19th May 2008 Archive

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Asus throttles back Eee PC WiMax drive

Upcoming Atom-based sub-notebook to get Bluetooth instead?

Asus' Atom-based Eee PC 901 will come bundled with Bluetooth in addition to the new case design that emerged last week. But it won't have WiMax as standard. Taiwanese website DigiTimes claimed that moles had told it Asus is aiming the Eee-oriented WiMax module at contract customers - essentially, service providers who will …

PCs 19 May 2008, 09:59
Vendor pitches handheld phone-data extractor

Snooping made easy

If you’ve got a hunch that your partner is doing the dirty behind your back, then thank your suspicious stars that a gadget’s now available for instantly copying the entire contents of his or her mobile phone. The Cell Seizure Investigator (CSI) stick is claimed to quickly extract all sorts of information from handsets, …

Phones 19 May 2008, 10:10
AMD turns to exclamation mark to rally gamers to cause

Game! launched!

AMD has begun pitching its processors, graphics engines and chipsets as the ideal foundation for gaming PCs. The AMD Game! initiative takes in two specs: the regular Game! PC and the Game! Ultra PC. The latter requires a four-core Phenom X4 9500 processor and ATI Radeon HD graphics in CrossFire configuration, all sitting on a …

PCs 19 May 2008, 10:42
Sony talks up blue OLED breakthrough

Larger and less power hungry OLEDs en route?

Sony is on its way to manufacturing larger yet less power-hungry OLED displays, thanks to a breakthrough in the screen technology's colour properties, it said today. The electronics giant claimed that, as a result of an agreement struck with Japanese firm Idemitsu Kosan in 2005, the two firms have been able increase the “ …

HD 19 May 2008, 10:58
Vye mini-v S37B sub-notebook

Review The people carrier of the sub-notebook world

The Vye mini-v S37B is another player in the increasing number of sub-notebooks appearing on shop shelves, spurred on by the runaway success of the Asus Eee PC. However, where the Eee is a little compact runaround, the mini-v aspires to be the seven-seater people carrier with the collapsible seats and all the bells and …

PCs 19 May 2008, 11:02
Mobile phones cause bad behaviour in kids - report

Hyperactivity and emotional problems linked to phones

If the kids are misbehaving then don’t blame their E number intake, because it could be your fault - or your missus' - for chatting too long on mobile phones during pregnancy. That's the finding of a study into the behaviour of children up to age seven, born of 13,159 mums in Denmark in the late 1990s. A number academics were …

Phones 19 May 2008, 13:39
Samsung pitches 82in "ultra-definition" telly

More pixels than you can shake a stick at

HD TV isn’t good enough any more, it seems. Samsung has paraded an 82in LCD TV that boasts a resolution several times higher than rubbish old hi-def. Samsung's ultra-definition TV: 3840 x 2160 pixels The technology’s been dubbed "ultra-definition", and while HD resolution tops out at 1920 x 1080, Samsung’s super-sized …

HD 19 May 2008, 13:46
Samsung Glyde touches down in US

U940 finally annouced, debuts on Verizon

The Samsung U940 slider smartphone was initially leaked by the FCC’s website back in February, but the phone has at long last been officially launched, as the Glyde. Samsung's Glyde: aka the U940 Although very little was known about the device when Samsung first filed its U940 documents with the FCC, Register Hardware can …

Phones 19 May 2008, 16:02