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13th October 2006 Archive

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  • Red iPod Nano ships

    Updated Charity's US launch official too

    Red, the Bono-front charity that promotes the problem of AIDS in Africa, will formally launch in the US today on the Oprah show, the organisation's website has just revealed. Kicking off the campaign: the much rumoured red version of Apple's iPod. A red iPod's been talked about since April this year, though in the end it was …

    Media players 13 Oct 2006, 09:05

  • Sapphire out to shock with overclocked Toxic cards

    Radeon X1950 XTX on board

    Graphics card maker Sapphire today took the wraps off what it claims is the "fastest add-in board on the planet" - the water-cooled Toxic X1950XTX. It also unveiled a "limited edition" Toxix X1950 CrossFire Edition board. The X1950XTX's GPU is clocked by the bundled Automatic Performance Enhancer tool from the stock 650MHz to …

    Bits 'n' Chips 13 Oct 2006, 09:57

  • Sony launches Walkman, wireless accessory cornucopia

    Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to beam out music

    Rather overshadowed by Sony's Walkman S700 series launch yesterday were a set of wireless accessories pitched at the company's music player line-up, including a Bluetooth dongle and earphones, and a Wi-Fi hi-fi unit. The DR-BT30Q is a pair of round-the-back-of-the-head Bluetooth stereo earphones ready, said Sony, to connect …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 13 Oct 2006, 11:06

  • Sony Ericsson 'Q's up Bond-branded camera phones

    'You expect me to talk?'

    Sony Ericsson has announced a pair of silver-look limited edition version of its K800 and X790 camera phones to cash in on upcoming Bond flick Casino Royale. Both are pre-loaded with a wealth - it says here - of Bond ringtones, pictures and even the movie trailer. Both 3G handsets sport a 3.2 megapixel camera with auto- …

    Phones 13 Oct 2006, 11:38

  • Moto ships battery-based battery recharger

    Recharge your mobile on the fly

    It sounds like a solution waiting for a problem, but Motorola's P970 battery-powered battery recharger has begun shipping, four months after the curved, PEBL-like gagdet was announced at the Singapore-hosted CommunicAsia 2006 show. The P970 is essentially a 1700mAh rechargeable battery with a USB port on top. It weighs just …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 13 Oct 2006, 11:48

  • US DoJ probes SRAM pricing cartel claim?

    Cypress, Samsung say they'll co-operate

    The US Department of Justice's antitrust division is to probe the SRAM market, it has emerged. Yesterday, Cypress Semiconductor announced it was co-operating with the enquiry, and would "make available employees, documents and all other relevant information" to DoJ investigators. And today Samsung was quoted by the South …

    Bits 'n' Chips 13 Oct 2006, 12:37

  • Netgear SPH101 Wi-Fi Skype phone

    Review VoIP without a PC

    To date you've been very much PC-bound if you wanted to use Skype for making VoIP calls, something that has limited its appeal to a degree. Not so any more, as the first set of Wi-Fi phones for Skype has hit the market and Netgear was the first to submit one to Reg Hardware for review... The not so imaginatively named …

    Phones 13 Oct 2006, 16:59

  • AMD waves the Maple Leaf for Canadian regulators

    O ATI, we stand on guard for thee

    The Canadian government has approved AMD's proposed takeover, of ATI, the home-grown graphics processor company. AMD may hail from California, but it played the Canadian card before the country's regulators. It says it will expand R&D expenditure and hire more R&D employees, compared with ATI's spend in previous years, and it …

    Bits 'n' Chips 13 Oct 2006, 21:23