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Despite the aura of gloom pervading the computer market in 2002, one technology looks like it had a good year. A report out this week shows that Bluetooth, the short-range radio system, experienced dramatic growth over the last 12 months.

Once the final figures are collected, market research firm In-Stat/MDR expects Bluetooth chip shipments to be up 250% on 2001.

But the firm warns that hurdles still remain to make Bluetooth fulfil its early promise and become the standard way of getting gadgets to swap data with each other...

The Register has an intersting article about what TiVo have announced at the Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas. No wonder they pulled the plug on TiVo 1...

A Harris Interactive study backed by Microsoft and Dell found that 50 percent of respondents said the computer was more important than any other digital device they own, including CD players, mobile phones and DVD players. The 2002 International Digital Lifestyle study polled 1,500 people in the US and Europe who own a computer and at least one other digital device -- a prime target market for many consumer electronics makers"...