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19th January 2006 Archive

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  • Apple cautious after record quarter

    Osborne sneeze, but no flu

    Apple posted a record quarter but gave a cautious outlook today, as Mac sales have started to slow down during the transition to Intel processors. The company cleared a profit of $565m on record earnings of $5.75bn in Q1 2006, which ended 31 December, and which included the Christmas shopping season. More than half of Apple's …

    Mac 19 Jan 2006, 01:10

  • AMD casts off memory shackles and soars

    Doing great against a 'brutal' rival

    Investors celebrated Wednesday afternoon after AMD issued glowing fourth quarter results. Record sales of server and notebook processors pushed AMD's revenue higher, and shareholders remained bullish on AMD after seeing the sales figures. AMD's stock surged more than ten per cent in the after-hours markets. In the fourth …

    Bits 'n' Chips 19 Jan 2006, 01:15

  • Apple adds MiniStore monitor warning to iTunes

    No data kept, company claims

    Apple has updated iTunes 6.0.2's MiniStore feature to display an explanation panel describing what the facility does the first time a user activates it. "As you select items in your Library, information about that item is sent to Apple and the MiniStore will show you related songs or videos," the new panel states. "Apple does …

    Media players 19 Jan 2006, 10:04

  • Nvidia ships 90nm, entry-level GeForce 7 GPU

    No SLI support for 7300 GS

    Nvidia last night extended its GeForce 7 GPU family down into the mainstream market, pitching the 7300 GS at entry-level systems. The 7300 GS is also Nvidia's first 90nm GeForce 7 chip. The new graphics chip has a fill rate of 2.2bn pixels per second and can process 413m vertices each second. It supports a single-channel DDR 2 …

    Bits 'n' Chips 19 Jan 2006, 10:26

  • Konica-Minolta to quit photography market

    Can't compete in the digital era

    Konica-Minolta today revealed it is to quit photography business after more than 103 years - with the loss of 3,700 jobs worldwide. The company also said it will move out of the camera market - digital and analogue - beyond the digital SLR systems and lenses it designs for Sony under a development deal forged in July 2005. …

    Cameras 19 Jan 2006, 11:25

  • Nintendo Revolution: affordable, shipping by Thanksgiving

    Company president speaks out

    Nintendo will ship its next-generation games console, Revolution, in the US in time for the Thanksgiving November holiday sales period, the company's president has pledged. Speaking to Japanese-language newspaper the Sankei Shimbun, and relayed by Gamespot, Nintendo chief, Satoru Iwata, said: "We can't disclose the Revolution's …

    Consoles 19 Jan 2006, 12:08

  • Clock chimes for Pong's finest hour

    Bip... Bop... Bip... Bop... Tick... Tock...

    Dutch design studio Buro Vormkrijgers will begin shipping a Pong clock next month. No, we're not talking a timepiece you have to sniff the hours, minutes and seconds, but a chronometer that lovingly re-creates the 1970s' arcade favourite. Yes, while two virtual players beep the square 'ball' back and forth across the clock's …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 19 Jan 2006, 12:31

  • PhoneDrive combines VoIP, Flash in USB key

    Internet telephony in 'your pants pocket', says manufacturer

    South Korea's Iocell has integrated Internet telephony into a compact USB Flash drive all in the name of conversational convenience. "The PhoneDrive can fit inside your pants pocket and be carried anywhere," says the company. The PhoneDrive product line provides between 128MB and 4GB of removable storage capacity, squeezed …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 19 Jan 2006, 13:43

  • iRiver U10 media player

    Review The iPod Nano killer?

    There's an interesting story behind the U10. Apparently, the head of River got together the whole design and engineering team in Korea and told them to that they needed to change their thinking. He told them to go back to the drawing board and come up with something new, to make a complete U-turn with their thinking. A U-Turn, …

    Media players 19 Jan 2006, 14:57

  • Digital music sales triple to $1.1bn in 2005

    Cash accrued from 420m song downloads

    Record companies made more than $1.1bn on legal digital music downloads last year - three times what they received in 2004. At that time they made $380m, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said today. Crucially, in some markets, including the UK and Germany, more listeners are downloading legal …

    Media players 19 Jan 2006, 15:00

  • Laptops continue to drive PC shipments

    Europe out-ships US

    Worldwide PC shipments rose by 17.1 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2005 to 61.1m, according to new figures released by IDC. IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker reveals that although shipments in North America were behind forecasts, international markets were able to pick up the slack to produce the third consecutive quarter …

    PCs 19 Jan 2006, 15:36

  • RIM: US economy up spout if Blackberry shut out

    Too important for Court to close it, apparently

    Research in Motion's Blackberry email service is too important to be shut down by the US District Court, the company claimed in papers filed in its legal battle with NTP this week. RIM's pitch to Judge James R. Spencer, who is presiding over its fight with NTP, is that its service has become a cornerstone of the US economy …

    Phones 19 Jan 2006, 16:38

  • Universal resurrects deleted albums for digital era

    CDs too pricey to press

    Universal Music Group has finally latched on to one of the key strengths of digital music downloads: you can offer stacks of tracks that would never be heard otherwise because they're economically impractical to release in physical form. UMG yesterday said it would offer for download around 100,000 songs that are currently …

    Media players 19 Jan 2006, 16:40

  • Google's botched video store starts coughing up cash

    Thanks for the loan

    Google has started returning money to those customers screwed by its hapless video service. Last week, we told you how billionaires Larry and Sergey had taken 99 cents from us and others as a result of their handicapped Google Video store. Thankfully, the Google founders have escaped the confines of their plush 747 and ego …

    Media players 19 Jan 2006, 16:42