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1st February 2008 Archive

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  • Japanese geek trio blow up mice

    The inflatable input device

    For the traveller, a mouse's bulk makes it a difficult peripheral to pack. Now some Japanese designers have come up with a flat-pack design. The Jellyclick mouse: just a load of hot air? The trio’s Jellyclick mouse is inflatable and... er... that’s about it. It can be rolled or folded to sit inside your shirt pocket or …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 1 Feb 09:02

  • SanDisk prices up 32GB SDHC memory card

    Capacious but costly

    SanDisk yesterday dealt its most capacious SD memory card yet: a 32GB SDHC that it expects to see on store shelves in April priced at $350 (£176/€235). That's more than the cost of the Eee PC we thought we might put one of these cards into... SanDisk's 32GB Ultra II SDHC: capacious but costly SanDisk also showed off a 16GB …

    Storage 1 Feb 10:33

  • Rock reveals graphics benchmark beating monster laptop

    Scores almost 15,000 on 3DMark06, vendor claims

    UK gaming notebook specialist Rock has rolled out what it claims is its most powerful graphics offering yet: a quad-core machine with a pair of Nvidia GeForce 8800M GTX GPUs on board. The Xtreme SL8 is a 17in machine - the screen resolution's 1920 x 1200 - and is offered with a choice of 2.93GHz Core 2 Extreme QX6800 or 2. …

    PCs 1 Feb 10:57

  • AMD adjusts three-core Phenom roll-out plan, moles claim

    Quad-core roadmap revised too

    AMD's upcoming tri-core Phenom 8000-series desktop processors will appear next month, though only two of the anticipated three three-core CPUs will make it to market, it has been claimed. According to PC manufacturer sources cited by Chinese-language site HKEPC, only the 2.1GHz Phenom 8400 and the 2.3GHz Phenom 8600 will …

    Bits 'n' Chips 1 Feb 11:21

  • Motorola poised to offload mobile biz

    Sell it or spin it off?

    Motorola is considering various options to sort out its mobile phone division which lost the company $1.2bn in 2007. The company has gone from decent performance in the handset field, most recently with its RAZR phones, to just over 12 per cent market share by the end of last year. In the fourth quarter of 2007 Motorola sold …

    Phones 1 Feb 11:48

  • Nokia N82 smartphone

    Review Don't judge this book by its cover

    Nokia has boosted its N series with its most heavily-featured candybar yet. With a five-megapixel Carl Zeiss-lensed, xenon flash equipped camera and GPS, it’s comparable to the N95 and one of the best cameraphones around. Even if it’s not the prettiest. Working on the principle that you shouldn’t judge a book by the cover, …

    Phones 1 Feb 12:13

  • Man buys MacBook Air, pulls it apart, takes pics

    Inside Apple's latest

    Worried about changing the battery in a MacBook Air? Don't - according to one tech site that's taken the skinny machine to bits, opening the laptop up is "a surprisingly pleasant task". Cynics will, of course, say the 13.3in notebook that's short on stature but big on hype should stay that way, but at least iFixIt's …

    Mac 1 Feb 15:20

  • Sony shows off new shooters

    Photographers have never had so much choice

    Sony has taken the wraps off a trio of new snappers, two DSLRs extend Sony's Alpha range: the 10.2 megapixel 300 and the 14.2 megapixel 350, plus the Cyber-shot DSC-H10 - an 8-megapixel high-zoom compact. Both sport a 2.7in tilting LCD screen; anti-shake technology; nine-point autofocus; internal anti-dust mechanism; spot, …

    Cameras 1 Feb 17:02