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26th April 2007 Archive

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  • Acer recalls 27,000 Sony laptop batteries

    Caution not combustion behind the move

    Thought the Great Sony Battery Recall of 2006 was past history? Think again. Acer's US operation last night said it was asking 27,000 customers to return Sony-made laptop batteries for a free replacement. Acer stressed it had received no reports that any of its machines have gone up in smoke in the way that laptops from Apple …

    PCs 26 Apr 2007, 09:14

  • Blue Sky squeezes GPS onto a SIM

    Dawn of the next killer app?

    Just as we were predicting the end of SIM technological development, along comes a technology which really could be a killer application - a complete GPS system embedded inside one. At the SIMposium in Berlin, Blue Sky Positioning announced it has developed a complete GPS system, including the antenna, which physically fits …

    GPS and Satnav 26 Apr 2007, 10:04

  • T-Mobile calls up cut-price Sidekick iD

    And Hiptop 3 arrives down under

    T-Mobile has started selling a cut-down version of its Sidekick 3 consumer-friendly email phone that strips outs the camera, Bluetooth and a GSM frequency to knock a hundred bucks off the price. Dubbed the Sidekick iD, the pitch is that this is not only the cheapest Sidekick yet but the most customisable: the coloured …

    Phones 26 Apr 2007, 10:18

  • Samsung 'world's thinnest' phone goes on sale

    Samsung has been showing off its ultra-slim Ultra Edition 5.9 phone at every opportunity it gets, but the 5.9mm-thick - don't ever put it your back pocket - handset has finally gone on sale, in the firm's native Korea. Samsung reckons the phone, more prosaically known as the SCH-C210 in Korea, is the thinnest in the world. …

    Phones 26 Apr 2007, 10:39

  • Toshiba HD-XE1 HD DVD player

    Review Tosh brings in 1080p on a budget

    After the big bang of the HD disc format war, the dust has settled a little. There are players available on both the Blu-ray and HD DVD sides and now manufacturers are expanding their product lines - adding a feature here and an enhancement there. Since the launch of the Toshiba's relatively bargain priced HD-E1 player, a …

    HD 26 Apr 2007, 10:59

  • Wal-Mart orders 2m HD DVD players from China

    Big boost for Blu-ray rival?

    US retail giant Wal-Mart is to fill its North American store shelves with a 2m low-cost HD DVD players, a move that could help kick up a gear consumer interest in the next-gen optical disc format. According to a report by the Chinese-language Economic Daily News, local operation Fukuhiko Electronic will make the players, …

    HD 26 Apr 2007, 11:08

  • Sony spies Eye toy for PS3

    Hip, hip, array

    Sony will bring the PlayStation 3 version of its Eye web and gaming cam to market this summer time. The T-shaped unit has a bigger microphone than image grabber, thanks to a noise-cancelling four-microphone array. Why take four microphones into a video chat when you can take one? The new Eye can compare the signals from …

    Consoles 26 Apr 2007, 11:34

  • Hitachi says it did ship 1TB HDD in Q1

    Just in case you missed it...

    You might not have realised it, but Hitachi did get its 7K1000 1TB hard drive out of the door during the first quarter of 2007, as it promised to do when it launched the product. But it admitted the product had not reached "critical mass" until this month. Indeed, of the online retailers we checked with today - all of whom …

    Bits 'n' Chips 26 Apr 2007, 12:11

  • Sony ships 'world's smallest' HD camcorder

    Another day, another superlative...

    Soon to arrive in the UK is Sony's new Handycam HDR-CX6EK - the world's smallest and lightest HD camcorder, according to the Japanese electronics giant. Features include 10x optical zoom and AVCHD 1080i recording on a Memory Stick. Depending on your prefered picture quality mode, Sony claims it's possible to save up to 2 …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 26 Apr 2007, 12:19

  • AMD Radeon HD 2900 XTX tested on web

    Little benefit over XT

    Two days ago, AMD's upcoming ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT was given an early and unscheduled trip through the latest benchmarking software. Now it's the turn of the Radeon HD 2900 XTX. Website DailyTech took a sample of the XTX card with a core clock of 750MHz and 1GB of GDDR 4 clocked to 2020MHz and ran it against an Nvidia GeForce …

    Bits 'n' Chips 26 Apr 2007, 13:04