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1st March 2006 Archive

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  • Apple end-of-lifes G4 Mac Mini

    And other snippets from the Steve J Show

    With yesterday's introduction of Intel-based Mac Minis, Apple quietly killed off its PowerPC-based predecessor. The G4-based Minis have gone from Apple's online stores, leaving just the Power Mac G5 and the 20in iMac G5 as the remaining legacy desktops. Apple's clearly getting better at this sort of thing. It took a month to …

    Mac 1 Mar 2006, 10:09

  • Napster blames Microsoft shortfalls for its problems

    With friends like these...

    Struggling music subscription service Napster is blaming Microsoft for its problems. Napster chairman and chief executive Chris Gorog said: "There is no question that their execution has been less than brilliant over the last 12 months. Our business does rely on Microsoft's digital rights management software and our business …

    Media players 1 Mar 2006, 10:10

  • 'World's smallest' Windows phone to debut next month

    Step forward, Malaysia's Axia 308

    Malaysian phone maker Fifth Media has announced what it claims is the world's smallest Windows Mobile 5 smart phone. The compact handset's profile measures 11.3 x 4.9, but it's 2.1cm thick. It squeezes in quad-band GSM, GPRS and EDGE connectivity, along with Bluetooth 1.2 and 802.11b Wi-Fi. The Axia 308 handset will be …

    Phones 1 Mar 2006, 10:30

  • Moto touts salmon SLVR

    Carphone Warehouse gets pink product

    The public's passion for all things pink has found a new outlet: a salmon-hued version of Motorola's SLVR phone. A sibling of the better-known L7, the rose-tinted release - to be offered exclusively through UK retail chain Carphone Warehouse, it seems - is the L6. Unsurprisingly perhaps, the handset is being offered with a T- …

    Phones 1 Mar 2006, 10:49

  • ECS touts eco-friendly, Viiv-benign mobo

    RoHS compliant 945G-M3 ships

    Want to build your own Viiv system? Elitegroup (ECS) has the motherboard, at least: its RoHS-compliant 945G-M3, which it has just begun shipping in the UK, the Taiwanese supplier said today. As its name suggests, the 945G-M3 is based on Intel's own 945G chipset with its ICH7-DH South Bridge - the 'DH' is for 'digital home', …

    Bits 'n' Chips 1 Mar 2006, 12:11

  • JVC tunes in to mid-size LCD HDTVs

    New DynaPix models support HDMI, HDCP

    JVC today unwrapped a pair of LCD TVs with integrated digital tuners. It pitched the products' inclusion not only of twin HDMI ports, but also their support for the HDCP copy-protection system. And JVC lauded the screens' bass-boosting sound systems and picture enhancement technology, too. The 32in LT-32DX7 and the 26in LT- …

    HD 1 Mar 2006, 12:18

  • Feed your PC free-to-air satellite TV

    Sky-less DVB-S

    AVerMedia has begun shipping just the card you need to connector your computer to freebie satellite TV channels. Its DVB-S Pro PCI card hooks up to your reception dish and get the kind of PVR and programme archiving features you don't get from the standard FreeSat box. The DVB-S Pro hooks into AVerMedia's AVerTV 6 software …

    PCs 1 Mar 2006, 13:02

  • TomTom redesigns Go in-car GPS kit

    Shipping 1 April, apparently

    Dutch satellite navigation specialist TomTom today said it will ship an updated TomTom Go range of in-car route-planning devices on 1 April. No fooling, the new 510, 710 and 910 models will feature a "world first" 4in screen, "greatly improved" GPS performance and a new computer dock. The new Gos will sport a new design …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 1 Mar 2006, 13:37

  • ATI unwraps dual x16 CrossFire Xpress 3200

    World's first single-chip dual PCI-I x16 implementation

    ATI has announced its Radeon CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset, as anticipated, with its support for twin PCI Express x16 slots for CrossFire configurations - the first single-chip North Bridge to do so - and provision of "unprecedented overclocking capabilities". The chip maker said the AMD Socket 939-oriented chipset - aka the …

    Bits 'n' Chips 1 Mar 2006, 14:19

  • ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset

    Review Asus' A8R32-MVP Deluxe mobo probed

    The ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset has been a long time coming, but the bad news is that ATI is only halfway there. The CrossFire Xpress 3200 PCI Express bridge is ready and working, but ATI is still working on its new SB600 South Bridge. However, this isn’t too much of an issue for the time being at least, since most of ATI’ …

    Bits 'n' Chips 1 Mar 2006, 17:12

  • Olive works 400GB into Opus digital music centre

    Holds more ripped CDs than you can shake Karajan's baton at

    Olive has announced the latest version of its latest high-end digital music separate, this time called the Opus and equipped with a 400GB hard drive - enough, the company claims, to hold 660 uncompressed CDs, 1,100 ripped using lossless compression, or 7,230 albums ripped to 128KBps MP3 files. Past Olive products were …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 1 Mar 2006, 21:01