7th February 2007 Archive

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Samsung settles DRAM price-fixing lawsuit

Agrees to cough up $90m

Samsung will pay $90m to bring to an end lawsuits brought against it by 41 US states as a result of its role in a worldwide DRAM price-fixing cartel. It will also aid the plaintiffs in ongoing legal action against its co-conspirators. Samsung, Elpida, Hynix and Infineon were all found guilty by the US Department of Justice of …

Bits 'n' Chips 7 Feb 2007, 10:27
AMD rolls out top-of-the-line Opterons

Prices slashed by up to 30 per cent too

AMD has taken the axe to its Opteron processor price list today - and rolled out a stack of low-power server chips into the bargain. It also topped a number of lines with new speed-bump CPUs. The second-generation lines, for example, are all now headed by the 1220, 2220 and 8220, clocked at 2.8GHz, equipped with 2MB of L2 …

Bits 'n' Chips 7 Feb 2007, 10:56
Acer out to push laptop prices up

Acer is looking to buck the laws of the channel this year by driving product prices up. The vendor, which has been the hardware supplier in some of the more spectacular cheap offers from the likes of supermarket giant Tesco, is banking on customers developing a taste for the finer things in life to help it defy PC gravity. …

PCs 7 Feb 2007, 11:03
Asus flows in water-cooled GeForce 8800 GTX

Overclocked, of course

Asus has announced an Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX-based graphics card overclocked from 575MHz to 630MHz thanks to a built-in water cooling system. The new card, which will ship under the AquaTank brand, ships with 768MB of GDDR3, likewise clocked above the standard 1.8GHz effective to 2.06GHz. And there's headroom to drive clock …

Bits 'n' Chips 7 Feb 2007, 11:21
Dell denies handheld games console plan

Just evaluating technologies

Dell has distanced itself from claims apparently made by one its own executives that it is developing a handheld games console to challenge Sony's PlayStation Portable and Nintendo's DS. In a statement sent to Reg Hardware, the PC giant said simply: "Dell is constantly evaluating new technologies. However, we have no plans to …

Consoles 7 Feb 2007, 11:44
Shuttle XPC X200M mini PC

Review Shuttle revises its small form-factor X100 by... um... removing the AMD GPU

We gave a brief rundown of the Shuttle X200 at the beginning of January and now it's time for a proper look at the new media centre PC. Externally, the X200 is near-identical to the X100HA that we previously reviewed as it uses the same sleek case. So it's still absolutely tiny, with dimensions of 21 x 30 x 6cm. The small …

PCs 7 Feb 2007, 12:30
Telecom Italia set to launch 'cellular book'

Hitch-hikers' Guide to the Galaxy, anyone?

Telecom Italia and Philips subsidiary Polymer Vision - though it's soon to be spun off - will next week launch Readius, the first mobile device with cellular connectivity and a roll-out high-resolution, high-contrast 5in display. Nicknamed the "cellular book", the always-connected gadget is designed to make it easy to read …

Gadgets and Gizmos 7 Feb 2007, 12:47
LG shows Shine in Europe

Chocolate follow-up launched in London

LG launched its Shine metal-cased slider phone in Europe today, though the handset began shipping to mobile phone networks and retailers on Monday. The Chocolate follow-up's key features: a shiny 2.2in, 262,144-colour, 240 x 320 display and a cylindrical scroll control. The South Korean giant launched Shine in its native …

Phones 7 Feb 2007, 15:08
OCZ goes for gold

Vista-ready RAM

Memory specialist OCZ has announced its latest gamer-oriented memory module pack: a pair of 2GB DIMMs clocked at 800MHz and offering latency ratings of 5-5-5-18, ready for dual-channel configurations. The PC2-6400 Gold Edition DIMMs sport OCZ's "gold-mirrored" heatspreaders, and the company claimed each one was "hand-tested …

Bits 'n' Chips 7 Feb 2007, 16:26
Nintendo patents games console phone

Wii Remote-like handset

Forget about the iPhone, does anyone fancy an nPhone? Yes, Nintendo has successfully patented a handset design that incorporates not only all the usual phone buttons but also a trio of game controller keys too. The Japanese videogames pioneer has actually held the patent for some time. Filed in November 2001, the intellectual …

Consoles 7 Feb 2007, 16:59
Nokia goes Communicator crazy

E-series expands

Under fire from financial analysts for the tepid performance of its Enterprise group, Nokia is set to add two new products to its business range and revamp its hit communicator, the E61. The long awaited successor to the Series 80-based 9000 range, the E90, offers a full QWERTY keyboard and widescreen display in a device with …

Phones 7 Feb 2007, 22:07