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18th December 2006 Archive

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  • iPhone launched... but not by Apple

    Linksys' rebranding coup

    Ladies and gentlemen, will you please welcome the iPhone from... er... Linksys. Yes, the iPhone has indeed been launched today, as forecast, but it's not the device so many people were expecting. Instead, it's Linksys' new brand name for its range of VoIP handsets. That line-up includes not only a couple of new models but …

    Phones 18 Dec 2006, 10:12

  • Nintendo said to profit on Wii production

    Consoles costs under $160 to manufacture?

    Nintendo may well be making so much profit on its Wii console it can well afford to replace broken Remote straps. According to a Japanese publication's assessment of the machine's innards, the console costs the videogames company less than $160 to assemble. In a report published by Japanese business weekly the Toyo Keizai and …

    Gaming 18 Dec 2006, 10:50

  • Hauppauge touts 'world's first' triple-tuner TV card

    Hauppauge is doing a Gilette. Tired of the limitations of two TV tuners, Hauppauge's WinTV HVR-3000 ups the count to three, the first tuner card to do so, the company claimed today. The PCI card has a co-ax input to pick up free-to-air digital satellite and terrestrial broadcasts, and analogue TV transmissions. It'll relay FM …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 18 Dec 2006, 12:03

  • iKey Plus portable USB recorder

    Review Connect iPod, press Record

    For budding DJs, or musicians who want to record live sets or gigs, the new iKey Plus portable USB recorder could be just what the beat doctor ordered. Designed to work with - yes, you've guessed it - the iPod, or any other external USB storage device, the iKey Plus can record live audio in MP3 or WAV format without the need for …

    Gadgets 18 Dec 2006, 13:15

  • Hynix clocks 60nm DDR 2 chip to 800MHz

    Cheaper, more capacious DIMMs ahoy, firm claims

    Hynix has introduced a pair of unbuffered DIMMs based on its 60nm 1Gb DDR 2 memory chips, the company said today. The modules are clocked to an effective 800MHz. Two DIMMs were unwrapped: a 1GB part and a 2GB model. Since Hynix won't be bringing its 60nm chip into mass production until some time in H1 2007, the DIMMs could be …

    Bits 'n' Chips 18 Dec 2006, 13:28

  • Asus orders Commando into action

    Overclockers targeted

    Asus has announced its overclocker-friendly Commando motherboard, a product based on Intel's P965 chipset and which allows users to turn their PCs' frontside bus and memory clocks up to 2.28GHz and 1.3GHz, respectively. The Commando supports up to 8GB of dual-channel DDR 2 SDRAM and provides a pair of PCI Express x8 for AMD …

    Bits 'n' Chips 18 Dec 2006, 14:35

  • LG launches 'TVPC'

    LG has jumped into the PCTV market, offering a widescreen display with what is essentially a notebook computer built into the chassis. You can tell LG's approaching this convergence thing from the opposite direction to everyone else: it calls its product a TVPC. The DA70 is based on an 1.73GHz Celeron M 430 processor, 1GB …

    PCs 18 Dec 2006, 15:00

  • Orange SPV M700 3G PDA phone spied on web

    France Telecom has the gen

    HTC's P3600 compact 3G PDA phone has gone on sale on the Orange mobile phone network as the SPV M700. Well, that portion of the network that extends across France, at the very least. Orange owner France Telecom is currently touting the Orange-branded handset, which has yet to appear over here. The M700 sports quad-band GSM/ …

    Phones 18 Dec 2006, 15:24

  • NEC recalls fire-risk desktop PCs

    Almost 15,000 machines affected

    NEC Japan has asked anyone who bought in a Valuestar H all-in-one desktop PC manufactured between November 2003 and June 2004 to contact the company for a free replacement after two of the machines caught fire, the company said today. The machines are believed to have contained faulty power supply units which produced …

    PCs 18 Dec 2006, 15:54

  • Panasonic pitches 'safe' lithium-ion laptop battery

    Contains 'thermally resilient' layer

    Panasonic parent Matsushita today announced what it claims is a "safe" lithium-ion rechargeable battery. The secret: inserting a layer of heat-resistant insulating material to prevent fire-starting internal short-circuits of the kind that ignited a number of notebooks this year. Typical lithium-ion batteries embed the …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 18 Dec 2006, 16:31