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23rd January 2007 Archive

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  • How to have an 'iPhone' right now... well, sort of

    iPrint, iFold, iPhone

    Want an Apple iPhone? Want it now? Well, we can't promise the real thing, but you can whip yourself up an almost perfect facsimile of the highly desirable handset. All you need is a colour printer, some glossy photo paper, a knife, a steel rule and a downloadable iPhone template. Posted the day after Apple CEO Steve Jobs' …

    Phones 23 Jan 2007, 10:10

  • Intel set to back VIA's Mini-ITX for SFF PCs?

    Bulwark against AMD's DTX

    Intel may be set to promote a motherboard form-factor developed by rival chip maker VIA, it has been claimed, in a bid to beat AMD's recently announced would-be small form-factor PC standard, DTX. The claim that Intel intends to back the 17 x 17cm Mini-ITX mobo form-factor comes from Taiwanese motherboard maker moles cited by …

    Bits 'n' Chips 23 Jan 2007, 10:47

  • France and Germany join anti-iTunes crusade

    September deadline to get house in order

    France and Germany are joining the Scandinavian campaign to make content from iTunes work with players from companies other than Apple. In a statement released yesterday by the Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman, France and Germany joined Finland in calling for changes to iTunes. The consumer protection groups want buyers to be …

    Media players 23 Jan 2007, 11:12

  • Intel to return to discrete GPU arena

    Back in the game after eight years

    Intel has committed itself to developing a discrete graphics product. It's been suggested for some time that it might have such a scheme in mind given the success of its integrated graphics products, and the fact that arch-rival AMD now owns ATI. Intel hinted at such a move last month, but this is the first time it has come …

    Bits 'n' Chips 23 Jan 2007, 11:32

  • Apple may offer Wi-Fi update for free, says former chief beancounter

    The world according to GAAP

    There's one flaw with Apple's excuse for planning to charge $2 to enable 802.11n next-generation Wi-Fi on Macs that have the hardware to support the technology: it's bollocks. So says the one-time most senior accountant in the US, Lynn Turner, former chief accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission. When it emerged …

    Mac 23 Jan 2007, 12:48

  • The Ultimate Windows Vista laptop

    What the new OS means for laptop owners

    The most visible part of Windows Vista is the Aero interface, and while we can't deny that it looks very swish we find it very hard to get excited by a shiny new GUI. Instead, we're looking forward to new Vista hardware, which includes a new use for the humble USB memory key and much, much more. So what will the ultimate Windows …

    PCs 23 Jan 2007, 14:33

  • Blu-ray DRM defeated

    Copy-protection cracked again

    The copy protection technology used by Blu-ray discs has been cracked by the same hacker who broke the DRM technology of rival HD DVD discs last month. The coder known as muslix64 used much the same plain text attack in both cases. By reading a key held in memory by a player playing a HD DVD disc he was able to decrypt the movie …

    HD 23 Jan 2007, 17:39