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6th January 2006 Archive

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  • Dell ridicules Microsoft as a 'so called' high-end gamer

    CES Fire-breathing Renegade burns Xbox 360

    Dismissing Microsoft's Xbox 360 as "so called high-definition gaming," Michael Dell today unveiled a stunning new limited edition Dell gaming PC packed with four Nvidia graphics processors and a "factory over-clocked" 4.26GHz chip. Chairman Dell did the unveiling here at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and managed to wow …

    PCs 6 Jan 2006, 01:53

  • Intel recruits top Hollywood talent to make Viiv thrive

    CES Hopefully, they know what Viiv is

    Intel rolled out Tom Hanks, Morgan Freeman and Danny DeVito to help sell its Viiv technology here at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The star power, however, did little to convince us that this Viiv thing is more than a wishy-washy brand. Intel describes Viiv - which sounds like 'five' - as a hardware and software pairing …

    PCs 6 Jan 2006, 02:36

  • Blu-ray Disc developers complete specification

    CES Tech ready for licensing as backers unveil players

    The Blu-ray Disc specification has been completed, the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) announced last night, just three days after dotting the i's and crossing the t's on the format. Given the announcements of BD players and content made at the Consumer Electronics Show here in Las Vegas this week, we'd certainly hope it had …

    HD 6 Jan 2006, 17:09

  • Asus revs Lamborghini laptops

    CES Vroom, vroom...

    Asus has signed a deal with Italian automobile maker Lamborghini to produce a line of notebooks that sport the car company's logo. The Lamborghini laptop line-up will include glossy black and yellow machines which, Asus claims, "with the look alone, exude power, speed, strength and beauty". Apparently. Actually, the look quite …

    PCs 6 Jan 2006, 18:00

  • Cowon previews 4GB 0.85in HDD MP3 player

    CES It's got a tiny OLED screen too

    South Korea's Cowon this week demo'd at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas what it claims is the world's first micro media player based on a 0.85in hard disk drive. The iAudio 6 contains a 4GB HDD - presumably the Toshiba drive that has just begun shipping - on which users can store WMA (including DRM-protected songs), …

    Media players 6 Jan 2006, 19:21

  • Handheld PC runs two OSes on two CPUs

    CES Windows Mobile and XP ticking over simultaneously

    DualCor will ship its dual-CPU PDA-PC combo in March, the privately held start-up revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today. The company's cPC combines a Windows Mobile 5.0 system running on a 400MHz Intel PXA263 with Windows XP Tablet PC Edition running on a 1.5GHz VIA C7-M processor. Both processors take …

    PCs 6 Jan 2006, 22:47