Archives for December 2005
Motorola unveils limited-edition gold RAZR V3i
Reuben Lee | Dec 09, 2005
Just when you thought Motorola had all the colors covered for its RAZR clamshells, the US-based mobile maker has unveiled yet another hue--in gold metallic finish this time--for the upcoming V3i. Partnering with fashion label Dolce & Gabbana (D&G), Motorola will be releasing only 1,000 units of the limited-edition gold Razr V3i in D&G boutiques worldwide.
Modeled after the original V3, the V3i offers the same sleek form factor and cool metallic finish that have made the RAZR one of the hottest handsets in the market today. Features include quadband GSM technology, Bluetooth connecitivity, an upgraded 1.23-megapixel camera, microSD memory slot and MPEG-4 video capture. The V3i is expected to come with either iTunes music software or Motorola's Digital Audio Music Player. Unfortunately, the mobile manufacturer was unable to provide price or availability details. Nor were official images for the gold RAZR available at press time.
More info on the new RAZRs
Barred by bar codes
Edvarcl Heng | Dec 09, 2005
But, hey, we reckon that he is a pretty smart kid, too. Not like us fuddy-duddies back in our hey days when shoplifting involve chatting up the old lady at the cashier while the cronies stock up the school satchel with chips and Coke.
Now that petty crime has been baptized by high technology, one of those teenage thieves went one up by printing out his own bar codes. Pretty nifty, huh? Especially when it involves a S$250 (US$183.82) iPod going for S$8 (US$5.88). Would-be criminals can take heart since the setup for this caper is a simple one--a dubious program and a printer.
More info here
USB-powered air darts
Juniper Foo | Dec 09, 2005
Just when you thought it couldn't get any sillier with USB-powered peripherals (the April Fool's joke of a USB George Foreman grill from ThinkGeek notwithstanding), now Marks & Spencer of UK is retailing weapons of mass destruction. Operating the air dart is Q.E.D. Hook it up to your PC, and start firing with the aid of your mouse. All that's missing is a remote control for long-distance stealth firing. Pesky colleagues, bring it on.
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Via News.com blogs
Price: 19.50 pounds (US$34) for three darts with cylindrical base and included software
Availability: Marks & Spencer
Device: USB peripheral
Basic specs: N.A.
Not happy? Let's step outside!
Darius Chang | Dec 08, 2005
On December 6 at the Ritz-Calton hotel in Singapore, the media and AMD staff gathered to await the arrival of Intel to the former's dual-core processor challange. It was fortunate that none of us held our breaths in anticipation, else the hotel would have had a logistical nightmare carting the limp bodies of out-of-breath journalists off its grounds.
Did we really expect Intel to show up? If we step back a couple of years, Intel would have mobilized its entire office, including the pantry lady, to crush AMD with an advertising budget equal to the GDP of a third-world country even before the latter had time to kiss its posterior goodbye. But with an overwhelming market share in processors and a finger in almost every hardware-related pie, from flash memory to notebook manufacture, we get the impression that Intel views AMD's provocation like a mouse threatening to beat up an elephant. 
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Maxell focuses on holographic storage
Colin Barker, ZDNet UK | Dec 08, 2005
Information storage media company Maxell has said it will launch its first holographic storage products in September 2006. The first removable drive will have a capacity of 300GB and a throughput of 160mbps.
Holographic storage works by storing information using light-sensitive crystals. Because it uses the whole volume of the drive--whose prototype looks somewhat like a floppy disk--not just the surface, it's possible to store much more information than is possible on a DVD.
With a single holographic removable drive, or disk, able to store 1.6 million high-resolution color photos or more than 240 hours of TV broadcast, holographic storage is starting to draw the attention of many in the IT industry. Read more
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