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 Biting the hand that feeds IT Copyright: Copyright 2008, Situation Publishing Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:27:37 +0100 Kerching!Apple CEO Steve Jobs is now an even wealthier man, and it has nothing to do with iPod sales. Disney is indeed buying Pixar, the computer animation studio Jobs bought off George Lucas, for a rumoured $7.4bn.… Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:38:37 +0100 1,000 jobs at riskLexmark, the printer maker, is ending production of inkjet cartridges in Rosyth, Scotland and is transferring manufacture to a cheaper, unnamed country. Up to 1,000 jobs could be affected.… Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:45:33 +0100 Set-top maker buy puts Morotola in frame for full IPTVMotorola came out of the IPTV closet this week, spending an unspecified amount of cash to buy IPTV specialist set-top maker, Kreatel of Sweden.… Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:20:28 +0100 HSDPA too, for even faster downloadsAcer is to embed 3G mobile-phone technology into its future notebook PC products, kicking off with a pair of Centrino Duo-based machines, the company said this week.… Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:45:54 +0100 Sample graphics board leaks outATI's R580 graphics chip will appear in three Radeon X1900 configurations: the XT, the XTX and a CrossFire Edition.… Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:36:11 +0100 Capacitorless memory could be the keyAMD has licensed a memory chip technology that could allow it to increase its processors' cache sizes fivefold without changing the size of each chip's die.… Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:36:26 +0100 Europe out-ships USWorldwide PC shipments rose by 17.1 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2005 to 61.1m, according to new figures released by IDC.… Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:08:22 +0100 Company president speaks outNintendo will ship its next-generation games console, Revolution, in the US in time for the Thanksgiving November holiday sales period, the company's president has pledged.… Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:25:47 +0100 Can't compete in the digital eraKonica-Minolta today revealed it is to quit photography business after more than 103 years - with the loss of 3,700 jobs worldwide.… Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:26:55 +0100 No SLI support for 7300 GSNvidia last night extended its GeForce 7 GPU family down into the mainstream market, pitching the 7300 GS at entry-level systems. The 7300 GS is also Nvidia's first 90nm GeForce 7 chip.… Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:04:51 +0100 No data kept, company claimsApple has updated iTunes 6.0.2's MiniStore feature to display an explanation panel describing what the facility does the first time a user activates it.… Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:11:32 +0100 Company fully committed to HD DVD, apparentlyMicrosoft may not offer an external Blu-ray Disc drive for the Xbox 360 after all. The software giant this week said it remains "fully committed" to HD DVD and has "absolutely no plans to support other optical formats".… Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:48:03 +0100 Monster Core Duo-equipped Inspiron 9400 goes on saleDell has unveiled its first Core Duo-based notebook, the Inspiron 9400. The 17in-widescreen monster is a Centrino-branded machine, and ships with either a 1.83GHz Core Duo T2400 CPU or a 1.67GHz Core Solo T1300 chip. Upgrades to the Core Duo T2300, T2500 and T2600 processors are available on a build-to-order basis.… Wed, 18 Jan 2006 02:35:30 +0100 Delayer becomes delayeeMicrosoft is planning its third Windows XP Service Pack (SP) for release in 2007, three years after the last SP, in order to concentrate engineering resources on Windows Vista.… Wed, 18 Jan 2006 02:02:10 +0100 Can the Apple Effect trump the AMD Effect?Lower than expected PC chip sales forced Intel into a rare revenue miss during its fourth quarter. Investors then punished the chip-maker in the after-hours markets, sending Intel shares down as much as 10 per cent.… Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:11:37 +0100 Budget SLI part and mainstream PC chipset to ship later this monthNvidia has added two more chips to its Intel-oriented nForce 4 North Bridge line-up, expanding the product family at the low-cost end of the market.… Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:54:59 +0100 Back-up if it can't raise $75m by MarchTiger Telematics, Gizmondo's parent company, has pledged the patent and other intellectual property rights of its Smart Adds subsidiary - plus all the shares - against the company's ability to raise $75m in funding by 31 March.… Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:37:37 +0100 C7 CPU transformed for silent PCs.VIA today took its x86-compatible Eden processor family into the 90nm era by extending the series with two models derived from the company's 'Esther' core, also the basis of its C7 processor product line.… Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:55:11 +0100 Chip maker keeps mum on mobile virtualisation supportExclusive Intel's Virtualisation Technology (VT) may not come to the mobile market until the chip giant releases the Core Duo 2700, The Register has learned.… Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:11:34 +0100 They're free round the corner at the Apple shopPosh London department store Selfridges is to begin charging punters £65 for a 40-minute one-on-one iPod tutorial later this month - almost as much as it costs to buy the cheapest iPod.… Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:01:54 +0100 Faster Presler and Cedar Mills, tooExclusive Intel's first 65nm desktop Celeron D chips will be the 352 and 356, The Register has learned.… Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:40:24 +0100 802.11n WLAN support in the mix tooRoadmap Intel's fourth-generation Centrino notebook platform, 'Santa Rosa', will take the hardware's frontside bus speed to 800MHz when it ships, provisionally sometime in H1 2007.… Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:23:33 +0100 Ultra-low voltage Core Duo part tooExclusive Intel is preparing to launch a 2.33GHz Core Duo chip, the T2700, The Register has learned. The chip giant's product pipeline also includes faster Core Solo chips, speedier low-voltage Core Duos and the introduction of an ultra-low voltage Core Duo, the 1.06GHz U2500.… Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:49:00 +0100 Can you make it to the end?Letters Call this our attention span test.… Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:51:58 +0100 Accessory heavenAnother day, another iPod accessory from Griffin Technology. Today's is the iClear a transparent polycarbonate shell developed to keep your iPod Nano safe from scratches.… Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:41:10 +0100 Unveils hard disk product strategyFujitsu today said it plans to break into the 1.8in hard disk drive market, part of a strategy to double the company's unit sales by 2009 and grab third place in the HDD market in the same timeframe.… Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:28:19 +0100 Licenses PocketMacResearch in Motion (RIM) has licensed third-party utility PocketMac for Blackberry and will provide the $30 software to Mac-based Blackberry owners free of charge.… Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:10:18 +0100 Company's 'commitment' to Mac users doesn't go that farMicrosoft hasn't updated the Mac version of Windows Media Player since 28 November 2003, and it doesn't look like it's going to do so ever again - despite the software giant's plan, stated this week, to continue developing Office:Mac for the next five years or more.… Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:41:14 +0100 Track selection monitored but not stored, apparentlyApple has denied that it retains any of the information that the latest update to its hugely popular jukebox software, iTunes, creates as it monitor users' listening selections.… Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:47:31 +0100 Enter second half of 10-year R&D partnershipCell processor partners IBM, Sony and Toshiba have agreed to take their technology R&D alliance into the 32nm era.… Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:40:50 +0100 Was the MacBook launched too soon?Analysis What an ungrateful bunch you are. This week Apple began its transition to Intel processors six months ahead of schedule, and all you can do is carp. Don't you know you're supposed to swoon over every shiny new piece of kit?… Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:33:57 +0100 Digital SLRs are the place to be, apparently35mm film has come to the end of the roll, Nikon has said. The camera maker this week revealed it is focusing its efforts solely on digital photography products.… Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:01:13 +0100 If you can add one external drive (HD DVD), you can add another (BD)Microsoft has said it may ship a Blu-ray Disc drive for its Xbox 360 games console should consumers prefer that next-generation optical disc format over HD DVD.… Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:20:33 +0100 Turns portable player into home media centreGriffin Technology will soon ship a dock that converts any compatible iPod into a home media centre system.… Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:42:08 +0100 Official agreement reached with AppleMicrosoft has committed itself to supporting Office on the Mac for at least the next five years, the head of the software giant's Macintosh Business Unit said this week.… Thu, 12 Jan 2006 11:20:58 +0100 The hottest Vegas showstoppers since LiberaceSo the delegates have gone home, the halls are emptying and, yes, Gates (and Elvis) have left the building. The gadget fest that was the Consumer Electronics Show 2006 is now history. Yet before we bury it for good, here's our list of the ten best gadgets to emerge at the show (in no particular order)...… Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:16:08 +0100 I know Apple, and you're no AppleReview "This is a truly historical meeting of the established and new media," said Les Moonves, the head of CBS, about his network's new video partnership with Google. Um, no, Les. So far, it's just a really crap web site.… Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:55:31 +0100 Musical chairsSecurity researchers have discovered four critical vulnerabilities involving Apple's QuickTime media player software and the download application for Apple's iTunes music store. The flaws create a means for hackers to take control of affected systems, according to eEye Digital Security, the firm that discovered the bugs.… Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:15:23 +0100 iBook iTweakedTired of waiting for Apple's long-rumoured tablet Mac to ship? Then US-based hardware mod project site, ThePlaceforitAll.com, may have the answer. It today offered the first of 100 12in iBooks re-tooled as a tablet, complete with stylus and touch-sensitive screen.… Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:40:17 +0100 Today's lucky number is 8086Apple's shares yesterday closed at $80.86 on the day CEO Steve Jobs introduced the first-ever Macintosh computers based on Intel microprocessors.… Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:06:52 +0100 Will open tech to independent evaluation, sort ofControversial computer company Atom Chip has said it will open the claims it makes about its ultra-compact memory technology and its 6.8GHz notebook CPU to independent scrutiny.… Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:02:51 +0100 Open-source systems pitched at geeksNeuros is to update its MPEG-4 Video Recorder with a new industrial design and an integrated hard-disk drive. It is also preparing to revive its Digital Audio Computer (DAC) line of MP3 players, basing both systems on both a common hardware platform and open-source firmware.… Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:24:22 +0100 'There are simply too many notes, Herr Mozart'A University of Leicester psychologist has concluded that modern listeners don't value music as much as their 19th-century counterparts did - and he blames the iPod and music downloading.… Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:58:54 +0100 Firm announces the loss of 370 jobsThere's yet more bad news for tech workers in Scotland after a second computer firm announced plans to shut down its factory.… Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:31:49 +0100 Is that an iPod in your pocket or... oh, forget itJeans-maker Levi Strauss has designed a pair of denim trousers with an integrated iPod remote control. The jeans also provide an iPod dock and retractable earphones.… Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:56:50 +0100 Steve Iacocca goes car poddingMacworld A week after Microsoft and MTV pitched the Urge.com rival to iTunes, Apple Computer upped the ante in online entertainment and services.… Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:42:22 +0100 New iMacs come earlyMacworld Apple is shipping its first Intel-based Mac six months early and debuting its first Intel-based laptops. However, it seems that Intel technology does not herald Intel pricing.… Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:07:21 +0100 1,356 days of gossipWhy should 2006 be any different from 2005, 2004 or 2003? That's right. It's Dell using AMD chips rumor time once again.… Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:11:32 +0100 Record-breaking record sales...Christmas 2005 saw a new record set for downloaded music - with the last week of the year seeing more than 20m music tracks downloaded and paid for by US customers - three-times higher than the 2004 figure.… Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:42:26 +0100 Athlon 64 FX-60 to face Intel's PEE 955AMD has begun shipping its first dual-core Athlon 64 FX gaming processor, the FX-60, hot on the heels of Intel's Pentium Extreme Edition 955.… |
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