20th April 2007 Archive

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Medion muscles into UMPC market

Launches GoPal S2310 sat nav device too

Medion has officially launched its debut device in the ultra-mobile PC arena: the UMPC RIM 1000, first seen at CES in Las Vegas earlier this year. At the same time the manufacturer announced its latest sat nav GPS device - the GoPal S2310. The the UMPC RIM 1000 incorporates a VIA C7-M 770 ULV processor - chosen, we were …

PCs 20 Apr 2007, 08:51
Handwrite onto your BlackBerry

You want me to sign where?

BlackBerry Pearl users can now transfer handwritten notes into their handhelds using a digital pen and paper. The technology is aimed at uses such as form-filling - write on the form, tick a box and the written data is sent first to the BlackBerry's screen for you to check, and then back to base over the mobile network. It …

Phones 20 Apr 2007, 13:09
UMPCs: still a gimmick despite Intel's best efforts?

Analysis It's the battery life, stupid

Intel's ultra-mobility chief, Anand Chandrasekher, when questioned by Register Hardware this week, was suspiciously unwilling to say how long machines based on the firm's new Ultra Mobile Platform (UMP) will run between battery charges. How long you can use UMPCs for is as crucial to their success as the ability to run a …

PCs 20 Apr 2007, 13:44
Nokia boosts downloads with low-cost 3G phone

Nokia looks set to bring high-speed downloading to the masses with a low-cost phone equipped with the latest 3G High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) technology. It can pull down songs and videos at up to 3.6Mbps. The 86g Nokia 6120 runs the Finnish phone giant's S60 user interface on a 2in, 240 x 320, 16m-colour …

Phones 20 Apr 2007, 14:05
Intel extends market share gains

AMD's share back to where it was in Q3 2005

Intel once again increased its lead over arch-rival AMD during Q1, as its share of world x86 chip sales rose above 80 per cent - the first quarter it's done so since Q3 2005. The figures come from market watcher iSuppli, which put Intel on 80.2 per cent and AMD on 11.1 per cent. AMD's share fell from 15.7 per cent in the …

Bits 'n' Chips 20 Apr 2007, 15:10
Netgear SPH200D Skype/DECT phone

Review New, all-white phone's all right

The manifest destiny of VoIP phones is surely the ability to use one wireless handset to make and receive calls via either the internet or a regular landline with the very minimum of fuss, bother and, more importantly, without a PC poking its nose into the equation. The DECT phone group test back in March took a look at …

Phones 20 Apr 2007, 15:36
Panasonic CF-Y5 Toughbook laptop

Review A Navy SEAL of notebooks... a lumberjack of laptops

The CF-Y5 sits at the executive end of its Toughbook range, which if you're actually a stubble-sporting, rugged type, is realistically nearer the bottom of any table of toughness. So you won't be able to drop it down a crevice in the Antarctic and still expect to send an email. But if you fancy yourself as one among the …

PCs 20 Apr 2007, 18:41
Dell offers XP again amidst Vista complaints

Users ask to party like its 2001

Dell is to once again offer Windows XP on new systems, responding to online customer complaints. The decision reverses a Vista-only policy the PC seller has moved to since the release of Microsoft's latest OS. The move is a reaction to online complaints at Dell's recently-launched Ideastorm website. At Ideastorm, users can …

PCs 20 Apr 2007, 22:59
Safari zero-day exploit nets $10,000 prize

Pwn'd in 12 hours

A New York-based security researcher spent less than 12 hours to identify and exploit a zero-day vulnerability in Apple's Safari browser that allowed him to remotely gain full user rights to the hacked machine. The feat came during the second and final day of the CanSecWest "pwn-2-own" contest in which participants are able to …

Mac 20 Apr 2007, 23:38