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10th January 2006 Archive

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  • Verizon switches off MP3 support

    Microsoft deal results in Microsoft-only player

    Last week, US mobile firm Verizon announced a deal with Microsoft to allow subscribers to listen to music on their phones. But it has now emerged that people signing up to the new service are losing the ability to play MP3s on their phones. The company said the decision was made to keep things simpler for users - one media …

    Phones 10 Jan 2006, 10:30

  • AMD ships dual-core gaming CPU

    Athlon 64 FX-60 to face Intel's PEE 955

    AMD has begun shipping its first dual-core Athlon 64 FX gaming processor, the FX-60, hot on the heels of Intel's Pentium Extreme Edition 955. The chip-maker has also introduced a pair of top-end Turion 64 processors, the ML-42 and ML-44. The FX-60 is clocked at 2.6GHz, less than the 2.8GHz FX-57. Both are fabbed at 90nm and …

    Bits 'n' Chips 10 Jan 2006, 10:42

  • AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 dual-core gaming CPU

    Review The best AMD consumer-oriented processor yet?

    The Athlon 64 FX, the pinnacle of AMD's consumer processor offerings, now has two cores, to more effectively run a modern OS. There's no surprise - the mystery of whether or not the next FX would be single- or dual-core was dashed a while ago, and really it was obvious if you think about it. Once you understood that it was dual- …

    Bits 'n' Chips 10 Jan 2006, 12:34

  • Mercury ships PS3 - kind of

    Evaluate the Cell CPU for data visualisation apps

    US-based Mercury Computer Systems (MCS) has begun shipping a technology evaluation system centred on Sony, Toshiba and IBM's Cell processor - the heart of the PlayStation 3. Not that MCS is pitching the rig at games developers. Its Cell Technology Evaluation System (CTES) is aimed at companies keen to test Cell's suitability …

    Bits 'n' Chips 10 Jan 2006, 15:07

  • Downloads hit Christmas peak

    Record-breaking record sales...

    Christmas 2005 saw a new record set for downloaded music - with the last week of the year seeing more than 20m music tracks downloaded and paid for by US customers - three-times higher than the 2004 figure. This compares to the previous record set the week before Christmas of 9.5m downloads - suggesting a lot of Americans woke …

    Media players 10 Jan 2006, 15:11

  • ATI Radeon Xpress to support HDMI

    CES Sign of the times...

    ATI didn't say much about the future of its Radeon Xpress chipset line at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, but it did indicate that the next generation of the product will support the HDMI interface. As our photo of the relevant part of ATI's CES stand shows, the company also suggested the part will offer " …

    Bits 'n' Chips 10 Jan 2006, 16:12

  • Intel Macs stay at non-Intel prices

    Macworld New iMacs come early

    Apple is shipping its first Intel-based Mac six months early and debuting its first Intel-based laptops. However, it seems that Intel technology does not herald Intel pricing. CEO Steve Jobs opened Macworld in San Francisco by previewing the MacBook Pro, a machine that supersedes the PowerBook G4 and introduces 4-5x performance …

    Mac 10 Jan 2006, 20:42