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6th December 2006 Archive

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  • ATI lost graphics market share to Nvidia in Q3

    Reaction to AMD acquisition?

    Investors who argue that AMD should sell off its ATI discrete graphics operation will take heart from market research published today which shows the chip maker's GPU division saw its market share fall in all segments during Q3. According to Jon Peddie Research, ATI's share of the computer-oriented graphics market dropped …

    Bits 'n' Chips 6 Dec 2006, 08:49

  • Buffalo bullish over skinny scrollwheel mouse

    Ergonomically egregious?

    No, it's not Apple's next-generation iPod Shuffle, but add-on maker Buffalo's latest mouse, a slimline 8mm-thick rodent with an iPod-style scrollwheel in place of the more usual vertically placed rotary control. The wheel rotates to control a window's vertical scroll bar, but pressing the left or right edges scrolls …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 6 Dec 2006, 09:43

  • Nvidia Quadro FX 3500M debuts in Dell workstation

    GPU line's core clock increased

    Nvidia has extended its family of Quadro FX workstation-class mobile graphics chips and already begun supplying the part - the 3500M - to Dell for the PC giant's Precision M90 notebook, the chip maker said yesterday. The Quadro FX 3500M builds on the previous top-of-the-line model, the 2500M, be delivering higher rendering …

    PCs 6 Dec 2006, 10:07

  • Superheroes: protect your hidden HQ by... er... USB

    Evil Geniuses beware

    This has to be one of the daftest USB gadgets we've come across: the Secret Base Emergency Button. Plug it in, press the top to open the shutter and reveal the red emergency key, hit that and... your PC shuts down. Yes, but it's the way it shuts down that matters. Up pops an incoming message from your comrades informing you …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 6 Dec 2006, 10:30

  • i-mate roadmap reveals slick quad-band communicator

    Media phone too

    What has smart-phone seller i-mate got on its product roadmap for the coming months? According to a copy of what's said to the supplier's near-term release schedule, it has a number of interesting handsets in the pipeline, including a slick, black clamshell communicator, the K-Jar. The details come via Arabic-language site …

    Phones 6 Dec 2006, 11:41

  • iPod Shuffle sprouts dock-defeating Bud

    Accessory heaven

    Top marks to accessory maker Incipio for coming up with a handy adaptor that will allow anyone who owns a second-generation iPod Shuffle to take it travelling without Apple's dock and cables. Dubbed the Bud, the adaptor has a USB port on one end and a special 3.5mm jack on the other ready for data transfer and recharging. …

    Media players 6 Dec 2006, 12:18

  • Dell Inspiron 6400 Core 2 Duo laptop

    Review An inspired Inspiron?

    With the advent of Intel's Core 2 Duo processors we're at last beginning to see the kind of power and portability that was being claimed, somewhat optimistically, back in the early days of notebook computing. Not one to miss out, Dell has rolled out its Core 2 Duo based Inspiron 6400... The 6400, like so much of the Dell …

    PCs 6 Dec 2006, 12:34

  • Mobile phones safe to use, says study

    No 'evidence of risk' of cancer

    A long-term study, carried out by the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Denmark and published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, has found no increased incidence of cancer among mobile phone users. With a sample size of over 400,000, the study found that long-term mobile phone users had a slightly lower …

    Phones 6 Dec 2006, 13:04

  • Windows Trojan masquerades as Vista hack

    Pirates sink 'selves

    A week after Windows Vista's official launch hackers have devised their first attack, targeting pirates trying to install illegal copies of Microsoft's operating system. A supposed Windows Vista crack called Windows Vista All Versions Activation 21.11.06 is reportedly doing the rounds, offering those tempted by the chance of …

    PCs 6 Dec 2006, 14:34

  • Child catcher handset launched in UK

    Order now and have your kids tracked by Christmas

    Paranoid parents can now track their children even if the little dears give the nanny the slip or escape from the loving embrace of the Chelsea tractor. i-Kids is a new handset being launched by Mobiles2Go, along with a service specifically aimed at providing parents with the ability to track their children on demand using an in …

    Phones 6 Dec 2006, 16:25