Philips has unveiled its latest range of 9604 series 'Ambilight' enabledTVs – with the company claiming that the rather cheekily titled 32PFL9604 and 37PFL9604 – boast the best HD TV picture to date.We will be sure to put those claims to intensive testing as soon as we get the latest tellies from Philips in for review."Picture quality for both sets is truly exceptional due to the inclusion of Philips' most powerful processing chip, the 2009 Perfect Pixel HD engine," the company tells us, with "improved contrast and the highest perceived light output thanks

Available in a range of sizes and styles, the LArobe Allure is a high-quality laptop sleeve. It's made from 5mm-thick high-density padding, using low-resilient Polyurethane technology, making for an extremely high degree of protection for your notebook.Not everyone will appreciate the patterns and designs, but the build quality is first rate, with sturdy stitching and a solid, meaty zip. It's just the thing to protect your Apple laptop from minor bumps and scrapes.

Nokia has announced it will begin selling the 6700 handset, the sequel to the best-selling but ageing 6300 from 19 June.Coming SIM free at the princely sum of £269, users will be able to pick it up from the flagship store on Regent Street or online from Nokia's site.Users can pre-order the phone from today by heading over to www.nokia.com/6700preorder if you can't wait a few weeks to get your hands on the brushed aluminium chassis.It sports a 5MP camera, Nokia Maps with aGPS and HSDPA 3G connectivity, which Nokia, someone excitedly claims "provides an Internet

The MD of Sony UK has said that the company expects to see the digital radio switchover in Britain by 2015, with the FM signal being switched off for good soon after that date.The news comes as part and parcel of the announcement this week that Sony UK is set to sponsor the Sony Radio Academy Awards next year, with Steve Dowdle, MD of Sony UK, confirming its 28th year of sponsorship, "despite financially uncertain times, alongside the news that Sony is and will continue to be committed to supporting the UK Radio Industry."Sony's Dowdle also re-confirmed that the

The Technisat Skystar 2 is a 'desktop satellite' USB solution for those who don't want to open up their PCs. Powered by its own 'wall-wart', it's a well-specified unit with a CI slot for pay-TV. Like a lot of other PC tuners, the Skystar 2 USB is compatible with both DVB-S2 and DVB-S services and supplied with its own handset. Also included is a cut-down 'Technisat edition' of DVBViewer, catering for viewing, timeshifting and recording TV. It supports both now-and-next and 7-day EPGs and incorporates an excellent timer. Text-searching and favourites makes locating a specific

The moment you start working as a web designer or web developer, you're told 'do this' and 'don't do that'. Official and unofficial rules abound. You soon internalise them and start passing them on to others, either consciously or subconsciously. But here's the bad news: not all of this advice is correct. Some of these firmly held 'truths' are based on outdated assumptions, and some were just wrong to start with. It's time to take a step back and reassess some of the myths and misconceptions circulating in the world of web design.With our sword of truth and shield of keen

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is to be awarded with a lifetime-achievement Webby for inventing the World Wide Web. Although the more cynical will question why he hasn't already won the award, for inventing the whole thing, TBL will be given the gong at the 13th annual awards in New York on June 8. "Sir Tim Berners-Lee sealed his place in history with the creation of the Web, but more importantly, he guided its development as a tool for promoting creativity and humanitarian values," said David-Michel Davies, executive director of The Webby Awards.

Jake Nickell has certainly done alright for himself.Nine years ago, at the tender age of 20 when he was still living in a small apartment in Chicago, he submitted a T-shirt design to an online contest held by a small web design festival in London. He won. Today, he's the founder and CSO of multimillion dollar empire Threadless, the biggest community-centred T-shirt store on the web. It sells more than 100,000 T-shirts per month and Jake's just moved into his new self-designed 5,000 square foot home in Boulder, Colorado. Jake and his friend Jacob DeHart (now no longer

This internally fitting PCI card can be seen as a cross between the Hauppauge WINTV NOVA HD S2 and Azurewave AD-SP400. In the form supplied, it's a Hauppauge-style Windows DVB-S/S2 tuner with provision for remote control – courtesy of the supplied trailing infrared sensor (which plugs, like your dish, into the rear panel) and a handset. This drives the application software; Terratec's own 'Home Cinema' package, as far as the S2 PCI HD is concerned. Among its features are standard-def/HDTV reception, editable recording (native or DivX, etc), timeshifting, multiple-tuner

Hauppauge's most affordable satellite tuner card with DVB-S2 compatibility, the Nova-HD-S2 can be upgraded for pay-TV reception with a USB-interfaced CI 'dongle'. It benefits from a remote control, which drives the supplied application. This used to be Cyberlink's PowerCinema – which also featured DVD/media playback but had numerous digital TV limitations and so Hauppauge now supplies its own WinTV 7. Compared with the Azurewave AD-SP400, connectivity is minimal. The backplate, which is accessible from the rear of the PC after the card has been slotted into a spare PCI