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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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If you live in the US or Canada and buy the boxed Windows Vista Ultimate Edition, you can buy two more licenses of Vista Home Premium for only US $50 each!
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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MySpace wants parents to take more responsibility for their children’s safety with their new ‘Zephyr’ software program. Will parents finally step up to the plate, or will they continue blaming MySpace for poor parenting practices?
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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5 on air DJs and 5 other staff have been fired from Californian radio station KDND 107.9 FM following the ‘Hold your wee for a Wii’ fiasco, followed up by a criminal investigation and a threat by the affected family to sue.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Aussie gamers lapped up games consoles of all flavors in the last quarter of 2006, matching the global trend of gargantuan gaming addiction no match which brand is your favorite – but an online report suggests tough times may be ahead for the PS3.
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by Stan Beer
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The Interactive Entertainment Association of Australia (IEAA) has announced that games industry sales topped $925 million in the 2006 calendar year, a 7% increase on 2005. While software provided the lion's share of revenue, hardware sales were up markedly.
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by Mike Bantick
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Xbox Live market place already available in the US, along with Microsoft’s perceived early adoption of TV 2.0 may well prove lucrative for the software giant, according to a new report.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Canon has bought out Toshiba to nullify the recent lawsuit from Nano-Proprietary, claiming their technology was only licensed to Canon, and not Canon and Toshiba. Will we ever see an SED TV for sale in shops?
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Joost give me a minute to tell you about a new net TV service in town, from the founders of Kazaa and Skype, and no prizes for guessing that it uses peer to peer technology to deliver a broadcast quality TV experience right to your computer screen.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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The PCI Express standard has been upgraded with a newer, faster version that boasts 100% compatibility with previous PCI Express 1.1 products, ensuring your PC’s innards operate faster than ever to keep up with the latest processors, graphics cards, operating systems and more.
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by Mike Bantick
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After allegedly having its encryption cracked last month, now comes the first 19.6GB of HD movie goodness to hit the web.
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by Mike Bantick
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Not bad indeed. Will sales figures like this, plus endorsement by the porn industry help HD-DVD win the format war?
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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It had to happen: someone decided to copy Apple’s copyrighted iPhone icons for the Pocket PC and Palm smartphones. No extra functionality is delivered, and your phone is not magically transformed into an iPhone, and Apple is NOT HAPPY. But it sure looks cool!
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by Mike Bantick
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No, it wasn’t a wayward Wii-mote, rather, a wayward radio station competition.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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By the end of Q1, 2007, OQO will launch a tiny, fully powered PC that runs Windows Vista, comes with EVDO wireless, plays music and videos, runs standard desktop applications, has 30Gb or 60Gb of space, a tablet interface, an inbuilt keyboard and runs for 3 or 6 hours depending on which battery you choose.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Thinking Sony had won an award for their SIXAXIS motion sensing technology in the PS3’s wireless controller, they rushed out a press release to celebrate. However, an Australian website did some checking and surprisingly discovered the award was for the historical innovation of Sony’s Dual Shock – an award shared by Nintendo’s D-Pad controller!
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Lauched during Motorola CEO Ed Zander’s CES keynote speech, Yahoo wants you to get excited! Their ‘Go’ mobile service gives phones an information rich web portal designed for small screens and seemingly giving you the information you want quickly and efficiently with as few clicks as possible.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Playfuls's Dan Nicolae Alexa is outraged that Sony have been telling 'lies' to us all for ages concerning the PS3. But whether they've shipped 1 million units in the US to stores, as opposed to selling them to customers, the PS3's success is assured, just like Vista's, even if it still hasn't shipped in Europe or Australia.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Bill Gates presented what could well have been his second last CES keynote earlier today. Among the offerings were previously undisclosed Vista and Vista Ultimate features, the latest PC, Tablet, UMPC and smartphone designs, Xbox 360 advances in games and IPTV, a new Windows Home Server, some details on the Ford and Microsoft Sync collaboration and a glimpse into the connected home of the future. Bill Gates’ dream of the connected home and the connected life is slowly coming true through Microsoft software and hardware.
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