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19th November 2007 Archive

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  • AMD reveals 'Spider' platform

    For the wicked gamer in your house

    AMD is introducing its 'Spider' high-end gaming platform today, one week after Intel released its 45nm 'Penryn' processors. It's the official outing of three new products under the Spider moniker: AMD's Phenom processor, the company's RD790 chipset and a pair of graphics cards. None of this is a secret, though. We've known …

    Bits 'n' Chips 19 Nov 2007, 06:16

  • Wii regains US next-gen console arena leadership

    Xbox 360 sales plunged in October

    Microsoft's Xbox 360, having enjoyed enhanced demand on the back of Halo 3, last month fell back behind Nintendo's Wii in the US monthly sales charts. So the latest figures from local market watcher NPD show. In September, Xbox 360 sales totalled 527,800 units, taking it ahead of the Wii, which racked up sales of 501,000 …

    Consoles 19 Nov 2007, 10:17

  • AMD preps DirectX 10.1 'Radeon HD 3600' GPU pair

    'RV635' probably not branded XT and Pro

    AMD is expected to launch the successor to its ATI Radeon HD 2600 in January, and now the two new parts' speed details have emerged. Graphics card maker sources cited by DigiTimes point two versions of the 'RV635' GPU one an XT model, the other a Pro. The former will be clocked at 800MHz, the latter at 600MHz. The chips …

    Bits 'n' Chips 19 Nov 2007, 10:43

  • Singapore allows sale of 'lesbian' video game

    Xbox 360 game gets go-ahead

    Singapore’s authorities have relented and reversed their decision to ban Xbox 360 game Mass Effect because it contains a steamy girl-on-girl love scene. The country’s Media Development Authority (MDA) originally banned the game because it felt that a scene where a human woman and female alien kiss and caress each other was too …

    Consoles 19 Nov 2007, 10:53

  • LG models twin-screen phones

    Voyager the product of a union twixt iPhone and Nokia Communicator?

    LG has shown off Voyager - its take on the classic Nokia Communicator design - and Venus - a touchscreen-based, music-oriented slider phone - both of which it plans to release in the US soon in partnership with Verizon. LG's Voyager: iPhone meets Nokia Communicator? Voyager - aka the LG-VX10000 - sports a 2.8in LCD on its …

    Phones 19 Nov 2007, 11:40

  • O2 to launch Stella/Stellar in December

    Carrier doesn't know Rs from elbows?

    UK network operator O2 has announced that its latest XDA smartphone will be available next month - even though the company is unable to decide on the handset's name. O2: is it 'Stellar' or is it 'Stella' The 3G handset, which appears to be based on HTC's TyTN II design - reviewed here - is referred to as both the Stella and …

    Phones 19 Nov 2007, 11:57

  • Samsung SGH-F210 mobile phone

    Review Just too small

    Phone or MP3 player? That, as the Immortal Bard would say, is the question. Looking at it lying on the table like a tiny toppled megalith, albeit a highly polished one, it's difficult to imagine a more MP3-player-esque looking phone. The question is, has this desire to combine styles led to any compromises that delight us. As …

    Phones 19 Nov 2007, 13:44

  • Pioneer creates iTunes, YouTube rival

    Web-based telly

    A Pioneer-created TV service will soon enter public testing and allow consumers to download unlimited numbers of TV shows for a monthly fee. SyncTV: how the service could look Dubbed SyncTV, the project began inside Pioneer’s research labs, and will eventually enable users to subscribe to individual channels for between $2 …

    HD 19 Nov 2007, 13:49

  • iPhone to get 3G in May 2008

    Telefonica spills the beans

    Apple is asking for 30 per cent of subscriber revenue and can't provide enough iPhones for a Christmas 2007 launch in Spain, according to Spanish technology company SevenClick, which reports that it got the information from a senior manager at Telefonica. It also claims the May 2008 launch will see a 3G version of Apple's super- …

    Phones 19 Nov 2007, 16:00

  • Amazon's $399 folly book reader

    Just a lot of Kindling

    Reading has never been cheaper, and for most of us, requires no additional machinery - only the source material itself. So why do we need to pay the online retailer Amazon.com $399 to read books? That's the cost of the company's Kindle, a gadget with an 800 x 600 E Ink screen. Apparently the company has been working on the …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 19 Nov 2007, 16:13

  • T-Mobile suspends Sidekick Slide sales

    Power cycle problem

    T-Mobile has suspended sales of its recently unveiled launched Sidekick Slide handset, following reports of power faults on the device. Sidekick Slide: its sliding face has been causing power problems Currently, the announcement has only been made by T-Mobile USA. The handset is still listed as “coming soon” on T-Mobile’s UK …

    Phones 19 Nov 2007, 16:42

  • Nvdia launches latest laptop graphics chip

    Nvidia has introduced its new top-of-the-range GeForce 8M-series mobile graphics processor, as forecast. The GeForce 8800M GTX and the 8800M GTS both have cores clocked at 500MHz, but while the GTX incorporates 96 Stream processors - what Nvidia calls its unified shaders - the GTS has but 64. Both GPUs connect across a 256-bit …

    PCs 19 Nov 2007, 17:06