17th January 2007 Archive

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Intel completes 45nm 'Wolfdale', 'Yorkfield' architecture

'Penryn' platform boots Vista, OS X, Linux

Intel has completed its first 45nm processor, 'Penryn', ensuring the part will successfully run Windows Vista, Mac OS X and Linux, the chip giant said yesterday. The news comes just over a month after Intel began offering engineering samples of the chip. Penryn will go into production during the second half of this year, with …

Bits 'n' Chips 17 Jan 2007, 10:38
Tul preps Vista-friendly entry-level PowerColor cards

Silent, PCIe, AGP X1550s

Tul today introduces a trio of AMD ATI Radeon X1550-based graphics cards, respectively targeting owners of PCI Express, AGP and no-noise machines. All three PowerColor-branded boards feature GPUs factory-overclocked from 550MHz to 600MHz, the company said. The CrossFire-ready boards ship with 256MB of DDR 2 graphics memory …

Bits 'n' Chips 17 Jan 2007, 10:57
Seagate ships 'world's fastest' hard drive

15,000rpm

Seagate has introduced what it claims is the world's fastest hard drive: a 15,000rpm, 2.5in 3Gbps Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) job designed for servers and enterprise-oriented storage systems. The company also pitched the part's low power consumption and high reliability. The Savvio 15K has a mean time between failures (MTBF) …

Bits 'n' Chips 17 Jan 2007, 11:11
Nvidia reportedly readying 320MB GeForce 8800 GTS

Less memory for cheaper DirectX 10 cards

Nvidia will next month launch a 320MB version of its 640MB GeForce 8800 GTS graphics chip, it has been claimed. According to a DailyTech report, the new model matches the existing part's specifications in all but one respect: the amount of frame-buffer memory it's intended to be connected too. Both products will contain …

Bits 'n' Chips 17 Jan 2007, 11:28
Apple's alleged 802.11n enabler fee: blame Enron etc.

Sarbanes-Oxley Law imposes weird accountancy rules on Mac maker

It's all Enron's fault that Apple will apparently charge $5 to make a recent Mac's AirPort Express Wi-Fi adaptor connect to other 802.11n-enabled devices. The fee arises from accounting rules imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act put in place after collapse of the energy company in 2001. According to Apple insiders cited by iPod …

Mac 17 Jan 2007, 11:53
LaCie Ethernet Disk RAID 2TB entry-level NAS box

Review Nice price, shame about the performance?

Two terabytes of network-attached storage SATA-based RAID storage and an iSCSI desktop disaster recovery platform all within one small compact unit for under £900? Seems unlikely, yet LaCie, with a little help from its friends, appears to have pulled it off. Or has it..? The imaginatively titled Ethernet Disk RAID is the …

Storage 17 Jan 2007, 12:02
Shoecam man accused of filming up women's skirts

It's a wrap...

A Melbourne man was today accused of using a tiny video camera embedded in the toe of his shoe to look up womens' skirts on the city's buses, trains and trams - and admitted doing so for the last four years, local police claimed. The 20-year-old man was caught on a tram yesterday after police received complaints from a female …

Gadgets and Gizmos 17 Jan 2007, 13:03
Vodafone starts McLaren Mercedes handset line

Vodafone has wheeled its first co-branded McLaren Mercedes handsets out of the shed and onto the starting grid. Lining up to take on all challengers is a trio of handsets: Samsung's Z720M slider and two clamshells from Sharp, the GX29 and 770SH. The 720M's key features are a three megapixel camera with autofocus; 3G …

Phones 17 Jan 2007, 13:23
Dell debuts semi-rugged laptop for survivalists

Commando line interface

Dell yesterday parachuted in its first rugged notebook - well, semi-rugged - claiming the machine meets military standards for resistance to vibration, humidity, altitude and torture* - so presumably it's ready to yield its rank, model name and model number, but nothing else... The Latitude ATG D620 is covered in "high …

PCs 17 Jan 2007, 13:51
Sony offers eBook reader leather-bound edition

Valentine's Day special

Sony has announced a Valentine's Day incarnation of its Reader electronic book gizmo, a month ahead of time. The festive connection's tenuous - the special edition simply comes in a snazzy textured leather covered, though it's packaging is red and you won't be able to buy it after 9 February, except perhaps on eBay. It all …

Gadgets and Gizmos 17 Jan 2007, 15:35
EC preps Intel antitrust charges - report

Six-year probe drawing to a conclusion?

European Commission investigators have called on the organisation to bring Intel to book over alleged anti-competitive business practices. There's no official word on the outcome of the EU's long-running probe into claims that Intel abused its market lead to hinder its competitors, but according to the Wall Street Journal …

Bits 'n' Chips 17 Jan 2007, 16:17
Can Apple manage without Steve Jobs?

Column Yes but, no but

CEOs have been fired for doing what Steve Jobs is supposed to have been caught doing at Apple: backdating their share options to a time when they were worth less. Suppose it's true; and suppose he has to carry the can - will Apple manage without him? Already some commentators are ready to wield the axe. Froma Harrop in the …

Mac 17 Jan 2007, 17:33
Apple to license FairPlay DRM?

Hi-Fi vendors queueing up

Apple may be on the verge of announcing it will licence its FairPlay DRM technology, it has been claimed, with the recently announced Netgear EVA8000 Digital Entertainer HD one of the first non-iPod devices to take advantage of the move. So claims website Tech.co.uk, without saying how it's come to this conclusion. Unveiled …

Media players 17 Jan 2007, 18:13
Apple channels iPods for record Q1 run

Pod-au-Plenty

Holiday shoppers did their part for Apple during the first quarter, carrying the company to record revenue. Apple sold $7.1bn worth of goods in the first quarter compared to $5.7bn in the same period last year. Its profit came in at $1.0bn – well ahead of last year's $565m profit. As expected, strong iPod sales drove the gains …

Mac 17 Jan 2007, 22:33