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4th July 2008 Archive

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  • Apple takes axe to MacBook Air SSD price

    Overnight, £300 cheaper

    Apple's MacBook Air - still the world's slimmest laptop; VoodooPC's Envy isn't shipping yet - just got cheaper. Well, sort of. Apple's knocked £300/$500 off the price of the solid-state drive model. Launched at £2028/$3098, the Air with the 64GB SSD now costs £1719/$2598, undoubtedly thanks to tumbling Flash memory prices. The …

    PCs 4 Jul 09:26

  • Driver-updated satnavs to beat traffic jams

    Pile-up on the M25, says TK08 PGZ

    The next time you’re stuck in traffic with no idea what the hold-up is, a driver way out in-front could be the one to let you know. That’s if a driver-fed satnav information service makes it out of the starting grid. The Congestion Avoidance Dynamic Routing Engine (Cadre) will allow drivers to upload traffic information in …

    GPS and Satnav 4 Jul 09:39

  • Palm, BlackBerry-beating demand for 3G iPhone claims researcher

    US consumers eye Apple smartphone

    More than half of US consumers looking to buy a smartphone in the next three months will opt for Apple's 3G iPhone. So says investment house RBC Capital Markets on the back of a survey of 3600 tame consumers on its Technology Adoption Panel conducted last month just after the second-gen iPhone was announced by Steve Jobs. …

    Phones 4 Jul 10:10

  • Solar power gets curtains twitching

    Use your curtains to generate eco-power, says boffin

    Given that curtains help us block light out, it seems sensible to use one side to suck up the sun’s rays. So a textiles boffin has developed "smart" drapes with integrated solar panels. Gadget-powering curtains Sheila Kennedy, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has begun developing a thin-film …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 4 Jul 10:34

  • Pioneer plots Blu-ray Disc autumn offensive

    Now that HD DVD's out of picture, consumer electronics companies can steer Blu-ray into the mainstream. The latest to do so, Pioneer, has unwrapped a quartet of players it plans to launch. Pioneer's BDP-LX08: slimline The BDP-LX91, BDP-LX71, BDP-LX08 and BDP-51FD all support version 1.1 of the Blu-ray spec, aka Profile 1.1 …

    HD 4 Jul 10:43

  • TVonics MFR-300 micro digital TV set-top box

    Review Bringing digital to Scart-free tellies

    Thousands of Brits are going to find their analogue TVs incapable of picking up a signal come 2012. Clearly, that doesn't concern too many of us, since we're still buying plenty of analogue tellies. This situation may have got Parliament in a panic but plenty of punters know all they need to go digital is to pick up a set-top …

    HD 4 Jul 12:13

  • Wii racers get a wheel deal

    Stiffen your in-game kart control

    Mario Kart is a great Wii game, but because the driving wheel doesn’t have a fixed position, kart control can be tricky. Thankfully, an ingenious Wii Wheel Stand has been…ahem… invented. The Wii Wheel Stand lets you fix your driving position The stand simply clips onto the back of the Wii Wheel, around the section where the …

    Consoles 4 Jul 12:15

  • Navman upgrades satnavs with 3D

    More realistic driving?

    Navman has re-launched its S-series of satnavs with three models that promise to guide you around points of interest - now in glorious 3D. Navman's S-series now offers 3D navigation The S30, S50 and S70 were originally launched back in September 2007, but each model has now been updated to include 3D landmarks of over 1000 …

    GPS and Satnav 4 Jul 13:34

  • PC World pips Asus to UK Atom sub-laptop premier

    Who has the first SCC with Intel's new chip?

    PC World today claimed to have beaten Asus to the punch by launching the first Small, Cheap Computer in the UK equipped with an Intel Atom processor. PC World's Advent 4211: out ahead of the Eee 901? PC World's own-brand Advent 4211 sub-notebook is essentially MSI's Wind rebadged. It's got a 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 1GB of DDR 2 …

    PCs 4 Jul 15:39

  • 2010: the 5TB 3.5in HDD cometh

    Hitachi promises 1TB per square inch

    Hitachi has pledged to release a 5TB 3.5in hard drive within two years, and it claims two of the drives will boast enough capacity to store everything in your brain. According to a report by Nikkei Net, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies will use Current-Perpendicular-to-Plane Giant Magnetoresistance (CPP-GMR) magnetc read …

    Storage 4 Jul 15:45