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Fujitsu among first to join global Sony-battery recall scheme
3 October 2006, 12:34
Fujitsu is one of the first companies to announce that it is taking advantage of the global battery-recall offer from Sony to makers of notebook PCs
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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
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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'
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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
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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
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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.
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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 ...
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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
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IFA 2006 :: Toshiba makes your home theatre portable
22 September 2006, 15:32
This is the most complete media centric notebook we’ve seen to date
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Nokia 6288 - 3G slide phone with 'high-quality' video playing
22 September 2006, 11:02
Nokia's latest is the 6288, a 3G slide phone weighing 115g and fitted with a 262,144-colour, QVA (320x240) display that's said to offer high-quality video playing capabilities
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Toshiba's turn to recall laptop batteries - but 'no safety risks'
20 September 2006, 09:09
Toshiba is the latest big-name laptop computer maker to undertake a big battery recall, though it says that the affected batteries "do not overheat or pose any safety related issue ...
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Yokohama: AMD and ATI's answer to Centrino
31 August 2006, 15:58
While their competitors figure out ways to benefit from any disruption that may be caused by the AMD/ATI merger, the two newly weds are moving forward with plans for a ...
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Nokia N80 Internet Edition 'connects you to your on-line life'
31 August 2006, 11:06
Nokia multi-featured N80 Internet Edition GSM phone, due mid-September in bronze or black, is said to allow easy use of some of the web's favourite services while away from a ...
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Rock launches Pegasus T12 with 7 hours battery life
28 August 2006, 10:58
With Core 2 comes reduced power consumption and with that comes longer battery life. So much so that Rockdirect's latest laptop can keep at it for over 7 hours.
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Apple recalls 1.8 million laptop batteries. But who's next? And what about UK-based laptop makers?
25 August 2006, 13:19
Apple has followed Dell's lead by announcing a recall of around 1.8 million batteries - 700K of them outside the USA - that present a possible fire hazard
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Oz airline tells Dell owners to whip 'em out and tape 'em up
24 August 2006, 01:58
Fire-risk worries about the batteries in certain Dell laptops resulted in the Australian airline Qantas instructing all passengers who own Dell PCs to remove their batteries and tape up the ...
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Dell recalls 4M+ notebook batteries - UK affected, too
15 August 2006, 16:29
Dell USA yesterday issued a recall notice for an estimated 4.1 million lithium-ion batteries for notebook PCs - to avoid a possible fire risk - and UK models are affected, ...
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Knock some sense into your Lenovo ThinkPad
31 July 2006, 13:01
We don't pretend to understand the Perl scripting behind it but, still, how could we not tell you about how to knock some sense into your Lenovo Thinkpads, using Linux ...
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USRobotics intros £25 USB Internet Mini Phone
28 July 2006, 15:03
USRobotics is introducing a further Skype-certified USB internet phone, the Mini (9602). It's finished in eye-catching red and white and has dedicated Skype keys. SRP is £24.99
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Symbian: Smartphone not dead
27 July 2006, 12:59
The Register's interview with David Wood, executive VP of research at Symbian, about the ups and downs of smartphones
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Alienware adds newest mobile Quadro FX to portable workstation
10 July 2006, 16:51
Take desktop processors, desktop hard drives, an extremely powerful mobile graphics card and cram it into a 'portable' chassis and you have yourself a portable workstation.
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Fuel cells coming soon (still)
30 June 2006, 17:33
Fuel cells have been a hot (well mild) topic for quite some time now, but we still don't seem to be using them. But they're in the process of being ...
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PURE boosts features on best-selling DAB portable - cuts price
30 June 2006, 14:03
The PURE PocketDAB 1500 is an uprated version of the big-selling PocketDAB 1000 personal DAB radio, and adds FM with RDS, a rechargeable battery and text-scroll pausing. SRP is £89.99 ...
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Review: rock Pegasus 650 Dungeons And Dragons Online Laptop
30 June 2006, 13:17
The rockdirect Pegasus 650 Dungeons and Dragons: Online model, then, is a distinctive model that's compromised by componentry that doesn't make the grade in mid-2006. Good but not great.
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Netgear unveils world's first Skype WiFi phone at London showcase event
30 June 2006, 03:36
Netgear's SPH101 - the world's first Skype WiFi phone - made its UK debut yesterday afternoon at a products showcase for over a dozen of Skype's hardware partners
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Rock rocks up with Core Duo and Turion X2 lappys
28 June 2006, 16:53
Yes, I just broke the rules of a good IT journalist and called it them 'lappys', but who's gonna stop me?
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Sony boost security to sell more sexy laptops
21 June 2006, 14:39
With its latest range of sexy little ultra-portable laptops, the VAIO TX3-Series, Sony reckons it's got machines that are secure enough to be suitable for big-business use
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DSG sell the thorn in their side
21 June 2006, 09:47
DSG International, owner of retail chains Dixons - sorry Currys.digital, PCWorld, and The Link, has today entered phase 2 of its corporate re-shuffle.
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Evesham's new 17in SLI'd notebook
20 June 2006, 15:49
A girthy beast featuring dual GeForce go graphics for SLI, along with a high-res 17" screen.
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Review: rock Pegasus 330 thin-and-light laptop
4 June 2006, 08:14
the rock Pegasus 330 appears to have all the performance trimmings coupled to a decent price, but should it be on your shortlist of thin-and-light Intel Centrino Duo based notebooks?
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Review: HEXUS.snapshot :: Mobizines
31 May 2006, 10:57
Mobizines is an application for a range of mobiles that allow the delivery of magazine and news content to a mobile.
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Little & LARGE- Dell's contrasting gamer-ready XPS portables
31 May 2006, 06:35
Following on from the April launch of the XPS 1710, Dell is adding two further gaming portables that - weighing in at 1.8kg and 8kg - could hardly be more ...
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