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24th August 2007 Archive

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  • Razer, MS each pitch the peak in gaming mice

    Scroll through the enemies

    Gaming peripherals specialist Razer launched its latest mouse this week, pledging a rage-topping level of sensitivity and a firefight fast response time. Separately, Microsoft unveiled a Vista-friendly gaming mouse of its own. Razer's Lachesis The corded Razer Lachesis mouse provides a 4000 dots per inch (dpi) sensitivity …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 24 Aug 2007, 08:37

  • iPhone unlock procedure posted

    Video shows it working?

    A utility claimed to be the world's first software tool for unlocking the Apple iPhone was launched yesterday, even as hardware hackers said they'd figured out how to get the same result by tweaking the gadget itself. Website iPhone Sim Free said its application would go on sale next week. Had we not handed our iPhone back we …

    Phones 24 Aug 2007, 08:58

  • Japan to get ultra-dinky Bluetooth USB dongle

    Another runner has jointed race to be first to release the world's smallest USB Bluetooth pick-up. Japan's Princeton today launched its PTM-UBT3S, pledging to bring it to market in September. Princeton's PTM-UBT3S The diminutive 'daptor - it's 1.9 x 1.4 x 0.5cm and weighs a feathery 5.5g - provides Bluetooth 2.0+EDR …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 24 Aug 2007, 09:42

  • Sony scientists develop sugar-fuelled power pack

    No low-cal versions in the pipeline though...

    Sony's battery boffins seem to have learnt some lessons from the previous few month's, ahem, problems. They've developed a battery that generates power from sugar and, they claim, can create enough power to run an MP3 player. The so-called "bio battery" generates electricity by mixing enzymes with a sugar solution. They break …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 24 Aug 2007, 11:27

  • Wii wins console war, market watcher claims

    Nintendo next-gen sales surpass Microsoft's

    Nintendo's Wii is now the world's best-selling next-gen videogames console, having this week nosed past the Xbox 360. The Microsoft console has been available to buy for the best part of a year more than has the Wii. So claims little-known online gaming sales tracker VG Chartz, which this week said that by its reckoning, as …

    Consoles 24 Aug 2007, 11:45

  • Xbox 360 Elite games console

    Review Small tweaks, big difference?

    Apart from a sneaky bit of Xbox 360 gaming at lunchtimes in the Register Hardware offices, we've always been fairly hardcore PlayStation fans, having grown up with the Sony console series since its 1995 launch. Could Microsoft's new machine, the Xbox 360 Elite, persuade us to change allegience? Well, yes, it could... MS' …

    Consoles 24 Aug 2007, 12:11

  • Dell laptops not in the pink after all

    A customer poses the question: 'Dell, Dell, Dell, where art thou lovely electric pink laptop you bigged up a little while ago? What's that you say? There's too much dust in the paint and so all you can give me right now is a, er, tuxedo black one.' Indeed, Dell's much-touted range of new colourful laptops, which were launched …

    PCs 24 Aug 2007, 12:21

  • MS warns gamers: steer clear of Xbox racing wheel

    Many Xbox 360 gamers claim they're smokin' hot drivers at the likes of Forza Motorsport 2. But now they risk really proving it, thanks to a power-supply flaw with Microsoft's Wireless Racing Wheel that can cause it to overheat and smoke. MS' Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel No cases of fire, personal injury or property …

    Consoles 24 Aug 2007, 12:30

  • Spare some change - for the sub-£10 mobile

    Alcatel has slashed the price of its latest no-frills mobile phone - but only for three days. Over the UK Bank Holiday weekend, the already cheap as chips OT-E201 will sell for less than the price of a takeaway. Alcatel's OT-E210: yours for eight quid, but only this weekend The handset was originally launched earlier this …

    Phones 24 Aug 2007, 12:38

  • Nokia battery recall to cost Matsushita up to $172m

    Nokia's decision to recall 46m mobile phone batteries is going to cost their manufacturer, Matsushita, up to $172m, the Japanese company admitted today. Matsushita - better known for its Panasonic brand - said it would shoulder the ¥10-20bn ($86-172m) cost of the battery replacement programme. It said the burden wouldn't …

    Phones 24 Aug 2007, 14:49

  • Dell laptop explodes 'like fireworks'

    Oh no, not again

    Another Dell laptop has burst unexpectedly into flames. This one, an Inspiron 9200, spontaneously combusted this week in Columbus, Ohio. The blaze was caught on camera. According to a report on website ConsumerAffairs.com, the laptop went up "like fireworks", its owner, Douglas Brown, claimed. Brown called the emergency …

    PCs 24 Aug 2007, 20:28

  • BioShockers delivered from DRM hell

    Rapture on up to five PCs

    After howls of pain from gaming addicts everywhere, 2K Games has eased the draconian DRM restrictions on its much ballyhooed new title BioShock. In the wake of the game's launch earlier this week, countless users - including a senior associate editor with PC Gamer - complained that BioShock's SecuROM copy protection software …

    PCs 24 Aug 2007, 22:18

  • Coming to terms with Raon's Everun tiny, Lolita-based PC

    Review It's a goer, if you hate keyboards

    Ah, the ultra mobile PC (UMPC). This is the one device in the computing kingdom that I want to work well more than any other. The latest turn in my ongoing hunt for a super lightweight, compact computer led me to Raon's Everun UMPC. Here we find a product with a novel, albeit predictable take on the UMPC concept that has been …

    PCs 24 Aug 2007, 22:25