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30th October 2006 Archive

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  • Fujitsu admits its laptop 'overheated and sparked'

    Warning to other vendors

    A Fujitsu-made notebook has caught fire in Japan, the manufacturer admitted late last week. The incendiary incident is the first of its kind to be be officially recognised in a machine lacking a Dell, Apple or ThinkPad logo, and should sound a warning to other vendors caught up in this year's massive battery recall. Fujitsu …

    PCs 30 Oct 2006, 10:06

  • E-Ten touts 'world's thinnest' PocketPC phone

    Glofiish: do the 'i's have it?

    Taiwan's E-Ten has unwrapped what it claims is the world's thinnest Windows Mobile 5.0 device capable of squeezing in a quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE phone, 802.11b Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 and a SirRFstar III-based GPS receiver. Called the Glofiish X500 - no, we don't know why there are two 'i's in the name either, but there are - …

    Phones 30 Oct 2006, 10:34

  • O2 offers Asus-made XDA as the IQ

    'Jupiter' mission lands in UK

    O2's UK operation has already begun offering its business customers one of the new XDA smart phones that appeared on the US Federal Communications Commission website last week. There branded the XDA Graphite, here it's being sold as the XDA IQ. The carrier's website adds some extra details to the specifications that appeared …

    Phones 30 Oct 2006, 10:53

  • Decriminalise iPod users, think-tank tells UK gov't

    300-year-old copyright law needs changing

    Ripping your own CDs to transfer the songs they contain for transfer to an iPod, PMP or CD-R to keep in the car should be made legal in the UK, think-tank the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has told the government. Currently, this activity is illegal under UK law. The IPPR this weekend said it wants UK copyright …

    Media players 30 Oct 2006, 11:23

  • Nokia guns for TomTom with GPS gadget

    Not-a-phone shocker

    Nokia has announced its first dedicated satellite navigation device, details of which leaked out a few weeks ago but were mistakenly interpreted as the successor to the company's 770 internet tablet. Instead, the Nokia 330 Auto Navigation is a typical TomTom-like GPS gadget. The 330 sports a 3.5in colour touch-screen and a …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 30 Oct 2006, 11:41

  • AMD unveils ATI Radeon X1650 XT

    80nm comes to the mid-range

    AMD's ATI operation has unveiled the Radeon X1650 XT, as expected, pitching the part at the upper reaches of the mainstream graphics card segment. Boards based on part will, like the X1950 Pro, sport an internal CrossFire connector. The reference card clocks the new GPU - aka RV560 - to 575MHz, while the 256MB of GDDR 3 …

    Bits 'n' Chips 30 Oct 2006, 12:25

  • Nintendo Wii to get DVD playback next year?

    Only in Japan

    Nintendo is planning to release a DVD playback pack for its next-generation console, Wii, but it looks like only Japanese consumers will ever get the chance to buy it. Europe and the US, it seems, are too stuffed with cheap DVD players to make such a move worthwhile. So reports UK magazine Edge, which points to a 2007 launch …

    Consoles 30 Oct 2006, 12:51

  • Virgin Mobile Lobster 700TV

    Review Pocket TV over digital radio

    Portable TVs are evolving and moving into the digital age, not least with the help of 3G data streaming to push programming to mobile phones. However, Virgin has taken a different approach: a technology called DAB-IP. You might be familiar with DAB, which is a standard for digital radio, but what the heck does it have to do with …

    Phones 30 Oct 2006, 13:26

  • B&O-Samsung designer phone to ship Stateside soon

    Black and Overpriced?

    Samsung and Bang & Olufsen are to bring their co-designed Serene mobile phone to the US, the South Korean giant revealed this weekend. Only the well-heeled need continue waiting: the handset will retail for a staggering $1,272. So claim South Korean media reports, at any rate. Serene is already available in Europe, and it's …

    Phones 30 Oct 2006, 13:55

  • Phishers prey on Lik-Sang customers

    Fraudsters pounce on retailer's closure

    Cheeky email fraudsters are targeting consumers who ordered gaming goods from Lik-Sang.com, the Hong Kong-based online retailer that last week shut its doors. Emails currently doing the rounds hijack the retailer's own words in an attempt to grab the recipient's PayPal account details. The email quotes extensively from Lik- …

    PCs 30 Oct 2006, 15:38