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4th December 2006 Archive

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  • Nike + iPod poses threat to personal security

    Could aid stalking and burglary

    One of this year's must-have gadgets for music-crazy runners is a security nightmare that could help someone track your movements with relative ease, according to researchers at the University of Washington. The Nike + iPod device transmits data from a gizmo in a runner's shoe to an iPod, where software crunches the numbers …

    Mac 4 Dec 2006, 09:50

  • Apple iPhone to have two batteries, no network ties?

    Digg.com founder cites 'solid' source

    Apple's upcoming iPhone will go on sale next month with two memory capacities and no ties to a specific network, it has been claimed. The 'small as s**t' handset is based on a slider form-factor, it's said - presumably to better match the iPod design ethos. The latest claims come from Digg.com founder Kevin Rose, whose past …

    Media players 4 Dec 2006, 10:06

  • Nintendo Wii starting to ship to UK buyers?

    Console sells out in Japan

    Nintendo's Wii console may already be en route to some European pre-order customers ahead of this coming Friday's launch day, even as - surprise, surprise - the new games machine sold out in Japan following its launch there this weekend. One Reg Hardware reader told us today he'd received an email from Woolworths confirming …

    Consoles 4 Dec 2006, 10:33

  • Samsung intros Ultra Edition media phones

    One for music, one for video, one for messaging

    Samsung today extended its Ultra Edition line of handsets with a trio of phones pitched at specific usage models: the Ultra Music F300, the Ultra Video F500 and the Ultra Messaging i600, the latter a 3G handset that supports HSDPA-accelerated downloads. The F300 and F500 are tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE devices, both fitted with …

    Phones 4 Dec 2006, 11:09

  • Sony says battery burn-out probe should have been quicker

    Had trouble meeting demand for high-capacity power packs

    Sony has admitted it could have moved "more quickly" to tackle the burning battery bug that hit two of the company's biggest power-pack customers, Dell and Apple, and prompted many others to recall Sony-made lithium-ion batteries. In an interview with Japanese-language newspaper the Mainchi Shimbun, relayed by Agence France- …

    PCs 4 Dec 2006, 11:36

  • Toshiba touts slimline business phone

    More colourful 3G handset too

    Toshiba's TS32 isn't the thinnest of candybar mobile phones, but at 10.3mm thick it comes very close. Launched today, the tri-band GSM/GPRS handset sports a 1.9in, 176 x 200, 262,144-colour display, Bluetooth 1.2 and a 1.3 megapixel camera. But thin though the 79g TS32 is - the other dimensions are 11.3 x 4.7cm - it also …

    Phones 4 Dec 2006, 12:02

  • AMD in chip top 10 for first time

    Intel still the Bryan Adams of silicon

    AMD can kiss goodbye to its scrappy underdog status after forcing its way into the world chip rankings top 10 for the first time. The Opteron vendor has been worrying the iSuppli top 10 for years, without quite breaking in. However, the analyst firm said that its preliminary figures for this year show AMD has finally made the …

    Bits 'n' Chips 4 Dec 2006, 15:44

  • E-Ten Glofiish X500 GPS smart phone

    Review Lean, mean location-tracking machine?

    You're about to launch your latest all-in-one Windows Mobile 5.0 device but need it to stand out from the plethora of similar PDAs and handhelds. What do you do? Simple, give it a quirky brand name and then tout it as the world's thinnest GPS and Wi-Fi enabled Pocket PC phone... At least that's what E-Ten decided to do with …

    GPS and Satnav 4 Dec 2006, 16:23