6th February 2006 Archive

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Kiwis craft first iPod-integrating bed

What do you give the iPod owner who has everything? An opportunity to listen to their favourite digital music player while they sleep with none of that tangled-in-the-duvet earphone misery, that's what. And now you can, courtesy of New Zealand bed maker Design Mobel. The company's Pause bed incorporates not only an iPod dock, …

Gadgets and Gizmos 6 Feb 2006, 10:15
Compal to fab Fujitsu-Siemens' 3G handhelds

Pocket Loox T810, T830 production partner selected, paper claims

Fujitsu-Siemens' (FS) pipelined pair of PDA phones, the Pocket Loox T810 and T830, will be manufactured by Taiwan's Compal, Chinese-language newspaper the Commercial Times said. There's no word yet from FS about the new devices, pictures and specifications of which surfaced on the web last month. The smart phones are believed …

Phones 6 Feb 2006, 11:03
VW preps Google Earth-based in-car sat nav rig

But will it fly?

Volkswagen is partnering with Google to devise an in-car navigation device that plots your path using Google Earth images and points-of-interest (POI) data rather than the more basic vector graphics displayed by today's sat nav units. VW's pitch for the product - as reported by EETimes - is that it will make for a more natural …

Gadgets and Gizmos 6 Feb 2006, 11:17
Evesham readies RAID-enabled home music store

Rebadges Roku network music player too

UK PC maker Evesham will ship a music streaming system designed not only to pump your favourite tunes out across your home network, but also to protected your collection against hard drive damage. The MBox provides up to 500GB of storage, though you only get half of that because the unit has two drives, one configured to mirror …

Networking and Wireless 6 Feb 2006, 11:47
Sony Ericsson to ship iPod-styled 3G email phone in Q2

Slimline handset pitching for Blackberry business

Sony Ericsson today launched its first device based on a new version of the UIQ user interface for the Symbian mobile phone operating system. Launched in two forms - one black, the other white - the 1.5cm-thick M600 dual-mode 3G phone is pitched directly at the iPod generation. The M600 offers tri-band GSM/GPRS for back-up …

Phones 6 Feb 2006, 12:27
Dell drops out of HDD MP3 player biz

Took a month for anyone to notice...

Dell has dropped its line of hard drive-based MP3 players, but it's taken more than a month for anyone to notice. The absence of the Pocket Digital Jukebox players from Dell's website was spotted last week by Bloomberg. The news agency asked Dell about it and learned the products were canned late December/early January, it …

Media players 6 Feb 2006, 13:31
Ergo preps pink PC for breast cancer charity

Benefits Genesis Appeal

You've seen the pink Motorola Razr V3 mobile phone. You've eyed the pink T-Mobile MDA Compact II PDA. Now gape at the pink Ergo Ensis S notebook - the latest item of rose-hued technology to be offered up to UK consumers. This time it's all for a good cause - ten per cent of the laptop's VAT-exclusive £575 price tag goes to the …

PCs 6 Feb 2006, 14:23
Motorola SLVR L7 music phone

Review Where's iTunes, Moto?

According to the 'word on the street', there are two reasons why you would want Motorola's SLVR phone over any other. The first is the dimensions of the device and the second that it's the second phone from Motorola to offer users iTunes software. The first point is very true. The SLVR is incredibly slim: it's just 1.2cm thick …

Phones 6 Feb 2006, 15:22
WD offers 120GB pocket external drive

Bus-powered

Western Digital has upped the capacity of its Passport external hard disk drive to 120GB. The drives are based on WD's own Scorpio line of 2.5in notebook-oriented HDDs, and since they too were recently upgraded to 120GB, it's no surprise that the Passport series now offers that capacity in addition to the 40, 60, 80 and 100GB …

Gadgets and Gizmos 6 Feb 2006, 15:49
ATI launches mobile workstation GPU with 12 pixel engines

Mobility FireGL V5200 = Mobility Radeon X1600?

ATI has introduced its latest graphics chip for mobile workstations, the Mobility FireGL V5200. The GPU's got five vertex engines feeding 12 pixel-shader processors. While the previous generation of the product, the FireGL V5000, had just eight pixel-shader units, it also had six vertex engines, one more than the new chip. …

Bits 'n' Chips 6 Feb 2006, 17:12
IBM and Freescale really commit to Power

They're not bitter

Spurned by Apple, IBM and Freescale have stunned the technology world by announcing that PC processor technology has become boring and is a dead end. With that in mind, the pair plan to reinvigorate their partnership around the Power processor architecture. During a joint press conference, Freescale revealed that it has joined …

Bits 'n' Chips 6 Feb 2006, 19:32