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Several vultures descended on Hannover this week to bring you the latest news on all that's new and exciting in digital IT and telecoms.
From mini PCs and new Commodore gaming machines, to dino robots and roaming, it's all right here. Unwrap and enjoy.
CeBIT clips vulture's wing Things just aren't as big as they used to be at CeBIT. The trade show has slipped down the industry's to-do list almost as quickly as it has vacated the number of the halls it used to pack out.
Headphone wearing dinobots will raise our children The children of the future will be raised by robot dinosaurs, will only communicate with their parents via blogs, and their best friends will be people they've seen on YouTube.
Acer sends mini PC into the living room Acer is to offer a living room-friendly version of its business-oriented mini PC, the Veriton 1000, the manufacturer revealed.
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Acer is to offer a living room-friendly version of its business-oriented mini PC, the Veriton 1000, the manufacturer revealed today.
The standard Veriton is a compact, slimline system designed for call-centre desks and the like. But an Aspire-branded version with the management features swapped out for consumer-targeted components like a digital and analogue TV tuner, and five-in-one memory card reader will hit the market soon.
Mio marches on with new GPS launches Three products in the new range - the C320, C520 and C520t - feature a 4.3in widescreen display and split-screen view, while the entry-level C220 retains a standard 3.5in screen. All four products feature the MioMap 3 software, in addition to speed camera alerts and 20 channel SiRFstarIII GPS receiver.
Fujitsu Siemens chief predicts the empty desktop PC companies need to start planning their escape from the desktop, the CTO of Fujitsu Siemens Computers warned.
Toshiba to bring 'budget' 1080p HD DVD player to Europe Toshiba will bring its mid-range, 1080p HD DVD player to Europe in May, the consumer electronics giant said. Dubbed the HD-EP10 over here, the box was launched in the US in January as the HD-A20.
Reding puts roaming cuts on ministers' conference table CebIT is set for an even more chaotic Friday than usual this week as EU telecoms ministers descend on the show to discuss cuts in mobile phone roaming fees.
Commodore specs up Cxx games machine Commodore's eagerly anticipated Cxx gaming PC will sport an Intel Core 2 Extreme four-core processor, a pair of 768MB Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX graphics card and a Creative X-Fi soundcard, the company revealed.
EC chucks RFID regs back to industry The European Commission effectively handed regulation of RFID to the RFID industry today when it announced the results of last year's consultation on the technology.
Samsung tight-lipped about UMPC's 'new' Intel CPU Does Samsung's Q1 Ultra second-generation UMPC incorporate a new, as-yet-unannounced Intel mobile processor? Certainly, certain Samsung marketing material describes the CPU as a "UMPC Intel New Technology".
Samsung unveils usable UMPC Samsung has introduced its second-generation ultra-mobile PC - in one go addressing many of the key criticism of its first UMPC, the Q1. Crucially, the new model, the Q1 Ultra, delivers a higher resolution display and incorporates a thumb-operated QWERTY keyboard.
The Ultra Mobile PC was the talk of Cebit in 2006
In 2006 much of the talk before the Cebit show started was about Microsoft's Origami project.
Via a website Microsoft dropped hints about this gadget which, when it emerged, got the much less sexy name of the Ultra Mobile PC.
With the UMPC, Microsoft tried to define a new category of portable gadget that ran a PC operating system but had a touch screen, all manner of wireless technologies, could handle audio, video and games and had a long battery life.
The idea was that the UMPC would be lighter and smaller than a laptop yet do much more than even the most sophisticated smartphone... ...But the UMPC has not gone away and Cebit 2007 sees many more of them on sale and display.
"With many new manufacturers jumping in to the concept, things have got interesting," said Mr Peter.
At Cebit 2007 Samsung, Asus, Medion and Amtek are all showing off new hardware that go beyond the basic UMPC specifications that Microsoft has laid down.
These specifications demand that a device have a 20cm (7in) touchscreen that can work at a minimum resolution of 800x480 pixels.
They also must sport USB connectors and be able to run Microsoft's DialKeys software, a program that creates a thumb-operated virtual keyboard at the bottom of the screen.
To this spec-list, manufacturers showing off new UMPCs that are smaller and lighter have added such things as fingerprint recognition, higher resolution screens, built-in web cams, digital cameras and solid-state hard drives.
Many of the new versions also run one of the variants of Windows Vista - the latest version of the Windows operating system.
Linksys side-steps Wi-Fi limits with powerline kit Linksys gave tacit support to the notion that wireless networking has its limits by introducing a mains power networking adaptor based on the HomePlug AV standard. ®
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