16th November 2007 Archive

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Warner Music supremo in Apple-fondling mea culpa

'Jobs was right. I was wrong.'

Two years after he publicly badmouthed iTunes, Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. now thinks it's just peachy. Speaking earlier this week at the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Macau, Bronfman admitted that the music industry was dead wrong about the digital music revolution, before spewing some Apple sweet talk that still …

Media players 16 Nov 2007, 00:24
Consumer electronics fuel chip sales

Insatiable apetite for gadgets drives demand

Semiconductor sales will grow at an annual rate of 7.7 per cent until 2010, when they'll exceed $321bn, according to the latest industry figures. The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) says consumers' seemingly insatiable appetite for electronic products is driving this growth. Emerging consumer markets in Asia, South …

Bits 'n' Chips 16 Nov 2007, 10:00
Man buys Eee PC, erases Linux, installs Mac OS X Leopard

'Eee done what?

An enterprising Eee PC user has managed to install Apple's Mac OS X 10.5, aka Leopard, onto his tiny laptop - though he quickly saw the error of his ways and replaced the OS with the previous version, Tiger. Blogger Dan, posting on Uneasy Silence, notes that anyone attempting the maneouvre needs not only an external DVD drive …

PCs 16 Nov 2007, 10:43
Asus Eee PC 4G sub-sub-notebook

2007's Top Products The ultimate laptop?

Asus' diminutive Eee PC 4G 701 micro-laptop is here. It's garnered an amazing welcome from computer users looking not for the acme of performance but for a highly portable wireless notebook with a decent battery life. Will they be disappointed? First, for anyone's who's missed the Eee PC hoopla, Asus' little laptop is like a …

PCs 16 Nov 2007, 11:02
Intel expands debut 45nm Core 2 Duo line-up

Roadmaps extra CPUs in January, April

Intel has added a fifth desktop Core 2 Duo processor to the list of 45nm 'Penryn' CPUs it plans to release early next year. The addition is the E8190, a version of the already scheduled E8200 that doesn't support virtualisation or Intel's Trusted Execution Technology, Taiwanese motherboard-maker moles claim by way of local …

PCs 16 Nov 2007, 11:22
Nintendo completes DS Lite 'refresh' - analyst

A lighter DS Lite

Nintendo will release a third-generation DS Lite as soon as sales of the current model begin to dip in its major sales markets, an industry analyst has claimed. Nintendo's DS Lite: superseded soon? Gaming website Gamespot said that Evan Wilson, an analyst at investment bank Pacific Crest Securities, told investors that " …

Consoles 16 Nov 2007, 11:54
Shuttle lands Linux SFF PCs in the UK

One for business, a second for pleasure

Shuttle has begun offering British buyers a range of its XPC machines with Linux pre-installed, the small form-factor PC specialist said today. Shuttle has two XPCs on offer: the SD3002W and the SD300Q2, the former loaded with SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1 and the second with OpenSuSE. They're pitched, respectively, at …

PCs 16 Nov 2007, 13:37
Ambitious E-Ten updates Glofiish smartphones

Will they hook you?

Taiwanese manufacturer E-Ten has expanded its Glofiish smartphone range with the launch of the 3.5G M800 - part of its plan to double its share of the Windows Mobile market to 20 per cent by the end of 2008. E-Ten's M800: a 640 x 480 VGA display While the M800's slide-out Qwerty keyboard is a nice feature for those not …

Phones 16 Nov 2007, 13:49
PS3 firmware update filters web content

Yes but how much will it cost to use?

Sony has integrated a website filter into its latest PlayStation 3 firmware. But while use of the utility is optional and, for now, free, neither the console giant nor its security partner, Trend Micro, are saying how much they'll demand from user whene the free-use period ends next April. Trend claimed the site blocker, which …

Consoles 16 Nov 2007, 13:55
PS3 overtakes Wii in Japan

Weekly-sales winner announced

Sony's PlayStation 3 outsold Nintendo's Wii in Japan last week, figures from local market watcher Media Create show. Some 55,924 PS3s were purchased in the week ending 11 November, compared to 34,456 Wiis and just 5817 Xbox 360s. Clearly, the Halo 3 effect and Microsoft's price cut have done their work. That's a marked change …

Consoles 16 Nov 2007, 15:14
Dell prices up all-on-one XPS desktop

Fiat Uno

Dell is still promoting its all-in-one consumer desktop the XPS One as "coming soon", but that hasn't stopped it getting ready for the big day with a webpage full of specs and prices. The PC giant has four standard models with starting prices ranging from $1499 to $2399. All four sport a 20in display, 2GB of 667MHz DDR 2 …

PCs 16 Nov 2007, 16:47
PS3 joystick unveiled

Joystick Vs Dual Shock

It sounds unbelievable, but until now PS3 gamers didn’t have a joystick to their names. Thankfully, peripherals manufacturer Thrustmaster has launched what it claims is the world’s first PS3 joystick, dubbed the T. Flight Stick X. T. Flight Stick X: cruise control The joystick, which is also PC compatible, is designed for …

Consoles 16 Nov 2007, 16:56
BitMicro pumps solid state drives to 1.6TB

Altima 4Gb/s FC SSD not for storage toddlers

Storage vendors have been sieging the large business market with solid state drive offerings for years — but cost and capacity restrictions have mostly kept them at the gate. Only recently has the technology advanced enough to to make SSD gear a plausible replacement for traditional disk storage. Take BitMicro for instance, …

Storage 16 Nov 2007, 22:02