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3rd May 2006 Archive

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  • Sony shows summer Vaio laptops

    Speed, storage bump

    Sony has announced its summer Vaio notebook line-up, boosting family members' memory, processor and storage specs. Take the FJ3 series, for example. This slimline 14.1in range now incorporates dual-layer DVD+RW support in addition to the many other recordable and rewriteable CD and DVD formats already handled. The range …

    PCs 3 May 2006, 08:52

  • AMD reportedly 'delays' dual-core Turion debut

    One month closer to Merom...

    AMD has put back the launch of its upcoming dual-core Turion 64 mobile processors to June, online reports have claimed. If true, the move - which had been forecast - will see the chip family's debut delayed just a month, though it brings the line's debut closer to the arrival of Intel's 'Merom' CPU. AMD's apparent decision to …

    Bits 'n' Chips 3 May 2006, 09:15

  • Intel ships 3.6GHz Pentium D 960

    Don't mention it

    Intel has begun shipping its latest top-of-the-line 65nm dual-core Pentium D desktop processor, the 3.6GHz 960. The chip maker has yet to launch the part formally, though it did get a casual mention in CEO Paul Otellini's analyst day presentation last week. The 960 was expected to ship late April, and that indeed appears to …

    Bits 'n' Chips 3 May 2006, 09:33

  • Apple wins right to retain fixed-price downloads

    Major labels drop insistence on variable pricing

    Apple has apparently succeeded in persuading the world's major record labels to re-license their content for sale on its iTunes Music Store (ITMS) for a flat-rate 99 cents - 79 pence in the UK - per track. To date, label executives have been keen to stress their demand for variable pricing - higher prices for new songs, lower …

    Media players 3 May 2006, 09:56

  • T-Mobile Sidekick III piccy posted on web

    Third-gen Hiptop imminent?

    Is this the face of Danger's third-generation Hiptop? The company's not saying, of course, and neither is T-Mobile USA, which sells the current Hiptop as the Sidekick II. The shot's said to come from marketing material, presumably being prepared for an upcoming launch. The latest pic matches the machine shown in blurry shots …

    Phones 3 May 2006, 10:18

  • Nano-friendly Bluetooth stereo adaptor in pipeline

    iPod powered

    German Bluetooth accessory specialist AnyCom is preparing a wireless stereo audio adaptor for Apple's iPod Nano. The slimline add-on draws its power from the player to beam out songs using the Bluetooth 1.2's Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP). The unit - dubbed the BluNa - plugs onto the bottom of the Nano, …

    Media players 3 May 2006, 10:44

  • UMD format's outlook 'bleak', warns analyst

    Content providers not responding to user interest

    US market watcher NPD has described the outlook for Sony's PlayStation Portable-friendly UMD format as "bleak". PSP users are not opposed to the disc format, but they're finding the range of available content limited and the price uncompetitive, the researcher said this week. NPD bases the prognostication on a survey of …

    Consoles 3 May 2006, 11:29

  • Nokia ships E61 'BlackBerry beater'

    E70 coming later this month

    Nokia's would-be antidote to Research in Motion's BlackBerry, the E61 smart phone, has started to ship, the handset giant said today. Initial units went out late last week, the company admitted, as it begins to ramp up global shipments. The revelation, made in a Reuters report, follows a deal struck between Nokia and iPass to …

    Phones 3 May 2006, 13:56

  • LG pours Chocolate into Europe

    Slimline KG800 handset goes on sale

    South Korea's LG today brought its KG800 phone - informally dubbed 'Chocolate' - to Europe in the hope the slimline slider handset will experience the same success here as it has back home. Chocolate's a 9.5 x 4.8 x 1.5cm phone with a 2in, 176 x 220, 256,000-colour display. It's a tri-band (900/1800/1900MHz) GSM/GPRS device …

    Phones 3 May 2006, 14:02

  • RIM re-targets SMEs with free server software

    Cost of entry lowered

    Research in Motion (RIM) is offering a free copy of its BlackBerry server software in the hope of persuading more small businesses to buy into its push email service, long perceived as a big-business offering. The SME version is - functionally, at least - identical to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server standard offering, …

    Phones 3 May 2006, 14:11

  • SanDisk Sansa c150 2GB MP3 player

    UK Exclusive Can SanDisk swipe the iPod Shuffle's market share?

    Everyone wants to be the 'iPod beater'. SanDisk is one of the latest to try its hand, and its introduction of Sansa-branded players last year brought it some success at the low-end of the market. Suitably encouraged, it's launched the Sansa c150, its first MP3 player with a colour screen and the ability to give the competition a …

    Media players 3 May 2006, 14:51

  • MacBook owners plan mass whine about whining laptops

    Support call flood scheduled

    A loose affiliation of MacBook Pro owners who together might be called the Apple Noise Abatement Society is calling on fellow users to join them in a worldwide day of action to protest at what they maintain is Apple's unwillingness to solve the noisy notebook issue. And since the new Intel-based portable Macs seems have a …

    Mac 3 May 2006, 15:26

  • AMD quad-core Opterons to gain L3 cache in 2008?

    Roadmap Gaining FB-DIMM support too, report suggests

    AMD is scheduled to launch quad-core Opteron processors capable of supporting Fully Buffered DIMM memory and sporting an extra level of cache shared by each of the fourt cores, it has been claimed in a roadmap-revealing report online. According to Japanese-language site PCWatch, AMD's second-generation quad-core Opterons will …

    Bits 'n' Chips 3 May 2006, 16:01

  • Ballmer impressed by Intel's new laptop for the poor

    WCIT We care enough to talk

    The weird battle to provide PCs to the underprivileged continues to hot up with Intel today announcing a new type of kiddie laptop due out in 2007. The Eduwise notebook made its grand entrance here at the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) with Intel CEO Paul Otellini unveiling the product. The laptop has a Trapper …

    PCs 3 May 2006, 21:34