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28th February 2008 Archive

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  • Boffin stacks 16 PS3s to simulate black hole collisions

    Consoles for cosmology

    When most of us arrived home with our newly purchased PS3, we couldn't wait to start annihilating aliens in Resistance: Fall of Man or kicking butt kung fu-style in Virtua Fighter 5. Not astrophysicist Gaurav Khanna - he used his to build a supercomputer. Khanna now owns a total of 16 PS3 consoles, all linked together to …

    Consoles 28 Feb 00:02

  • HMV blames rival for PS3 PlayTV pre-order puzzle

    Not our fault, guv

    HMV has blamed a rival retailer for its decision to post a webpage letting gamers pre-order the PlayStation 3 (PS3) DVR add-on, PlayTV - a page it yesterday yanked. HMV's PlayTV webpage: no more pre-orders The page allowed gamers to pre-order the £100 (€135/$200) PlayTV unit, said to be due for release on 28 March, even …

    Consoles 28 Feb 08:02

  • Asus Eee PC gives Sony the willies

    If Elfin laptop pulls in punters, it'll pull down prices

    It's official: Sony fears the Asus Eee PC. It worries the elfin notebook's low price, low spec approach could cut the bottom out of the laptop business. "If [Asus' Eee PC] starts to do well, we are all in trouble," Mike Abary, a senior VP with Sony US' IT products operation, told Cnet. "That's just a race to the bottom... if …

    PCs 28 Feb 10:47

  • Apple optimistic it will sell 10 million iPhones by year's end

    Updated Irish debut, announced today, will help

    Apple is "really confident" it will sell 10m iPhones by the end of the year, the company's COO, Tim Cook, said yesterday. Today, O2 announced the phone's launch in Ireland. Cook was speaking at a Goldman Sachs investment conference and his comments came on the day Apple invited analysts to a meeting to be held next week at …

    Phones 28 Feb 11:27

  • Nintendo DS linked to LCD price-fixing scandal

    Sharp and Hitachi probed

    Japan’s Fair Trade Commission has raided the offices of Sharp and Hitachi over allegations that they've been illegally fixing the price of LCD screens said to have been bought by Nintendo for its DS handheld console. Nintendo's DS Lite: price set to fall? According to Japanese law, Sharp and Hitachi could each be fined up …

    Consoles 28 Feb 11:41

  • Canon Digital Ixus 70 compact camera

    Review Minimalist masterpiece

    Apple has the iPod - Canon has the Ixus. And like Apple, Canon is continually revising and refreshing its Ixus brand. So, is the Digital Ixus 70 a case of a radical product overhaul or just the same chocolates in a different box? First impressions are that the Ixus 70 isn't the most exciting camera to look at. It’s basically a …

    Cameras 28 Feb 12:02

  • Many Xbox 360s fail within three months

    SquareTrade stats uncover more faults

    Electronics warranty firm SquareTrade has already claimed that the Xbox 360 has a 16.4 per cent of breaking down, but more stats released by the firm show that the console is most likely to fail during its first three months of use. The figures are based on its recent study into Xbox 360 failures, which examined 1040 …

    Consoles 28 Feb 13:16

  • MacBook Air not snazzy enough? Get it crystalised

    More bling for your buck

    Established bling merchant Crystal Icing has already added glass-made sparklies to many gadgets, so it was probably just a matter of time before it turned its glue-gun onto Apple’s MacBook Air. Crystal Ice's Air: would you do this to your MacBook? The service is available to all, but the company told Register Hardware that …

    Mac 28 Feb 14:31

  • Wipe the floor with Space Invaders

    Set phasers to fun

    Governments may have been denying the existence of aliens for decades, but Register Hardware knows they exist because they’ve landed on our doormat - quite literally. Space Invaders are back Yes, if you’re a devoted retro-gamer sick of all the talk about Wii-this, PS3-that and Xbox-t'other then a Space Invaders doormat is …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 28 Feb 15:49

  • Sony drives at Ion with own-brand USB turntable

    Rippin' and clubbin'

    Vinyl record fans with a love for the PC no longer have to rely on manufacturer Ion for USB turntables, because Sony has stepped up to the mic and spun out a USB model of its own. The PS-LX300USB isn’t particularly stylish, but then how many turntables are? Nonetheless, an up-and-coming Fat Boy Slim can scratch to their heart’ …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 28 Feb 15:58

  • Elonex £99 Eee PC rival to arrive in June

    Pay £10 to get to the front of the queue

    Elonex has rolled out its sub-£100 Linux-based laptop, the One, but it looks like it's going to prove harder get hold of than Asus Eee PC has been. Elonex One: reserve yours now Elonex today unveiled black, pink, green, white and silver Ones to whet buyers' appetites. However, it admitted that the initial batch with …

    PCs 28 Feb 17:54