17th January 2006 Archive

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Phishing fraudsters target Apple

Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables

Email fraudsters are targeting Apple fans in a change of tactic from standard phishing attacks. Commonly bogus emails that form the basis of phishing attacks pose as security messages from online banks in an attempt to dupe a tiny proportion of recipients, who happen to be customers of the bank, into visiting a bogus site on …

Mac 17 Jan 2006, 09:32
VIA ships 90nm Eden low-power processor

C7 CPU transformed for silent PCs.

VIA today took its x86-compatible Eden processor family into the 90nm era by extending the series with two models derived from the company's 'Esther' core, also the basis of its C7 processor product line. The new chips are the Eden and Eden ULV - the latter an ultra-low voltage part that consumes just 3.5W at 1GHz and 7.5W at 1 …

Bits 'n' Chips 17 Jan 2006, 11:37
Gizmondo parent secures debt with Smart Adds IP

Back-up if it can't raise $75m by March

Tiger Telematics, Gizmondo's parent company, has pledged the patent and other intellectual property rights of its Smart Adds subsidiary - plus all the shares - against the company's ability to raise $75m in funding by 31 March. The move was revealed in a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing made public this past Friday …

Consoles 17 Jan 2006, 11:54
BenQ launches first BenQ-Siemens handsets

Pledges aggressive 3G, multimedia product strategy

BenQ Mobile today said it will focus on 3G and multimedia as its ships new handsets this year under the BenQ-Siemens brand. The first three devices to carry the new name will be the EF81, S68 and S88, the company said. The EF81, in particular, demonstrates the company's conception of its future direction, it added. In which …

Phones 17 Jan 2006, 13:28
Evesham Voyager C550 Core Duo notebook

Review The price is right?

As the dust settles on the Intel Centrino Duo launch, several machines based on the new technology have started to appear on the market. After the Acer TravelMate 8204WLMi our second Centrino Duo laptop comes from a UK company - not what you expect when you have massive players like Dell, IBM and HP on the case. The Voyager C550 …

PCs 17 Jan 2006, 14:23
Nvidia expands nForce 4 Intel line-up

Budget SLI part and mainstream PC chipset to ship later this month

Nvidia has added two more chips to its Intel-oriented nForce 4 North Bridge line-up, expanding the product family at the low-cost end of the market. The nForce 4 SLI XE and nForce 4 Ultra support all Socket 775 Intel processors, and while the Ultra already supports AMD's 64-bit CPU line-up, the SLI XE remains an Intel-only …

Bits 'n' Chips 17 Jan 2006, 17:11