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15th March 2006 Archive

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  • Sony delays PlayStation 3

    Update Global roll-out in November

    It's official: Sony has delayed the roll-out of the PlayStation 3 to early November from the late March timeframe the consumer electronics giant had originally pegged for the product's release. However, it confirmed the console will launch in the US, Canada, Europe and Japan simultaneously. The exact reason for the delay isn' …

    Consoles 15 Mar 2006, 07:53

  • Apple posts full-length movie on iTunes

    Test download not for public consumption?

    Apple appears to have begun - albeit in a very small way - full-length movie downloads. The Mac maker yesterday posted a Disney TV movie, High School Musical, on the iTunes Music Store, offering the 1h 40m, 487.1MB film for the best part of $10. The download appears to be a trial run for a Disney Channel video service. When …

    Media players 15 Mar 2006, 08:29

  • Intel ships 31W Core Duo-based Xeon LV chip

    Sossaman sauce

    Intel has begun shipping 'Sossaman', the 65nm Core Duo-derived low-voltage Xeon processor it announced in July 2005. The chip giant is pitching the part, which it claims consumes no more than 31W, at 1U-rack and blade servers, along with network-attached storage (NAS) and communication applications-oriented boxes. Sossaman - …

    Bits 'n' Chips 15 Mar 2006, 09:40

  • Sony states hard drive 'required' for PS3

    Touts Linux support too

    Sony's PlayStation 3 will require a hard disk drive, the consumer electronics giant revealed today. It indicated the console would ship with a 60GB 2.5in drive and that it would be upgradeable, suggesting the unit is removable - much like the Xbox 360's HDD. That said, it isn't clear whether the PS3 will ship with an HDD. …

    Consoles 15 Mar 2006, 09:59

  • Sony to bring PSP Base Pack to Europe, US

    EyeToy, GPS accessories and PSOne game downloads coming too

    Sony is to launch a global content download service for its PlayStation Portable handheld games console, the company said today. It will also ship a PSP version of the hugely popular PS2 accessory EyeToy, and a GPS-module to enable not only navigation but location-specific game functionality. Details are few and far between, …

    Consoles 15 Mar 2006, 12:15

  • MSI GeForce 7900 GT card

    First UK Review NX7900GT-T2D256E, to be precise

    It has now been a few days since Nvidia announced its latest range of graphics cards and stocks are already running low at most retailers. In Nvidia's defence, there were cards available to buy from day one, although some online retailers charged a fair amount extra for the cards. The first board to arrive at Reg Hardware's …

    Bits 'n' Chips 15 Mar 2006, 13:08

  • AMD ponders maths boost to quad-core Opterons

    Talking to Clearspeed

    AMD is in talks with UK co-processor company Clearspeed in a bid to boost the performance of future multi-core x86 CPUs, it has emerged. It's not hard to see why. Clearspeed's current CSX600 design can provide a huge floating point boost. Clearspeed's co-processors accelerate compute-intensive maths library operations in much …

    Bits 'n' Chips 15 Mar 2006, 15:33