A collection of news items, product reviews and press releases from manufacturers and fellow sites from around the web.

• Diva Gem Bluetooth MP3 Player Review
  Daisy Multimedia sent us their highly anticipated DIVA GEM Bluetooth enabled MP3 Player. We reported about this interesting Gadget last November. Now I have the chance to try it first hand. The Bluetooth function enables users to use the DIVA GEM as a wireless Head-set or Hands-free device for mobile phones. So users can listen to music and can pick-up incoming calls with the MP3 Player. Pretty neat concept. Lets see if it works.
  Full Review
• We are happy to announce that 2 new products will be released today for the US market:
  Nero PhotoShow Elite - The Easy and Complete Photo Experience
  Nero 6 Ultra Edition - a new exciting update of the award-winning digital media suite
  Nero.com
• Chaintech Geforce FX5500 256Meg Videocard Review @ Tweaknews.net
  "Chaintech's FX5500 is a great little video card with lots of spunk. The 256MB DDR will help boost your system so that you can play newer games (look how well it did with Jedi Knight II). It's a solid card which performed quite well in our benchmarks. Considering the extra RAM and the fact that it's a 128-bit card, I had expected it to outperform the 128MB 64-bit 9600SE in each test… granted Radeons have consistently performed better than NVIDIA chips in certain benchmarks."
  Review
• Hightech Excalibur Radeon 9200SE Videocard Review @ Tweaknews.net
  "Now before you discredit this card as a slow piece of hardware, let me clarify one thing. This card is neither meant or intended to be a screamer in any way shape or form. What this card is offering is a very cost effective solution to a person needing the great 2D quality ATI is know for, allow the user to have fully functional VIVO capabilities and do some very minor gaming from time to time. For me to judge this videocard on gaming performance alone would be a very ignorant and completely unfair. Not every card is made to perform in the enthusiast market."
  Review
• Lite-On introduces it's 12x DVD dual drive, the SOHW-1213S.
  Available middle of June.
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• From HardwareZone:
  Eight-Way GeForce FX 5900XT Shootout - Review
  Computex 2004 Update (Part 8)
  Computex 2004 Update (Part 7)
  Computex 2004 Update (Part 6)
  Seagate Announces 11 New Products
• EMTEC Consumer Media acquisition by MPO - HiSPACE
• First HD-DVD format up for approval - Digit Magazine
• ASUS DRW-0804P DVD Burner - Review
• The external CDRW and DVD reader combo, SBW-242 “24X COMBI Slim” - Review
• Gigabyte GA-7VT600-RZ Motherboard - Review
• We have a new review up on the Zalman 5.1 External USB Sound Card (ZM-RSSC). Review
• World's First Nero Digital Enabled CE Devices To Be Showcased At Computex 2004 - Press Release
• Labels to dampen CD burning? Article