29th September 2006 Archive

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• HP buys VoodooPC

  Woo Woo That Voodoo That You Do So Well

  VoodooPC, the games performance PC specialist, is selling itself to HP, Rahul Sood, the company's CTO, wrote today in his blog. VoodooPC is staying in Calgary, Alberta and will become part of the gaming division in HP's Personal Systems Group. Rahul Sood becomes CTO for the division and his brother Ravi will be director of …

  PCs 29 Sep 2006, 01:33

• Sony colours Vaio C series for Cosmo crowd

  Love a (Mandarina) Duck

  Sony's Vaio C Series notebooks, launched this week, go right to the heart of cosmopolitan chic - or so the consumer electronics giant would have us think. Laptop as lifestyle accessory - or fashion accessory? It depends, I suppose, on who you are: a "free spirit", an "explorer", a "jet-setting nomad"? Whatever, Sony's got a hue …

  Gadgets and Gizmos 29 Sep 2006, 08:02

• Review Sling Media SlingBox networkable TV tuner

  One day, the world's broadcasters will make all their programming available across the internet. But at least it's possible to watch any show transmitted to your home from anywhere else on the planet without having to worry about whether your hotel has the right cable deal. Enter Sling Media's SlingBox, in which a TV tuner is …

  Media players 29 Sep 2006, 11:02

• Battery recall spreads like wild, er fire

  Toshiba, Dell, IBM. Who's next?

  Dell is increasing the number of Sony-made batteries it is recalling from 4.1 million to 4.2 million, the company said today. The news comes as Lenovo and Toshiba both issued recall notices for some batteries made by Sony. Lenovo said yesterday that the recall affected 526,000 batteries in Thinkpads R, X, and T. Toshiba …

  PCs 29 Sep 2006, 15:39