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4th April 2007 Archive

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  • PS3 UK sales rocket... then plummet

    Official sales monitor charts console's curved trajectory

    Sony's PlayStation 3 has been on a rollercoaster ride here during the past two weeks, rising to an incredible peak - then plunging rapidly back toward the ground. At least, that's what the next-gen consoles sales figures have done. The PS3 arrived here on 23 March. During its first weekend on sale, some 600,000 consoles were …

    Gaming 4 Apr 2007, 09:09

  • Intel to launch 'Steeley' UMPC CPU on 18 April?

    'McCaslin' mobile platform too

    Intel will formally announce 'Steeley', its new ultra-mobile PC-oriented processor, at Intel Developer Forum in Beijing in two weeks' time, it has been claimed. It will also unveil 'McCaslin', its UMPC platform. Intel employees let slip the existence of Steeley last September, but it's a part the chip giant has kept very …

    Bits 'n' Chips 4 Apr 2007, 09:33

  • VESA adds anti-piracy tech to DisplayPort

    Digital monitor connector updated

    The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) has posted DisplayPort version 1.1, almost a year after the digital monitor connection standard was first published. DisplayPort is pitched as the successor to not only DVI external monitor connections but also LVDS, used to hook up notebook panels. Heck, it'll even replace …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 4 Apr 2007, 10:06

  • O2 confirms XDA Zinc zapped

    HTC-made XDA Trion the replacement?

    It's official: mobile phone network has canned the XDA Zinc, the 3G PDA phone the carrier originally planned to release in January but delayed to March. The Zinc failed to pass the carrier's network tests, an O2 spokeswoman confirmed today. March has gone and it's April now, of course, and Register Hardware readers keen on …

    Phones 4 Apr 2007, 10:33

  • D-Link first to offer 802.11n ExpressCard for laptops

    Single-band only

    D-Link has begun shipping one of the first pre-standard 802.11n wireless networking adaptors that will slip into a notebook's ExpressCard slot. The Xtreme N-branded DWA-643 is an ExpressCard 34 device so it should also fit into laptops with ExpressCard 54 bays. Alas, the the device only operates with Windows, so MacBook Pro …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 4 Apr 2007, 11:06

  • Samsung pitches 'ultra-silent' HDD

    Ring my deciBel

    Samsung may be keenly promoting Flash memory as the future of computer storage, but that hasn't stopped it developing magnetic media: today it said its 3.5in SpinPoint S166 line of "ultra-silent" hard drives will go on sale later this month. The family comprises 80GB and 160GB models, both with 8MB of cache and a spin-speed …

    Bits 'n' Chips 4 Apr 2007, 11:27

  • Orange SPV M700 Windows Mobile smart phone

    Review Is it really any different to the M600?

    Orange has updated its Windows Mobile PDA phone and whacked another 100 onto its name. At first glance, the only difference is a shinier finish. So what else has been souped up to turn an M600 into an M700? Well, for starters, the 10.8 x 5.8 x 1.8cm, 150g SPV M700 can now handle 3G connections, as well as the EDGE and GPRS …

    Phones 4 Apr 2007, 11:28

  • Apple announces octo-core Mac Pro

    Last month's AppleStore cock-up comes true

    Apple has upgraded is Mac Pro desktop with a pair of 3GHz quad-core Intel Xeon processors, less than a month after a website cock-up revealed such a machine was in the offering. It doesn't come cheap. The basic Mac Pro costs $2,200. Replace the two dual-core 2GHz CPUs with the two quad-core chips and the price almost …

    Mac 4 Apr 2007, 13:49

  • MS pulled over for 'dangerous driving' Xbox ad

    Political correctness gone Mad Max

    UK advertising watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority has rapped Microsoft on the knuckles for fielding a TV ad for the Xbox 360 which "gave the impression that reckless street car racing was exciting and fun". Reckless street car racing is indeed exciting and fun - well, we assume so on the basis of playing Carmageddon …

    Gaming 4 Apr 2007, 14:22

  • Brando hogs limelight with pig-shaped card reader

    Carnivorous computer users with a taste for pork will undoubtedly find Hong Kong-based accessory maker Brando's latest memory card reader a toothsome treat: it's pig-shaped. Whether it's modelled on a Saddleback, Lop, Old Spot, Large Black or Tamworth, we can't rightly say. Middle White, possibly, by the look of it... …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 4 Apr 2007, 14:55

  • Why I won't buy a Dell next time

    Comment Or, Reason #11 to buy a Mac

    I recently bought a "Vista capable" desktop PC from Dell. It was a good opportunity to play the secret shopper and report the experience as an ordinary consumer, instead of reporting as a tech journo reviewing hardware supplied by the maker and tweaked to perfection before delivery. I had bought a PC from Dell years ago and …

    PCs 4 Apr 2007, 16:33

  • Seagate ships hardware-encrypted notebook drives

    Analysis Should be popular

    Seagate Technology has announced that it is now shipping its Momentus 5400 FDE.2, an encrypting 2.5in hard drive for notebooks, to ASI Computer Technologies. The Momentus 5400 FDE.2 (Full Disc Encryption) hard drive offers up to 160GB of capacity, Serial ATA interface, and hardware-based AES encryption. The encrypting hard …

    Bits 'n' Chips 4 Apr 2007, 19:30

  • AMD kicks dual-core Opteron to 3GHz

    Trades apples with Intel

    AMD has started handing customers its fastest dual-core Opterons to date. Server makers and channel sellers have gained access to the 3GHz Model 2222 SE and Model 8222 SE chips, which will slot in just above the already shipping 2.8GHz processors. A similar 3GHz chip for the 1000 Series line should arrive in a few weeks. AMD …

    Bits 'n' Chips 4 Apr 2007, 20:51

  • Best Buy amps up Apple volumes

    Plants seeds in 200 stores

    Best Buy is to start selling Apple PCs in 200 stores, the electronics retailer said today. This follows successful trials conducted in 50 stores. Best Buy sold Apple computers once before but axed the line in 1998 because of slow sales, the AP reports. That was at a low ebb for Apple. Soon afterwards the company axed most of …

    Channel Register 4 Apr 2007, 23:19