Thursday, 13 April 2006

Bits 'n' Chips

• ATI updates Catalyst with Linux X1000 drivers Benchmark-friendly frame-rate boosting tweaks too

Consoles

• Sony preps PS2 price cut Down to $129 by the end of the month, analyst claims

Digital Media

• Buffalo boosts home NAS box capacity to 2TB TeraStation Pro's storage space upped too

Gadgets

• Averatec touts 3G, Wi-Fi UMPC Built-in keyboard too
• iRiver E10 said to sport TV remote control Fast forward between channels?
• MiniDAB handheld digital radio to debut at £180 You know Oono?

PC

• Samsung UMPC to ship worldwide 1 May Q1 expensive everywhere - even in Santa Fe...

Reviews

• Asus EAX1600XT SILENT passively-cooled graphics card Review Gaming performance without the noise?
• Reg Hardware's Critical Mass Review round-up This week's no-holds-barred product assessments from around the web...

iPod

• DLO ships 'first' UI-on-a-TV iPod dock HomeDock Deluxes out ahead of Griffin's TuneCenter?

Wednesday, 12 April 2006

Bits 'n' Chips

• Website confuses Athlon XP with Pentium III Ye olde AMD and Intel CPUs separated at birth?

Digital Media

• TDK at work on 200GB Blu-ray Disc Will quadruple BD-R capacity

Mac

• Apple readying multi-coloured MacBooks? Or maybe just iPod black and white...
• Asus to make MacBook with AU Optronics LCDs - report Rumour mill grinds on

PC

• Ads watchdog bites PC World But with rubber teeth?
• Asus Lamborghini 'supernote' spec not so super? More expensive than expected too

Phones

• Aston Martin revs £940 Nokia 8800 handset Vantage point
• T-Mobile exposes Robbie Williams Walkman phone Offers protection, lots of love and affection, and moderately decent GPRS tariffs...

Reviews

• Linksys CIT200 cordless Skype handset Review Talk while you walk

Useless... but Cool

• Buffalo to bring 'reincarnated floppy disk' to Japan Follows Memorex, Verbatim

iPod

• JVC pushes play on female-friendly MP3 players Blokey colours on offer too

Tuesday, 11 April 2006

Bits 'n' Chips

• 'Yonah' Celeron M 420, 430 ship in Japan
• ATI readies Radeon X1900 GT Nvidia's GeForce 7900 GT targeted
• ATI rebrands Xpress chipsets 'Radeon' out, 'CrossFire' in
• BenQ sells optical drive biz to Liteon IT Deal creates world's second largest CD, DVD drive maker
• Intel to boost chipset production, bank claims Bad news for ATI and co?

Digital Media

• Fujitsu unveils Blu-ray 37in HD PC-TV Four tuners for endless viewing and recording pleasure

Gadgets

• Sonos slims wireless music playback box Multi-room digital music rig gets cheaper too

PC

• Fujitsu unveils world's third HD DVD laptop Not shipping until June, mind you

Phones

• Samsung unveils Korean card phone Just 9mm thick

Reviews

• Ricoh GR Digital 8.1Mp camera Review A classic camera revived for the digital era

Monday, 10 April 2006

Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD raises Athlon 64 prices Adds 3GHz Opteron 2xx, 8xx series chips too
• ATI SB600 South Bridge to debut in May Next-gen chipsets coming sooner than expected?
• Transmeta begins second year working for Sony Helping out Microsoft, too, don't forget

Consoles

• Ex-Gizmondo exec arrested in California Stolen car allegations
• Nintendo vs Sony Who is winning the handheld war?

Mac

• iMac boots Windows Vista, survives to tell tale Ends up without Mac OS X, though...

Phones

• Air France says 'oui' to in-flight text messaging But 'non' to voice calls...
• O2 unveils Wi-Fi smart phone XDA IQ makes its debut

Reviews

• Orange SPV M600 PDA phone Review Windows Mobile push email comes to Orange

iPod

• Logitech unrolls cylindrical iPod-friendly speaker unit Audio on the move or on the shelf

Friday, 7 April 2006

Bits 'n' Chips

• AMD to focus on Turion brand for 65nm mobile CPUs? Only 90nm Mobile Athlon 64 X2s, it seems
• Nvidia shows 'best quality' twin-tuner TV card Analogue for the Americans; digital version for the UK coming soon?

Digital Media

• Liteon to ship slotload DVD writer External drive for notebooks
• Napster subscribers up, losses down Squaring the circle?
• Sony schedules DVD/HDD recorder re-vamp Five new models in the pipeline

PC

• Acer touts 'super 3G' notebook duo But full HSDPA likely to come later as a wireless-card upgrade
• Acer unveils world's second HD DVD laptop May ship with DVD support only, at first
• Asus unveils Dolby-driven laptops Dolby Digital Live on one, Home Theater on the other

Useless... but Cool

• Firm pitches $2,800 64GB USB Flash disk Feeling flush?

iPod

• Podstar preps fiendish iPod Nano case 'I walked alone... my mind was blank...'