10th September 2007 Archive

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Women say no to pink tech toys

Hardware firms getting it so wrong, survey reveals

Advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi has put down in black and white what plenty of women around here have been thinking for ages: we want technology but we don't want it coloured pink or encrusted with fake gemstones. The company recently polled female internet users here in the UK and found that most of them believe …

Gadgets and Gizmos 10 Sep 2007, 01:02
Intel cans first-gen Core chips

Duo, Solo for the chop

Intel has begun the process of ridding itself of an entire generation of 65nm Core processors, to pave the way for 45nm 'Penryn' Core 2 chips, due to begin appear in November. Marked for termination: all the Core Solo and Core Duo CPUs. The Core Duos for the chop run from the 1.66GHz T2300 up to the 2.33GHz T7200, along with …

Bits 'n' Chips 10 Sep 2007, 09:48
Intel to drop bottom-of-the-range gaming CPU

Intel will take no further orders for the four-core Core 2 Extreme QX6700 processor on 4 January 2008, the company has told its customers. And they'll have to get orders in before 2 November 2007, if they want the right to cancel at a later date. The decision to end-of-life the $999 2.66GHz gaming processor doesn't comes …

Bits 'n' Chips 10 Sep 2007, 10:00
AMD readies DirectX 10.1, DisplayPort GPU updates

Radeon 2400, 2600 ranges targeted

AMD will early next year update its ATI Radeon HD 2400 and 2600 graphics chip series for DirectX 10.1's Shader Model 4.1, it has been claimed. According to Taiwanese graphics card industry moles cited by local newssite DigiTimes, the new chips will be based on two cores, the 'RV635' and the 'RV620, respectively successors of …

Bits 'n' Chips 10 Sep 2007, 10:11
Sony rolls out roll-along music player

Is Sony's new portable music playar an attempt to cash in on the Rugby World Cup? With its ovoid shape, the Rolly certainly has a football feel, but instead of air, this ball packs in an MP3 player, funky coloured lights and a pair of loudspeakers. And it moves. Sony's Rolly: palm sized music player The palm-sized gadget …

Media players 10 Sep 2007, 10:38
Wednesday's Palm launch not Centro, firm claims

Same design though?

The wraps come off Palm's latest Euro-centric smartphone on Wednesday, and while speculation has centred on the notion the device might be the company's upcoming Centro product, Palm has claimed it isn't. Palm's Gandolf/Otto: not branded Centro? A posting on Palm's official blog stated explicitly the device due to be …

Phones 10 Sep 2007, 11:21
Icron WiRanger Wi-Fi connected USB hub

Review USB-over-Wi-Fi, anyone?

The whole point of wireless is the freedom to connect to something from anywhere within an area rather than from a single, specific place. Icron's WiRanger wireless USB hub system stumbles at the first hurdle. Yes, its two units - the hub and the box that connects to your computer - link wirelessly, but both need mains-power …

Networking and Wireless 10 Sep 2007, 11:53
SanDisk guns for iPod Nano with slim video viewer

Long player

Now that Apple's got its new, video-playing iPod Nano launched here comes SanDisk with an alternative it hopes will win over buyers with its sleeker lines and higher storage capacity. SanDisk's Sansa View: like an iPod Nano only more capacious The Sansa View comes in 8GB and 16GB versions, but both can be expanded with …

Media players 10 Sep 2007, 12:02
Europe's largest phone recycling centre to open in Wales

Europe, send your unwanted mobile phone to... Wales. Well, from November, anyway. In that month, the continent's largest cellphone recycling plant will open its doors for business by logistics specialist Excel. The company said the £15m plant will be capable of dissassembling and safely disposing of some 500,000 handsets a …

Phones 10 Sep 2007, 12:13
OQO cuts UMPC prices, adds solid-state drive option

UMPC maker OQO will next week launch an updated version of its Model 2 handheld in Europe, upping the Windows Vista device's processor and storage specs, and - if OQO does what it's just done in the US - a reduced price. OQO's revised Model 2: faster, more capacious The new version increases the UMPC's processor speed from …

PCs 10 Sep 2007, 12:59
New iPods need new add-ons for TV playback?

Apple's new iPod Classic and iPod Nano will require new accessories if you plan to display the videos the players contain on your TV, it has been alleged. Apple has apparently blocked TV output from these new players when they're connected to old docks. Acccording to a report on newssite iLounge, plugging the two new iPods …

Media players 10 Sep 2007, 15:04
Orange to turn pink at Xmas to favour young women

Miss Understanding

Orange UK has shown off the pink LG Shine phone it plans to offer to UK consumers in the run up to Christmas - along with a rose-tinted Samsung F210, and salmon-hued W580i and W200i from Sony Ericsson. Orange's pink Shine: 85 per cent of young women want one The mobile phone network said the pink Shine is "sure to appeal …

Phones 10 Sep 2007, 15:29
AMD finally goes native with Barcelona

Preps pair of Octals

Entire computing platforms have come and gone* in the time that it has taken AMD to shove the four-core version of Opteron known as Barcelona into end customers' hands. AMD today will hold events in Spain and San Francisco to celebrate the release of its latest server chip. The Barcelona part - meant to arrive about six …

Bits 'n' Chips 10 Sep 2007, 19:17
Apple ponders $9bn bid for wall-busting wireless iNetwork

Eyes Google's 'beachfront' property

Google isn't the only tech giant mulling over a big-money bid for a prized portion of the US wireless spectrum. Apple's thinking much the same thing. With the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) set to auction off the so-called 700-MHz band this coming January, two unnamed sources told BusinessWeek that Jobs and company …

Phones 10 Sep 2007, 20:20