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20th March 2008 Archive

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  • Panasonic punts Wi-Fi snapper

    Snap, store, send

    Compact cameras come in all shapes and sizes, but very few feature Wi-Fi connectivity. However, Panasonic has bucked the trend and launched a snapper with integrated 802.11b/g support. Panasonic's Lumix TZ50: Wi-Fi on board The TZ50 enables you to transfer images from the camera’s 50MB internal memory or SDHC card directly …

    Cameras 20 Mar 10:13

  • Philips sees green with backlight-balancing Eco TV

    Watch programmes about melting ice caps

    Philips has launched an LCD TV that it claims helps viewers reduce their electricity bills no matter how long they spend lazing about in front of the telly. Philips' Eco FlatTV: reduces its own electricity use The Eco FlatTV’s backlight can be dimmed to help reduce the set’s overall power draw - all, according to Philips, …

    HD 20 Mar 10:25

  • Sony pledges Blu-ray Profile 2.0 PS3 update this month

    Updated BD Live online content links coming to console

    Sony has announced a PlayStation 3 firmware update that will bring support for the Blu-ray Disc Profile 2.0's BD Live online interaction technology to the games console. The update, due later this month, will take the PS3's firmware to version 2.20, Sony said. BD Live mandates an internet connection and 1GB of local storage …

    Consoles 20 Mar 11:04

  • AMD readies third Radeon HD 3800-series GPU line

    3830 to take on Nvidia's 8600 GTS and 9600 GT

    AMD will next month launch the ATI Radeon HD 3830, an 'RV670'-based graphics card said to have been designed to pull the rug from under Nvidia's low-end-of-the-top-range offerings. So claim industry moles cited by Chinese-language site HKEPC. They say the 3830 will contain the same 320 unified shader processors as the 3850 and …

    Bits 'n' Chips 20 Mar 11:25

  • BBC Micro creators meet to TRACE machine's legacy

    Forgotten Tech IF .. THEN .. ELSE

    The brains behind the must-have home computer of the early 1980s, the BBC Micro, will gather today to catch up and reminisce about a time when Britain led the way in the domestic computing revolution. Acorn Computers co-founder Hermann Hauser and Acorn hardware designer Steve Furber - now ICL Professor of Computer Engineering …

    PCs 20 Mar 12:28

  • DroboShare network storage 'robot'

    Review Can network storage really be this easy to use?

    Network-attached storage (NAS) boxes are all very well, but they're not what you'd call user friendly. Arch-geeks love 'em for storing and streaming content, but a fair few folk would prefer a simpler yet equally robust way of making storage available on a network. Enter Data Robotics' oddly named Drobo, an external storage …

    Storage 20 Mar 12:53

  • Nokia passes buck over Greenpeace eco rating reduction

    Third-parties to blame

    Nokia has blamed third-parties behind its handset recycling scheme after Greenpeace docked points from the Finnish phone giant's environmental rating for failings the organisation found in its take-back efforts. Greenpeace's manufacturer ranking: bad news for Nintendo Greenpeace’s quarterly report, Guide to Greener …

    Phones 20 Mar 13:49

  • ECS spills more beans about 'super 3G' Eee PC rival

    Remember the G10IL HSDPA and HSUPA sub-notebook Taiwanese manufacturer ECS cautiously showed at Mobile World Congress last month? Register Hardware snapped the "pre-commercial" machine, seeing it as a sexy alternative to Asus' elfin Eee PC. ECS' G10IL: 'super 3G' sub-notebook Now ECS has come out with details of the machine …

    PCs 20 Mar 15:26

  • Philips shows gadgets galore

    Docking stations ago-go

    Philips this week launched a slew of products at its Consumer Lifestyle Event in Sintra near Lisbon, including a digital photo frame that doubles as an alarm clock radio and more iPod docking stations than you can shake a stick at. At the rain-battered Penha Longa Spa and Golf Resort, Philips demonstrated the DC910 Docking …

    Media players 20 Mar 15:43

  • Caribbean firm circumvents BD+ copy protection

    Blu-ray bitchslap poses problems for Hollywood

    Software developers based in the Caribbean have thrown down the gauntlet to the movie industry with a product that can copy Blu-ray discs protected by the latest high definition disc copy protection technology. Version 6.4.0.0 of AnyDVD HD allows users to make backup copies of Blu-ray discs protected with BD+ ahead of the …

    HD 20 Mar 17:16

  • Apple's Time Machine now works as advertised

    USB drive backup from Airport base station

    Apple has finally opened OS X Leopard's Time Machine wireless backup capability to disk drives lacking the glossy plastic anointment of Cupertino. With a Wednesday release of software updates, Time Machine can now recognize a USB hard drive connected to a wireless network as valid backup disk. That is — assuming the drive is …

    Storage 20 Mar 18:33