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27th January 2006 Archive

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  • HTC Q4 sales, income rocket

    Making Windows Mobile smart-phone market its own?

    Taiwan's HTC saw sales leapt 66.2 per cent sequentially during the fourth quarter of FY2005, according to the PDA-phone maker's provisional, unaudited financial results. For the three months to 31 December 2005, the company realised revenues of TWD27.53bn ($862.32m), well up on the previous quarter's TWD16.56bn ($518.71m). Then …

    Phones 27 Jan 2006, 10:18

  • AMD quad-cores to use DDR 2-oriented Socket F interconnect

    Product demos coming mid-year, says AMD exec

    AMD's quad-core server processors, due to be demonstrated later this year, will be based on the chip maker's upcoming Socket F infrastructure. So says Marty Seyer, the head of the company's server products operation, in an interview with US publication CRN. He didn't mention the unannounced Socket F, of course, but he did say …

    Bits 'n' Chips 27 Jan 2006, 10:36

  • Western Digital ships 500GB desktop hard drive

    Ups notebook line to 120GB, too

    Western Digital (WD) has upped the capacity of its Caviar Serial ATA desktop hard drive range to 500GB, pitching not only the part's storage but also its low power consumption and low operational noise level - features it also highlighted for its new 120GB Scorpio 2.5in notebook drive. The 500GB Caviar SE16 runs at 7,200rpm and …

    Bits 'n' Chips 27 Jan 2006, 11:05

  • Sony's Stringer kills (robot) dog

    Aibo axed in profitability push

    Sony has killed off its Aibo robo-doggie, the consumer electronics giant reported yesterday. The computerised canine was one of many victims of the company's attempt to get back into profitability. Aibo won't disappear just yet: while the development of new models of the mechanical mutt has now ceased, Sony said production of …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 27 Jan 2006, 11:32

  • Intel Core Duo: no balls, just bumps, says analyst

    First trans-gender silicon?

    It's official: Intel's latest 65nm dual-core desktop chip, 'Presler', shipping as the Pentium D 9xx series, has no balls. Neither, it seems, has 'Yonah', the chip giant's 65nm dual-core mobile part aka Core Duo. The verdict comes from Canadian chip analyst Chipworks, and it's not as harsh as it might at first sound. While Intel …

    Bits 'n' Chips 27 Jan 2006, 12:15

  • UK file-sharers told to pay more than £20,000

    Music biz heralds anti-piracy legal victory

    The English High Court has ordered two men to pay a combined £6,500 in damages after deciding they illegally distributed music through P2P file-sharing networks. The two cases were brought separately by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the UK's equivalent of the Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA), and are the …

    Networking and Wireless 27 Jan 2006, 12:50

  • HP confirms iPaq hw6900 series

    CE conformity declared

    HP has tacitly admitted it has plans to ship the rumoured iPaq hw6900 Mobile Messenger PDA phone family by posting a document on its website that declares the devices conform to a variety of European Union and other regulations. The successor to the current iPaq hw6500 series, the hw6900 line comprises at least two models: the …

    Phones 27 Jan 2006, 13:20

  • FujiFilm FinePix F11 Zoom digital compact camera

    Review Does it fix the F10's faults?

    FujiFilm's F11 Zoom steps into the company's line-up alongside the F10, its predecessor. It addresses a few issues with the F10 that were not exactly problems, more just missing features, such as a manual shooting control. So, the camera boasts more or less the same design and control layout of the F10 but with a smorgasbord of …

    Cameras 27 Jan 2006, 14:13

  • Seven cough to copying Star Wars DVD

    Revenge of the MPAA

    The loan of an illicitly obtained pre-release copy of Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith has left seven friends each facing up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $100,000 (£56,000). Albert Valente, 28, took a copy of the final Star Wars film from the Los Angeles post-production facility where he worked last May, a week before …

    Media players 27 Jan 2006, 14:25

  • Norway accuses iTunes of consumer-rights violations

    Consumer Council complains

    The Consumer Council of Norway (CCN) has accused Apple's iTunes Music Store operation of violating the country's Marketing Control Act, and it has asked Norway's consumer ombudsman to intervene on behalf of digital music buyers. It also asked the ombudsman to investigate three other download services. The CCN reckons ITMS …

    Media players 27 Jan 2006, 15:39

  • Los Angeles sues Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas makers

    Smut controversy continues

    Los Angeles has taken the makers of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas to task over the game's infamous but now deleted "hot coffee" sex scenes. LA City Attorney Rockard J Delgadillo this week filed a lawsuit in the Los Angeles Superior Court against GTA:SA developer Rockstar Games and publisher Take-Two Interactive, alleging the …

    Consoles 27 Jan 2006, 16:31