7th November 2006 Archive

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AMD confirms ATI-brand Radeon X1900 card for Macs

Calling all Power Mac G5 owners

AMD has formally announced the ATI Radeon X1900 G5 Mac Edition graphics card that appeared on the company's website last week. The card is pitched at owners of the old, PowerPC-based Power Mac G5 desktop which originally shipped with lesser-powered cards. The X1900 isn't exactly AMD's leading-edge desktop GPU, but it has 36 …

Mac 7 Nov 2006, 09:05
Dell extends AMD-based desktop line-up

Latest machine pitched at business buyers

Dell's European operation has extended the range of desktop systems it offers that are based on AMD processors. Following the September launch of AMD-based Dimension PCs, Dell has now begun selling AMD-equipped Optiplex machines too. The system in question is the Optiplex 740, offered with a choice of single-core Athlon 64 …

PCs 7 Nov 2006, 10:38
Japan offered UMPC-like laptop

Same form factor, none of the limitations

Ladies and gentlemen, will you please welcome one of the world's smallest notebooks: Kohnjinsha's diminutive SA1F00A, an ultra-compact laptop fitted with a 7in, 800 x 480 display, up to 1GB of memory, a 40GB hard drive, 802.11b.g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, Ethernet and - unlike all those UMPC handhelds - in integrated, mechanical …

PCs 7 Nov 2006, 11:02
Sony Ericsson buys Symbian UI

UIQ acquired

Sony Ericsson has snapped up the UIQ mobile phone user interface, paying Symbian an undisclosed sum for the software and the subsidiary company formed to develop and maintain it. UIQ was the original user interface for the Symbian operating system until the company decided it should focus on the under-the-hood code and allow …

Phones 7 Nov 2006, 11:24
Samsung unveils WiMAX UMPC phone

It folds up... It communicates...

Is Samsung's SPH-P9000 a phone or a UMPC? It runs Windows XP, has a 30GB hard drive, 256MB of memory and a 1GHz Transmeta processor. Then again it has CDMA EV-DO network connectivity and - a first for a mobile device? - Mobile WiMAX on board. It's got a 5in WVGA display and a 1.3-megapixel camera - front-mounted for webcam …

PCs 7 Nov 2006, 11:52
Chargers on the go - Motorola P790 vs. Exspect ReCharge4

Review Mobile battery backup for your... er... mobile's battery

Are you one of those people who live and die by your mobile phone? Or your PDA? Or your PSP? Does the world collapse around you when it runs out of power? Fret not, as from now on this is only a distant memory. Both Motorola and Exspect are now shipping mobile battery chargers, but are they all they're cracked up to be... …

Gadgets 7 Nov 2006, 12:50
Nvidia denies GeForce 8800 GTX recall

How can we recall a product that exists only in the minds of journos and fanboys?

Nvidia has denied that it has recalled any G80-class graphics cards, less than 24 hours after admitting that... er... it has. In an email to Reg Hardware a company official today told us: "We're not recalling any boards - [it's] hard to recall something that's not announced." Yesterday, a different company official, when …

Bits 'n' Chips 7 Nov 2006, 13:07
Palm says NTP is suing on 'patents of doubtful validity'

Here we go again

The company which sued the maker of the BlackBerry for patent infringement launched a similar case against handheld computer firm Palm yesterday. Palm said today that it will defend itself vigorously. Canada's Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry wireless email device, settled with US firm NTP in March, though it …

Phones 7 Nov 2006, 21:34