24th March 2006 Archive

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T-Mobile to make mobile net service 'unlimited'

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T-Mobile UK is to make its Web'n'walk mobile internet service "unlimited" giving punters access to an "all-you-can-eat" product for £7.50 a month. Due to be launched on 1 April, the unlimited Web'n'walk service will enable punters to browse the web, check out email and chat whenever they want. But although the service is " …

Phones 24 Mar 2006, 07:02
Toshiba defeats Hynix in Tokyo court

Toshiba 1, Hynix 0

Hynix suffered a set-back in the Tokyo District Court today when the judge ruled that the South Korean company infringed a NAND Flash patent held by Toshiba and ordered it to pay ¥7.8m ($66,000) in damages. Infringing Hynix products may not now be imported into Japan. Hynix immediately said it would appeal against the verdict …

Bits 'n' Chips 24 Mar 2006, 10:32
Sony says PS3 will be region-free

Games, certainly; movies... maybe

Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation 3 will not impose a region-coding scheme on games. That the consumer electronics giant was considering such a move was first signalled in November 2005, but it was made official policy this week by the company's head of games development, Phil Harrison. The revelation came in a Q&A …

Consoles 24 Mar 2006, 11:02
Universal launches movie downloads... at DVD prices

Analysis Defining the market dynamics before Apple can?

Lovefilm.com will next month extend its full-length movie download service from rentals to pay-to-own. It will kick of the offer on 10 April with the latest King Kong remake, charging £20 for a copy of the DVD and a pair of digital downloads, one for desktop usage, the other for portable media players. The scheme, a joint …

Media players 24 Mar 2006, 12:10
Nvidia wins more Sony contracts

Expected to generate more revenue than the PS3 GPU deal

Nvidia is going to get more money out of Sony - more, in fact, than it garnered for developing the PlayStation 3's graphics chip, the company revealed this week, though it won't say what the work's for. The cash will come from "new contracts with Sony to do some further designs", Nvidia CFO Marv Burkett, said this week. …

Bits 'n' Chips 24 Mar 2006, 12:38
Palm sales up, shipments down

Buoyed by smart-phone shift

Palm saw its sales rise 36 per cent year on year during the third quarter of its 2006 fiscal year. Revenues for the three-month period reached $388.5m, down 12.6 per cent on the previous quarter's $444.6m, though a Q2-Q3 dip is traditional. Net income for the quarter came to $29.9m (28 cents a share), according to GAAP rules …

Phones 24 Mar 2006, 14:05
RIM's 3G Blackberry launch imminent

Vodafone has the gig, apparently

Research in Motion (RIM) has partnered with Vodafone to bring the first 3G-enabled Blackberry device to market, Reg Hardware has learned. The machine is based on the 8700 series launched last year. The 8707v is based on a 312MHz Intel PXA901 processor backed with 16MB of SRAM and 64MB of Flash memory. In addition to 3G …

Phones 24 Mar 2006, 14:55
Asus W2Vc 17in widescreen notebook

Review A stylish aluminium clad 17in notebook from Asus...

With the notebooks taking a huge share of the home market, Sony has been one of the most popular brands, partly due to its stylish designs, but mostly thanks to its well-know brand name. Asus seems to be very keen on taking some of Sony’s share in the home laptop market, and the W2Vc is one in a range of new ultra-stylish …

PCs 24 Mar 2006, 15:22
Bluedelta extends SmartSCART AV connector

Even more SCART, S-video and RCA ports

Bluedelta Designs has updated is SmartSCART router, increasing not only the number of SCART connections it can intelligently and automatically route signals between but also adding stereo audio and a pair of RCA compostite video and two S-video inputs too. The SmartSCART Plus has six SCART inputs and a seventh SCART connector …

Gadgets and Gizmos 24 Mar 2006, 16:22