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27th March 2006 Archive

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  • Apple schedules Southampton, Manchester stores

    Internation retail expansion continues unabated

    Apple is planning to open at least two more Apple Stores in the UK, with shops set to open in Manchester and Southampton in the company's current fiscal year - by the end of September, in other words. Apple's retail plans come courtesy of a ThinkSecret report which lists the company's primarily US-centric store expansion …

    Mac 27 Mar 2006, 08:23

  • InPhase touts 'record breaking' holo storage density

    Hugely capacious optical media still on track for 2006 debut?

    Holographic storage specialist InPhase last week said it had managed to squeeze more than 515 billion bits of information into a square inch of storage media - higher than any commercially available data-archive technology, the company claimed. InPhase said its latest drive and media - branded Tapestry - together provide a …

    Storage 27 Mar 2006, 08:47

  • Motorola Q smart phone 'available April'

    Company confirms delay

    Motorola has tacitly confirmed past claims that its Blackberry-style smart phone, the Q, will just miss its original Q1 2006 shipping timeframe. According to a page posted on the company's website, the 1.2cm-thick, keyboard-equipped handset will be "available April 2006". Motorola announced the Q in July 2005, targeting a …

    Phones 27 Mar 2006, 09:25

  • Sony preps Shuffle-style MP3 Walkman update

    Still looks like a disposable ciggie lighter...

    Sony is preparing to launch a redesigned set of Network Walkman E-series digital music players, this time sporting a range of coloured cases and an integrated USB connector a la iPod Shuffle, a number of websites have claimed. Little is known about the machines beyond their looks, capacity - 512MB, 1GB and 2GB of Flash …

    Media players 27 Mar 2006, 10:15

  • Sony ends PSOne production

    Running down stocks

    Sony has stopped manufacturing the PSOne - the redesigned version of the original PlayStation aka the SCPH-100 - it has emerged. With the PS3 due to ship in November, the PS2 is set to become the entry-level system, so there's little need to keep making PSOnes. However, Sony will continue to promote and sell the system …

    Consoles 27 Mar 2006, 10:48

  • iTunes offers music DVD download

    All the tracks plus commentary, just no disc

    Apple has begun selling music video downloads in DVD-duration batches, an approach that mirrors the way its sells songs as both singles and as album packages. The first offering is Fade to Red: the Tori Amos Video Collection. Already available on DVD, the iTunes Music Store download package bundles 21 videos and the …

    Media players 27 Mar 2006, 11:20

  • Sapphire Blizzard X1900 XTX water-cooled graphics card

    Exclusive Thermaltake to the rescue?

    ATI's Radeon X1900 is a darned fine graphics chip but while it has taken the fight to Nvidia's GeForce 7900 GTX in no uncertain terms it also produces plenty of heat. When ATI updated the Radeon X1800 core to produce the X1900 it increased the number of pixel shaders from 16 to 48, and in the process it raised the transistor …

    Bits 'n' Chips 27 Mar 2006, 13:17