20th October 2006 Archive

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Palm Treo 700wx smart phone rings in Middle Earth

Telecom New Zealand takes on Windows Treo

New Zealanders can now buy a Palm smart phone running Windows Mobile 5.0 in their own country, the handset maker has announced. Middle Earth's main telco, Telecom New Zealand, has now begun offering the EvDO-equipped Treo 700wx. The 700wx sports a 240 x 240 display, 64MB of user-accessible Flash memory, Bluetooth 1.2 and an …

Phones 20 Oct 2006, 04:02
Intel to 'spend $300m' to push Centrino Pro

Windows Vista tie-in part of the plan?

Intel will spend a whopping $300m to promote its upcoming Centrino Pro enterprise-oriented notebook platform, it has been claimed by sources from Taiwan's laptop manufacturer community. Intel will piggyback the launch on Windows Vista, they added. So DigiTimes reports. As we noted yesterday Centrino Pro is believed to mark …

Bits 'n' Chips 20 Oct 2006, 07:02
Nvidia posts graphics code tweaking tool

Could yield to 35 per cent more frames per second

Nvidia has updated its suite of programming tools for graphics-intensive applications running under 32- and 64-bit incarnations of Windows and Linux. The tools target OpenGL and Direct3D apps that will render 3D imagery on the company's GPUs. The suite, dubbed NVPerfKit 2.1, helps developers analyse their graphics code. …

Bits 'n' Chips 20 Oct 2006, 07:02
MS readies 100GB HDD for XBOX 360?

Korean convention announcement, apparently

Microsoft has apparently said it intends to introduce a 100GB hard drive for its Xbox 360 games console. The scheme was announced yesterday at X06, an event dedicated to the console and held in South Korea. There's no sign from the Korean-language slides posted at local website GameInside.co.kr, whether this is an official …

Consoles 20 Oct 2006, 08:02
Archos connects PMP PVR with Wi-Fi

Internet radio and podcast support coming too

Archos may not make the sexiest looking personal media players but by jimminy they cram in the features. In the case of the Archos 604, it's wireless networking that's top of the list, now added in to the already feature-rich PMP the company launched back in August. The 604 has a 30GB hard drive for music, movie and photo …

Gadgets and Gizmos 20 Oct 2006, 09:02
Asus readies red, green gamer-oriented laptops?

Guess whose graphics are on board...

Asus is preparing to ship its Lamborghini VX1 laptop in the US in a limited "Golden Edition" even as it gears up to release a pair of gamer-oriented laptops, if a series of allegedly leaked publicity shots are to be believed. The gaming machines are dubbed the G1P and G2P, according to a forum post apparently made by the head …

PCs 20 Oct 2006, 10:02
Spam Cube signs Amazon.co.uk for British debut

Anti-spam gadget coming before Christmas

Amazon.co.uk is due to offer Spam Cube's automatic anti-malware home-network gadget to British buyers before this coming Christmas, the hardware maker revealed today. The 11.5 x 11.5cm unit sits between your broadband modem and scans incoming email messages for attempts to flog viagra, male member enhancement products, …

PCs 20 Oct 2006, 14:02
Abit AW9D-Max 975X-based mobo

Review Abit rises from the ashes?

Abit was synonymous with top-performance motherboards, but of late its products have been less than impressive. Abit has set out to correct this with its latest line-up of boards, including the AW9D-Max, designed to be a top-of-the-range Core 2 Duo mobo based on Intel's 975X chipset. But does it live up to the expectation? …

Bits 'n' Chips 20 Oct 2006, 15:02