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27th February 2007 Archive

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  • Dell could go indirect with Acer buy - analyst

    Model 2.0

    Michael Dell could prove that "Dell 2.0" is more than a marketing throwaway by buying rival Acer, according to a leading Wall Street analyst. Sanford Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi today laid out a plan for Dell to revive its fortunes by purchasing Acer - a relatively cheap target with a $4bn market cap. Such a move would …

    PCs 27 Feb 2007, 02:34

  • Intel announces fourth 45nm fab

    Chip plant to go into production H2 2008

    Intel is to spend $1-1.5bn upgrading its Rio Rancho, New Mexico plant, Fab 11X, to produce 45nm processors, the chip giant said yesterday. Output will commence in H2 2008. Intel's 45nm transistion centres on plants D1D and Fab 32 located in, respectively, Oregon and Arizona. These are the fabs that will punch out Penryn, the …

    Bits 'n' Chips 27 Feb 2007, 10:03

  • Apple presses pause on AppleTV roll-out

    Ship-date shifts to March

    Apple's AppleTV digital media player will not now ship until mid-March, a company spokeswoman has confirmed. The delay, the subject of much rumour-mongering over the last month or so, amounts to a set-back of a couple of weeks. "Wrapping up Apple TV is taking a few weeks longer than we projected, and we now expect to begin …

    Media players 27 Feb 2007, 10:29

  • Sony pledges thinner, cheaper Blu-ray Disc player

    Sony looks set to cut the price of its consumer-centric Blu-ray Disc player this summer, knocking $400 off the price of its current model, the BDP-S1, a reduction of more than 40 per cent. The move will be made using a new machine, the BDP-S300, Sony said yesterday. It'll be priced at $599, which is still $100 more than the …

    HD 27 Feb 2007, 11:10

  • Mitac to buy Navman handheld business

    Where does that leave Mio?

    Mio parent Mitac has apparently acquired rival handheld GPS gadget maker Navman, but the deal will not necessarily boost the company's own GPS division. The sale, announced last week but yet to be completed, will see Navman parent Brunswick rid itself of the Navman-branded handheld and in-car devices operation. Brunswick has …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 27 Feb 2007, 11:49

  • SanDisk to replace Flash in photography?

    Holographic memory may be 'new digital film'

    SanDisk is set to launch later this year what it calls "the new digital film" - a write-once medium it hopes will replace all the memory cards its been persuading us to buy for our digital cameras for last five years or so. The new product may use holographic memory. Exactly what the technology is, SanDisk isn't saying. Greg …

    Cameras 27 Feb 2007, 12:18

  • Asus Lamborghini VX2 laptop

    Review Show off how big your processor is...

    Cars and laptops obviously make good bed-fellow if Asus' latest Lamborghini-badged model is anything to go by. While its first effort - the VX1 - may have been seen as a me-too effort to rival Acer's Ferrari tie-up, there's got to be something in the partnership to produce further offspring. Given its premium branding - and …

    PCs 27 Feb 2007, 12:52

  • Kohn on Jobs

    Interview Drop the pose, Steve

    What's Bob Kohn doing now? The storied lawyer, who with his father Al wrote the "bible" on music business law has long been active in the IT world too. Kohn was Ashton Tate's attorney during the boom years of the 1980s, and later Borland's general counsel during the attrition years of the 1990s, when the software company was …

    Media players 27 Feb 2007, 18:05