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12th May 2006 Archive

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  • Product Red MacBook, iPod due Tuesday?

    Special edition Motorola SLVR certainly

    Will next Tuesday, 16 May see the debut of the much-touted red iPod? Let's string together a series of coincidences and see if it will. We've no evidence - think of the exercise as a thought experiment. Apple was rumoured to announce its new Intel-based MacBook this week, on Tuesday. A variety of sources say the launch will now …

    Mac 12 May 2006, 08:52

  • Nvidia posts record quarter

    Income down, though

    Nvidia yesterday reported record revenues for the first quarter of its 2007 financial year. Sales totalled $681.8m, up 17 per cent on the year-ago quarter's $583.8m and 7.6 per cent up on the previous quarter's $633.6m. However, GAAP net income was down sequentially, falling 7.5 per cent from $98.1m (26.5 cents a share) to $ …

    Bits 'n' Chips 12 May 2006, 09:14

  • Dell unveils mutant XPS gaming PC

    X-Men movie tie-in

    Dell yesterday unwrapped a special "collector's" edition XPS gaming PC designed to cash in on the hype surrounding the third X-Men movie, which opens in cinemas later this month. Like the XPS 600 Renegade system announced earlier this year, the X-Men model is expected to cost a whopping $10,000. The new machine sports Dell' …

    PCs 12 May 2006, 09:50

  • Sony PS3 sports PSP-like user interface

    Multi-user ready, too

    Sony's PlayStation 3 presents a user interface based on the one the company developed for the PlayStation Portable, complete with Games, Music, Movies and Photo settings - and a multi-user system, it has emerged. A picture snapped of the PS3's UI by T3 magazine shows a more graphically impressive version of the familiar PSP …

    Consoles 12 May 2006, 10:21

  • Motorola finally ships iTunes phone in UK

    RAZR V3im brings jukebox app to Brits

    Motorola has at least allowed UK consumers to buy a handset that incorporates Apple's iTunes music software. Phones made available in the US with iTunes have to date shipped over here without the application. The new phone is the RAZR V3im, a updated version of the V3i Motorola launched in the UK earlier this year. You can …

    Phones 12 May 2006, 10:49

  • Russian MP3 sales site 'more popular in UK than Napster'

    Study claims AllofMP3.com second only to iTunes

    A Russian company labelled by the music industry as as an "unlawful" operation was nonetheless second only to iTunes as the favoured destination of UK digital music buyers during April 2006, figures from UK-based market watcher XTN Data reveal. According to XTN, Apple's iTunes Music Store accounted for 44 per cent of music …

    Media players 12 May 2006, 13:57

  • French concessions on DRM not enough for Apple

    Time for Le Crunch

    Moves by French politicians to soften plans that will force Apple and others to open up DRM to help consumers do not go far enough, industry representatives have claimed. The interoperabilty bill was passed yesterday by the upper house of the French parliament. Under the relaxed proposals, rather than force Apple and others …

    Media players 12 May 2006, 14:15

  • Elonex Artisan VX Viiv media centre PC

    Review Viiv arrives in the UK

    Elonex might not be the first brand you think of when you're going to buy a computer and even less so as a supplier for your next PVR/DVD recorder. But Elonex has been making some excellent Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) PCs for quite some time. Its latest mode, the Artisan VX, is one of the first Intel Viiv-branded PCs …

    PCs 12 May 2006, 15:01

  • Sony UK to ship white PSP next week

    Out on Monday, etailers suggest

    Sony looks set to ship its glossy white version of the PlayStation Portable in the UK early next week, if a number of the country's biggest retailers are anything to go by. The special-edition handheld console will ship in the Value Pack bundle configuration. Almost all the online retailers we checked with this afternoon have …

    Consoles 12 May 2006, 15:25

  • T-Mobile unveils England-backing World Cup phone

    Which is unpatriotic, considering it is German

    T-Mobile UK has launched a special edition Samsung phone to celebrate England's latest attempt to avoid being ignominiously knocked out of the World Cup tournament. Hoping to rekindle the team's fomer glories, the handset is preloaded with a video clip of Geoff Hurst's winning goal in 1966. The Samsung E370: Three Lions …

    Phones 12 May 2006, 16:00