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11th June 2007 Archive

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  • VMWare offers Windows-on-Mac tool at half price

    Fusion due in August

    VMWare's Windows-on-Mac application, Fusion, will go on sale in August, the virtualisation technology specialist announced today. Order it now and you'll get the software at half price, the company said. VMWare announced Fusion in August 2006, though a pre-release test version has been available to Mac users for seven months …

    Mac 11 Jun 2007, 06:02

  • C of E blasts 'sacrilegious' Sony shoot-'em-up

    Resistance: Fall of Man in virtual cathedral shock

    The Church of England has become rather hot under the dog collar after it learned that one of the locations aliens have chosen to launch their invasion of Earth in the PlayStation 3 shoot-'em-up Resistance: Fall of Man is modelled on Manchester Cathedral. Manchester cathedral: real and not real C of E officials will today …

    Consoles 11 Jun 2007, 09:05

  • HTC Touch Window Mobile 6 smart phone

    Review Look but don't - despite the name - touch

    Apple's iPhone: still unavailable but nonetheless casting an enormous shadow over the smart-phone business. How, rival manufacturers ask, can we possibly respond? If HTC's new flagship phone, the Windows Mobile 6-based Touch, is anything to go by, the answer is imitation, not innovation. HTC's Touch: slick looks You can …

    Phones 11 Jun 2007, 09:30

  • AMD 'Bobcat' to challenge Intel next-gen UMPC platform

    Rival for 'Silverthorne'

    AMD will next year launch a processor specifically designed for ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs), the chip maker revealed last week at the Computex show in Taipei. Details remain scarce, but the chip is currently codenamed 'Bobcat', a feline moniker that perhaps aligns it with 'Puma', AMD's upcoming notebook platform. Puma comprises …

    Bits 'n' Chips 11 Jun 2007, 09:43

  • Next-gen Palm Treo spied on web... twice

    Offspring of union twixt phone and Creative Zen media player

    Pictures of what is claimed to be Palm's next-gen Treo smart phone have begun to appear on the web to reveal a device that looks a lot like Creative's Zen Vision:M media player. Ironic that, given Palm earlier this year hired one of the key minds behind the design of the original iPod - which the Zen would latter attempt to …

    Phones 11 Jun 2007, 10:12

  • Marks & Sparks to sell iPod suit this weekend

    Retailer Marks & Spencer will be bringing suit-maker Bagir's iPod-friendly executive outfit this coming weekend to celebrate Father's Day, it has emerged. Pssst, want an iPod? Fell of the back of a lorry, squire The suit not only incorporates handy iPod-sized inside pockets but also features a stitched-in touch-sensitive …

    Media players 11 Jun 2007, 13:40

  • Sony brings bold colours to latest laptops

    Sony has rolled out a range of laptops based on Intel's latest 'Santa Rosa' Centrino Duo technology, sheathed in a range of "bold... eye-popping... fashion-forward" (eh?) colours and equipped with a "pulsating" light that shines through the chassis to tell you what the machine's up to. Sony's blue Vaio CR: nice... " …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 11 Jun 2007, 14:20