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7th June 2007 Archive

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  • Apple to use Sun's ZFS in Leopard

    A file system loved by all

    Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz may have let the cat out of the bag on Apple's plans for Mac OS 10.5 Leopard's file system. While showing off the Zettabyte File System in Sun's 'Thumper' hybrid storage/server platform at a company event in Washington today, Schwartz let it drop that Apple too has big plans for the open source file …

    Mac 7 Jun 2007, 00:18

  • Apple TV made for the mass market, bits breakdown reveals

    Apple's Apple TV costs $299 in the US - and not much less to make, according to a price list of the parts that has been produced by market watcher iSuppli. The cost of materials and manufacturing: $237. That yields Apple no more than $62 in profit - rather less on Apple TVs sold through third-party retailers. That's a gross …

    Media players 7 Jun 2007, 07:54

  • Nintendo Wii widens sales gap with Sony PS3

    5:1 sales ratio

    Sony's PlayStation 3 is falling further behind Nintendo's Wii in the Japanese sales stakes, the latest figures from local market watcher Enterbrain have revealed. Nintendo's Wii: outselling PS3 5:1 In April, Nintendo sold around four times as many Wiis as Sonys sold PS3s. The following month, that ratio had increase to 5:1 …

    Consoles 7 Jun 2007, 08:17

  • Intel discrete GPU due Q2 08?

    Intel appears increasingly set to challenge AMD and Nvidia's dominance of the discrete desktop graphics chip arena with an alternative to ATI Radeon and GeForce GPUs. So claim various sources from different graphics card makers, all of whom say their companies have been approached by Intel, according to a DigiTimes report. …

    Bits 'n' Chips 7 Jun 2007, 09:13

  • WD puts 250 gigs in pockets

    Western Digital has rolled out a bus-powered pocket hard drive that provides a whopping 250GB - pretty big for a product of this kind. WD Passport: 250 gig in your pocket Part of WD's Passport range, the piano-black shiny drive connects to a USB 2.0 port. It'll happily connect to Windows 2000/XP/Vista PCs and Macs - Linux …

    Storage 7 Jun 2007, 09:38

  • Dell to counter carbon with Euro tree-planting plan

    Greenhouse gases bagged

    Dell has brought its carbon-confounding Plant a Tree For Me scheme to Europe, allowing buyers to make a small donation to help counter the emissions arising from keeping their computers powered up. The scheme gives buyers of notebook, desktop and server Dells the chance to donate, respectively, £1/€1.50, £3/€4.50 or £20/€29. …

    PCs 7 Jun 2007, 10:00

  • Samsung celebrates 'emotional design' phone

    Samsung has turned to one of the world's leading - apparently - industrial designers to remould its latest handset as a "pragmatic work of art" rather than a run-of-the-mill candybar. The designer is Jasper Morrison, the phone is the SGH-E590. No, we hadn't heard of Morrison either, but the UK's Design Museum describes the …

    Phones 7 Jun 2007, 10:19

  • Atari's Portfolio: the world's first palmtop

    Forgotten Tech 18 years before Palm's Foleo...

    There's nothing new under the sun, some folk say, and that's certainly true of Palm's recently announced Foleo. It's the palmtop reborn in a slightly sexier, slightly larger form. Even its name is reminiscent of that bygone arena - it's rather like the Atari Portfolio, the world's first palmtop PC, released in June 1989. …

    Phones 7 Jun 2007, 11:59

  • PSP patent gets gadget geeks guessing

    Game console as mobile phone?

    We're not sure who found it first, but a patent has been issued in the US (numbered 20070123309), which highlights just how Sony might allow the PlayStation Portable to become a cellular handset. The news is all over gadget sites this week and is accompanied by the drawings below. In essence, it is a simple way to rotate the …

    Consoles 7 Jun 2007, 15:29