5th March 2007 Archive

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Reg Hardware £1,250 Daily Draw: five Nokia E65 phones to be won

Competition It's Friday - your last chance to win

Nokia's brand new E65 handset. You can read Register Hardware's review of this mobile phone here, but why not try and win one too? We've got five of these bad boys to give away... one every day this week. The E65 features a slide mechanism that at first touch feels durable. The screen has a 240 x 320 resolution, and the …

Phones 5 Mar 2007, 08:02
MS readies 512MB Xbox 360 memory card

Triples Xbox Live Arcade game size too

Microsoft will next month offer Xbox 360 gamers a 512MB memory module, a handy boost for owners of the hard drive-less incarnation's of the games console - they're currently limited to 64MB. The move is part of Microsoft's attempt to push Xbox Live Arcade. Not only does the 512MB memory card provide more space for …

Consoles 5 Mar 2007, 10:28
Shuttle launches performance flagship

Quad-core and overclocking goodness

Ladies and gentlemen, will you please welcome Shuttle's newest flagship quad-core small form-factor PC, the SD39P2, ready to tempt European gamers and lovers of high-speed computing with four-core fun. The SD39P2's based on Intel's 975X chipset, so it'll take any desktop Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Extreme or Core 2 Quad processor, …

PCs 5 Mar 2007, 11:08
Wii to win next-gen console war - just

Nintendo broadening gaming's appeal

And the winner of the next-generation console war is... Nintendo's Wii - at least according to market watcher IDC. In the short term, at least. It reckons Wii will "outship and outsell" the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation throughout this year and next. But don't expect the Nintendo box to do so by a significant margin. IDC said …

Consoles 5 Mar 2007, 11:29
Transcend aims pearl-handled Flash drive

Trendy, apparently

Don't know what a mother-of-pearl coated USB Flash drive should be "trendy", but manufacturer Transcend reckons it is. The slimline - 4.8mm thick - drive has 2GB of storage on board and includes software to let you use your apps on someone else's computer without leaving any files behind. All well and good, but will Transcend …

Gadgets and Gizmos 5 Mar 2007, 11:42
MS faces lawsuit over alleged Xbox 360 disc damage

Euro gamers complain

A European lawyer has threatened to initiate legal action against Microsoft in the light of complaints from 800 Xbox 360 customers that their discs have been scratched by the console's DVD drive. Dutch lawyer Richard de Lange of De Lange, Peeters & Langereis Lawyers told Register Hardware: "I'll represent one dissatisfied …

Consoles 5 Mar 2007, 16:01
Panasonic packs Wi-Fi Skype phone with travel router

Panasonic has become the latest cordless-phone maker to offer a Skype-friendly Wi-Fi model. All the usual VoIP facilities are present and correct, but the KX-WP1050 also comes - all in a natty case - with a travel router. The handset supports the WPA wireless security system and prioritises VoIP traffic over the wireless …

Phones 5 Mar 2007, 17:02
Doubts raised over Motorola, Apple AIDS charity campaign

$82m in the Red

The enormous marketing assault mounted by companies involved in the celebrity-backed Red campaign against AIDS has raised questions over whether it is effort best spent. According to Advertising Age, as much as $100m splurged on advertising Red products by Gap, Motorola and Apple has returned just $18m to the Global Fund. …

Media players 5 Mar 2007, 20:31
Fickle AMD rocked as channel gets revenge

Loved and lost

AMD's obsession with top server and PC makers has proved costly. The chip maker claims to have focused on so-called Tier 1 OEMs at the expense of its longtime channel partners and now blames declining channel sales for its expected first quarter revenue miss. Earlier today, AMD warned that Q1 revenue will likely come in well …

Channel Register 5 Mar 2007, 20:35