30th November 2006 Archive

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App posted to cut PC power draw, help save planet

Local Cooling targets global warming

Want to make your PC a little more eco-friendly? Keen to cut your electricity bills and reduce carbon-dioxide emissions? Uniblue Research Labs has launched Local Cooling, a Windows XP app that, it claims, allows you to limit how much energy key PC components consume. The Local Cooling app essentially provides a greater degree …

PCs 30 Nov 2006, 06:02
Samsung opts for TV with everything – in Korea

The haunted goldfish bowl goes mobile

Samsung is going TV crazy and adding terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB) receivers to a wide range of its products. The latest product to appear in South Korea with a TV capability is the Q1, Samsung's ultra-mobile PC (UMPC). Samsung digital media vice president David Steel said: "Television is proving to be …

HD 30 Nov 2006, 07:02
Nvidia takes $127m stock-option probe charge

Won't affect operating results, apparently

Nvidia has said it will take a $127m non-cash hit as a result of the past stock-option irregularities the company earlier this year announced it had discovered. This month the graphics chip maker said the impact could be as much as $150m. The company also restated its FY2006 financial results and those of the first two …

Bits 'n' Chips 30 Nov 2006, 10:35
Intel 65nm-to-45nm crossover coming in 2008

45nm CPUs to raise clock frequencies once again?

Intel expects to begin shipping more 45nm processors than 65nm chips - the so-called 'crossover point' - in 2008, a company staffer revealed this week. According to Rob Willoner, an analyst with Intel's technology and manufacturing group, cited by DigiTimes, Intel's D1D fab in Oregon will be the first to begin volume …

Bits 'n' Chips 30 Nov 2006, 11:17
GeCube preps single-card CrossFire board

Two Radeon X1650 XTs, one add-in card

Graphics card maker GeCube this week announced a single-card, dual-GPU product that packs in a pair of AMD's ATI Radeon X1650 XT 80nm chips connected in CrossFire mode. The Star Twin X1650XT is intended to drive a single display, but GeCube said the card's twin dual-link DVI ports can also be used to feed four screens …

Bits 'n' Chips 30 Nov 2006, 11:39
Amazon.com mixes Marmite with .Mac

Yeast extract and Apple's online service 'better together'

Amazon.com's collection and analysis of what its customers buy yield some curious connections. Who would have imagined, for instance, that US Mac users, well known for how seriously they support their favoured computing platform, are equally keen on England's most famous brand of yeast extract. How else to explain Amazon's …

Mac 30 Nov 2006, 12:01
HP revamps iPaq for UMPC era

Japan sees first Travel, Mobile Media Companions

HP has released its anticipate iPaq revision that sees the one-time enterprise-friendly PDA recast as a line of three consumer-oriented media players and GPS satellite navigation systems. The iPaq rx4240 and rx 4540 are both styled Mobile Media Companion products and sport a 2.8in, 320 x 240, 65,536-colour display. Both run …

PCs 30 Nov 2006, 12:40
O2's 3G PDA phone to debut Jan '07

'Mars 2' landing due early next year

O2 will launch its Asus-made 3G PDA phone, the XDA Zinc, in January 2007, the carrier has revealed. Zinc is the device most recently known by its codename, 'Mars 2', and which appeared on the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) website in October this year. O2 compares Zinc to the XDA Mini S but "with added 3G power …

Phones 30 Nov 2006, 14:34
Linux web PC makers tout Linutop-like wares

Rivals speak out

Linutop's recently announced Linux-based ultra-compact PC may have grabbed the hardware headlines earlier this week, but its rivals didn't take long to start shouting about their own take on the web-oriented unit. First up, NorhTec's MicroClient Jr., an 11.5 x 11.5 x 3.5cm box based on SiS' 200MHz SiS550 x86-compatible system …

PCs 30 Nov 2006, 14:47
'Successful' Zune launch no threat to iPod?

Plays For Sure players need to watch out

Interest in Microsoft's Zune media player appears to be diminishing, if Amazon.com's sales charts are anything to go by. This despite grabbing the number two slot in the US retail market immediately after its 14 November launch, according to figures from market watcher NPD. NPD's numbers - published yesterday, according to …

Media players 30 Nov 2006, 16:13
Marvell ships Intel's gigahertz-capable XScale CPU

'Monahans' debuts at long last

Marvell has begun shipping 'Monahans', the ARM-based processor originally developed by Intel and introduced in August 2005 and originally due to debut toward the end of that year. The erstwhile XScale chip is now known as the Marvell PXA3xx family, a line-up that comprises three members: the PXA300, PXA310 and PXA320. Intel …

Bits 'n' Chips 30 Nov 2006, 16:46