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10th January 2007 Archive

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  • Windows Vista to connect to Xbox Live

    Video report Console and PC gaming

    Reg Hardware CES video reports All of CES - in five minutes! Bill Gates: a man and his music devices Honda unleashes stair-climbing 'droid HP demos touchy-feely, finger-friendly Vista media PC Windows Vista to connect to Xbox Live Xbox 360 to become internet telly Microsoft previews Halo 3 at CES Want to see more …

    PCs 10 Jan 2007, 00:20

  • iPhone... but what happened to the iPod scroll wheel?

    Squaring the circle

    It's crunch time for the iPod. Can a single device be as easy to use for music as an iPod, and also as easy as a Mac for email, and also work as a phone? Steve Jobs has said yes, and to do this, he's dropped the famous scroll wheel. Enthusiasm for a new Apple launch is taken for granted. Jobs himself has a charisma that the …

    Media players 10 Jan 2007, 00:36

  • Computer takes a back seat at Apple

    Macworld Apple downplays roots

    Despite all hype surrounding the iPhone, this year's MacWorld conference was more notable for what it downplayed -- the computer that put Apple in the limelight in the first place. The annual confab has emerged as the chief showcase for the hottest new Apple products, and yet this year's event paid nary a word to the …

    Mac 10 Jan 2007, 01:55

  • Warner pitches adhesive to bring HD DVD, Blu-ray Disc together

    Analysis Glu-ray Disc, anyone?

    CES 2007 Glue is the solution to the next-generation optical disc format war. Glue, or whatever Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WHE) is planning to use to bond - literally and metaphorically - the HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats to create a unified product, THD - Total HD disc. As a solution to two, mutually incompatible …

    HD 10 Jan 2007, 04:32

  • Evesham iPlayer HD 80GB DVR

    Review Extra definition for couch potatoes

    Evesham's iPlayer is a Freeview box with a difference. With a built in hard drive, HDMI output and the ability to receive HD broadcasts it would be remarkable enough, but it also manages to fit an internet connection and network media player into the box too, making it potentially the only set-top box you'll ever need... The …

    HD 10 Jan 2007, 12:02

  • Why I want the iPhone to succeed

    Opinion This bling deserves better

    I'm glad the iPhone's is here - and I have very selfish reasons for wanting it to succeed. That's because even without the cellular telephony, it looks like something I've been wanting to buy. But it's also because after years of writing about smartphones, I've seen the established players become lazy and complacent, go down …

    Media players 10 Jan 2007, 15:26

  • The iPhone: a Naomi Campbell of a product

    Pretty enough to look at, but you wouldn't want to do business with it

    Several readers have been in touch to ask if I've revised my opinions of the iPhone, now we've seen prototypes and heard the spiel, but the basic premise remains the same: the iPhone needs to appeal to operators, not customers, to be successful. It certainly does appeal to consumers, and I will probably get one myself to put …

    Media players 10 Jan 2007, 16:40

  • Acer 'preloads vulns' onto notebooks

    Ripe for exploitation

    Acer has been called out for pre-loading a vulnerability on its notebooks. A library file, called LunchApp.ocx, on the devices is set up to turn on the "safe for scripting" feature that means users are more vulnerable to ActiveX exploits. The "feature," designed to make it easier to browser Acer's site means systems can …

    PCs 10 Jan 2007, 18:49

  • Griffin to make second-gen iPod Shuffle dockable - universally

    CES 2007 It is, in a word, genius, and will come as a godsend to anyone who owns a second-generation iPod Shuffle. Yes, it's a universal dock adaptor. The $20 part slots into any modern Apple or third-party dock in place of all the other iPod-specific adaptors, linking the standard dock connector to the 2G Shuffle's unique 3. …

    Media players 10 Jan 2007, 18:58

  • AMD moots SFF PC mobo standard

    DTX launched

    CES 2007 AMD is following arch-rival Intel into the PC form-factor defining game. Today, the company launched DTX, a would-be standard for quiet, low-power small form-factor systems. DTX will take advantage of energy-efficient processors from AMD and other chip makers to provide system builders with a template for SFF PCs …

    Bits 'n' Chips 10 Jan 2007, 19:22

  • Sling preps TV show-snippet sharing service

    How short's a clip?

    CES 2007 Slingbox maker Sling Media is to turn its internet TV box into a content sharing platform, the company said this week. It announced Clip+Sling, a feature that will allow Slingbox owners to share short segments of TV shows with anyone connected to the net. Watching Sling get this one past the broadcasters may well prove …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 10 Jan 2007, 20:09

  • Toshiba demos 'first' HD DVD-R notebook drive

    CES 2007 Toshiba demonstrated what it claimed the first notebook capable of burning HD DVDs, a Qosmio laptop with an integrated HD DVD-R drive, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week. The prototype set-up can record onto 30GB HD DVD media, the company said. Toshiba wouldn't say when it's going to ship the machine …

    PCs 10 Jan 2007, 20:32

  • AMD posts Catalyst 7.1 update

    Drivers tweaked for Windows and Linux

    AMD has shipped the latest version of its Catalyst driver package for ATI Radeon graphics chips. The new release, version 7.1, covers both Windows XP and Linux - the latter now supporting version 2.6.19 of the open source operating system's kernel. Catalyst 7.1's key Windows enhancements include a claimed 12 per cent …

    Bits 'n' Chips 10 Jan 2007, 20:42

  • Dell calls on customers to contribute to carbon-neutral computing

    PC giant twigs on to global warming

    CES 2007 Dell has announced it will plant sufficient trees to absorb all the atmospheric carbon dioxide generated by power plants producing the electricity used to drive its computers for a three-year period. The scheme, dubbed Plant a Tree for Me, will see notebook and desktop buyers given the chance to donate $2 or $6, …

    PCs 10 Jan 2007, 21:38