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10th October 2006 Archive

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  • O2 Jet talk-targeted frill-free phone flies in

    Ten-hour talk time, anyone?

    UK carrier O2 has launched Jet, the business-oriented, voice-centric handset Reg Hardware exclusively revealed in June this year. The new phone's key feature? A talk time just shy of ten hours, the cellco claimed. As anticipated, Jet is camera-free. It has a quad-band GSM/GPRS radio for networking and Bluetooth 2.0 for …

    Phones 10 Oct 2006, 08:31

  • Intel EOLs Pentium D 805

    Low-end CPU marked for termination

    Intel has officially marked the Pentium D 805 processor for termination, company documents reveal. The chip giant will take no further orders for the part - either boxed product or tray-mounted batches - after 9 February 2007. The 805 was only introduced in July this year. It's the only Pentium D chip that operates on a …

    Bits 'n' Chips 10 Oct 2006, 08:46

  • BOFH-friendly billfold relives dot-matrix days

    I remember when...

    Stuck for the perfect present to give to the sys admin in your life? New York-based Dynomighty may have the answer: the dot-matrix wallet. It's a US-style three-panel cash stash cunningly contrived to look like a section of printout, complete with sprocket holes, from the days before lasers. And to add a further geek-friendly …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 10 Oct 2006, 09:06

  • Market watcher forecasts bumper year for smart phones

    PDAs not selling so shabbily, either

    World+dog will buy 81m smart phones this year, market watcher Gartner has forecast. The 2006 total represents a 66 per cent increase on the number of such devices that shipped last year. Some 16m PDAs will ship this year, a more modest year-on-year increase of 6.3 per cent, it added. Gartner based its prediction on string …

    Phones 10 Oct 2006, 09:29

  • Nokia shows off Aeon 'wearable' concept phone

    Take it apart, fix modules to your shirt

    Nokia has unveiled its latest concept phone, designed to highlight the company's focus on products that allow users to more readily stamp their personality on their gadgets. The concept phone, dubbed Aeon, combines two touch-sensitive panels mounted on a fuel-cell power pack. The handset's connectivity and electronics are …

    Phones 10 Oct 2006, 10:05

  • Sunlight scuppers Nintendo Wii sensor?

    Overwhelmed by solar radiance

    What's the key to gaming success on Nintendo's upcoming Wii console? Keeping the curtains closed, it seems. According to a poster on the videogames pioneer's website, the new machine's sensor bar can't cope with sunlight. Reporting on a Wii demo in the US last week, forum poster Ombrenoir17 wrote: "For about an hour or so, …

    Consoles 10 Oct 2006, 10:23

  • Belkin touts weather-proof iPod remote

    Rain won't stop play

    Can't be without your iPod even when you're halfway up a mountain and facing blizzard conditions? Then accessory maker Belkin has a weather-resillient wireless remote control just for you. Dubbed the SportCommand, the limb-lashable controller is covered in fabric to protect its electronics from the elements and to allow it to …

    Media players 10 Oct 2006, 10:41

  • AMD 65nm dual-core Turion laptop CPUs due Q2 2007?

    Smaller Mobile Semprons too

    AMD will take its main mobile microprocessor families into the 65nm era during Q2 2007, it has been claimed. The so-called 'Revision G' update will see the addition of 800MHz DDR 2 memory support to the CPUs' on-board memory controller. According to a DigiTimes report citing Taiwanese laptop-maker sources, the first 65nm …

    Bits 'n' Chips 10 Oct 2006, 11:08

  • EVGA touts 'fastest' GeForce 7950 GT-based board yet

    HDCP support built in

    Graphics card maker EVGA has announced what it claims is the fastest board around that's based on Nvidia's GeForce 7950 GT-based product. It also incorporates support for the HDCP copy-protection system beloved of high-definition content providers. EVGA's e-GeForce 7950GT KO Superclocked card runs the GPU at 600MHz and the …

    Bits 'n' Chips 10 Oct 2006, 11:47

  • Sooloos sings praises of high-end lossless music system

    Multi-terabyte, RAID-protected song storage, anyone?

    Tired of the limited sound quality of lossy audio compression formats? Want to move up to lossless but don't have the storage capacity for all your albums? If you're sufficiently well-heeled, New York-based Sooloos may just have the music system for you: a 1-3TB, RAID-protected multi-room rig that does away with the computer …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 10 Oct 2006, 15:16

  • Vista-inspired Windows Mobile 6 spied on web

    'Crossbow' screenshots leaked

    Some nice-looking screenshots of Microsoft's next version of Windows Mobile - codenamed 'Crossbow' - have popped up on the web to show the upcoming operating system's swankier graphics. The images come courtesy of MSMobileNews, which has a selection of shots on offer. Meanwhile, the similarly names MSMobiles has a smaller pic …

    Phones 10 Oct 2006, 15:42