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Just a week after we raved over the new Bravia W4500 from Sony, here's the Z4500, now boasting MotionFlow 200 Hz technology to ensure the fluidity of moving images.

Like its predecessor, this TV comes in three huge sizes that place it very definitely at the top of Sony's range.

We tested the Bravia KDL-40Z4500, but it's also available as the Bravia KDL-46Z4500 (46'' screen) and the Bravia KDL-52Z4500 (52'' screen).

As ever, all three have been added to our ongoing comparisons of the state of the market:

> Product Survey: 40'' to 49'' TVs

> Product Survey: 50'' and larger TVs

According to Digitimes, Acer last month became the world's leading manufacturer of notebook computers, ahead of traditional market leaders, HP and Dell.

With around 3.5 million computers sold (of which 1.2 million in the popular Aspire line which we have looked at here), Acer is clearly ahead of HP with 2.6 million units shipped and Dell which doesn't even scrape across the 2 million line. 

Dell isn't giving up without a fight though, and Michael Dell has promised to extend his company's market share in Europe, leading to suggestions that competition may be about to hot up.

The new-found popularity of netbooks, currently dominated by Asus and their EeePC line could serve to reignite this market ...

> Product Survey: Notebook Computers

> Product Survey: Netbooks

Season One was played out on our screens back in spring, with speculation reaching fever-pitch: was Microsoft about to buy out Yahoo!?

The summer saw Season Two, with a shorter run: perhaps the arrival of activist investor Carl Icahn--and two of his nominees--on Yahoo!'s board would allow Microsoft to purchase just the search division of the Internet company?

It seems that Season Three will be back this autumn though: Mithras Capital Partners, who own a 0.14% stake in Yahoo! have proposed a new plan.
According to Reuters, the group has suggested that Microsoft act now while share prices are low to buy Yahoo! for 22 dollars a share. 

That's a lot less than the 31 dollars that were on the table back in Febuary, but represents a 74% premium on the current Yahoo! share price of around 13 dollars.

Mithras' reasoning is that Microsoft can buy up all of Yahoo! before getting rid of the businesses it's not interested in--mostly Yahoo!'s Asian holdings and non-search businesses, leaving the core search features intact.

All told, Mithras calculate that this would lead to Microsoft effectively buying Yahoo!'s search business for around 10.3 billion dollars, two billion cheaper than it would have been able to achieve in the summer.

Neither Microsoft nor Yahoo! have commented on the idea, but Mithras Capital is keen to move the deal forward despite the latter's proposed partnerships with Google (currently held up by regulatory conerns) and negotiations with AOL-Time Warner.

> Reuters: Investor proposes Microsoft buy Yahoo for $22 per share

Even though it is still not yet officially on sale, the HTC G1, the first phone to ship with Google's Android operating system is already proving incredibly popular.

Its carrier in the United States, T-Mobile, has announced that its entire stock of the phone has already been allocated to existing customers seeking to upgrade.

Even though it doesn't technically go on sale for another ten days, then, this means that over one and half millions of the handsets have already been ordered.

No room for error

Given the enormous popularity of a phone so few people have actually seen in the flesh so far, we suspect that first impressions are going to be very important:  the G1 will have to be a success from the off when it actually arrives in the next few weeks.

Having said that, however, the phone's developers have done their best to make the new product a success: a very tight collaboration between Google (for the software) and HTC (for the hardware), with both companies focusing a lot of effort on a single handset is not without precedent.

The last phone that everybody was talking about, the Apple iPhone, was a 'unique' product, too.

The resemblance ends there, though, as the phones each have a very different look and feel.  While the iPhone features a single large multi-touch screen, the G1 also includes a sizeable QWERTY keyboard. 

And as for looks, we think we can leave that one to you ...

It's been something of an open secret ever since last Friday when Release Candidate 4 of OpenOffice.org version 3.0 was made available, but now it's official: OOo 3 is here.

An open-source replacement for office suites like Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org includes the word-processor Writer (equivalent to Word), the spreadsheet Calc (Excel) and the presentation graphics tool Impress (Powerpoint).

It's currently available for Windows, Linux and Intel Mac, with native support for Mac OS X being one of the most exciting new features.

That's not the only new addition to OOo 3, however.  All versions include:

• support for the latest version of the Open Document Format (ODF), as well as the formats introduced by Microsoft Office 2007
• a new Start Center allowing you to easily create a text document, a spreadsheet or a presentation

New in Writer, you can now:

• view several pages side by side
• add notes and corrections in the margins of a document

Calc can now:

• edit equations
• draw more complicated graphs, using margins of error and correlation coefficients
• create spreadsheets up to 1024 lines instead of 256

Naturally, all of the other updates that have been included along the way from version 2 are here, including all of the nifty upgrades brought in version 2.4.

The interface, though, is far from revolutionary, which might disappoint those of you who enjoy the new 'ribbon' in Microsoft Office 2007 ... and perhaps please others.  Anybody who's used OOo before certainly won't feel out of place.


> What's New in OpenOffice.org 3.0?
> Download OpenOffice.org 3.0

At just 10 cm long, 6 cm high and 68 grams on the scales, this new Bluetooth keyboard is not designed for your desktop. 



Instead, it's aimed at smartphone and PDA users, with Targus proclaiming it useful for writing e-mails, SMS messages and playing games.

It's certainly not the most advanced keyboard ever, but it's small enough to slide into a pocket of your bag in case you need to write a longer message on the go.