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22nd November 2007 Archive

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  • Trade licks via USB

    USB to PC strumming

    Rocking out with your guitar has always been a pretty simple affair. Either strum along acoustically, or plug it into an amp for more bass. But, the USB guitar link now lets musicians plug guitars into their PCs to record or manipulate their future number ones. The USB guitar cable: plug one end into your PC and the other …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 22 Nov 2007, 07:02

  • Orange unpeels HTC Touch Dual

    Another HTC smartphone

    HTC’s Touch Dual smartphone has finally landed in the UK, slightly later than anticipated. However, it has appeared though - as expected - on Orange. HTC's Touch Dual The handset has cropped up on Orange’s UK website, with a lovely free price tag – provided you sign a £35-a-month contract with the network operator. It was …

    Phones 22 Nov 2007, 09:02

  • Apple pays $10m to end iTunes patent clash

    Burst.com suite settled

    Apple has agreed to pay Burst.com $10m to settle the patent infringement challenge the smaller US company launched against it in April 2006. Back then, Burst.com claimed Apple's iTunes Music Store, QuickTime streaming software and the iPod all incorporate without permission technology detailed in four patents held by Burst.com …

    Media players 22 Nov 2007, 09:03

  • Sarin to Jobs: your sneakers stink and your GUI sucks

    Playground taunts

    Vodafone chief Arun Sarin is relishing a fight with Apple's Steve Jobs - and he aims to wound. But it's a throwaway remark the Financial Times published on Monday that caught the attention. It was surely designed to create maximum personal offence. The iPhone offers the user a "a pretty poor experience", said the boss of the …

    Phones 22 Nov 2007, 10:07

  • PlayStation phone 'plausible, attractive' - Sony exec

    Better games for your phone

    A Sony executive has hinted that its PlayStation division and Sony Ericsson divisions may work together in the future, paving the way for the development of a PSP-cum-phone. The shape of things to come? Sony Computer Entertainment’s co-COO, Jim Ryan, speaking to India's Economic Times, said that “convergence with the two …

    Phones 22 Nov 2007, 11:15

  • Retailer reveals Wii Laser Sword

    Lightsabre clone war coming?

    For die-hard Star Wars fans, the Lightsabre is probably the film series' coolest asset. So thank your lucky Death Star that a Lightsabre peripheral for the Wii remote has been unveiled. The Wii Light Sword Dubbed the Wii Light Sword, the add-on has just cropped up on online retailer Play.com’s website. The device is …

    Consoles 22 Nov 2007, 12:30

  • 'Errata' to hold up 2.4GHz AMD Phenom 9700 intro?

    Company admits performance problems

    AMD's anticipated 2.4GHz Phenom 9700 quad-core desktop processor may take a little longer to appear than planned, it has emerged. Roadmapped to debut mid-December, the 9700 was nonetheless absent from a Phenom demo event hosted by AMD last week ahead of this Monday's product launch. Today, DigiTimes reports that motherboard- …

    Bits 'n' Chips 22 Nov 2007, 13:01

  • Kindle, Eee PC top Amazon.com 'most wanted' list

    Oy, Santa, bring us a gadget...

    Asus' Eee PC miniature laptop is the Amazon.com's most-wanted notebook, the company chirped today. When we checked this morning, the 4GB Eee PC was there at the top of the list of "most wished for" notebooks, above Apple's MacBook (second place) and MacBook Pro (third place), and Nokia's N800 Internet Tablet (fourth) and N810 …

    PCs 22 Nov 2007, 13:41

  • Sony 'not working on a PlayStation phone', staffer states

    Other Sony staffer's commments 'misquoted'

    Sony has bitten back at claims that it may be developing a PlayStation mobile phone with Sony Ericsson, stating that a senior staffer who was reported to be hinting as much was "misquoted". Sony Computer Entertainment’s co-COO, Jim Ryan, was this week quoted by India's Economic Times, as saying that convergence between Sony …

    Phones 22 Nov 2007, 14:50

  • eBayer punts Wii for £1m

    Plus ten quid P&P

    They say hope springs eternal, and nowhere is this better currently demonstrated than down at eBay, where you can snap up a near-new Nintendo Wii for a mere one million quid Mind you, it is in "excellant [sic] condition" and you get three games thrown in for the "excellant [sic] price". The reason for the sale is, apparently …

    Consoles 22 Nov 2007, 15:09

  • Charlie Sheen in upside-down iPhone outrage

    Thesp succumbs to 'Jesus mobe inversion syndrome'

    Handsome thesp Charlie Sheen has a certain amount of explaining to do after he was caught on camera suffering from a nasty case of "Jesus mobe inversion syndrome": Sheen is the first major celeb to succumb to the condition - initially spotted in an episode of The Bionic Woman - the symptoms of which are a clear inability to …

    Phones 22 Nov 2007, 18:41