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26th May 2006 Archive

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  • Intel to push Core 2 CPUs across the board

    Mainstream price-points targeted from day one

    Intel's upcoming 'Conroe'-based Extreme Edition Core 2 Duo processor will ship with the model number X6800, it has emerged, courtesy of the latest roadmap leak from the chip giant. And it will be pushing the Core 2 series at the same price as current Pentium processors. According to slides posted on Chinese-language site …

    Bits 'n' Chips 26 May 2006, 09:46

  • Dell launches XPS 700 gaming rig in UK

    New-look casing

    Dell has begun offering its new gaming-oriented PC design to European buyers, branding the machine the XPS 700 and equipping it with a top-end Pentium Extreme Edition processor and a pair of Nvidia GeForce 7900 GS SLI graphics cards. The £1,375 baseline system's a more basic 3GHz Pentium D 930; 1GB of 533MHz DDR 2; a 7, …

    PCs 26 May 2006, 10:49

  • Danger Hiptop 3 pic pops up on web

    T-Mobile Sidekick III ready for primetime?

    No one knows the spec - well, anyone who does isn't saying - but pictures of Danger's eagerly anticipated Hiptop 3, more likely to ship as the T-Mobile Sidekick III, are slowly starting to appear. The latest matches the much smaller shot posted earlier this month, which in turn looked like a blurry phone camera-grabbed image …

    Phones 26 May 2006, 11:08

  • HD DVD to incorporate region-coding restrictions

    China to get own disc format too

    HD DVD is to get region coding after all, if the DVD Forum, the industry organisation that maintains the DVD format, has its way. This week, the Forum decided to put in place a team to create a region-coding scheme for the next-generation optical disc technology. At a meeting held in Seattle earlier this week, the DVD Forum's …

    HD 26 May 2006, 11:47

  • Cambodia bans 3G phones

    Mobile porn clampdown

    Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has responded to a complaint from his wife that she'd received pornography on her 3G mobile in a manner befitting his Khmer Rouge past - by banning the technology altogether. According to Reuters, Hun Sen announced the clampdown today to an assembly of Buddhist monks in Phnom Penh, with: "I …

    Phones 26 May 2006, 12:00

  • 3M Laptop Privacy anti-peek filter

    Review A blow to glancing?

    Mac owners peeved that Apple has only just introduced glossy notebook displays - products the rest of the laptop industry have long since adopted - have a saviour, of sorts, in the Post-it company 3M. So too do notebook users fed up of folk peering over their shoulders to sneak a peek at their screens. 3M has solved both …

    Gadgets 26 May 2006, 12:03

  • LG touts 4x Blu-ray Disc recorder

    Only handles single-layer media, though

    LG has announced what may be the world's first Blu-ray Disc recorder to run at 4x speeds. The catch: it doesn't support dual-layer, 50GB media, only single-layer, 25GB discs. LG has shown the GBW-H10N drive off a number of times during 2006, first at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, back in January. This week, …

    Storage 26 May 2006, 12:26