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27th July 2006 Archive

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  • Intel slashes Pentium prices

    Up to 61% off older CPUs

    Intel has taken a sharp knife to its price list, slashing what it charges for its microprocessors by up to 61 per cent as the company makes way for its Core 2 Duo desktop and mobile CPUs. The chip maker also introduced some old-style Pentium D parts. The new Pentium Ds are the 3.4GHz 945 - a version of the existing 950 but …

    Bits 'n' Chips 27 Jul 2006, 08:30

  • Merom laptops to ship late August

    Intel Japan spills beans on mobile Core 2 Duo

    Intel has published the details of the first 'Merom' mobile Core 2 Duo processors, though the chips will not ship in notebooks until toward the end of August, the chip giant revealed this morning. Intel's Japanese wing confirmed five Merom chips will be made available: the T5500 and T5600, both with 2MB of L2 cache, and the …

    Bits 'n' Chips 27 Jul 2006, 08:58

  • Apple admits MacBook, MacBook Pro issues

    Funny colours or funny sounds - either way, call tech support

    Apple has acknowledged problems with its Intel-based portables that buyers have been banging on about for some time. In two support documents, the company informs suffering users to contact its AppleCare customer service team. That's it - just contact AppleCare. No solution is offered for the "high-pitched buzzing sound" …

    Mac 27 Jul 2006, 09:26

  • Samsung touts 13.5mm-thick digital TV slider phone

    Thinnest in the world, apparently

    Another day, another Samsung slimline slider phone. This one - it's just 1.4cm thick - also extends the company's long line of handsets capable of picking up satellite-sent Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) television pictures. The SCH-B500 packs in a two megapixel camera, Bluetooth, an MP3 player and all the other …

    Phones 27 Jul 2006, 09:50

  • Memorex readies handheld iPod videoscreen

    iFlip waves farewell to portable DVD players?

    Memorex is preparing an iPod accessory that converts the diminutive digital music player into one of those portable DVD display machines - minus the optical drive, of course. Dubbed the iFlip, the unit connects a stowed video-capable iPod to an 8.4in, 480 x 234 widescreen LCD. Memorex officially leaked details and pics of …

    Media players 27 Jul 2006, 10:16

  • Intel Core 2 Duo vs AMD Athlon 64 FX-62

    Review Ding! Ding! Round One...

    Although Reg Hardware published benchmarks for the new Intel Core 2 Duo and Extreme chips almost two weeks ago, it has taken that long for Intel to launch the product formally. If you've got the cash, you should be able to pick one up today. But the question many folk - particularly those with a preference for AMD's processors …

    Bits 'n' Chips 27 Jul 2006, 12:11

  • PSP-friendly Wi-Fi network to go live tomorrow

    Rolling out across Europe. And Australia.

    Sony will tomorrow launch its PlayStation Portable-oriented Wi-Fi hotspot network, though with only 11 sites, perhaps 'network' isn't the right word, particularly given the 7,500 hotspots that are part of rival Nintendo's Wi-Fi Connection for the DS. PlayStation Spot is centred on game retailers in London, Milton Keynes, …

    Consoles 27 Jul 2006, 12:54

  • Samsung promises 8GB MMCplus card

    High-speed version too

    Samsung will ship 1, 2, 4 and 8GB MMC memory cards later this year, the South Korean giant pledged today. It claimed they will not only be the biggest capacity MMCs on the market. Others in the line-up will offer the fastest data transfers, it said. Branded MMCplus, the cards build on Samsung's existing MMCplus range, which …

    Storage 27 Jul 2006, 13:14

  • Kazaa goes straight

    Coughs up to record industry

    Kazaa and the Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA) have settled out of court in a deal which will see the P2P operation hand over $100m to the industry. It'll now join fellow former industry pariah Napster as a fully paid-up digital music distributor. Kazaa's parent company Sharman Networks will cough up the damages to …

    Networking and Wireless 27 Jul 2006, 13:33

  • Plantronics brings on latest Bluetooth audio kit

    Wireless stereo

    Headset specialist Plantronics has unveiled its autumn collection of Bluetooth earphones and mics, including an iPod Shuffle-like dongle designed to provide wireless stereo audio in a way that's still phone friendly. The dongle - Plantronics calls it a "pod", ho-ho - is the Pulsar 260. It's got its own volume and track skip …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 27 Jul 2006, 15:20