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3rd December 2007 Archive

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  • Laptop power cranks up a gear

    Put the pedal to the... er... laptop

    There’s never really been a reliable way of losing weight and saving the planet - and certaintly not one that works while you're sat working at your desk. Until now - a Spanish Polytechnic has invented a laptop that runs on a miniature bicycle. No need for the gym after work now The Polytechnic of Madrid’s design means a …

    PCs 3 Dec 2007, 10:31

  • Intel 'Penryn' Core 2 Extreme QX9770 and X48 chipset

    2007's Top Products Say hello to the 1600MHz desktop FSB

    Intel has been busy sending out a batch of 'Penryn' Core 2 Extreme QX9770 processors to every tech site in the known universe, and if you take a look at some of the reviews that have popped up you’ll spot a common theme. The QX9770 is the first desktop processor to run on a 1600MHz frontside bus (FSB) but right now there are no …

    Bits 'n' Chips 3 Dec 2007, 11:02

  • Blu-ray widens US disc sales lead

    Big share of Thanksgiving viewing

    Blu-ray Disc player owners bought more discs during the US Thanksgiving holiday period than their HD DVD-owning counterparts did, numbers from market watcher Nielsen VideoScan reveal. Some 72.6 per cent of all HD discs purchased during the period were BDs, while 27.4 per cent were HD DVDs, according to Nielsen figures relayed …

    HD 3 Dec 2007, 11:02

  • Sellers price up 8GB Eee PC

    Black and white models coming Q1 2008

    Even though the 4GB version of Asus' elfin Eee PC isn't exactly easy to get hold of, some system sellers have started taking advance orders for the as-yet-unreleased 8GB model. Set be available in both white and black versions, the 8GB solid-state disk Eee PC comes with 1GB of DDR 2 memory - double that installed in the 4GB …

    PCs 3 Dec 2007, 11:24

  • Nokia N95 update speeds apps with virtual memory

    Sorry, 'on-demand paging'

    Nokia has posted a software update for its N95 handset which, it claimed, makes the "multimedia computer" load applications more quickly and play music for three more hours on a single battery charge. The update, version 20.0.015, focuses on "battery, stability and performance improvements". Among them is the addition of "on- …

    Phones 3 Dec 2007, 12:00

  • Apple iPhones offered up for hire

    Try it out for 30 quid a day

    Want to try out Apple's iPhone but are put off by the price? Hop over to German company Erento's UK site and you'll be able to rent one. Though at £29 a day, it's almost as pricey a proposition as a purchase. Erento set up (virtual) shop in the UK last month. Its site allows supplier A rent any product to consumer B. Think of …

    Phones 3 Dec 2007, 14:45

  • Gibson plugs in self-tuning roboguitar

    Tuning fork industry beware

    Legendary guitar manufacturer Gibson is reporting plenty of interest in its self-tuning Robot Guitar. The technical details of how the axe keeps the strings nicely in tune - via pitch-monitoring bridge, CPU, and servo-motored machine heads - is available here. All the guitarists among you need to know is that it boasts six …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 3 Dec 2007, 15:34

  • Samsung readies 'fastest' graphics memory

    Samsung will next year put GDDR 5 into mass production, it said today after announcing 6Gb/s 512Mb chips based on the graphics memory spec. Samsung's GDDR 5: due next year It's not the first. Qimonda began sampling a 512Mb GDDR 5 chip early last month and was quickly followed by Hynix, which upped the ante with a 1Gb part. …

    Bits 'n' Chips 3 Dec 2007, 16:37

  • Activision and Vivendi Games merge into Activision Blizzard

    $18.9bn union to out earn EA

    Early Sunday, a surprising and still yet-to-be-approved merger between Activision and Vivendi Games was announced. Vivendi Games (which owns Blizzard Entertainment, the creators of the uncannily popular World of Warcraft) will buy a majority stake in Activision to create a new company, Activision Blizzard. Providing …

    Consoles 3 Dec 2007, 22:53