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elcome to the 2008 edition of the DTT Global TMT Industry Group?s Media Predictions. As predicted in last year?s Media report, social networking has continued to gain in popularity, and our suggestion that concerns about privacy and user safety would grow proved correct.

n a move which they claim is a first for a UK retailer, the Dixons Group (DSG International) has stopped placing orders with manufacturers for analogue TVs, which of course means that once their current stock is gone, they’ll only sell digital TVs.

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ore Cyber-Shot compacts, with Sony today introducing the W170, W150, W130, W120 and W110. The range is topped by the 10.1 megapixel W170 with 2.7-inch Clear Photo LCD, Carl Zeiss wide angle lens with 5x optical zoom, Intelligent Scene Recognition and the option to take two shots one with standard automatic settings and the other with optimised settings. Other key W170 features include Smile …

ony has unveiled a new batch of cameras this morning - and first up is the Cyber-Shot T300.

irai has announced the availability of two new high definition-friendly LCD TVs, available in 32 and 42 inch sizes.

ony has upgraded its Vaio range for 2008, adding the Intel Core 2 Duo processor to a number of models, as well as improving general specifications to other products.

ardcore power laptop specialist Rock has just announced its new Xtreme SL8, which it believes to have the hardest-rocking graphics card combo of any laptop on the market right now.

he Sirius 4 communications satellite is now in full operation and has taken over all transmissions from its predecessors, Sirius 2 and Sirius 3. The satellite was launched by SES Sirius on 18 November 2007, since when all operations have gone according to plan.

Dispatches: Why Kids Kill didn’t live up to its title. Flashing statistics like a PowerPoint presentation, it gave a lot of evidence that youth-on-youth violence is happening, but not enough explanation why. When the Dispatches reporters went on to the street to interview hooded, pit-bull-yanking youths in Peckham, you could hear the fear in their polite little Channel 4 voices. “But why do you …