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Sony has announced its latest range of style headphones, with the MDR-570, MDR-370 and MDR-EX77LP and MDR-EX57. The ‘murder’ range – as we’ve decided to call them due to their unfortunate letter selection – is all about the looks. “Add a splash of colour to your favourite music with this season’s new collection of great value headphones from Sony,” says the company. ‘Whether you’re listening to your favourite downloads, catching up on the latest podcasts or gaming in private with your handheld console, you’ll enjoy sensational sound plus fresh, attention-grabbing looks.’ The closed back ‘colourful’ 570 range offers a 30mm Neodymium driver and a gold-plated stereo plug and is a ‘perfect upgrade for your MP3 players supplied headphones’.

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Freeview has launched an iPhone app ‘designed to help viewers plan their TV viewing while on the go’ The Freeview iPhone app is essentially another listings app, allowing you to see what is being shown on the Freeview channels – plus the HD channels on the Freeview HD service. “Features including a ‘now and next’ view and ‘Top 10′ channel list will make it easier to plan TV viewing and keeping up to date with the most popular channels,” says Freeview’s release. “Users can reorder channels so favourites appear first and customise listing to a viewer’s local region.” No record functionality Of course, the technophile audience may well be pointing out that Sky’s listing app also lets you set your PVR, or that other EPG apps have been available for some time. Tim Hunt, Marketing Communications Director at Freeview said: “As Freeview HD rolls-out across the UK, viewers can plan their HD viewing wherever they are with our new Freeview HD TV guide app.

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Toshiba has announced the K01 mobile phone sporting a full slide out QWERTY keyboard and a 4.1 inch OLED capacitive screen. The phone – which was announced alongside the Toshiba TG02 – brings the ever-popular QWERTY keyboard but it is the device’s screen which will garner the most attention. “The K01 also offers Toshiba’s first-ever Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) capacitive 10.4cm (4.1″) wide-screen – providing bright colour, contrast, lower power consumption and faster response times than ever before,” said Toshiba. A sliver under 1.3cm The K01 is 12.9mm thick – with the keyboard obviously boosting the size somewhat – and the rest of the specs are broadly similar to the TG01. That includes a 1GHz processor, up to 32GB storage (through a MicroSDHC slot) and the company’s new user interface which it hopes will “let users quickly browse to their favourite features, saving time and making the mobile experience more enjoyable.” There is no UK release date or price available as yet for the Toshiba K01, but the moment that we find them out we will, of course, let you know.

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Google has announced that extensions are finally coming to Google Chrome for the Mac. After much shunning from the internet giants, Mac users will be able to use the numerous extensions on offer and also bookmark synchronisation. Both these features have been rolled out in a new Beta release, where all of the 2,200 extensions that are available are ready and waiting to be used.

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Facebook has announced a birthday redesign, which is meant to “help you find what you are looking for on Facebook”. This isn’t a completely new design, so there shouldn’t be any of the backlash the social-networking site came under after it’s last change but a few things have been tweaked. Oh, and it just so happens to coincide with Facebook’s sixth birthday this week. These include: In the top menu, you will find your newest notifications, requests and messages The left menu has been organized to make it easier for you to communicate with and discover content from your friends It’s easier for you to find and interact with applications and discover new ones, with the new Applications and Games dashboards, accessible via the ‘Applications’ and ‘Games’ links on the home page You can now also bookmark your favourite applications using the ‘Add Bookmark’ button in an application Sharing enriches It sounds like applications will play a significant part in Facebook in the future, with the blog post noting that: “We think sharing information about the applications you use enriches the shared experience between you and your friends

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Google’s Chrome browser is marketed as a streamlined browser that removes all unnecessary bloat in order to maximise its speed on the web. But its lack of bells and whistles shouldn’t be misinterpreted as a lack of functionality. There are still plenty of ways that you can tweak Chrome to suit your own surfing habits.. 1. Useful Chrome shortcuts As with other browsers, you can use keyboard shortcuts to save time.

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Those of you looking at the HTC HD2 and wishing it wasn’t so Windows Mobile-esque will be pleased to hear that there may be an Android version coming. The HTC Supersonic looks set to deliver a 4.3-inch OLED screen, with Android 2.1 (the same used in the Nexus One ) used to power things along. It’s also got the HD2 -matching 1GHz processor on board, as well as a kickstand (which we know you all love) so you can watch your favourite videos hands-free. Stripped For the US, the phone seems to be running the 4G WiMax connection – if this was true it might make the chances if a UK version less likely, although a stripped down version is always possible

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Probably Windows 7 users wouldn’t like to install a third-party dock as the all new Taskbar (also known as Superbar) itself work as a dock. But if you are really looking for a dock to spice up your Windows 7 desktop, you should try the free Circle Dock . We had blogged about the same Circle Dock (Alpha version) almost a year and half back.

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The BBC iPlayer enjoyed its best-ever month in December, with the online video player cruising past the 100 million monthly streams mark for the first time. The popularity of the iPlayer was because of a number of factors, namely the finale of David Tennant as Doctor Who (1.3 million streams) and Top Gear ’s special set in Bolivia which ended up as being the most-watched programme over the December period. But it’s not just TV shows which have made the iPlayer such a success, radio is contributing its part too. The biggest thing radio-wise in December was Terry Wogan’s heart-wrenching farewell to his TOGs on the final Wake Up To Wogan . Easy to catch up “Breaking the 100 million barrier is a great way to kick off 2010 and these figures show that by offering simple and varied access to BBC iPlayer people are really finding it easy to catch up with their favourite programmes at a time that suits them,” said Erik Huggers , Director of Future Media and Technology, about the news.

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Toshiba has unveiled its Blu-ray player line-up, with the flagship BDX3000 bringing Blu-ray 3D capability when it arrives later in 2010. The BDX3000 headlines three players – the other two being the BDX2500 and BDX2700 – but all three bring impressive new functionality including streaming entertainment from NetFlix, CinemaNow, Pandora and 1080p VUDU content. “Entertainment options have come full circle, not just from high quality, high definition disc based Blu-ray content, but now also through online streaming of movies, TV shows and music,” said Jodi Sally, Vice President of Digital Audio/Video Marketing. “With these new devices, consumers will now not only be able to enjoy thousands of TV episodes and movies streamed from Netflix and Cinema Now, but also 1080p content from VUDU. Pandora’s (set top) box “In addition, to round out the offerings, consumers can enjoy their favourite music playlists created with Pandora for a fuller experience,” she added

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