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4th December 2007 Archive

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  • Intel roadmaps P45, G45 chipsets for Q2 '08

    Fully Vista-friendly integrated GPUs too

    Intel's X48 chipset - reviewed by Register Hardware here - is due in Q1 2008, but we'll have to wait until the following quarter for the rest of the 4-series 'Eaglelake' chipset family to arrive. So indicates an Intel presentation slide posted by Chinese-language site HKEPC. Q2 2008 will see the arrival of the P45 discrete …

    Bits 'n' Chips 4 Dec 2007, 10:36

  • Oz video rental giants go Blu-ray only

    HD DVD camp 'missing the boat' Down Under

    Major Australian rental chains Video Ezy and Blockbuster - both of which are owned by the same company, Franchise Entertainment Group - have gone all-out for Blu-ray Disc, they said today. Neither chain - comprising 870 stores in total - will now offer HD DVD rentals. According to FEG Managing Director Paul Uniacke, quoted by …

    HD 4 Dec 2007, 10:58

  • Nokia unveils eco phone and planet-friendly charger

    NokiaWorld The mobile Evolves

    No sooner had Nokia’s executives leapt onto the stage at today's opening of the giant's annual NokiaWorld shindig than assembled hacks were presented with a new, eco-friendly handset. Nokia's Evolve: half the front can be recycled The 3110 Evolve is a dual-band GSM/GPRS handset which Nokia claimed has fascias made from 50 …

    Phones 4 Dec 2007, 11:15

  • Creative ups Zen mem to 32GB

    Creative has extended its Zen line of Flash-based compact handheld media players with a 32GB model. The 83 x 55 x 12mm Zen - reviewed here - sports a 2.5in, 320 x 240, 16.7m-colour display and the ability to play MP3, AAC and WMA music files, along with MPEG 4, WMV and DivX video, and JPEG pictures. There's an FM radio on …

    Media players 4 Dec 2007, 11:37

  • Nokia N81 8GB smartphone

    Review You wait ages for an 8GB Nokia then three come along at once

    Nokia followed up its first 8GB mobile, the music-centric N91, with a second one, the N95 8GB. And now here's a third: the music and gaming geared N81 8GB. The N81 arrives at the same time as its more luxuriantly-equipped N95 stablemate, bringing a smidgen more choice at a lower price to the high-capacity music-mobile arena …

    Phones 4 Dec 2007, 13:02

  • Is Apple coding Leopard to run Windows apps natively?

    Or just making life easier for Parallels and VMWare?

    Is Apple covertly working on a direct Windows application compatibility for Mac OS X? Some observers have suggested that it may well be after it was discovered that Leopard will attempt to load Portable Executable (PE) files when asked and even try to find relevant Windows Dynamic Linked Libraries (DLLs). Leopard's PE support …

    Mac 4 Dec 2007, 13:25

  • NokiaWorld Nokia pumps up headphone pair

    Resisting a face-to-face conversation’s now even easier, thanks to Nokia. It’s unveiled two headphone designs, the WH-600 over-ear ‘cups’ and WH-700 in-ear cans. Nokia's WH-600 Each model connects to your handset - or any other device - via a 3.5mm jack and has a track-skip and volume-control switch built into the cord. …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 4 Dec 2007, 13:58

  • Nokia to offer unlimited music downloads... for free

    NokiaWorld If you buy a phone...

    Most mobiles have a music player nowadays, but most don’t come with a year's free and unlimited music downloads. Step up Nokia, which has just outlined just such a scheme, dubbed 'Comes With Music'. The basic premise: buy a Nokia Music Store-compatible handset and you’ll be rewarded with access to an online library of tracks …

    Phones 4 Dec 2007, 14:20

  • T-Mobile wins right to end sale of unlocked iPhones

    German Court rules against Vodafone

    France is now the only country on the planet where you can buy - legally - an unlocked iPhone. A German court has cast aside a two-week-old order forcing T-Mobile to begin offering unlocked iPhones. The initial order was established after Vodafone argued before the Hamburg District Court that T-Mobile's exclusive deal with …

    Phones 4 Dec 2007, 15:39

  • Asus dropped hard disk from Eee PC at eleventh hour

    Exclusive Manual reveals all

    Did Asus originally plan to release its elfin Eee PC mini laptop with a magnetic hard disk drive? A snippet from the computer's manual suggests that the company did. "To prepare the Eee PC for transport, you should turn it off... The solid-state disk's head retracts when the power is turned off to prevent scratching of the …

    PCs 4 Dec 2007, 16:26

  • iPhone's visual voicemail ain't so new

    Patent holder sees Apple in court

    Klausner Technologies has filed suit against Apple, and AT&T, for infringing its patent for providing a visual representation of incoming messages, a claim that has convinced AOL and Vonage to pay up in the past. Klausner Technologies has filed the case in the patent-holders' favourite, the Eastern District of Texas, and is …

    Phones 4 Dec 2007, 21:46