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9th February 2006 Archive

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  • Ad happy Napster turns Q3 profit to loss

    Spending sonic boom

    Despite adding tens of thousands of customers, Napster continued to cough up tons of cash in its third quarter. Napster's revenue increased 94 per cent year-over-year to $23.5m. Its net loss, however, grew to $17m from a profit of $12.8m in last year's Q3. Management preferred to focus on the addition of 66,000 premium …

    Media players 9 Feb 2006, 00:21

  • WidowPC to ship world's first SLI laptop in 60 days

    The race is on

    US system builder Widow PC has announced an SLI-equipped gaming notebook that it claims will be "the first on the planet". The graphics guzzler is going to ship with a monster 19in "fast-response" display, the company added. And it's coming within the next 60 days, Reg Hardware can reveal. For the moment, the machine - …

    PCs 9 Feb 2006, 10:01

  • VIA pitches P4M890 chipset at mainstream PCs

    Mobos following shortly?

    VIA has begun shipping its P4M890 integrated chipset for mainstream Pentium 4- and Celeron-based desktop systems, the chip maker said today. The part has support for HD audio and video, with an output resolution of up to 1080p, VIA said. With an eye on the media centre market, the chipset has two video capture ports and three …

    Bits 'n' Chips 9 Feb 2006, 10:32

  • Sony plans Taipei Game Show splash for PS3

    Working units on show?

    Will Taiwan play host to the first working, playable PlayStation 3 consoles? Sony will be presenting the next-generation entertainment device next week at the Taipei Game Show, and Chinese-language paper the Commercial Times said Sony will devote a quarter of its extensive 80-booth show space to the PS3. The show won't mark …

    Consoles 9 Feb 2006, 10:54

  • AMD to ship 65nm Athlon 64 and FX CPUs 'H1 07'

    Roadmap 'Brisbane'-bound, apparently

    AMD's first 65nm Athlon 64 and FX processors will debut early next year, followed by 65nm Semprons in the second-half of 2007, according to alleged company roadmap presentation slides that have popped up on Chinese-language website HKEPC. Coming sooner, though, is the next incarnation of AMD's Athlon 64 FX gaming processor, the …

    Bits 'n' Chips 9 Feb 2006, 11:20

  • Intel's 'Conroe' to end dual-core, single-core split

    Roadmap Both types members of same Core E6xxx series

    Intel's next-generation architecture-based 'Conroe' desktop processor will ship as the Core E6000 series, the latest desktop roadmaps to leak out of the chip maker reveal, and finally begin to blur the distinction between single- and dual-core processors. The chips will debut, as expected, in Q3, at speeds of up to 2.66GHz. …

    Bits 'n' Chips 9 Feb 2006, 11:47

  • Intel moves mobile 'Merom' back to Q4

    Roadmap Next-gen architecture to debut on desktops

    Intel's next-generation architecture-based 'Merom' notebook processor will not ship until Q4, leaked roadmap documentation suggests, lending weight to recent claims that 'Santa Rosa', the next generation of the chip maker's Centrino platform, will not debut until March 2007. According to a report on Japanese-language website …

    Bits 'n' Chips 9 Feb 2006, 12:14

  • Biostar Intel-oriented nForce 4 Ultra mobo ships

    Nvidia cock-a-hoop

    Nvidia was quick to point out yesterday that motherboard maker Biostar has begun shipping a board based on its recently announced nForce 4 Ultra for Intel chipset. Nvidia announced the part mid-January, and its debut in retail comes a year after the first nForce Intel chipset - aka 'C19' - was granted PCI Express certification …

    Bits 'n' Chips 9 Feb 2006, 12:44

  • Slim Devices to put Pandora in its network music box

    Lifts lid on music discovery service

    Slim Devices, maker of the Squeezebox family of network music players, will next month link its web-based internet radio service, Squeeze Network, to the Pandora music discovery service, the company said today. From March 1, Squeezebox will provide customers old and new with three months' free access to Pandora. Pandora's …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 9 Feb 2006, 14:23

  • RIM prepares to post ban-beating Blackberry update

    Firm to send switch-over signal if court grants injunction

    Research in Motion has finally come clean - sort of - as to how it plans to side-step the effects of its infringement of NTP intellectual property and keep its Blackberry service in business. It will ship a software patch that converts Blackberries into what it calls "multi-mode" devices. New product will get the code …

    Phones 9 Feb 2006, 15:12

  • Apple gears up to launch 'true video iPod'

    Will sport a 3.5in display and virtual clickwheel, claims site

    Time to drool, iPod fans. Apple is preparing the long-anticipated video-specific iPod, complete with a 3.5in, colour touch-sensitive display that covers the entire front face of the device and sporting a virtual clickwheel, according to a report posted on the web today. At this stage, it's not clear how much storage capacity …

    Media players 9 Feb 2006, 15:37

  • Motorola posts slimline slider phone specs

    Z revealed

    Motorola's Z ultra-slim slider phone will sport a 2.2in, 262,000-color 240 x 320 display, incorporate up to 128MB of memory, be capable of operating as an e-book reader and be able to play 128-voice polyphonic ringtones, the company's South Korean subsidiary, which designed the phone and launched it earlier this week, said today …

    Phones 9 Feb 2006, 16:15

  • Koreans conduct 'dawn raid' of Intel offices

    AMD vs Intel Over tea and cookies

    South Korean Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) officials today mounted raids on Intel's local offices, as part of the authority's investigation into allegations that the giant abused its leadership position in the chip market, the Korea Economic Times newspaper reported today. Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy confirmed that the Korean …

    Bits 'n' Chips 9 Feb 2006, 18:15