8th February 2007 Archive

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Intel, IBM, AMD and Sun look to core each other

Can you top 80?

Intel, lBM, AMD and Sun Microsystems will go coring mad next week as the vendors reveal some of their most impressive future chip designs at the ISSCC (International Solid State Circuits) Conference in San Francisco. The ISSCC is not for the faint of brain. It brings together the top minds in the chip game whether they …

Bits 'n' Chips 8 Feb 2007, 06:33
RIM defeats patent appeal challenge

InPro's internet-by-mobile IP should be revoked, says judge

Research in Motion (RIM) has defeated an attempt by a European intellectual property licensing company that the BlackBerry maker had violated a patent for accessing the internet on mobile devices. The English Court of Appeal this week ruled that RIM's email gadget "owed nothing to the patent" held by Luxembourg-based InPro. …

Phones 8 Feb 2007, 09:53
LG cooks up updated Chocolate phone

LG extended its Chocolate phone line-up this week, though the launch of the Chocolate Platinum was cast into shadow by yesterday's debut of the company's Shine handset. The Platinum offers features absent from earlier Chocolates, LG said. The Platinum's official name is the KE800 and it doubles the on-board memory to 256MB …

Phones 8 Feb 2007, 10:05
Apple to spin down iPod HDDs in favour of Flash?

Pitching battery life over storage capacity

Apple may be planning to drop hard drives from it iPod line-up, if claims made by a financial analyst are to be believed. The move would see the company canning its next iPod revision in favour of a Flash-based model, Prudential Equity Group analyst Jesse Tortora wrote this week. Tortora's report, cited by AppleInsider, …

Gadgets and Gizmos 8 Feb 2007, 10:30
Intel roadmaps 6MB L2 Core 2 Duos?

One of the pleasures of the 45nm 'Penryn' core, apparently

Intel's anticipated notebook-oriented 45nm Core 2 Duo processors, derived from the 'Penryn' core, have begun to appear on the chip giant's roadmap, debuting in Q1 2008, according to the latest leak. Some versions may incorporate 6MB of shared L2 cache. Penryn's arrival in the mobile market will see the release of 45nm …

Bits 'n' Chips 8 Feb 2007, 11:08
Asus specs up second-gen Lamborghini laptop

Asus announced its second-generation Lamborghini-branded laptop, the VX2, back in January. It didn't much about the spec or when the machine will ship. Today, the company spilled the beans on the notebook's internals. So what do we have? A 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo T7400 running Windows Vista Ultimate and aided by an Nvidia …

PCs 8 Feb 2007, 11:53
Nokia to free route-planning app, maps

Real-time navigation comes extra

Nokia will this weekend begin giving its Smart2Go satellite navigation software away free of charge, first for "select" Series 60 (S60) and Windows Mobile 5.0 devices, but later for other mobile platforms, including S40 and Linux, too. The sound you can hear in the background are the moans of companies who've been charging …

GPS and Satnav 8 Feb 2007, 12:21
Samsung to decant 2007 Bordeaux LCD TV line overseas

Samsung is to introduce its Bordeaux wine glass-styled - it says here - LCD TV set series into Europe and the US next month, the South Korean giant revealed this week following the introduction of the latest version of the telly in its home market. The Bordeaux line's appeal, Samsung suggested, lies in its 10,000:1 contrast …

Gadgets and Gizmos 8 Feb 2007, 12:55
Samsung launches would-be iPhone beater

Tablet form-factor, Flash UI, 'super 3G' downloads

Samsung has formally unveiled its bid to be the leading purveyor of iPhone-alike handsets with the Ultra Smart F700, launched today but which will get its first public outing at the 3GSM show next week in Barcelona. The F700 is a tablet-like handset with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a form-factor pioneered by HTC in devices …

Phones 8 Feb 2007, 13:14
RIM, Samsung settle BlackJack brand brawl

South Korean company faces 'limitations' on

Research in Motion and Samsung have come to an arrangement over the South Korean giant's use of the name BlackJack, a brand a tad too close to 'BlackBerry', the push email pioneer had alleged in a lawsuit filed late last year. The financial terms behind the deal were not disclosed. RIM said Samsung has agreed to withdraw an …

Phones 8 Feb 2007, 17:18
MS preps black Xbox 360 as PS3 spoiler?

HDMI port and 120GB HDD too, allegedly

Is Microsoft preparing a spoiler for Sony's PAL-region PlayStation 3 launch on 23 March? According to one report, Australian store chain Myer has been told to expect a black Xbox 360 complete with HDMI port an 120GB hard drive round about that time. So claims a story on GamesReport.com, which also maintains Microsoft has …

Consoles 8 Feb 2007, 17:41
As iPhone fever subsides, the world asks will there be a Zune phone?

Zune, Zune, Zune

As reporters and analysts run out of things to say about the Apple iPhone, they naturally need to keep the debate rolling, and have this week turned to the possibility of Microsoft's involvement in MP3 phones, by inventing the Zune phone. Microsoft executives failed to deny its existence and even said that “somewhere on the …

Phones 8 Feb 2007, 23:22