25th January 2006 Archive

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Jobs sells Pixar to Disney for $7.4bn

Kerching!

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is now an even wealthier man, and it has nothing to do with iPod sales. Disney is indeed buying Pixar, the computer animation studio Jobs bought off George Lucas, for a rumoured $7.4bn. As the majority shareholder in Pixar, Jobs walks away with a good chunk of that $7.4bn, though since the deal is a share- …

Mac 25 Jan 2006, 10:27
Motion Picture Ass. of America makes ass of itself

Caught pirating DVD

If it's your job to stop people pirating movies, you should really be very careful not to get caught making pirate copies. But that's what the Motion Picture Ass. of America has managed to do. The MPAA lobbies for stronger action against pesky pirates and more effective digital rights management. This week it admitted copying a …

Media players 25 Jan 2006, 12:34
Navicore updates Symbian smart-phone GPS navigation pack

Bundles free traffic, safety camera downloads

Navicore has launched the 2006 release of its eponymous GPS-fed route planning software for Symbian Series 60-based smart phones. In addition to updated maps from TeleAtlas - the final versions were supplied just a few weeks ago, Navicore told us - Navicore Personal 2006 adds support for full seven-digit postcode searches, …

Gadgets and Gizmos 25 Jan 2006, 12:40
MS responds to Xbox execution claim

'Console will still be on sale through 2006'

Microsoft has failed to deny allegations that it's ceasing production of the original Xbox potentially to allow its manufacturers to punch out more Xbox 360s. The claim was made earlier this week by a retail worker who maintained that's what his wholesaler had told him. Kotaku, the website sent the missive, checked with …

Consoles 25 Jan 2006, 13:11
Nikon D200 digital SLR body

Review A long time coming, is it worth the wait?

Nikon's D200 is the successor to the D100 launched way back in the Summer of 2002. Back then the D100 went up against Canon's EOS-D60, a model which Canon has since replaced twice, with a third successor expected to be announced by March. Yes, it's sure been a long time coming, but at least Nikon's pulled out all the stops for …

Cameras 25 Jan 2006, 15:04
O2 pre-announces XDA Neo PDA phone

Full details at CeBIT, apparently

O2's German subsidiary will launch its latest own-brand PDA phone at the CeBIT show in March, the company announced this week. The device, dubbed the XDA Neo, sports a two-megapixel camera, incorporates Wi-Fi and runs Windows Mobile 5.0, the cellco said. In addition to what O2 Germany mentioned, we can add that the Neo will …

Phones 25 Jan 2006, 15:24
Intel ships 1m 65nm dual-core chips

That's a lot of MacBook Pros

Intel has shipped more than one million 65nm dual-core processors, the chip giant announced today. That figure comprises all the Core Duo chips, 'Presler' Pentium D 9xx parts and the Pentium Extreme Edition 955 that have gone out to makers of notebook and desktop PCs, not to mention the products Apple's using in its latest iMac …

Bits 'n' Chips 25 Jan 2006, 17:02
Intel 'on track' to debut 45nm CPUs in H2 07

Cites working memory chip as proof

Intel has become the first company to produce a working chip fabricated at 45nm, the chip giant claimed today. The part is a 153Mb SRAM memory chip containing more than 1bn transistors and measuring 119mm². And it's fully functional - sufficient, the company says, to show it's on schedule to ship 45nm processors toward H2 2007 …

Bits 'n' Chips 25 Jan 2006, 17:02