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26th July 2006 Archive

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  • Samsung touts Vista-friendly Flash drive - again

    Still not mass-producing the things, though

    Samsung once again touted its NAND Flash-based solid-state disk (SSD) technology yesterday, pitching a 4GB product at notebook and desktop manufacturers developing systems to run Windows Vista. It said the 4GB SSD was being "readied for production". Which means, of course, it's not being made at the moment, which implies, …

    PCs 26 Jul 2006, 08:38

  • Asus unveils slimline barcode-reading phone

    Can scan ad-embedded URLs

    Asus introduced its latest mobile phone last week, though it took a while for anyone to notice. It's a slimline model with a two megapixel camera that not only has an auto-focus facility and can take close-up shots, but can scan barcodes. The V80 is a quad-band GSM/GPRS candybar phone with a 2in, 262,144-colour, 176 x 220 …

    Phones 26 Jul 2006, 09:04

  • Motorola shows 9mm-thick mobile phone

    FONE features low-power, E Ink-like display

    Motorola's big handset blitz earlier this week wasn't the whole story. The company went on to unveil one of the slimmest phones yet made: a 9mm-thick candybar with a fancy electrophoretic display ready for clear viewing in bright sunlight, the company claimed. The full specifications of the FONE F3 - and its sibling the F3c …

    Phones 26 Jul 2006, 09:36

  • Intel Core 2 Duo dresses up for formal debut

    Conroe coming out tomorrow

    Intel will tomorrow formally unveil its Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme desktop processors - all based on the 'Conroe' core - despite having been shipping the product to computer manufacturers for several weeks. The chip maker may also announce 'Merom', the notebook version of the chip. The launch will see the arrival of four …

    Bits 'n' Chips 26 Jul 2006, 09:39

  • Ten gadgets to get you sacked

    Tech Digest Vital ammunition for the office prankster

    It's hot, your boss is evil, you never got that promised pay-rise. It's hot, your colleagues hate you, and you're fed up with sardine-like commuting. Oh, and did I mention it's really hot? What better time then to jack in your job to spend more time with your sofa, beer-fridge and television? But if you're going to go, do it …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 26 Jul 2006, 10:08

  • BenQ Mobile shows shiny black handset trio

    One on the EDGE, the others 3G

    BenQ Mobile has just rolled out three new handsets under its BenQ-Siemens brand, including what may be the world's first non-stick phone and a pair of small-size 3G handsets. All three are kitted out in shiny black shells. Black is indeed the new... er... black. The E71 is the Teflon-like model and was modelled on - it says …

    Phones 26 Jul 2006, 10:52

  • BT to offer Universal movie downloads

    Service starts next week

    BT has signed up for Universal's movie download package. The deal will allow the telco to sell PC-only full-length films online from the end of this month. It's essentially the same package UK online video reseller Lovefilm.com announced in March this year. Some 150 Universal titles will be made available to downloaders, who …

    Media players 26 Jul 2006, 11:22

  • Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS-based fanless cards

    Review Asus and eVGA set out their passively cooled wares

    They may have been quiet but passively cooled graphics cards have generally been pretty poor performers or needed complex and costly heatpipe designs. But with the arrival of Nvidia's GeForce 7600 GS this has all changed, and you can get decent performance at a decent price without the decibels... What we have here are that …

    Bits 'n' Chips 26 Jul 2006, 13:22

  • AMD demos 4x4

    Doesn't let anyone peek under the hood

    AMD's upcoming 4x4 gaming platform will cost "substantially" under $1,000 - for the processors at least. So said company VP Pat Moorhead, who showed off a prototype system in the US yesterday, though details of the system were kept under wraps. AMD announced 4x4 last month. It's essentially a two-CPU motherboard rigged for …

    Bits 'n' Chips 26 Jul 2006, 14:07