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5th December 2006 Archive

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  • Teen shot dead by police over stolen PS3

    It was only a matter of time

    An 18-year-old North Carolina man, suspected of stealing two PlayStation 3 consoles, was shot dead by police executing a search warrant at his residence. Peyton Strickland was gunned down in his house by deputies as he answered the door, the Wilmington Star News reports. . He was unarmed, according to witnesses. University …

    Consoles 5 Dec 2006, 09:58

  • AMD debuts 65nm dual-core processors

    Athlon 64 X2 line extended

    AMD this morning rolled out its 65nm Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processors, as expected. The chips are pitched as "energy efficient" products, and come in at the same price as their 90nm equivalents. Four 65nm were added to AMD's public price list today: the Athlon 64 X2 4000+, 4400+, 4800+ and 5000+, clocked at 2.1GHz, 2.3GHz, 2 …

    PCs 5 Dec 2006, 10:33

  • Toshiba intros 'world's most capacious' 1.8in HDD

    Bigger iPods in January?

    Toshiba has unveiled what it claims is the world's most capacious 1.8in hard drive, a tiny unit that nonetheless packs in 100GB of unformatted storage space. To achieve that capacity, the company used perpendicular recording. The drive, the MK1011GAH, contains two 50GB platters, and four read and write heads. The drive …

    Storage 5 Dec 2006, 10:48

  • Swiss set back luxury Windows smart phone

    Nice look, so-so spec

    Swiss phone maker Zenum will bring its Windows Mobile 5.0-based slimline BlackBerry-like handset, the Opus, to market in March 2007, having missed its planned November 2006 release window, the company has announced. The Opus prototype required "some improvement", the company explained. Still, the spec sounds fine, if …

    Phones 5 Dec 2006, 11:05

  • HTC QWERTY candybar smart phone to ship as Vox?

    US version as Libra

    HTC looks set to market its upcoming candybar smart phone with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard as the Vox, leaked roadmap slides reveal. The Taiwanese handset maker showed off the device in September as carrier UTStarcom's Libra. According to slides published in a report on Arabic-language webside CE4Arab.com, Vox is due to ship …

    Phones 5 Dec 2006, 11:20

  • Sony exec says 'yes' to PS4

    Management shuffle won't prevent it, apparently

    Panic ye not - you will have the opportunity to spend hours in the freezing cold queueing overnight to get your hands on a PlayStation 4, risking a cap in the a**, a Sony executive has revealed, but not before 2010. Just as well - Europeans haven't got their hands on the PS3 yet, let alone its successor, and won't until March …

    Consoles 5 Dec 2006, 11:46

  • LaCie marries Firewire, USB for Huby designer hub

    Ikea-friendly

    Will anyone buy Lacie's new designer USB hub - or is it destined to appear only as an on-shelf accessory in Ikea catalogues? It certainly looks the part, and wouldn't seem out of place next to an iMac. Styled by French designer Ora-Ito, the Huby provides an array of five USB and three Firewire plugs and sockets, along with a …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 5 Dec 2006, 12:09

  • Motorola unveils iTunes-less ROKR

    E6 pitched as PDA-like music phone

    Motorola will ship its latest ROKR music phone later this month, the company announced this week. It entirely failed to mention Apple's iTunes, the software the original ROKR was launched to support, pushing instead the handset's PDA-like styling and functionality. The ROKR E6 is still a media phone: the slimline, 1.5cm-thick …

    Phones 5 Dec 2006, 15:18

  • Philips loses interest in navigation

    Steers clear of crowded market

    Philips has gone into reverse on plans to enter the market for personal navigation devices because of fears the sector is getting too crowded. Consumer electronics division chief executive Rudy Provoost confirmed the U-turn to analysts today. Philips demonstrated its navigation products at the IFA fair in Berlin a couple of …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 5 Dec 2006, 15:26

  • Sony to ship major PS3 firmware update next March

    Patch to coincide with console's European debut

    The Sony PlayStation 3 European debut - due to take place in March 2007 - will be accompanied by a major firmware update, a senior Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) Europe executive has revealed. Alas, SCE Europe VP of Technology Paul Holman, cited by Australian website Smarthouse, didn't say what the update will contain, …

    Consoles 5 Dec 2006, 15:53

  • Sony Ericsson reflects upon mirror-finish phone

    Caller-specific lighting effects too

    Sony Ericsson today launched its latest clamshell handset hoping to pull in the punters with the phone's mirror-finish casing, its choice of black, bronze or pink hues, and ability to colour-code contacts with lighting effects. The Z310's a tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE phone with a 128 x 160, 65,536-colour passive-matrix main …

    Phones 5 Dec 2006, 16:10