20th November 2006 Archive

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Toshiba unveils fastest 8GB SDHC

Second-generation memory card

Toshiba has announced what may be the world's second 8GB SDHC memory card. Alas, Pretec announced just such a product back in September, but Toshiba's card is faster. It's a Class 4 device - Pretec's was a Class 2. Toshiba's card has a guaranteed data transfer speed of at least 4MBps, compared to the Pretec product's 2MBps …

Storage 20 Nov 2006, 11:05
Intel said to be preparing Pentium price cuts

January timeframe matches past reports

Intel may be set to slash the prices of its current Pentium 4 processors in January 2007, it has been claimed by Chinese PC manufacturer sources. The allegation essentially re-iterates claims we reported on back in September. The latest price-cut claim comes via the Chinese-language Commercial Times. The P4s are said by the …

Bits 'n' Chips 20 Nov 2006, 11:37
Nvidia preps Q1 2007 debut for G84, G86?

Aimed at entry-level, mid-range, moles claim

Nvidia will bring its DirectX 10-compliant unified shader graphics chip architecture to the mid-range and entry-level market segments in Q1 2007. That's the timeframe for the company's G86 and G84 GPUs, Taiwanese graphics card maker moles have alleged. So suggests a DigiTimes report which adds the two parts will sample in …

Bits 'n' Chips 20 Nov 2006, 11:55
HTC announces 'Herald'

P4350 to you and me

HTC today unveiled its latest smart phone with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, this time driven by a spring-loaded mechanism. Dubbed the P4350, it appears to be the same device phone supplier Dopod announced earlier this month as the C800M. According to HTC, the P4350 - codenamed 'Herald' - is a quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE device …

Phones 20 Nov 2006, 12:26
Linux-running PS3 offered on eBay

Dual-boot guaranteed, apparently

Want to run Linux on the PlayStation 3 but can't be bothered with the hassle of installing it? Then head over to online auction site eBay where one of Sony's next-generation consoles is on offer pre-loaded with Fedora Core 5 Linux. The console on offer is a 60GB machine, the seller says. He claims the hardware's hard drive …

Consoles 20 Nov 2006, 12:58
Nintendo to ship DS Lite MP3 player on Wii day

Nintendo will next month ship software that will turn its DS Lite handheld games console into an MP3 player, the company's UK wing said late last week. The app will ship on 8 December - the same day the Wii goes on sale over here. The application comes on a cartridge that incorporates an SD card slot for song storage, though …

Consoles 20 Nov 2006, 14:15
E-Ten guns for HTC with Glofiish M700

PDA phone with slide-out keyboard and GPS, anyone?

Taiwanese handheld maker E-Ten's Glofiish X500 PDA phone went on sale in the UK today even as the company gears up to announce its second Glofiish-branded device: the first model in the range to offer a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. E-Ten is clearly out to try and beat HTC at its own game. E-Ten claimed the 1.6cm-thick X500 is …

Phones 20 Nov 2006, 14:40
Man buys PS3, smashes it with sledgehammer

Updated with video Console craziness continues

Two Canadians last week won their 15 minutes of fame by standing in line for two days to splash out CAD550 on a 20GB PS3s - only to take the machine straight out of the store and destroy it with a sledgehammer. "I did it for the thrill and to see people's expression," Victor Moukhortov, a 17-year-old part-time student, told …

Consoles 20 Nov 2006, 14:43
ADS touts iPod, PSP friendly USB video accelerator

Dramatically speed up video transcoding

Fed up with the hours it takes to encode video into the iPod- and PSP-friendly H.264 format? If so, the answer, according to video peripherals maker ADS Tech, is an H.264 encoding accelerator and, by sheer coincidence, it has one it would like to sell to you. The InstantVideo To Go is a USB dongle that ties into ADS' bundled …

Gadgets and Gizmos 20 Nov 2006, 15:58