At Mobile World Congress to be held from 16 to 19 February 2009 in Barcelona, the announcement of the release of the first 3D mobile phone of the Japanese manufacturer Hitachi impatience shook all mobile-addicts worldwide.

The Apricorn's Aegis Mini is a portable HD to 1.8 "with 240GB capacity and cables integrated with two versions, one with USB 2.0 interface and one with FireWire interface. 

The price of disk drives and high definition is expected to decline with the introduction of a new license.

Winner of the battle for high definition DVD, the Blu-ray still struggling to win. According to research firm Future Source, 200 million on Blu-ray discs sold in 2008, only 36 million have sold. 82% unsold. To make things worse, not only the range of products available is limited, but still expensive equipment costing between 199 and 399 € for a drive, and 20 to 40 € for a film. If the price of readers and Blu-ray is so high, not only because the manufacturers hope to make the best new technology.

Bill Gates's sprawling Washington state compound is, as you might expect, packed to the gills with bleeding-edge gear, from the heated floors and 20-seat home theater to the X-ray machine (for screening the mail, of course) and miles of fiber-optic cabling. But here's what you definitely won't find at chez Gates: an iPhone. In the latest issue of Vogue, Bill's wife, Melinda Gates, reveals that among the "very few things" on "the banned list in our household" are—you guessed it—iPods and iPhones.