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- CES: Sony's Flip rival, a portable Blu-ray player and the green tech hypeToday
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Sony's answer to the Flip
Flip Video was one of the gadgets of 2008, so it's no surprise that the rest of the tech industry is trying to muscle in to regain a bit of market. Flip was a best seller at Christmas in both the UK and US, so what can the big boys do to compete?
Sony's answer is the MHS-PM1, so the consumer electronics giant clearly isn't getting any more user-friendly with its gadget names and hasn't learnt from Flip's one-syllable success.
The Webbie HD series of cameras launches in April in the US and will undercut the Flip on price; the PM1 has a 1.8" screen, has a 4x digital zoom and will sell for around $170.
Flip's Mino HD, for comparison, has a 1.5" screen, selling at $229.95. Flip
- Tech Weekly podcast: CES roundup and Microsoft's Robbie BachToday
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In today's instalment of this special series of Tech Weekly podcasts from two of the world's top technology shows:
Bobbie Johnson straps on his shades and slips on his best gambling shoes to visit Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show – which promises to deliver all manner of weird, wonderful and whizzy gadgets over the next few days.
There'll be everything from big TV screens to tiny projectors, and run the gamut from gas-guzzling supercars to the greenest technologies around.
Technology writer Will Head and Kat Hannaford, the news editor of T3.com, join Bobbie to discuss the gadgets that have tweaked their interest during their snek preview of the show.
Plus Bobbie also speaks to Robbie Bach, Microsoft's president of entertainment and devices. He's the man in charge of the Xbox and Zune, so he discusses Microsoft's recent hardware failures, and the effects of the recession.
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• Why the Consumer Electronics Show is going greener in 2009 >> - Reviews site Yelp is coming to the UK - and bringing the partiesYesterday
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It won't be good news for Trusted Places, Brownbook or YourLocalLondon, but the well-established US listings and reviews site Yelp.com is launching in the UK tomorrow, kicking off with a dedicated London site.
Sprinkled with a few suitably colloquialisms and run by the soon-to-be-recruited community manager (get those applications in now!), Yelp London will have the usual mix of diverse reviews across everything from restaurants, shops, events and churches to parks, manicurists and local schools. If it exists in the real world, you can review it on Yelp.
Yelp will also bring its community events from the US; the most recent event in San Francisco saw 2,500 Yelpers meet up to share their enthusiasm for reviewing. It might seem odd, but as ever on