Fresh from a deep mining expedition into the Buzzword caves, Yahoo’s PR team have returned with an impressive collection of hyperbolic nuggets for our delectation.
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Category: Platforms
Microsoft Vista Prices Slashed
Microsoft has announced that it’s set to cut the the price of Vista, with online discounts rumoured to send versions of Vista tumbling down to around half price.
Billy and his bog software gang plan to dish out the cheapo deals when Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) reaches retail, and that’s expected to arrive in around two months time (but don’t quote us on that).
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Intel Atom Processor Announced
After a furiously frenetic flapping of flipcharts, Intel’s PR department have come up with the family name for their new range of processors destined for mobile Internet device (MIDs) and low-cost PCs.
First to get the new name will be Intel’s Silverthorne chip, designed for MIDs, and Diamondville, destined for cheapo PCs such as the hugely successful Asus Eee PC.
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Lenovo’s Super Skinny ThinkPad X300 Arrives
Lenovo have unleashed their new Ultraportable ThinkPad X300 laptop, a machine so sleek, powerful and packed with techie goodness, that an increase in road warriors’ laundry charges is anticipated.
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Sungjut TangoX Nano UMPC Packs Built In Skype Phone
The onslaught of Eee wannabes continues with Sungjut’s diminutive TangoX Nano UMPC adding a novel internal Skype/VoIP phone that pulls out of the laptop’s body.
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Sony W300 Boasts 13.6MP
With a manly shift of the megapixel gearbox, Sony have upped the ante with the news of its new 13.6 megapixel Cyber-Shot DSC W300 compact digital camera.
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Onyx Liscio Mobile For Indie Kids
New Brit tech company Onyx have launched a “stylish, elegant” wee handset, apparently designed for “the discerning mobile user” (that’s us out of the running, then).
It’s certainly a highly pocketable chappie, measuring only 90mm long and 35mm wide, with Onyx insisting that its compact size makes it a perfect companion for the tightest of skinny jeans – great news for indie kids!
Ricoh 10 Megapixel R8 And R50 Digicams Announced
Ricoh have announced their new R8 compact digital camera, wielding a hefty 7.1x optical wide-angle zoom lens
(28–200 mm, 35 mm focal length equiv) and a 1/2.3-inch CCD, 10 megapixel sensor.
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iPod Shuffle Price Drop. 2GB Added Too
Apple have dropped the price of the iPod shuffle and introduced a 2GB model.
The 1GB player had dropped down to £32 in the UK ($49 in the US), making it “the most affordable iPod ever” according to Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide iPod Product Marketing.
The soon to be released new 2GB model will be priced at £48 in the UK and $69 in the US.
Apple are ramping up the storage of their range, with the last models, the iPod touch and iPhone benefiting from this upgrade just over two weeks ago.
HP iPAQ 210 Enterprise PDA
We know that PDAs are supposed to have gone the same way as Sarsaparilla bars and 8 track cartridges, but HP’s much-delayed shiny black iPAQ 210 seems worthy of a look after
Packing an almighty 4 inch 640 x 480 touchscreen LCD, the iPAQ comes with more connections than Clapham Junction, offering both CompactFlash and SD (with SDHC and SDIO support) slots, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, and USB 2.0 and docking options in the shape of a 24-pin iPAQ connector and Mini-USB connector.
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