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  • Tesco to start selling low-cost, own-brand software

    2 October 2006, 17:05

    UK supermarket giant Tesco is to start selling low-cost, own-brand software this month - on the web and in 100 stores

  • BenQ-Siemens phone-maker files for insolvency protection

    2 October 2006, 14:18

    BenQ Mobile, the German maker of BenQ-Siemens mobiles files for insolvency protection after Taiwanese parent BenQ said it would no longer fund "unsustainable" losses

  • Sony Blu-ray movie playback patch - still not available

    2 October 2006, 12:47

    Sony's BWU-100A Blu-ray Disc burner can at last play BD movies thanks to a free downloadable upgrade. In theory. Trouble is, attempting a download only results in a 'come-back-later' message

  • Gaming firms in freefall as US bans online betting

    2 October 2006, 11:06

    Shares in online gambling companies like Partygaming are in freefall this morning after the US Congress unexpectedly passed anti-online gambling laws late on Friday.

  • Review: MESH Elite Fire X1950 PC

    2 October 2006, 08:58

    Those with £1600± to spend on a full PC system in the coming weeks will wish to pay close attention, and those expecting to pair up Core 2 Duo and ...

  • Sony gets pro-active with global laptop-battery recall

    30 September 2006, 14:22

    Sony is to carry out a global recall of 'certain' lithium-ion laptop batteries, 'to address concern related to recent over-heating incidents'

  • HEXUS.beans :: Liquid-cooled SAPPHIRE TOXIC X1950 XTX

    30 September 2006, 13:58

    August 2006 saw the air-cooled ATI RADEON X1950 XTX attain the highly coveted HEXUS.eXtreme Editors Choice Award, but HEXUS has just - exclusively - been dropped the the liquid-cooled SAPPHIRE ...

  • Folding@Home project to run on GPUs

    29 September 2006, 19:59

    On the 2nd of October 2006, the Stanford University's Folding@Home distributed computing project will release a beta client for the project where a large chunk of the GROMACS core run ...

  • Digital homes necessitate better backups and metadata

    29 September 2006, 17:41

    In Brendan Traw's technology insight presentation, he hit on the need for easy backups and metadata, but didn't really tell us how Intel was going to help.

  • Sony Ericsson Bluetooth Watch MBW-100

    29 September 2006, 15:23

    Okay, it's not a wristwatch phone, but Sony Ericsson's MBW-100 could be the next best thing - a watch that interacts with your Bluetooth mobile phone and controls various functions

  • Bringing corporate management technology into the home

    29 September 2006, 15:15

    Intel's Active Management Technology could be making its way into the home, it was revealed at IDF on Thursday.

  • HomePlug AV demoed

    29 September 2006, 12:04

    HomePlug networking solutions provider Intellon was showing off its HomePlug AV home networking solutions, compared against older and slower non-HomePlug technology.

  • IBM & Lenovo recall over half a million fire-risk laptop batteries

    29 September 2006, 11:47

    Lenovo and IBM are the latest companies to instigate a recall of Sony-made laptop PC batteries - over half a million of them in this round

  • More IDE flash

    29 September 2006, 11:42

    Having a nosy around Super Talent's stand at IDF, we ran into a 4GiB flash drive with integrated IDE controller.

  • A mighty sharp blade

    29 September 2006, 11:28

    Now here's a blade server that wouldn't look out of place in Kill Bill...

  • New battery saving tricks and UMPC uses

    29 September 2006, 10:43

    We continue our coverage of Dadi Perlmutter's IDF keynote with a look at the battery saving technologies he discussed, along with a brief look at a couple of UMPCs.

  • IDF :: Just what will Quad core mean for gaming?

    29 September 2006, 09:36

    Developers Remedy demo Alan Wake on an Intel Quad core system.

  • VoodooPC bought by HP

    29 September 2006, 07:48

    Saltwater fish and keen Snatch enthusiast Rahul Sood flogs Voodoo PC to Hewlett-Packard...

  • Review: Quad core Kentsfield benchmarked

    28 September 2006, 19:59

    We've shown you pictures and given you the release date, but just how fast is Intel's Kentsfield processor? We've had the chance to take the quad core chip for ...

  • Intel's Perlmutter on mobile vPro and wireless progress

    28 September 2006, 17:26

    During Dadi Perlmutter's keynote address at IDF, the Senior VP and GM of Intel's Mobility Group spoke of vPro technology on notebooks and the progress being made with WiFi and ...

  • FSP to demonstrate its power at WCG

    28 September 2006, 14:29

    The grand final of the World Cyber Games is taking place in October. The worlds best gamers will converge on Monza, Italy, to battle it out for the title of ...

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  • Intel introduces new XScale based storage processors

    28 September 2006, 12:55

    Despite the deal to sell its XScale business on to Marvell, Intel has announced a new family of IOP storage processors based on the XScale.

  • New Robson boosted Centrino coming Q1 2007

    28 September 2006, 12:06

    Early 2007 will see the launch of yet another Centrino platform, code named Santa Rosa. The new generation Centrino will be based on Intel's Crestline chipset and feature 802.11n WiFi ...

  • Nokia adds trio of music phones

    28 September 2006, 11:57

    Nokia this week introduced three further music phones - the 5300 XpressMusic, the 5200 and the 3250 XpressMusic - due to come available very soon

  • Pat Gelsinger's keynote speech in brief

    28 September 2006, 11:40

    Senior VP and GM of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger, delivered a keynote speech on Wednesday morning look at Core 2 and its impact on the server market. He ...

  • Quad core QX6700 pictured

    27 September 2006, 18:08

    Wanna a see what a quad core Core 2 Extreme CPU looks like? Come on then...

  • MAGIX Webradio Deluxe 2 promises zero-cost music collections

    27 September 2006, 15:15

    If it works as promised, the Webradio Deluxe 2 app from MAGIX provides an affordable and easy way to grow your music collection from internet radio transmissions

  • Wireless USB certification program launches

    27 September 2006, 12:36

    This week at IDF it was announced that the USB Implementers Forum has launched its certification and compliance program for wireless USB products.

  • Rattner's Mega-center

    27 September 2006, 12:22

    Intel CTO Justin Rattner's gone mad for mega-centers. In Rattner's mega-center, he envisages several shifts. From installed services to streamed services, from local storage to distributed storage, from individual management ...

  • LaCie uprates d2 external SATA drives to SATA II

    27 September 2006, 12:09

    LaCie is replacing its d2 family of external SATA hard drives with SATA II models aimed at anyone wanting a fast but cheap alternative to fibre channel or SCSI

  • HomePlug's speeding up, scope is broadening

    27 September 2006, 11:16

    How would you network your home? Ethernet? WiFi? Something else? HomePlug's not everyone's first choice for home networking, but in some scenarios it's favourable. If radio interference is a problem, ...

  • Intel: Design a sexy system and we'll give you $1mil

    27 September 2006, 10:51

    Intel wants to sex up the PC to make it as desirable as it is functional. In an attempt to encourage the design of swish new systems, Intel's offering up ...

  • IDF Day One: CEO Paul Otellini keynote

    26 September 2006, 22:01

    Over the last year Intel's delivered stonking new CPUs, as it promised. Not only that, but it's helped Apple double its notebook market share. In fact, Apple's moved completely onto ...