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5th April 2007 Archive

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  • Intel eyes big biz with Centrino Pro

    Centrino + vPro = 'Santa Rosa' with all the options

    Intel has formally launched the Centrino Pro brand, designed to promote business-oriented notebooks incorporating the chip giant's corporate-friendly vPro platform technologies. Centrino Pro combines Intel's upcoming 'Santa Rosa' incarnation of the Centrino laptop platform - due to debut in May by all accounts - and vPro …

    PCs 5 Apr 2007, 07:47

  • Intel 'Robson' renamed Turbo Memory

    Add-in Flash cache rebranded

    Goodbye, 'Robson', the codename Intel applied to its add-in Flash cache unit for notebooks. Hello, instead, Intel Turbo Memory, the go-to-market name for the system start-up acceleration system. Intel claimed ITM will reduce boot times by up to 20 per cent and potentially half the time it takes frequently used applications …

    Bits 'n' Chips 5 Apr 2007, 08:01

  • Gear4 pours out 'liquid rubber' iPod case

    Yes, iPod accessory specialist Gear4's iVak sounds like a trendy carpet cleaning tool, but it's actually a hard plastic case with a "liquid rubber" texture on the outside and a clear plastic panel to protect the player's display. There's a clickwheel cover in the box too. The case comes in two parts that clip together - …

    Media players 5 Apr 2007, 08:30

  • Solar flares ate my GPS

    Worse to come in 2011?

    Did you get lost while out driving in December? If you did, blame the solar flare that zapped signals sent out by the GPS satellite network to keep travellers travelling in the right direction. According to researchers at New York's Cornell University, two major solar flares observed on 5 and 6 December emitted blasts of …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 5 Apr 2007, 09:33

  • Griffin ExpressCard 5:1 Card Reader

    Review Fit a memory card reader into your reader-less laptop

    Plenty of notebooks incorporate memory card readers these days, usually units capable of handling many, many different kinds of card. Not so Apple's Pro laptop line-up and a fair few portable PCs too. Enter Griffin's ExpressCard 5:1 Card Reader. The name say it all: this a a five-in-one memory card reader constructed around …

    Gadgets 5 Apr 2007, 10:37

  • Nintendo nudges sales forecast upward

    Higher Wii, DS demand than expected?

    Nintendo now reckons it will sell have sold rather more Wii and DS consoles during its recently closed financial year than it previously suggested, the videogames pioneer announced today. The Japanese company isn't due to publish its results until 26 April, but today it said it expects to report full-year sales of ¥966bn ($8. …

    Consoles 5 Apr 2007, 10:51

  • HP makes PC gaming play

    Comment But still more shiny shoes than sneakers

    HP this week unveiled its strategy to frag the competition and become the crowned head of PC gaming: it's... er... going to make and sell some gaming PCs. And a view-filling curved monitor. Maybe. HP acquired gaming PC specialist VoodooPC in September 2006. Almost seven months on, the best the company could this week say …

    PCs 5 Apr 2007, 13:27