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5th January 2007 Archive

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  • Month of Apple Bugs scheme yields first fixes

    Full disclosure

    A former Apple engineer is leading efforts to produce unofficial fixes unearthed by the Month of Apple Bugs project, resulting in the first three solutions. Landon Fuller, a Darwin developer and former engineer in Apple's BSD Technology Group, is providing runtime fixes ahead of official patches from Apple. Fixes for the …

    Mac 5 Jan 2007, 07:02

  • Hitachi hails 'industry first' 1TB desktop hard drive

    Travelstar 7K1000 to ship this quarter

    Hitachi has announced what it claims is the world's first 1TB desktop hard drive, pledging to ship the beast later this quarter, with enterprise- and consumer electronics-oriented versions to follow in Q2. The 3.5in Desktar 7K1000 will cost $399 at retail, but Hitachi will also offer a cheaper, 750GB model too. The drive …

    Storage 5 Jan 2007, 10:09

  • MP3 player maker sues Apple, demands $100m

    Taiwanese court sides with Luxpro

    Apple has failed to convince the Taiwanese court that local manufacturer Luxpro's white digital music player is a rip off of its own first-generation iPod Shuffle. The Shihlin District Court instead ruled that the two products are clearly different. You can see Apple's point: Luxpro's Tanger player, like the first Shuffle, is …

    Media players 5 Jan 2007, 10:29

  • AMD readies ATI Radeon X1950 GT?

    Cut-down X1950 Pro in the works, moles claim

    AMD will extend its ATI Radeon X1950 product line this quarter with the X1950 GT, Far Eastern graphics card maker moles have alleged. They point to an early February release for the part, which will sit just below the current X1950 Pro. The sources, cited by Chinese-language site HKEPC, claim the GT is essentially an …

    Bits 'n' Chips 5 Jan 2007, 10:41

  • Intel adds 'Wolfdale', 'Yorkfield' to desktop roadmap

    45nm 'Penryn'-based parts due late 2007/early 2008

    Intel's 45nm desktop dual-core processor will be codenamed 'Wolfdale' and appear in Q4, the latest roadmap slide to leak out of the chip giant has revealed. The part is based on 'Penryn', the 45nm incarnation of the Core 2 Duo architecture and the first platform to support SSE 4. Alas, the slide, published by Chinese-language …

    Bits 'n' Chips 5 Jan 2007, 11:00

  • Game Boy child electrocuted in Thai hotel

    Tragic accident, local police report

    A seven-year-old British boy has been killed in Thailand after being electrocuted during an attempt to plug the mains-charger for his Nintendo Game Boy into a hotel power socket. The incident took place on Saturday, but details have only now been released following an investigation carried out by local police. The victim was …

    Consoles 5 Jan 2007, 11:24

  • Toshiba unveils PC-friendly HD DVD drive

    Shipping soon?

    Toshiba today unveiled an internal HD DVD drive for PCs. The SD-H903A is a SATA-connected unit compatible not only with single- and dual-layer HD DVD media but also all the major recordable and rewriteable DVD formats, CDs too. What the company didn't say was when the drive will go on sale - it's sampling later this month - or …

    Storage 5 Jan 2007, 11:37

  • Reseller readies custom-made tablet Mac

    ModBook successor to last year's iTabs

    US Mac supplier Other World Computing (OWC) has had enough of waiting for Apple to ship a tablet form-factor Mac and plans to launch one of its own next week. Dubbed the ModBook, the unit's appears to be a standard MacBook disassembled and put back together again as a pen-computing platform. The ModBook is a joint project …

    Mac 5 Jan 2007, 12:02

  • Sony Vaio laptop to star in blue move

    Spring collection unveiled

    Hardware Widow Sony has taken the wraps off its spring laptop collection, darlings, touting not only the notebooks stylish looks but also the fact they'll all come bundled with Windows Vista. Desktop Vaios will ship with Microsoft's flash new operating system too, it said. In the case of the female-friendly C2 series, …

    PCs 5 Jan 2007, 17:00

  • On-the-fly disk defragmenter claims a first

    Automatic clean-up tool uses only spare cycles, says Diskeeper

    Diskeeper claims the 2007 version of its disk defragmenter is the first to run automatically and in the background - most defragmenters, such as the one built into Windows, have to be manually activated or set up as a scheduled job, and run when the system is quiet. The innovation, according to Diskeeper engineer Ergun Kazali …

    PCs 5 Jan 2007, 17:47