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15th January 2007 Archive

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  • O2 delays XDA Zinc roll-out

    Release slips

    O2 has pushed back the release of its XDA Zinc 3G PDA phone, dropping the previously announced January 2007 debut in favour of a March 2007 introduction, the UK carrier's website reveals. O2 compares Zinc to the existing XDA Mini S but "with added 3G power for high speed Internet and video calling". The company doesn't say …

    Phones 15 Jan 2007, 10:28

  • Woman dies after Wii competition

    Radio station water drinking wheeze goes awry

    A mother of three died from water intoxication after a radio station drinking competition, a California coroner said on Saturday. Jennifer Strange, 28, competed in Sacramento station KDND 107.9's "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest to try to win Nintendo's console for her children. Contestants were handed half-pint bottles of …

    Consoles 15 Jan 2007, 10:50

  • Xbox 360 dominates US next-gen console December sales

    Advantage of good supply?

    Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft sold, respectively, 604,200, 490,700 and 1.1m next-gen games consoles in the US in December 2006, retail market watcher NPD said last week. The company's figures show the Xbox 360 as the clear winner. December marks the first month during which all three consoles were on sale for the full 31-day …

    Consoles 15 Jan 2007, 11:07

  • Intel's Flash cache module wins PCIe thumbs-up

    Stage set for Robson's Centrino debut

    Intel's 'Robson' Flash cache module for Windows Vista notebooks has won the approval of the PCI SIG, the organisation behind the PCI Express interconnect standard, it has emerged. PCI SIG approval usually comes as a product enters the last stretch before its release, in this case the anticipated Q2 debut of 'Santa Rosa', the …

    Bits 'n' Chips 15 Jan 2007, 11:36

  • Devolo dLAN 200 AVdesk HomePlug AV network adaptor

    Review HD-ready wired networking over your home's powerlines

    Driving data over mains power cables is nothing new, but products based on the latest, fastest incarnation of the HomePlug Ethernet-over-powerline standard have only recently started to appear, over a year after the specification was finalised, in August 2005. The new version of the standard delivers a claimed bandwidth of …

    Networking and Wireless 15 Jan 2007, 12:02

  • Toshiba touts 51GB HD DVD

    Three-layer player

    Toshiba has submitted a triple-layer, 51GB HD DVD-ROM disc to the standard's overseer in the hope the technology will be adopted as a standard by the end of the year. If approved, it allow the format to exceed the 50GB storage capacity of rival medium Blu-ray Disc. The HD DVD standard currently defines single- and dual- …

    HD 15 Jan 2007, 12:20

  • Asus revs second-gen Lamborghini laptop

    Asus has announced the second generation of its Lamborghini-branded laptop, apparently adding little more than a metallic keyboard and a leather-bound palm rest below it - a "tactile way" to experienced "the Lamborghini luxury", the notebook maker claimed. Asus didn't say much about the machine's specifications: like its …

    PCs 15 Jan 2007, 13:19

  • PCI Express 2.0 released

    Twice the bandwidth

    The PCI SIG, overseer of the PCI Express add-in card standard, has finalised version 2.0 of the base specification. The new released doubles the signalling rate from 2.5Gbps to 5Gbps. The upshot: a x16 connector can transfer data at up to around 16GBps. PCIe 2.0 remains compatible with PCIe 1.1, until now, the latest version …

    Bits 'n' Chips 15 Jan 2007, 17:53