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13th December 2006 Archive

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  • Samsung dealt RIM lawsuit over BlackJack

    Handset's name too close to BlackBerry, plaintiff claims

    Research in Motion (RIM) has taken Samsung to task over the name of the South Korean giant's latest smart phone. RIM reckons Samsung's BlackJack has a name that's too close to its own smart-phone brand, BlackBerry, for comfort - and it's asked the US District Court for Central California to force a change of handle. RIM filed …

    Phones 13 Dec 2006, 08:52

  • AMD rebrands ATI CrossFire chipsets

    Mine, all mine

    AMD has formally begun renaming ATI's CrossFire 1600 and 3200 chipsets as AMD products, a month after news of the scheme first broke. As expected, the two parts will now be called, respectively, the 480X and the 580X.      The single-chip 480X supports two 8x PCI Express slots for graphics and four more lanes for general- …

    Bits 'n' Chips 13 Dec 2006, 09:49

  • Intel announces Celeron D cull

    More 90nm CPUs for the chop

    Intel is to oust its Celeron D 326, 346, 351 and 355 processors, the company has told its customers. Orders for the products become unchangeable on 2 February 2007, and no further orders will be accepted after 6 April 2007, Intel documents reveal. News of the chip giant's plan to EOL the budget CPUs comes a day after it …

    Bits 'n' Chips 13 Dec 2006, 10:00

  • AMD slips Athlon 64 X2 5400+, 5600+ into price list

    Quiet - someone might notice...

    AMD has quietly added a pair of top-of-the-line Athlon 64 X2 processors to its public price list. Missing from the list when AMD introduced its 65nm processors on 5 December, the 5400+ and 5600+ have now been added to the line-up. Shhhh, don't mention it - someone might want to buy one... The two new dual-core parts are …

    Bits 'n' Chips 13 Dec 2006, 10:18

  • Sony readies USB, Firewire 18x external DVD burner

    Sony will ship its latest external DVD writer, the DRX-830UL-T, later this month, the company announced today. It's pitching the drive at both Mac and Windows users, bundling suitable burning software for both platforms, and equipping it with USB 2.0 and Firewire ports. The DRX-830UL-T has an 18x writing capability designed …

    Storage 13 Dec 2006, 10:33

  • Three critical patches star in MS update

    No word on Word fixes, yet

    Microsoft issued seven patches on Tuesday - one more than expected - as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday update cycle. Three of the updates earn the dreaded rating of critical. As expected, Redmond is yet to address two critical bugs in its Word office application that have become the subject of Trojan attacks over the last …

    PCs 13 Dec 2006, 10:56

  • IXOS all a-glow over light-up disco iPod speaker

    Groovy

    Light up your life this Christmas with an iPod and IXOS' Disco Cube, an multi-hued speaker unit that pulses colour in time to the music. It'll keep your player fully charged and with a Dock pass-through point it will happily be your sync cradle too. Exclusively available from the Debenhams UK store chain, the Disco Cube - …

    Media players 13 Dec 2006, 11:14

  • Neo models micro phone

    Renders to be realised next spring, firm pledges

    Anyone - well, almost - can come up with a stack of sexy looking handset designs lovingly rendering in a 3D graphics package and given extra shine in Photoshop - witness all the fanboy-created pics out there. However, phone biz newcomer UK- and Dubai-based Neo is adamant its visualisations will see light to day as real …

    Phones 13 Dec 2006, 12:02

  • LG GBW-H10N internal Blu-ray disc burner

    Review You pay for Blu-Ray...

    We previewed LG's Blu-ray drive a few weeks ago and it's the third Blu-ray burner we've tested, the first was the SH-B022 from Samsung, the second being Pioneer's BDR-101A. That had a 2x BD-R burn speed and cost £699 back in August, although it now fetches £520. In comparison, this new LG has a faster burn speed and retails for …

    Bits 'n' Chips 13 Dec 2006, 13:27

  • USB pole dancer struts funky stuff, geeks drool

    Not Safe For Work... or Wives

    The reaction of many people to the idea of playing sports games on Nintendo's new Wii console is to shout: "Get a life and go do it for real." Well, you could say they same thing about this USB pole dancer toy, launched today. But for those worried about the effect such sordid entertainment might have on wives and/or …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 13 Dec 2006, 14:59