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It looks like TiVo's freshly minted Premiere hardware will soon be setting sail eastwards as The Daily Telegraph is reporting Virgin Media's next generation set-top box will be built around it. Loyal readers of Engadget HD will already be aware that TiVo and Virgin hooked up last November and this latest news relates to the first hardware to be spa […]

Unless they're incredibly quiet or potentially explosive, you won't find us waxing poetic (or even prosaic) about leaf blowers. But if a company that produced leaf blowers made a motorized calendar that tore off its own pages? We'd tell you about that in a heartbeat -- even if the wonderfully wasteful contraption turned out to be a viral ad by […]

Remember the HarmoNESica? A brief refresher, then: it's what happens when you've got a copy of Super Tecmo Bowl, a Pocket Pal harmonica, and the desire to create a unique musical instrument. But if you don't have any of the aforementioned ingredients and just want the end result, eBay's got you covered as usual -- three HarmoNESicas have […]

Words... what good are words when you're trying to describe the horrific visage of a growling, rugged, heavyweight camera coated in the frilly tutu of the color spectrum, magenta? We shan't try to describe the peculiar mix of revolt, disgust and subtle desire that this whole thing incites in us, and will just point you after the break for the video […]

Seriously, who told manufacturers that we're in love with garish LED status lights?ASUS has strapped a glowing orb of unnecessariness around the volume knob of the Cine5 -- an otherwise perfectly acceptable and appreciably diminutive PC soundbar. With an array of speaker drivers integrated into that curvy body, ASUS claims the Cine5 produces realistic m […]

When you think about HP, do you think about printers or maybe IT outsourcing? How about HP smartphones, ever think of them? You do know that HP still sells iPAQs right? That's ok, we have to remind ourselves too, occasionally, and therein lies the problem: most consumers don't have any idea what HP's 300,000 employees are up to... or even care […]

Before the iPad and before the Slate, the most exciting touchy tablety thing in our lives was Toshiba's JournE multimedia tablet. Now that the Japanese compu-maker has seen what the competition has on offer, it's proudly proclaimed itself back in the running with an entire family of slate devices it's planning to introduce near the end of 2010 […]

Isn't Italy a place of contrast? After the country's judiciary slammed Google for failing to keep a tight enough leash on user-uploaded content, we're now hearing that its local version of Wired magazine is putting forward the internet as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of its contributions to "helping advance dialogu […]

Remember those network investments that AT&T was talking up just days before Time Warner slipped over an offer for help? Looks as if the firm wasn't kidding around, but there's still nothing here that should get you excited about more available bandwidth in the coming days. Utilizing that fancy new Cisco router, the carrier recently completed a […]

Android for Windows phones -- simple concept, simple enough installation, but awesome results. The good people behind the XDAndroid project have been working hard to allow you to get your Google juices flowing nice and freely on your WinMo device and the latest build looks to have all but completed the task. Demonstrated on a Touch Pro 2 -- a phone that rece […]

About 24,000 clients of HSBC's private banking operation in Switzerland had personal details stolen, the bank admits. […]

A report into parents who cheat to get their child into a school calls for whistleblowing hotlines to be set up. […]

Sebastian Pinera is sworn in as president of quake-hit Chile, as a 7.2-magnitude aftershock strikes the centre of the country. […]

Freedom of expression on the web has been curtailed in 2009, the US state department has said in its annual human rights report. […]

Liverpool take on Lille before Fulham play Juventus in the last 16 of the Europa League. […]

A Stockholm court rules a Swedish man can be extradited to Poland for trial over the theft of a sign from Auschwitz. […]

Were rumours of Sarkozy's infidelity a media hoax? […]

The union representing BA cabin crew says there will be no immediate announcement about strike dates. […]

Chancellor Alistair Darling warns people not to expect a "giveaway" when he unveils the government's Budget later this month. […]

Virgin Media has begun trials of technology to deliver high-speed fibre-optic broadband over telegraph poles in the UK. […]

Hundreds of Nigerian women protest over last Sunday's violence near Jos, where many women and children were massacred. […]

US and Israel dodge settlement confrontation […]

Rock legends Pink Floyd win a court battle with record label EMI over online royalties and how their music is sold online. […]

Hamas releases a British journalist it had held for a month in Gaza, saying at a news conference that it suspects him of being a spy. […]

Burma's leaders formally annul the National League for Democracy's 1990 election win, as more details of new poll laws emerge. […]

UK forces are to hand security powers in the Afghan district of Musa Qala to US troops, the defence secretary says. […]

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych secures a coalition in parliament and one of his loyalists is confirmed as PM. […]

Justice Secretary Jack Straw meets the mother of murdered toddler James Bulger to discuss the return to prison of one of her son's killers. […]

Three MPs and a peer tell a court they are not guilty of charges of false accounting in relation to their expenses claims. […]

Defeated Sri Lankan presidential candidate Gen Sarath Fonseka is to be put on military trial next week, officials say. […]