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2nd February 2006 Archive

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  • Sony to ship dual-GPU, dual-core Vaio mid-March

    Plus carbon fibre chassis, Trusted Platform biometric security

    Sony has announced its Vaio SZ notebook range in the UK, boasting the laptop's carbon-fibre chassis, biometric security and the ability to flip between two graphics engines to boost either 3D performance or battery life. The SZ series take in Intel's Core Duo dual-core processor line, and ships with 512MB or 1GB of 533MHz DDR 2 …

    PCs 2 Feb 2006, 09:48

  • OLED keyboard maker touts mini keypad

    Three-button pad in May, full keyboard by year's end

    Russian hardware designer Artemy Lebedev has announced his second OLED-illuminated keyboard, a three-key unit designed to sit alongside a regular keyboard or one of his own picture-key jobs. Lebedev's product, the Optimus Mini, comprises three large buttons, each with its own colour OLED screen. The idea is the buttons show a …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 2 Feb 2006, 10:46

  • Nvidia to unveil AGP-enabled GeForce 7 series GPU

    Part pitched at behind-the-times PCs

    Nvidia will today announce an AGP version of its GeForce 7800 chip featuring 16 pixel-processing pipelines fed by six vertex shaders and clocked to 375MHz. It supports up to 256MB of DDR SDRAM clocked to 600MHz (1.2GHz effective). So claims DailyTech, which notes the GeForce 7800 GS is fabbed at 110nm. It also has a selection …

    Bits 'n' Chips 2 Feb 2006, 11:08

  • ATI updates Catalyst for Windows Vista

    New driver release for build 5270

    ATI has updated it Catalyst graphics card driver software to improve its GPU's ability to work with Windows Vista Build 5270. Among the products supported by the update, which remains a beta release, are ATI's Radeon Xpress 200 and 200M chips; its Radeon X1000-series, X100-series, 9000-series and FireGL GPUs; and its Mobility …

    Bits 'n' Chips 2 Feb 2006, 11:25

  • 20,000 videos available for PSP, iPod

    Videos anywhere, any time

    More than 20,000 independently produced, user-published videos are now available to be pushed to Sony's PSP portable videogame console and Apple's iPod. They're from Veoh Networks, which claims to be "the first internet television peercasting network". Veoh automatically downloads videos of interest to a PSP owner's device each …

    Media players 2 Feb 2006, 11:34

  • O2 hops on Blackberry 8700g bandwagon

    Second UK cellco to offer EDGE-equipped device

    O2 has become the latest cellco to offer the Blackberry 8700 - Research in Motion's (RIM) latest offering - in the UK. Like T-Mobile, O2 will offer the device as the 8700g. The machine is the first Blackberry based on an Intel processor, the XScale PXA901, and includes 64MB of Flash memory and 16MB of SDRAM. Crucially, the 8700 …

    Phones 2 Feb 2006, 12:02

  • RIM defeats InPro - again

    One less lawsuit in motion, apparently

    Research in Motion (RIM) appeared to have one less lawsuit in motion today after the English High Court effectively chucked out a patent infringement action brought against the Blackberry maker by Luxembourg-based intellectual property holding company InPro. The move comes a week after Germany's Federal Patent Court declared …

    Phones 2 Feb 2006, 14:05

  • Asus unwraps 19in rotating LCD

    Landscape? Portrait? Both!

    Asus has announced its first 19in LCD monitor - pitching its 'zero bright dot' replacement policy and the screen's 90° landscape-to-portrait swivel feature. The screen has a 16:10 aspect ratio and a native resolution of 1400 x 900. The image is enhanced with Asus' Splendid video technology, the company said, and there are twin …

    Bits 'n' Chips 2 Feb 2006, 14:28

  • Nvidia GeForce 7800 GS AGP

    Review One last gasp for AGP?

    Hands-up who remembers AGP? Ah, just the two of you, thought as much. You'd be forgiven for thinking that'd be the way such a conversation with four million geeks would go, given all the coverage of PCI Express graphics cards and platforms since PCI Express became the kind of slot you'd most want to plug stuff into... The …

    Bits 'n' Chips 2 Feb 2006, 15:29

  • Samsung ships 2GB motion-controlled MP3 player

    Shake that thang...

    Samsung has upped the storage capacity of its YP-T8Q and YP-U1Q Flash-based digital music players to 2GB, the company said today. The YP-T8Q has a 1.8in colour display for photos and MPEG 4 videos. It has five games built in, too, some of which are controlled by jiggling the player around in your hand. Ahem. If all these …

    Media players 2 Feb 2006, 16:08

  • Shuttle preps even smaller form-factor PC design

    ESFF™ kit to be aimed at living rooms everywhere

    Small form-factor PC pioneer Shuttle is to unveil a new computer casing design next month, the Taiwanese firm said today. It's keeping mum about the design's finer points, but it did claim the new look will shrink its Shuttle XPC range "even smaller and even more quiet" - the better to put them in living rooms. "We introduced …

    PCs 2 Feb 2006, 16:34

  • Palm eyes Ides of March for Treo 800p availability?

    Hoax or 'Hollywood'?

    Palm's next Palm OS-based Treo smart phone will be called the 800p, sport an new, slim Motorola Q-style design with an "enhanced" bright 320 x 320 display, offer Wi-Fi as an option and EVDO as standard, and ship with 128MB of RAM and a 3.2-megapixel camera. That, at least, is what a poster on a TreoCentral forum would have us …

    Phones 2 Feb 2006, 17:35