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12th September 2007 Archive

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  • AMD takes world CPU share from Intel

    x86 platform ousting others

    AMD regained a few percentage points of world microprocessor market share from its arch-rival, Intel, the latest, second-quarter figures from market watcher iSuppli show. During Q2, Intel accounted for 78.8 per cent of global CPU sales by revenue, down from 80.8 per cent in Q1. AMD's share was up from Q1's 10.9 per cent to 13 …

    Bits 'n' Chips 12 Sep 2007, 07:59

  • Dell, Alienware price up Samsung solid-state drive options

    Ow, that hurts

    Want to equip your next laptop with a Flash-based solid-state hard drive? You can if you're after a Dell XPS or an Alienware m9750. Samsung said this week it's sending 32GB and 64GB SSDs to both companies. But fitting them will cost you. Alienware's m9750: now with solid-state drive options Alienware, for instance, …

    PCs 12 Sep 2007, 09:04

  • iPhone software-unlocked, easy-to-use tool to follow

    SIM city

    Calling all iPhone owners. The first free easy to use - well, relatively easy to use - software to unlock your Apple handset has arrived, mere hours after a rather more tortuous process. Well, almost. It's not quite ready for release, but folk who have seen it claim it does the business. As it stands, to unlock your iPhone …

    Phones 12 Sep 2007, 09:34

  • Sony slides out PSP software update

    Sony has updated the UK PlayStation Portable firmware taking the handheld console's on-board system software to version 3.70 days after the Japanese code was released. The software works with both the original PSP and the new, slimline version. The biggest change is the addition of a range of new colours for the console's …

    Consoles 12 Sep 2007, 10:12

  • Sony Ericsson ponders PlayStation phone

    Even as PSP gets more like a handset

    Sony Ericsson is considering the application of the PlayStation brand to a series of phones, the company's outgoing President has confirmed. Sony Ericsson already uses a number of well-known Sony sub-brands, in particular Walkman and Cyber-shot, which it applies to music and photography oriented handsets, respectively. Sony …

    Phones 12 Sep 2007, 10:29

  • Aztech V500DS-S1 Skype DECT phone

    Review VoIP moves out of the 'PC peripheral' era

    The concept of the PC-free Skype-supporting DECT phone went straight to the top of our How Did We Survive Without One? list on the first day we used such a device, the Netgear SPH200D - reviewed here. Now, from Singapore-based Aztech, we have the V500DS-S1, another all-singing, all-dancing, Skype'n'DECT phone capable of making …

    Phones 12 Sep 2007, 11:02

  • Palm, Vodafone launch slinky Treo 500v

    Full details

    Palm and Vodafone have, as expected, just announced the Treo 500v, a 3G smartphone aimed at the YouTube and MySpace generation and which sports Palm's curvy new handset design in iPod-like white and black versions. Palm's Treo 500v: iPod-inspired? The handset - codenamed 'Otto' - is based on Windows Mobile 6 Standard and, …

    Phones 12 Sep 2007, 11:08

  • Is there a good HTPC remote control out there?

    Q&A

    Hopefully you all can shed some light on this very dark subject: are there any decent Home Theatre PC (HTPC) remotes out there? Are the Logitech Harmony ones any good with Windows Media Center Edition (MCE)? What I'm really looking for is a universal remote - for the TV, speakers, etc - combined with a Bluetooth remote for …

    Q&A 12 Sep 2007, 11:23

  • Suggestions for a home IT strategy, please

    Q&A

    I am looking for - sad though it may sound - a bit of an IT strategy at home. I host my own website(s), need VPN access to data on the servers, prefer routing with a dedicated server OS rather than a "hardware outer", want centralised storage of all my media, potentially like the idea of thin clients or LTSP clients for my ' …

    Q&A 12 Sep 2007, 11:36