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8th May 2006 Archive

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  • Apple beats Beatles

    Apple vs Apple High Court dismisses breach-of-agreement claim

    Beatles recording company Apple Corporation has failed to persuade the English High Court that Apple Computer's iTunes Music Service is a violation of a 1991 deal struck by the two companies to define their respective business domains. This morning, Mr Justice Anthony Mann ruled that the apple logo governed by the agreement …

    Media players 8 May 2006, 10:03

  • Multigig intros literally revolutionary chip clock

    Rotary wave technology

    Chip technology developer Multigig came out of hiding today to announce what it claims is a major breakthrough in the design of microprocessor clock circuitry: a rotary oscillator that, the company maintains, delivers "extremely precise, high-resolution, low-noise timing signals" and does so by consuming "far less power than is …

    Bits 'n' Chips 8 May 2006, 10:14

  • Intel to call 'Conroe' and 'Merom' Core 2

    Core blimey...

    Intel's upcoming next-generation architecture processors 'Conroe' and 'Merom' will be branded 'Core 2 Duo', online reports allege. The gamer-friendly version of Conroe will ship as the 'Core 2 Extreme'. The claim, made by Reuters yesterday, was not confirmed with official comment, but the presence of chip logos in other …

    Bits 'n' Chips 8 May 2006, 10:42

  • Samsung, MS to demo Flash-fitted HDD - again

    Ready to ship, just waiting on Vista

    Samsung and Microsoft first demonstrated a hard drive containing Flash memory as well as magnetic storage just over a year ago, and next month the pair will show the technology again, this time in a form that they claim will be ready to come to market. Once again, the system will be demo'd at WinHEC, which this year kicks off …

    Bits 'n' Chips 8 May 2006, 11:07

  • HTC launches, renames 'Star Trek'

    Vowels dropped SMS-style

    HTC today launched its slimline 'Star Trek' clamshell smart phone, as we reported last month, though the handset is not due to ship in the UK until late June, the company admitted. The phone will indeed arrive in the UK as the QTek 8500, though HTC is now calling the handset the STRTrk, presumably to avoid any trademark …

    Phones 8 May 2006, 11:41

  • Colorware paints up MacBook Pro

    Lamborghini yellow or Ferrari red, anyone?

    US PC painter Colorware has begun offering Mac fans the chance to buy Apple's 15.4in MacBook Pro in one of almost two dozen metallic and non-metallic hues. But the process doesn't come cheap, adding around $650 to the aluminium-clad notebook's base price. Still, it's the only way consumers are likely to be able to get a Mac …

    Mac 8 May 2006, 12:07

  • Beatles' label to appeal against High Court verdict

    Apple vs Apple Judge got it wrong, music company claims

    Apple Corporation has confirmed it will appeal against today's English High Court verdict favouring Apple Computer. The Beatles-owned company clearly doesn't agree with Apple Comp. CEO Steve Jobs that the "disagreement" should now be "put behind" the two companies. Mr Justice Anthony Mann this morning ruled that Apple Comp. …

    Media players 8 May 2006, 12:59

  • Samsung demos world's skinniest phone

    Waistline under 7mm

    Samsung today unveiled what it claims is the thinnest mobile phone yet made and said it pans plans to ship the skinny device in China and Europe later this month. At 6.9mm, the phone is even skinnier than Motorola's 11.5mm SLVR. The SGH-X820 weighs a mere 66g and packs in Bluetooth and a two-megapixel camera. Samsung didn't …

    Phones 8 May 2006, 14:34

  • Samsung phone sported Mac OS X graphics

    Manufacturer admits mistakes made

    Samsung has admitted it made "a few mistakes" when it shipped a mobile phone into the Korean market with a graphical user interface that contained Mac OS X desktop wallpapers and icons for applications like TextEdit, Sherlock, and Stickies. Microsoft's MSN Messenger icon was used too. According to a Korea Times report, the …

    Phones 8 May 2006, 15:09

  • VMD to hit US with '100 titles'

    Blu who?

    Versatile Multilayer Disc (VMD), one of the lesser-known formats jostling to become the successor to DVD, will launch in the US later this year with the release of more than 100 titles, the company behind the technology pledged today. To indicate the VMD's support among the major Hollywood studios, New Media Enterprises (NME) …

    HD 8 May 2006, 16:30