10th July 2006 Archive

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Second analysts forecasts iPod hold-up

New Nanos knocked back two months, market watcher predicts

A second analyst has forecast iPod delays. Late last week, Baird analyst Tristan Gerra added his voice to American Technology Research market watcher Shaw Wu to tell investors higher-capacity iPod Nanos will not appear as early as expected. As early as analysts and casual observers anticipated, that is. Apple has given no …

Media players 10 Jul 2006, 09:37
Apple delays Scandinavian iTunes reaction

August extension

Apple has been given more time to defend the Digital Rights Management (DRM) in iTunes, which has fallen foul of Scandinavian regulators. It now has until 1 August to prepare its case. The Norwegian Ombudsman ruled in June that the terms and conditions for iTunes were unlawful and have to be changed. The body gave Apple until 21 …

Media players 10 Jul 2006, 09:48
Sony readies 4GB MemoryStick Pro Duo

Summer debut

Sony will this Summer ship a 4GB Memory Stick Pro Duo memory card, the company announced today. With the company's array of MemoryStick, Pro, Duo, Pro Duo, Micro, Tiny and High Speed variants, the "revitalised" packagin design Sony promised is probably more welcome than the higher storage capacity. The 4GB Pro Duo offers a …

Storage 10 Jul 2006, 09:57
Diode dearth to hinder Blu-ray Disc drive launches?

Sony wants them all for PS3, report alleges

Will Sony's PlayStation 3 production ramp limit the ability of optical drive vendors to ship sufficient Blu-ray Disc writers? That's effectively what a report from the Far East today reckons. At issue is the supply of the diodes used to generate the blue-light laser beams used to read and write data in Blu-ray Disc drives. …

HD 10 Jul 2006, 10:19
Asus unveils Core 2 Duo mobos

Deluxe and vanilla models announced

Asus has formally announced its first two motherboards to support Intel's upcoming Core 2 Extreme and Core 2 Duo desktop processors aka 'Conroe', though the P965-based boards may also play host to a number of older CPUs, right back to the P4. Asus' two boards are the P5B and the P5B Deluxe WiFi-AP. Both use Intel's P965 North …

Bits 'n' Chips 10 Jul 2006, 11:01
AMD shuffles 'Brisbane' roll-out?

FX-64 and FX-66 pipelined

AMD will extend its Socket AM2 Athlon 64 X2 line-up in Q3 with the debut of the 5200+, allegedly leaked roadmaps now turning up on a variety of websites reveal. The 65W TDP part will be joined by the 125W TDP Athlon 64 FX-64 the following quarter. Both parts are to be fabbed at 90nm. The anticipated 65nm version of the 5200+ …

Bits 'n' Chips 10 Jul 2006, 11:37
Panasonic to ship 103in monster TV by year's end

Big screen, bigger price

Panasonic will begin selling its 103in plasma TV by the end of the year, less than 12 months after the monster monitor - claimed to be the world's largest - was first demo'd in public, the company said today. The 2.3 x 1.3m colossus weighs 215kg and has a full 1080i HD resolution. It has a brightness of 3000:1. Panasonic …

Gadgets and Gizmos 10 Jul 2006, 12:26
O2 to offer Motorola's i-mode SLVR

L7 coming later this month

UK carrier O2 is to add Motorola's L7 handset - aka the SLVR - to its selection of i-mode phones later this month, Reg Hardware has learned. O2 currently offers an i-mode version of Motorola's L6 alongside three Samsung handsets equipped with the yellow 'i' button, the Z320i, S500i and S400i. The 'L7 i-mode' - to give the …

Phones 10 Jul 2006, 12:59
PS3 to play all PSOne, PS2 games

Sony guns for full backward compatibility

Sony's PlayStation 3 will play almost every PlayStation game, a senior IBM staffer has claimed. It's not clear how many PSOne titles won't play, but according to Tom Reeves, VP of semiconductor and technology services at IBM, even 40 of them was too high a number for Sony. In an Electronic News interview, Reeves said: "Sony …

Consoles 10 Jul 2006, 13:28