Spotify has showcased a working Android application – bringing the streaming music service to a potential audience of millions.

Launching at Google's I/O conference, a video has been release which shows just how Spotify will work on mobile devices.

For those familiar with the web-based Spotify client, the interface is straightforward - with playlists giving people access to the music they have assembled.

Offline play

A major factor in Spotify mobile is how it works when an internet connection is not present.

Sony has updated its compact camera Cyber-shot range with the W180.

Although, for a change, the camera series doesn't actually boast any world firsts, it does pack in enough features to make it a more-than capable compact cam.

Megapixel-size for the W180 has been set at a not-too-shabby 10.1MP. This is backed by an ISO of up to 3200 and an optical zoom range of 3x.

There's also a 17x Smart Zoom but as this is digital, it probably won't be that smart – digital zooming is renowned for adding blockiness and pixelation to your

Here's a device that started out as a firewall and ended up as a powerful embedded development platform.

It's based around an ARM CPU and includes an SDK to let you develop your own tools.

Supplier: Yoggie Security SystemsWeb: www.yoggie.comPrice: $79

An attractive price, but how good is it? Read on for our verdict..

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We got the chance to have a play with some of Packard Bell's latest products today at the trendy Kensington Roof Gardens, including the dot.s and dot.m netbooks.

The dot.s - available in red or black - features a 10.1-inch screen, with the now-default resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. It's a bright and colourful panel, but doesn't really stand out from other netbooks.

The keyboard on the dot.s is small but perfectly formed. It'll take a while for larger-handed typists to adjust to, but the keys are firmly attached and very responsive, making it easy

MySpace needs to continue to innovate if it is survive as a website, according to its new CEO Owen Van Natta.

Fresh from being an executive at the website's main rival Facebook, Van Natta was speaking at All Things Digital conference, where he mapped out his plans for MySpace.

"If you don't continue to innovate... people are going to shift interest elsewhere," he explained. "We need to continue to innovate a lot more rapidly than we have been."

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When comparing MySpace to Facebook, Van

Lenovo's latest netbook, the IdeaPad S12, aims to unite the best of its current netbooks, the IdeaPad S10 and S10-2, in one machine.

The 12-inch laptop boasts a host of eye-catching features including a full-size keyboard, which should provide a great typing experience, and six hours of battery life which, if true, makes the IdeaPad S12 a very portable machine indeed.

The IdeaPad S12 is only 25mm thick and weighs only 1.4kg, which supports the above view. A 160GB hard drive is standard netbook fair but provides plenty of room all your files and

AOL will soon be split from its owners Time Warner, with the latter's board of directors reportedly set to ratify the plan later on Thursday.

The internet giant is certainly not the force it once was, but it still has significant numbers of subscribers both in the US and the UK.

With an annual shareholders meeting on the same day, Time Warner would not comment on the rumours, but the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal both report that multiple sources have confirmed that AOL will be spun off.

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An interesting new study by a Cambridge professor has found that DRM does the opposite of its actual job and pushes people to piracy rather than preventing it.

The study is years in the making, with law professor Patricia Akester interviewing a variety of people from all aspects of society.

Interestingly, it was individuals from the Royal National Institute of Blind People that presented an interesting case for the scrapping of DRM, with Head of Accessibility Richard Orme stating that blind people had a right to duplicate things like e-books "to

All Thing's Digital D7 conference revealed more tech inside knowledge today, with the first taps on the touchscreen interface of Plastic Logic's long awaited e-newspaper reader.

CEO Richard Archuleta presented the as yet unnamed and unpriced device in a Q&A session with veteran gadget hound Walt Mossbery, claiming the A4-sized reader will be aimed at a business market rather than the students and well-heeled book-lovers targeted by the Kindle DX.

The Plastic Logic device, looking rather like a thin digital photo frame, was shown with a working

At the All Things Digital D7 conference, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz defended the ailing search giant and suggested that it still outperforms Google in key areas.

"They're very good in search, very good in maps", said Bartz, as reported by ATD. "But they don't have the positioning and reach that we have."

"Google is a place people go to to search. We are a place people come to be informed. We want to be more personal than Google." Yahoo currently accounts for about 20 per cent of internet searches.

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