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So you’ve hammered your bank account and kitted out your front room with a lush, cinema-threatening flat-screen LCD TV.

Keen to keep things truly hi-fi and state-of-the-art, you’ve bagged yourself a frighteningly expensive Blu-Ray player and an awesome HD satellite set-top box.

With us all this top-notch gear, when it comes to cables, you’ve got to be looking at a big investment to get the best out of all this kit, right?

Wrong.

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Google has confirmed that future versions of its Google Chrome browser will integrate Adobe’s Flash plug-in.

The move looks set to aggravate relations with Apple a little further, who have declared the Flash platform to be too unstable, too buggy and too much of a CPU hog to grace the company’s iPhone and iPad devices.

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Logitech has launched a low cost universal remote control, designed to replace the growing clutter of remotes no doubt currently festooned all over your living room coffee table.

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Taiwanese tech company Elan Microelectronics have filed a suit against Apple that has the potential to stop the iPad dead in its tracks.

The suit filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission alleges that certain Apple products have violated their multi-touch patent.

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Sitting pretty in Vodafone’s online story and gamely giving you the wink is the Android glamour pussy handset, the HTC Legend, which is lined up for an imminent release.

Vodafone say that pre-orderers (sp?) should look forward to excitedly ripping open the box in their homes by 6th April.

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We’re normally not fans of sticking plastic surrounds, see-through protectors and sundry rubbery things around our phones, but Proporta’s keenly-priced Silicon iPhone case looks more attractive than most.

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When they’re not busy fighting battalions of Russian hooligans in far-flung car parks, the Welsh will soon be enjoying their new status as the UK’s first digital TV nation.

The country’s switchover from analogue to digital began in Swansea last August, with the city becoming the first fully digital city in the country.

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Nestling into the space between a smartphone and a netbook is Sharp’s new IS01 smartbook, soon to be launched in Japan on partnership with KDDI and Okinawa cellular.

With a form factor reminiscent of the much loved Psion series, the Android-powered IS01 mini-computer packs a 5″  960 x 480 display resolution and QWERTY keypad, and hums along on a 1GHz snapdragon processor.

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Google has announced that users can now transfer files via chat in iGoogle and Orkut, making it easy to quickly send a file to someone you’re chatting to.

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If you fancy flicking through a frothing fountain of formidable Facebook facts, foregathered in a fancy factsheet, you’re in for a feast here.

The Website Monitoring Blog have compiled a formidable graphic stuffed full of facts and figures, detailing the startling success of the hugely popular social networking site.

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Although we know that a cheapo £10 keyboard does the job just as well, we’re big fans of high tech keyboards – and the more pointless lights and gizmos bolted on, the better.

We’ve hammered away so hard at our Logitech diNovo Edge Bluetooth keyboard that several of the letters have now rubbed off completely, making our typing even more unpredictable than usual.

With our diNovo keyboard (literally) fading fast, we’re beginning to eye the Wireless Litetouch Keyboard with lustful eyes.

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We’re frothing at the bit to get our greasy paws on this hot new handset, but it seems there’s going to be a slight delay.

Several sources are reporting that a last minute software issue will see the launch slipping back from today to after Easter – most probably after April 2nd.

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If you’re finding your screen filling up with endless unwanted options when you right click on a file or folder in Windows, MenuMaid is on hand to clear out some of the cack.

Normally, removing these options is a right royal faff, involving an unpleasant dive around the perilous waters of the registry, but Menu Maid makes entry removal easy-peasy.

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UK tech site TechRadar have just posted up a comprehensive, 13-page review of the HTC Desire handset, now available on the T-Mobile network in the UK.

Running the Android 2.1 operating system and packing a ton of high-end features into its 119 x 60 x 11.9 mm body, the 133g handset packs a superb 3.7″ OLED capacitive screen, with four buttons and a motion-detecting optical trackpad underneath.

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Apple has been busy compiling an iPad-specific App Store ready for the launch, with iPad-only apps being approved and organised.

Tech site MacRumors claims to have accessed the iPad’s best seller lists which show several of the apps to be made available when the eagerly anticipated/totally over-hyped/Messiah Tablet/over-priced netbook launches.

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