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Headlines week ending - Thursday 21 August 2008

Microsoft releases Photosynth

New app creates 3D panoramas from normal pics

Thu, 21 August 2008, 16:31

Nehalem and Larrabee dissected

IDF San Francisco One day married via QuickPath?

Thu, 21 August 2008, 16:20

Intel's Chandraskher goes atomic in keynote

IDF San Francisco Splitting the atom

Thu, 21 August 2008, 12:52

BlackBerry KickStart leaked by Expansys.com

Mobile site reveals clamshell BlackBerry

Thu, 21 August 2008, 10:24

Inflight Internet takes off

Surfing USA

Thu, 21 August 2008, 8:48

Clarkson for Prime Minister

And on that bombshell...

Thu, 21 August 2008, 8:48

Double-D’s Tower-26 makes an impression

Hardware Rounds All the hardware that’s NOT at IDF

Wed, 20 August 2008, 21:39

Blu-ray alright really

Review But it is still not ready

Wed, 20 August 2008, 15:53

Shopaholics can’t be stopped

Online sales figures out

Wed, 20 August 2008, 15:40

Apple to get I-sued over 3G capability

Class action of 2008

Wed, 20 August 2008, 11:09

HP's Q3 revenue grows 10 per cent

Mostly outside the Americas

Wed, 20 August 2008, 10:25

Calpella pictured

IDF San Francisco Code for mobile Nehalem

Wed, 20 August 2008, 9:45

Lucid makes multi-GPUs easy

IDF San Francisco The best so far

Wed, 20 August 2008, 9:00

Intel mobile quad-core spotted

IDF San Francisco With mobile crossfire

Wed, 20 August 2008, 8:32

Google is too white

Black is the new black

Wed, 20 August 2008, 8:02

Toasting inventiveness with new drive

Turn your 5.25" drive bay into a toaster

Wed, 20 August 2008, 3:51

Luxtera makes 10KM monitor cables possible

IDF San Francisco Video sent two towns over

Wed, 20 August 2008, 2:12

3 launches Skypephone Mark 2

Is it a phone? Is it a Skype terminal? Is it a 3G dongle?

Tue, 19 August 2008, 19:11

Physx gets integrated into leading engine

Nvidia gains further support

Tue, 19 August 2008, 15:47

Intel SSD cometh

IDF San Francisco Intel gives full house demo

Tue, 19 August 2008, 15:05

US drags education into 21st Century

Congress gives go ahead for improvements

Tue, 19 August 2008, 13:22

Samsung builds TVs on Argentinian island

Tax breaks mean higher profits

Tue, 19 August 2008, 12:28

Mobile mood rings and weight watchers by Intel

IDF San Francisco I see fat dead people

Tue, 19 August 2008, 10:55

Intel reveals plans for the future

IDF San Fransisco A whole new (virtual) world

Tue, 19 August 2008, 10:20

MobileMe so bad that Apple is giving it away

Three months of thanks for nothing

Tue, 19 August 2008, 10:13

UK government stole website theme

No respect for Creative Commons

Mon, 18 August 2008, 16:30

US presidential candidate is a pirate

Campaign is running on empty

Mon, 18 August 2008, 15:16

Invasion of the 9000 mile snake

East Africa gets connected

Mon, 18 August 2008, 13:09

Dell 'Cloud Computing' trademark rejected

What took so long?

Mon, 18 August 2008, 9:00

Computers mess with kids' heads

That's the parents' job says neuroscientist

Mon, 18 August 2008, 7:29

3D prototyping on the Internet ready

Movie machine becomes reality

Mon, 18 August 2008, 7:29

ISO blows fanfare for OOXML

Let the battle commence

Sat, 16 August 2008, 18:30

OCZ revamps Core

Available Monday

Fri, 15 August 2008, 18:52

Beyond Radeon HD4870 X2, it's all about the interconnect

Analysis R700 starts the ball rolling...

Fri, 15 August 2008, 17:40

Mobile phones recycled as palm-sized tellies

Mobiles get Second Lives

Fri, 15 August 2008, 16:58

Windows 7 has one new feature

Comment One third of the way to Vista's promise

Fri, 15 August 2008, 15:52

Netflix scuppered by technical error

Biggest disruption to service

Fri, 15 August 2008, 14:39

Linux will evolve, bloke reckons

Developers to walk upright

Fri, 15 August 2008, 14:14

Panasonic promises long-life plasmas

HDTVs to become family heirlooms

Fri, 15 August 2008, 13:07

PC processor market continues to grow

Intel remains at the top of the stack

Fri, 15 August 2008, 12:12

UK residents finally get more for their money

Ofcom report shows rise in communications services

Fri, 15 August 2008, 11:40

Seagate said to be sniffing round Sandisk

Give us some flash! Ah, ahhh

Fri, 15 August 2008, 10:50

Open source can be copyrighted

Lower court ruling overturned

Fri, 15 August 2008, 8:45

Internet throttling to continue

Comcast unrepentant about traffic shaping

Thu, 21 August 2008, 16:31

Atom shortage hits Asus

Eee PC goes Celeron

Thu, 21 August 2008, 14:44

IDF daily video round-up

IDF San Francisco All the news, facts and friction in visual format

Thu, 21 August 2008, 12:52

Sony updates consoles

160GB PS3, PSP-3000 and more

Thu, 21 August 2008, 9:18

Child gymnast exposed by hacker

Olympics Underaged and winning medals... sheesh

Thu, 21 August 2008, 8:48

Universal sued for dancing baby take-down

Think of the children

Thu, 21 August 2008, 8:48

SATA doubles its speed - again

IDF San Francisco SATA 3 at 6 Gb/s; Powered eSATA

Wed, 20 August 2008, 17:01

Judge lifts gag order on MIT students

Comment 1st Amendment still stands

Wed, 20 August 2008, 15:51

UK 80GB PS3 this Friday

Console Roundup Xbox 360 sold out in Japan

Wed, 20 August 2008, 13:40

Japan reports scorching Ipods

Lithium batteries suspected

Wed, 20 August 2008, 10:35

Intel shows off a big block of ice

IDF San Francisco No, we didn't drink too much, it really is

Wed, 20 August 2008, 10:22

Getting deeply embedded with Gelsinger

IDF San Francisco The more there is, the moore's there is to love

Wed, 20 August 2008, 9:23

Getjar blows raspberries at Apple

An App Store for the rest of us

Wed, 20 August 2008, 8:39

Intel's Dadi On the Go

IDF San Francisco Wake me up before you go-go

Wed, 20 August 2008, 8:25

Google starts geo-thermal drilling

Advanced search

Wed, 20 August 2008, 8:02

D-Link launches Moody phone

Wins bronze in mobile phone design event

Wed, 20 August 2008, 3:51

Intel's great green debate goes bad

IDF San Francisco Runs out of steam

Tue, 19 August 2008, 20:57

Power and heat, your GPU nemesis

Daily Wibblery Watt for watt analysis

Tue, 19 August 2008, 18:34

Qimonda DDR3 moving forward

IDF San Francisco DDR4 confirmed for 2012 - Voltages dropping further...

Tue, 19 August 2008, 15:47

IBM announces new SRAM

Shatters traditional scaling barriers

Tue, 19 August 2008, 14:46

WoW... gaming really is good for you

Doesn't turn you into a slobbering antisocial troll

Tue, 19 August 2008, 12:58

Microsoft ready to alpha new Office 14

If someone does not stick the stapler in jelly

Tue, 19 August 2008, 12:07

Dell Atom-based Eee PC killer spotted

Mini Note pics and specs leaked

Tue, 19 August 2008, 10:41

Boffins fix bug problem

Who lives in a house like this?

Tue, 19 August 2008, 10:16

HP unveils notebook trio

Introducing the three-pound EliteBook

Tue, 19 August 2008, 10:12

Athlon 64 powers down to beat Atom

Daily Roundup Unpimping the rig gets you there

Mon, 18 August 2008, 15:28

Iphone dropped calls a global problem

German chipset could be the culprit

Mon, 18 August 2008, 14:01

HyperTransport speeds up

Matches Intel's QPI just before IDF opens

Mon, 18 August 2008, 11:46

Mobile roaming costs slashed

First Inqpressions SIM4travel SIM card

Mon, 18 August 2008, 7:46

NASA cancels spacesuit contract

Doesn't suit you sir

Mon, 18 August 2008, 7:29

Toshiba returns to DVD

Blu Ray not for us

Mon, 18 August 2008, 7:29

Storage feature pack coming for Windows

Blu-Ray burning support among other additions

Sat, 16 August 2008, 18:25

We can ray trace too, says Nvidia

It's get real time for GPU

Fri, 15 August 2008, 18:43

AMD puts the 'B' in business CPUs

Four new processors for OEMs

Fri, 15 August 2008, 17:29

MOD fires up flying saucers

Ministry of Defence competition reveals unbelievable inventions

Fri, 15 August 2008, 16:25

VIA spruces up Nano-ITX board with VX800

Board stiff

Fri, 15 August 2008, 15:03

Wackypedia dodges defamation claims

Weren't us what did it, guv

Fri, 15 August 2008, 14:29

French Jews sue YouTube

The usual

Fri, 15 August 2008, 14:09

The FBI's technology just isn't good enough

Do they know one Sejnoha doesn’t make Osama?

Fri, 15 August 2008, 13:03

There’s file-sharing and there’s file-sharing

Kinda like Cannabis, says German official

Fri, 15 August 2008, 12:09

Intel launches mass animation project

The new Intellywood

Fri, 15 August 2008, 11:13

Rambus takes an axe to workforce

Rambusted

Fri, 15 August 2008, 10:38

Georgian web attacks are the work of kids

Not the Russian spooks

Fri, 15 August 2008, 8:41

Jerry Seinfeld to pitch Vista

Flagging sales to get a comedic boost

Thu, 21 August 2008, 16:31

Millions pumped into identity theft project

Bring on the brains

Thu, 21 August 2008, 13:47

Microsoft and Novell upgrade partnership

Vole commits to $100 million purchase

Thu, 21 August 2008, 10:52

Porn mode coming for IE8

Microsoft gets 'Private'

Thu, 21 August 2008, 8:48

Wii ban wanted

Nintendo in hot water

Thu, 21 August 2008, 8:48

Eric Kim talks Internet TV

Shhh! You're interrupting my favourite show

Thu, 21 August 2008, 7:56

Microsoft relaxes server licensing policy

Vole peddles Hyper-V

Wed, 20 August 2008, 16:16

Ebay introduces bold changes

Auction site gets brave

Wed, 20 August 2008, 15:45

Friendster chooses Google's OpenSocial API

Version 0.7 deployed

Wed, 20 August 2008, 13:19

Aussies fall for Nigerian Scam

Daft drongos cough up £12 million

Wed, 20 August 2008, 10:33

Iphone upgrade doesn't work

Causes even more problems

Wed, 20 August 2008, 9:55

Nvidia to announce x86 chip next week

Not IDF San Francicsco So say the whispers

Wed, 20 August 2008, 9:07

Metaram shows 16GB DDR3 DIMMs

IDF San Francisco 72 DRAMs, one rank

Wed, 20 August 2008, 8:36

Intel's Renee James gets graphic with Dreamworks

IDF San Francisco Rising the visual adrenaline

Wed, 20 August 2008, 8:05

File sharers sued in Blighty

More than 100

Wed, 20 August 2008, 8:02

Malware tricksters launch Flash attacks

Clipboard hijacking

Wed, 20 August 2008, 2:57

Intel's Craig Barrett speaks

IDF San Francisco Albeit a bit ramblingly

Tue, 19 August 2008, 20:57

Creatives could myth out on the big game opportunity

Sony make believe, we reckon

Tue, 19 August 2008, 16:16

Watch out, life-like characters about

No more corpse characters, says Image Metrics

Tue, 19 August 2008, 15:10

Amazon orders to the Amazon come from Canada

Jungle couriers too expensive

Tue, 19 August 2008, 13:35

Linux PVR and Media Centre gets HD

Unboxing OSD 2.0 has plenty of room for expansion

Tue, 19 August 2008, 12:30

Vodafone – make the most of now

Mobile phone giant tightens belt

Tue, 19 August 2008, 11:08

Intel talks sensors

IDF San Francisco Intel's extra sensory perception

Tue, 19 August 2008, 10:31

Ipods are teen killers

Silly season health warning of the day

Tue, 19 August 2008, 10:13

GraphOn sues Google

Patent infringement alleged

Mon, 18 August 2008, 17:32

Seagate follows Apple design cues

Feeling fruity

Mon, 18 August 2008, 15:19

U2 album leaked the old school way

Bono bootlegged

Mon, 18 August 2008, 13:17

Xbox 360 outsells PS3 in Japan

Console round-up Flood of crap on Wii

Mon, 18 August 2008, 9:24

Web radio is toast

Analyis RIAA and political cronies sink promising technology

Mon, 18 August 2008, 7:29

Pirate magazines hit the World Wide Wibble

Print industry in a spin

Mon, 18 August 2008, 7:29

Fujitsu Siemens monitor draws zero Watts in standby

Cleverly, it turns itself off

Sat, 16 August 2008, 18:45

Portwell brandishes nano-Atoms and embedded Core 2s

Opportunities a-plenty

Sat, 16 August 2008, 14:56

Chinese lunar mission prepares to be eclipsed

The future’s so shady, we’ve gotta be bright

Fri, 15 August 2008, 17:48

Northern Ireland plugs open source hybrid

You are now entering free software

Fri, 15 August 2008, 17:25

Music weasels pay Tanya Andersen

False accusations cost nearly $108K

Fri, 15 August 2008, 15:56

Easynet suffers 'major outage'

Intermittent access plagues users

Fri, 15 August 2008, 14:50

Xbox to sell Warner Music videos

Ballmer's boys strike deal

Fri, 15 August 2008, 14:17

AT&T pitches for user tracking and targetted ads

Google is at it, why can't we?

Fri, 15 August 2008, 13:59

Asrock enables Crossfire on AMD770

Hardware Rounduppery and other neat features

Fri, 15 August 2008, 12:43

Intel admits G45 is imperfect

Better, but still not good enough

Fri, 15 August 2008, 11:48

New superconductors could slash the price of power transmission

We won’t have to pay the earth

Fri, 15 August 2008, 10:59

Microsoft launches Windows 7 blog

Seeks dialogue based on mutual respect

Fri, 15 August 2008, 8:47

Sony’s streaming audio wonder

Daily Rounder All-in-one deal

Fri, 15 August 2008, 8:30

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