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8th March 2007 Archive

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  • NEC nears laptop-friendly natural light LCD

    Screens you can use in the sunshine, anyone?

    NEC has extended its range of LCD panels that can be read even in bright sunlight even closer to standard notebook screen sizes, bringing closer, we hope, the day when we can use laptops outdoors without having to squint like crazy. The Japanese company claims its "super-transmissive natural light TFT" technology can still …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 8 Mar 2007, 10:41

  • Intel outlines PRAM production plan

    Flash-beater less than a year away?

    Intel could begin punching out Flash-busting phase-change memory chips by the end of the year, the processor giant has announced. Its customers could get sample 128Mb chips as early as Q1 2008, it added. Phase-change memory uses a material called chalcogenide glass to record data. Applying heat to the substance causes it to …

    Bits 'n' Chips 8 Mar 2007, 11:08

  • Game sends arcade enemies into the real world

    But only Treo owners can see 'em...

    Palm OS games developer ToySpring has updated its novel shoot-'em-up Arcade Reality - a game that superimposed alien attackers onto the output of a Palm Treo's digicam. Not so much virtual reality as altered reality, ToySpring's title uses the real world as a backdrop for its arcade action. The game detects changes in the …

    Phones 8 Mar 2007, 11:39

  • Samsung upgrades UMPC for Vista

    Samsung has tweaked its Q1 ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, boosting the handheld computer's specs to increase its processing performance. The new model, the Q1P, sports a 1GHz ultra-low voltage Intel Pentium M processor in place of the original Q1's 900MHz Celeron M. It's also got 1GB …

    PCs 8 Mar 2007, 12:11

  • Zicplay out to wow with Ewoo wireless iPod remote

    Here's Ewoo, the distinctly iPod-like iPod remote control unit from Swiss accessory maker Zicplay. The remote communicates by 2.4GHz radio to the docked iPod, sending commands one way and picking up what's on the iPod to allow you to navigate through songs, pics and videos. You could just bung a Bluetooth adaptor on the end …

    Media players 8 Mar 2007, 17:44

  • Blu-ray provides price cut agony to HD DVD device sales

    Sony’s announcement this week of a new Blu-ray device in time for the Summer season in the US is more about stopping people going out and buying a HD DVD player, than making more sales of its existing device. In pictures shown of the device on various gadget websites, it’s like someone took the original and just shrunk it …

    HD 8 Mar 2007, 20:24