Our thoughts on technology news http://www.itwire.com Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:27:57 -0600 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.itwire.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.itwire.com Our thoughts on technology news http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22567&Itemid=1090 Not for nothing is Jonathan Oxer known as Australia's geekiest man. Practically every aspect of his life at home is... Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:22:46 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22527&Itemid=1090 There are times when this blog makes a foray into the wonderful world of Windows to examine some of the... Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:59:41 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22503&Itemid=1090 Leah Duncan loves cheese and salami. And given that fact, the Australian Linux community is probably lucky that she didn't... Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:05:00 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22494&Itemid=1092 The US continues to be an unhappy hunting ground for the PlayStation 3. Whilst rival game platforms, Nintendo Wii... Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:15:49 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22492&Itemid=1092 TimeSplitters developer Free Radical has been rumoured to be having financial issues for some time. Now the details emerge, who... Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:25:39 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22491&Itemid=1090 In some ways, Joshua Bush is very much your typical open source person. But, in some other ways, he, very... Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:53:02 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22478&Itemid=1103 Microsoft’s long-awaited Windows 7 beta 1 “7000” build ISO torrent is finally available for the world to download, but not officially... Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:42:57 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22473&Itemid=1092 Stop dragon my heart around, Spyro has lost his spark and the Legend must end with this chapter. Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:50:53 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22467&Itemid=1090 When will women be taken seriously in the FOSS community? That's a question that needs to be asked after the... Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:40:16 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22463&Itemid=1103 It’s already started happening – fake ISO torrent files are appearing at TorrentReactor.net in an attempt to fool those eager to... Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:42:24 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22460&Itemid=1103 With a select group of beta testers around the world supposedly already using the Windows 7 7000.0.081212-1400 official beta 1 build,... Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:57:57 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22459&Itemid=1103 Although due to begin on or before the 24th of December 2008, Australia’s draconian Internet content filter trials have now been postponed... Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:02:17 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22442&Itemid=1103 Faulty third-party battery testing software is at the root of claims that Dell is shipping a 3-cell, 24Wh battery in its... Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:46:17 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22436&Itemid=1103 No doubt set to issue a similar statement for New Year’s Eve SMS text messages, Telstra says that Christmas Day SMS... Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:41:17 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22434&Itemid=1090 Any .1 release of a Linux distribution is generally meant to fix bugs which were present in the .0 release,... Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:11:22 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22430&Itemid=1103 Reports have put the Windows 7 beta release date at January 5th, 7th and the 13th, while a so-called “publishing error”... Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:39:03 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22427&Itemid=1092 What possible attraction can an old-school 2D platformer have in today’s gaming world of 3D wiz-bangery? And surely... Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:04:04 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22418&Itemid=1103 Even with anti-virus protection, this is the story of Vundo Trojan infecting a protected computer anyway. A different anti-virus product removed the... Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:18:47 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22416&Itemid=1103 With lithium ion battery technologies being advanced, designed and manufactured in Asia, a new US “alliance” of “leading US battery and advanced... Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:24:39 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22410&Itemid=1103 The latest version of Novell’s Linux distro, openSUSE 11.1, has been released, with 230 new features, improvements to YaST, major updates... Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:27:22 -0600