7th August 2006 Archive

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Nvidia readies SLI for Core 2 Duo laptops?

Co-operative rendering, or discrete/integrated GPU switching?

Will Intel's current mobile chipsets soon be able to support multiple Nvidia graphics chips running co-operatively? That's certainly what moles from Taiwan's contract manufacturer community have claimed. The allegation comes on the heels of indications Nvidia is working on technology to allow notebooks to use both integrated and …

Bits 'n' Chips 7 Aug 2006, 09:09
Unlaunched RIM Blackberry pushed onto web

8100 - aka 'Stealth' - surfaces

Pictures of Research in Motion's upcoming BlackBerry 8100 camera-equipped gadget popped up on a variety of websites this weekend following what appears to be a mass email-out by a lone leaker. The snaps show the GSM/GPRS/EDGE machine in its T-Mobile colours. A number of the sites have shots, but the sharpest appear to be …

Phones 7 Aug 2006, 10:33
Warner mulls bundling music DVDs with iPod-friendly songs

Buy the disc, get the ripping done for you

Warner Music is to sell albums on DVD rather than CD, using the extra storage capacity to include iPod-compatible copies of the songs, along with other extras, such as ringtones and music videos. The claim was made by the Wall Street Journal, which says Warner and Apple are in talks to make the move happen. It's unclear if …

Media players 7 Aug 2006, 11:02
Record PDA shipments in Q2, claims researcher

Not quite so black and white...

Global PDA shipments reached a record high in Q2, market watcher Gartner said today, but is it counting correctly. We don't dispute the company's numbers, but at what point does a smart phone become a PDA and vice versa? Gartner's numbers - for what they're worth - include some BlackBerry devices, but not others. Shipments of …

Phones 7 Aug 2006, 12:11
Nokia E70 smart phone

Review World-beating design let down by bugs?

Nokia's eagerly-anticipated E70 phone revives one of the company's cleverest designs, stuffs it full of bleeding-edge features, and aims it squarely at the enterprise market for the first time. It's one of the most versatile designs on offer, and appears at a time when enterprise email has matured. Unfortunately, the promise of …

Phones 7 Aug 2006, 12:14
PS3 to require 'adaptor' to use PSOne, PS2 memory cards

Support not built into $699 console

Sony's PlayStation 3 will play "thousands" of PSOne and PS2 titles, the company has claimed, but if players want to carry over saved games, they'll need to obtain a memory card adaptor first, the Sony US PS3 website has revealed. The PS3 saves game-state data on its 20GB or 60GB hard drive as "virtual memory cards", the site …

Consoles 7 Aug 2006, 13:06
VMware to open Windows-on-Mac tool to public testers

Pre-registration

Virtualisation software specialist VMware has begun asking owners of Intel-based Macs to participate in a public test of its upcoming VMware for Mac OS X utility. Testing is due to commence "later in the year", the company said. Unlike Parallels, the software developer that first shipped code to allow x86 Macs to run Windows …

Mac 7 Aug 2006, 15:20
Apple goes all Intel all the time

Leopard put in Time Machine

The great Intel sell-out is now complete with Apple today revealing the new Mac Pro workstation. The Mac Pro - codenamed 'Hero', incidentally - runs on a pair of Intel's latest dual-core Xeon server processors, giving it plenty of horsepower to handle the clunky Safari browser. The box offers up twice the performance of older …

Mac 7 Aug 2006, 20:21