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28th April 2006 Archive

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  • Nintendo splashes Revolution with 'Wii'

    First flush of success?

    It's no joke - Nintendo today renamed its next-generation console 'Wii'. As in 'we', apparently, but in school playgrounds across the UK - and probably everywhere else in the English-speaking world too - they'll be sniggering and adding a second 'e' to the 'we'. 'I'd rather have a wii than an PS3,' we can almost hear the wee …

    Consoles 28 Apr 2006, 09:05

  • Sales of handheld devices continue to drop

    For the ninth quarter in a row

    Sales of handheld devices are continuing to fall, according to new figures issued by research firm IDC. The organisation's latest worldwide Handheld Qview report reveals the total number of devices shipped during the first quarter of 2006 totaled 1.5m, a drop of 22.3 per cent year-on-year. In 2005, global shipments of …

    Phones 28 Apr 2006, 09:37

  • Intel chief to chop workforce?

    Biggest company 'review' since mid-1980s, pledges Otellini

    Intel may be about to take an axe to its employee roster as the chip giant strives to become "leaner, more agile and more efficient", the goal of a major restructure announced by CEO Paul Otellini last night. It will be the firm's biggest shake-up since the mid-1980s, he claimed. "No stone will remain unturned or unlooked at …

    Bits 'n' Chips 28 Apr 2006, 09:40

  • Smart mobile device market up 55%

    Qtek emerges as star performer

    Over 16.7m 'smart mobile devices' were shipped worldwide in the first quarter of 2006, up 55 per cent on the same period a year ago. According to research from Canalys, the Asia-Pacific region has now overtaken Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) in sales of smart mobile devices. Asia-Pacific represented 46 per cent of all …

    Phones 28 Apr 2006, 09:51

  • Sony to bring net-based TV-to-PSP streaming to Europe

    Mac OS X to be supported too

    Sony will next month launch its LocationFree TV (LFTV) service in the UK and other key European territories, allowing PlayStation Portable users to receive television programmes transmitted from the home and out across the internet. Mac users are to get access to the service too. LPTV support is included in the PSP firmware …

    Consoles 28 Apr 2006, 11:05

  • AMD Opteron CPUs hit by heat stroke

    Exclusive 'Marginal' effect, chip maker claims

    AMD today admitted it has inadvertently allowed a number of 2.6GHz and 2.8GHz single-core Opteron x52 and x54 processors that could corrupt data under extreme conditions to escape into the wild. It is believed that the glitch is triggered when the affected chip's FPU is made to loop through a series of memory-fetch, …

    Bits 'n' Chips 28 Apr 2006, 11:59

  • Mio A701 GPS smart phone

    Review SatNav, PDA and GSM phone in one pocket-friendly device

    Satellite navigation is a must-have these days. Established brands like TomTom, Garmin, Navman and Magellan are being challenged by a wide range of companies. Mio was early to market with competing products and even its own route-planning software, although until now none of its devices have sported phone features. Enter the Mio …

    GPS and Satnav 28 Apr 2006, 12:54

  • TDK cracks 200GB Blu-ray Disc problem

    Yes, but is it really a Blu-ray Disc?

    TDK has gone ahead and produced the 200GB Blu-ray Disc it announced a few weeks ago that it was working on. And while it appears to have failed to compress four standard dual-layer 50GB discs together into a single unit, it has nonetheless come up with a novel alternative. According to a subscription-only report on Japanese- …

    HD 28 Apr 2006, 15:42

  • Intel to offer new architecture every two years

    Roadmap 'Conroe' followed by 'Nehalem' followed by 'Gesher'

    Intel will ship 'Conroe' in July and 'Merom' in August, CEO Paul Otellini said yesterday, illustrating his announcement with a slide using the icon of new buddy Apple's iCal application to indicate the ship dates. Both CPUs are the first, respectively, desktop and notebook incarnations of Intel's upcoming performance-per-Watt …

    Bits 'n' Chips 28 Apr 2006, 16:50