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10th April 2007 Archive

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  • Sunshine

    Movie review A little missing?

    There's an old adage that science-fiction movies tell us more about today than tomorrow. Sunshine, from Trainspotting and 28 Days Later director Danny Boyle, arguably goes further: it has its eye on the past as much as the future. The movie-making past, that is. Sunshine is the latest film in that small sub-genre the 'space …

    HD 10 Apr 2007, 09:45

  • Apple iPod sales surpass 100m

    Fastest selling music player in history?

    Apple has sold 100m iPods, more the company tacitly claimed, than Sony's equally iconic Walkman personal cassette player had in the first five-and-a-half years it was on the market. The shiny white music player was launched in a Mac-only, 5GB version in November 2001 - neither the first portable digital music device nor the …

    Media players 10 Apr 2007, 10:18

  • Microsoft brings instant messaging to Xbox Live

    Updated Online features could prove critical in the Console Wars

    Microsoft has announced that Xbox Live users will soon be able to access Windows Live Messenger. It will be added free through an Xbox 360 Dashboard update enabling Xbox owners will be able to chat with PC users. The move means the 6m Xbox Live users worldwide will be able to chat with the 260m users already using Windows …

    Consoles 10 Apr 2007, 10:28

  • Dell waves goodbye to Axim

    Pocket PCs are so 2002, darlin'

    Dell has quietly stopped selling its Axim X51 handheld computer, effectively bringing its range of pocket PCs to an end. "The Axim X51 family is no longer being offered, and we have no plans for a follow-on product at this time," a Dell spokesperson told Cnet. The computer giant had been a major player in the Pocket PC arena …

    Phones 10 Apr 2007, 10:34

  • Intel rolls out faster gaming CPU

    Earlier than expected

    Intel has rolled out its fastest gamer-centric processor yet, the four-core Core 2 Extreme QX6800, three months earlier than anticipated. The most recent leaks had the 2.93GHz QX6800 down for a Q3 release, already ahead of the end-of-year arrival the 65nm chip been expected to make. Still, bringing the chip forward to Q2 - …

    Bits 'n' Chips 10 Apr 2007, 10:58

  • AMD preparing Turion challenger for next-gen Centrino?

    Dual-core duel

    AMD looks set to challenge Intel's upcoming 'Santa Rosa' Centrino launch with a faster dual-core notebook processor of its own, the Turion 64 X2 Tl-66, it has been claimed. The mobile part will be clocked to 2.3GHz - the current range leader, the TL-60, runs at 2GHz - and contain 512KB of L2 cache, Chinese-language site HKEPC …

    Bits 'n' Chips 10 Apr 2007, 11:24

  • Hollywood hinders HD DVD, Blu-ray hack

    New keys for old

    The battle between hackers and the minds behind the security technology built into the Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD next-gen optical disc formats has begun in earnest. A trick used to tease out disc encryption keys has been blocked. The Advanced Access Content System (AACS) Licensing Administrator, the company that maintains the …

    HD 10 Apr 2007, 12:51

  • LG rolls out Beetle-branded MP3 player

    LG has shown off a Volkwagen-branded digital media player designed to appeal to fans of the car company's iconic second-generation Beetle. To us, the big-screen gadget's metallic look lacks the curvacious quality the makes the Beetle's look unique, but LG said the FM37 player will come in red, blue and yellow versions to …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 10 Apr 2007, 13:11

  • How to get your Wi-Fi working again

    Out with the old, in with the new

    Plenty of people who link computers and other devices to the internet over a wireless network are finding they can no longer connect quite as easily as they once could. That's certainly my experience and, if the many, many emails I received after grumbling about it in public are anything to go by, it's a problem many Register …

    Networking and Wireless 10 Apr 2007, 13:41

  • Hack exposes AACS 'hole'

    Keys handed over without authentication

    Hackers appear to have figured out how to access one of the crucial HD DVD encryption keys without having to authorise the data - potentially rendering the latest attempt to block such activity useless. The crack, posted on the Xboxhacker website, uses a standard, unmodified Microsoft's Xbox 360 HD DVD drive to hand over a …

    HD 10 Apr 2007, 16:33