early next quarter, according to the company.

TG Daily: Hot sales of the iPod has sparked vendors to manufacture iPod-like MP3 players with fake iPod Shuffle appearing in China, according to local makers of MP3 players.

TechSpot: Say goodbye to the Pentium! Intel has taken the decision to drop the Pentium brand name, ridding itself one of its oldest and most valuable brands. Originally unveiled in 1993, the Pentium will now begin to quietly disappear in the current CPU generation.

Moddin.net: My first review of the year is for a power supply by our friends at Thermaltake and it’s their brand new ToughPower 550W. It may not have the snappiest of names but it certainly tells you for what intention they have designed this for - power.

TechSpot: Embracing the future isn’t always easy, or profitable. UK-Based telco BT has canceled plans for the introduction of multimedia kiosks in the place of traditional payphones. With over 1000 already in place, another 28,000 won’t see the light of day due to the poor profitability of the ones already in ...

TechSpot: In the UK, government watchdogs have decided that they are none too keen on Digital Rights Management, and how it is being forced onto consumers. The recent case of the Sony DRM fiasco, where a rootkit was installed on user’s machine that had purchased Sony music CDs has highlighted the potential ...

TechSpot: Want to see the new Viiv label in action? Take a look at a released Viiv branded machine and see what it can do. Viiv machines have started rolling out, but many haven’t had the chance to see them or read much up on what it entails. There are some photos of the PC and a detailed looked at what’s under ...

TechSpot: Sometime in H1 2007 we should see Intel’s fourth-generation Centrino notebook platform appear. Known as ’Santa Rosa’, the solution will take the hardware’s frontside bus speed to 800MHz. Possibly based on the upcoming ’Merom’ mobile CPU, ’Santa Rosa’ will incorporate ’Crestine’, the successor to ...

TechSpot: Apple is hoping to make web publishing as easy as ABC with that latest version of its digital lifestyle software, iLife ’06, that provides simple tools for creating Web sites packed with blogs, photos, video and podcasts. The company has added iWeb, which lets users pick and paste their photos and ...