19th January 2007 Archive

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Virgin Lobster fails to spawn

Less then 10K sold, mobile TV not a hit

Virgin mobile has sold "considerably less" than 10,000 of their mobile-TV-enabled Lobster handsets, despite Pamela Anderson’s advertising and cutting the price to below a hundred quid, according to The Guardian. Virgin won't confirm the figures, but it's clear that sales are disappointing. This should not come as any surprise …

Phones 19 Jan 2007, 07:02
Apple confirms $2 fee for 802.11n upgrade

Accounting rules indeed to blame

Apple has decided it's not going to charge $5 to enable owners of Macs with 802.11n-capable Wi-Fi adaptors to use the new wireless technology, it's going ask they cough up $2 instead, the company has confirmed. an Apple spokeswoman told CNET the company will indeed charge for the 802.11n enabler code, as previously reported. …

Mac 19 Jan 2007, 10:38
Apple iPhone costs $246-$281 to make, analyst claims

Very nice margin

Apple's margins on the iPhone will be almost 50 per cent, market watcher iSuppli has forecast after being given a glance an an early list of components the Mac OS X-based smart phone will contain. According to iSuppli's calculations, the 4GB iPhone will cost $229.85 to source and assemble. That's just the hardware - factor in …

Phones 19 Jan 2007, 10:56
Motorola makes Linux breakthrough with RIZR Z6

Could gain a headstart on low-cost smartphones

Motorola's first Linux handset for the US market, the RIZR Z6, is also likely to be the first in the industry to run an "open" operating system - Linux, Symbian OS or Windows on a single- rather than dual-processor architecture. This shows that Linux is making significant improvements in its suitability to be an operating …

Phones 19 Jan 2007, 11:08
AMD begins to ship ATI Radeon Uber Edition bundle

Fanboys' dream

AMD's ATI Radeon X1950 Uber Edition - a pair of overclocked graphics cards shipped in a lockable James Bond-style attaché case - have started to appear in appear in the wild. The "limited release" bundle comprises two X1950 XTX cards, and ATI "wide-area" mousemat and sticker, a "VIP customer care card", and a number …

Bits 'n' Chips 19 Jan 2007, 11:32
Palm patches Treo 680 camera power bug

Battery boost

Palm has uncovered a battery-depleting glitch in the camera code installed on its latest Palm OS-based smart phone, the Treo 680, the company confirmed today. The camera may continue to draw power even when the handset's in stand-by mode. The PDA pioneer has now posted a 57KB patch it recommends users download and install …

Phones 19 Jan 2007, 13:03
AMD rolls out low-end Vista-friendly GPUs

Radeon X1050, anyone?

AMD has quietly rolled out the ATI Radeon X1050, an entry-level graphics chip intended for board makers to offer as a minimum-specification Windows Vista Aero Glass-friendly upgrade. The X1050 contains 16 pixel shaders in four pipelines and fed by a pair of vertex shaders. It's a PCI Express part, but the connection of a …

Bits 'n' Chips 19 Jan 2007, 13:07
Intel next target as Opti sues Apple over CPUs?

Same patent infringement claim AMD faces

Apple has become the latest target of technology holding company Opti, two months after AMD also found itself on the recieving end of an Opti lawsuit alleging infringement. Opti's lawsuit, filed with the US District Court for Eastern Texas yesterday, claims Apple makes and sells products that incorporate its technology, …

Mac 19 Jan 2007, 14:12
Goodbye YourWAP, I'm glad I knew you

Comment Pioneer of mobile email bites the dust

I recently got an email telling me that YourWAP is closing at the end of this month, and that if I've got anything important stored there I need to retrieve it before it goes. YourWAP was a pioneer of mobile email. In the days before BlackBerry - or at least, before BlackBerry hit Europe - it was one of the first services to …

Phones 19 Jan 2007, 17:34