1st February 2006 Archive

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Visto claims Good done bad

Lawsuit alleges patent infringement

Visto has sued rival push email provider Good Technology, claiming its competitor infringed four of its patents, which relate to data synchronisation across a network. The lawsuit comes a month and a half after it sued Microsoft for the alleged violation of three of the four patents. Good is accused of incorporating …

Phones 1 Feb 2006, 10:44
Intel to add Enhanced SpeedStep to 65nm desktop chips

Core upgrade due early April

Intel is updating its 'Presler' and 'Cedar Mill' 65nm desktop cores to improve the part's power consumption by adding support for the chip maker's Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST). The upgrade affects the dual-core Pentium D 920, 930, 940 and 950, clocked at 2.8, 3.0, 3.2 and 3.4GHz, respectively. Sample of the …

Bits 'n' Chips 1 Feb 2006, 11:00
Intel to ditch half its Itanium 2 line-up

Pruning some 130nm Xeon MPs too

Intel has told customers it is discontinuing the production of eight Itanium 2 processors, all victims of demand for "higher performance" products. The chips marked for termination are the 1GHz and 1.4GHz dual-processor models, both with 1.5MB of L3 cache. The 1.4GHz/3MB DP-oriented Itanic 2 is out too, as are the 1.1GHz/4MB, 1. …

Bits 'n' Chips 1 Feb 2006, 11:19
Turbocharge your desktop PC!

Competition Win an Intel, PowerColor and Crucial upgrade bundle worth over £1475

Give your desktop PC a New Year kick! Reg Hardware, Intel, PowerColor and Crucial Technology have teamed up to bring you the chance to win a desktop PC upgrade bundle worth more than £1475*. We've got an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 840 CPU, an Intel D955XBK motherboard, a PowerColor Radeon X1900XT 512MB graphics card and 1GB …

PCs 1 Feb 2006, 11:59
Cisco puts TiVo, Nintendo on shopping list?

Who's next buy for networking giant?

Cisco has made clear it is moving into consumer electronics, but could it really buy Nintendo or Tivo? The strategy has been well signposted - chief development officer Charles Giancarlo told the Financial Times earlier this month that home electronics devices were no longer standalone devices but would increasingly be …

Consoles 1 Feb 2006, 12:27
Neuros MPEG 4 Recorder 2

Review The no-frills PVR is revamped for the PSP and iPod

The first incarnation of Neuros' MPEG 4 Recorder proved a handy tool for getting video onto a PDA without having to leave your computer on overnight while it churned through complex re-encoding algorithms. However, it didn't quite hack it as a no-frills PVR, lacking support for the higher resolutions you need for decent playback …

Gadgets 1 Feb 2006, 16:10
Sony, Toshiba, NEC partner on 45nm chip tech

Pooling development teams

Cell processor partners Sony and Toshiba, along with fellow Japanese chip maker NEC, today said they plan to work together to develop 45nm chip fabrication process technologies. The deal appears to be a pooling of resources. Sony and Toshiba first said they were co-operating on 45nm technologies in February 2004. Toshiba …

Bits 'n' Chips 1 Feb 2006, 16:23
Apple prunes iMac G5 pricing

Only the 20in model; the 17in price remains unchanged

Apple has knocked $200 off the price of its iMac G5 in the US, while reducing the UK price by £150. The machine now costs $1499 and £1049 in the two territories. The price of the 17in model remains unchanged at $1299 and £899, respectively. The 20in iMac G5 contains a 2.1GHz G5 CPU, 512MB of 533MHz DDR 2 SDRAM, a 250GB hard …

Mac 1 Feb 2006, 16:46
Apple to 'drop 1GB iPod Shuffle'

Red 1GB Nano on the way?

Apple's failure to match pre-Macworld speculation and announce a revised iPod Shuffle could have sounded the screen-less music player's death knell. Its replacement, suggests UBS Investment Research analyst Ben Reitzes, will be a 1GB iPod Nano. Suggestions that Apple is pondering a 1GB Nano were made in December 2005 as 1GB …

Media players 1 Feb 2006, 17:09