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4th October 2006 Archive

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  • Chip sales enjoy record growth in August

    Hit $25bn

    Global chip sales soared to $20.5bn in August, a new monthly record, according to data from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). This represents an increase of 10.5 per cent from the $18.6bn recorded in the same period a year earlier, and beats the previous record of $20.4bn set in November 2005. "Once again we saw …

    Bits 'n' Chips 4 Oct 2006, 08:27

  • PS3 overheating claim rattles investors

    Tokyo Game Show booth to blame?

    Sony's demo PlayStation 3 consoles on display at last month's Tokyo Games Show were plagued by numerous reset-requiring crashes, it has been alleged. The claim has prompted fears the machine may not be ready for prime-time when it ships into the US and Japan later this year. The allegation was made Macquarie Equities analyst …

    Consoles 4 Oct 2006, 09:53

  • Creative pitches MP3-enhancing sound dongle

    Xmod makes compressed audio sound better than CD. Allegedly

    Creative yesterday said it plans to offer an external sound module incorporating its X-Fi audio enhancement system, a technology it claims can make even lossy compressed audio formats like MP3 and AAC sound better than the CDs they were ripped from - and, indeed, the studios they were recorded in. Dubbed the Xmod, the …

    Media players 4 Oct 2006, 10:41

  • IO Data reveals second Nvidia GPU with HDCP

    PureVideo HD now on the GeForce 7600 GS

    Japanese add-in maker IO Data will this month ship an graphics card based on Nvidia's GeForce 7600 GS, this time with support for the HDCP anti-piracy technology. Alas, there's no HDMI connector to go with it. That said, the passively cooled GA-7600GSH2 card does provide an HDMI-compatible DVI port, along with standard VGA …

    Bits 'n' Chips 4 Oct 2006, 11:04

  • Logitech turns wireless stereo 'phones up to 11

    Bluetooth 2.0 based and iPod-friendly

    Logitech will this month ship its second-generation Bluetooth-based wireless stereo headphones in the UK, the mouse maker announced this week and pitching the redesigned set not only at owners of iPods or other MP3 players, but also at computer users. Now dubbed the FreePulse, the 60g headphones weigh half as much as their …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 4 Oct 2006, 11:30

  • Fujitsu wants 287,000 Sony batteries back

    Global recall total pushes past 7.6m

    Fujitsu has become the latest notebook computer manufacturer to ask its customers to send back batteries made by Sony. Acer may be about to do the same. Fujitsu today said it was recalling 287,000 Sony-made notebook batteries, Reuters reports. That's in addition to the 4.2m being recalled by Dell, 1.8m by Apple, 830,000 by …

    PCs 4 Oct 2006, 12:00

  • USB hamster wheel targets keyboard hammerers

    True to typing

    What can we say that the headline doesn't? It's a hamster wheel. It connects to a spare USB port. Plug it and and watch that furry sucker run for dear life. Round and round. The clever bit - Hammy matches his pace to your typing speed. The faster your fingers, the quicker the hamster's pace. In short, we have at long last a …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 4 Oct 2006, 12:22

  • Supermicro PDSBA G965-based mobo

    Review Intel's latest integrated chipset arrives

    Intel's G965 chipset has finally arrived, and the perhaps unlikely mobo maker to have the first product based on it is Supermicro, better known for its server boards. The rather un-fetchingly named PDSBA is also Supermicro's first Core 2 Duo-enabled motherboard. It's also the first mobo we've come across that doesn't support IDE …

    Bits 'n' Chips 4 Oct 2006, 13:35

  • D-Link preps GSM/Wi-Fi network-hopping handset

    Ready for pre-pay arena

    D-Link will ship its first dual-mode mobile phone next year, the networking kit company announced this week. The handset, called the V-Click, combines tri-band GSM/GPRS cellular connectivity with Wi-Fi access. D-Link's pitch for the $600 handset is that users will run it as a standard pay-as-you-go GSM phone most of the …

    Phones 4 Oct 2006, 14:59

  • Skype patches Mac OS X flaw

    Calling out for an update

    Skype has released an update for its Mac software following the discovery of a security vulnerability that created a means to compromise Apple PCs running the popular IP telephony application. The security bug stems from a format string error in the Skype URI handler. The flaw creates a potential means for hackers to create a …

    Mac 4 Oct 2006, 15:01