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27th April 2006 Archive

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  • Samsung chip to power upcoming Flash iPods

    Chip maker lauds design win

    Samsung is the company that beat music-chip maker PortalPlayer to win the contract for upcoming Flash-based iPods, the South Korean giant said this week. The deal puts even more Samsung chippery into Apple's music player - ironic, that, given the two companies are direct competitors in the MP3 player market. Speaking at the …

    Media players 27 Apr 2006, 08:42

  • Rock readies D&D limited edition laptop

    Roll a 4d20 and add a Centrino Platform+1

    UK system builder Rock is to produce Pegasus 650 notebooks with a large Dungeons and Dragons Online: Stormreach decal on the lid. The company will make no more than 100 of the decorated devices, it pledged. The game's publisher, Atari, will offer three of them as competition prizes. The machines are available to order and …

    PCs 27 Apr 2006, 09:22

  • Man clocks Pentium Extreme to 5GHz

    Gas-cooled 65nm Intel Extreme Edition 965, anyone?

    Japanese enthusiasts have been treated to a demo of an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 965 chip running at over 5GHz, a frequency 35.8 per cent higher than the part was designed to be clocked to. The chip usually runs at just 3.73GHz. A peek inside the casing reveals Danish cooling specialist Asetek's VapoChill Extreme Edition …

    Bits 'n' Chips 27 Apr 2006, 09:44

  • ATI shows strong Q1 chipset sales growth

    Intel less fortunate

    ATI saw its share of the chipset market jump during the first quarter of the year thanks to increasing demand for its Intel- and AMD-oriented products, figures issued this week by market watcher Mercury Research reveal. The company's gains came despite a 12 per cent sequential dip in chipset shipments. Mercury's numbers - …

    Bits 'n' Chips 27 Apr 2006, 10:26

  • Intel's 'Broadwater' GPU to support Shader Model 4.0

    Vertex shading to be done in hardware at last

    More details have emerged about the graphics core - the latest in the GMA series - Intel intends to integrate into members of its upcoming 965 'Broadwater' chipset family. A presentation slide said to have come from the chip giant shows the part will support not only Shader Model 3.0, but also version 4.0. The leaked slide …

    Bits 'n' Chips 27 Apr 2006, 10:55

  • Intel 'Centrino 4' to drive desktop demand?

    'Santa Rosa' to boost small form-factor PC take up

    Think Centrino technology is only for notebooks? Think again. An Intel presentation partially leaked onto the web this week makes clear the next generation of the platform, codenamed 'Santa Rosa', will also be pitched at desktops when it's introduced "mid-Q1 to mid-Q2 2007". 'Desktop' is not quite the right word, of course, …

    PCs 27 Apr 2006, 11:19

  • BitLocker gives dual-boot systems the elbow

    Infosec Vista security feature is 'anti-Linux'

    Security features introduced in Windows Vista will make setting up PCs to boot in either Linux or Windows far more difficult, according to security guru Bruce Schneier. Vista is due to feature hardware-based encryption, called BitLocker Drive Encryption, which acts as a repository to protect sensitive data in the event of a PC …

    PCs 27 Apr 2006, 11:36

  • Casio unveils 10.1Mp anti-shake digicam

    Very fast too, company claims

    Casio has unveiled its highest spec compact digital camera yet: a 10.1-megapixel job that also sports an ultra-bright 2.8in, 230,400-pixel viewfinder display and the latest in anti-shake technology. The slimline point-and-shoot Exilim Zoom EX-Z1000 features a 3x optical zoom, but Casio claims the lens and the electronics …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 27 Apr 2006, 13:31

  • Nokia debuts N series trio

    Shoot movies, listen to music, make occasional calls

    Nokia this week said it has chosen June and July to ship its next Series 60 Third Edition smart phones, all part of the handset giant's N series, including one of the most camcorder-like devices the company has announced to date. The 3G N93 sports a big 3.2 megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom lens - a Carl Zeiss - mounted …

    Phones 27 Apr 2006, 13:57

  • Koreans unveil speech-recognising digital doggie

    Dog bytes man

    Sony's mechanised mutt Aibo may have been told to roll over and play dead for the last time, but what with Doctor Who's robot dog, K9, about to return to out TV screens? South Korea's Dasatech clearly believes the time of canis computus has come. The company today launched 'Genibo', a curiously familiar-looking plastic pooch …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 27 Apr 2006, 14:27

  • Asus to ship luxury leather laptop next month

    S6F hand-finished in coloured cowhide

    Asus will ship its leather-clad laptop, the S6F, next month, the manufacturer revealed this week. It hopes well-to-do punters will be happy to fork out almost £1,700 for a compact computer with an 11in display and a low-voltage Intel dual-core processor. The S6F's wrist-rest and lid are both covered in genuine cowhide, tanned …

    PCs 27 Apr 2006, 15:42

  • Seagate unveils 750GB external HDD

    Perpendicular product

    Seagate will next month ship an external desktop hard drive based on the 750GB Barracuda 7200.10 internal HDD the company announced yesterday, five days after details of the drive were inadvertently posted on the firm's website. The 750GB Pushbutton Back-up Hard Drive expands Seagate's existing 200-500GB external drive line- …

    Storage 27 Apr 2006, 16:23