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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Keenly aware that PS3 and Wii coverage is about to go into serious overdrive as both consoles launch, Microsoft boldly predicts what it has never predicted before... that it will ship 15 million consoles in total by June 2007. Has Microsoft been drinking Wii-flavored Kool Aid, or will Microsoft ‘PS3’ all over its competitors?
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Who wouldn’t want a shiny new flat screen TV to adorn their wall or take the prime spot in the living room? As LCD and plasma prices fall, more Americans than ever before are going flat. With their TVs, that is. How soon will you join them, if you haven’t already?
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Just as Disney cast a spell over billions of fans over the decades, so does the Buena Vista Games (BVG) group hope to enchant millions of Nintendo owners with exclusive Disney games for years to come. Will it be a wonderful world of Disney for gamers?
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Microsoft’s long awaited follow up to their most successful software besides Windows finally goes RTM. It’s only been three years since the last version, but oh so much is different – both within Office and the suddenly hyper competitive marketplace. Can Office survive the latest threats to its dominance?
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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The all-out war in the next-generation gaming space is finally heating up big time, with the aim of dominating the living room and home entertainment the jewel in the crown that everyone desires. Is it enough to fend off the Blu-ray threat of the PS3?
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by Mike Bantick
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Maturing as an “entertainment hub”, the Xbox 360 is gaining the focus of those who wish to own one box to rule them all. Microsoft's wish of dominating the living room is coming true at last! Should Sony and Nintendo be worried?
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Just a couple of weeks after the MacBook Pro was upgraded with Intel’s Core 2 Duo chip, an online vendor is offering a 13.3-inch Core 2 Duo MacBook for pre-sale, upstaging any Apple announcement. Is it for real, just a misprint or a malicious trick?
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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The German version of Wikipedia has been hacked to spread malware to unsuspecting users. Will the sneaky ‘social engineering’ attacks of the hackers ever end?
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Remember when Google boasted of over 8 billion pages in its index, and then the tit-fot-tat skirmishes with Yahoo on whose index was biggest? Now a figure on the number of sites online has been released, and it’s in the millions, not billions. What gives?
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Within 24 hours, the business version of Windows Vista will be complete, if the latest online report is to be believed. This time it comes from a source very close to Microsoft, who has been intimately involved with Vista for years. Can this source be trusted?
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Online reports over the weekend suggest Windows Vista has ‘secretly’ gone RTM early, and is already on the way to manufacturers, beating Microsoft’s revised internal deadline of Wednesday, November 8. Is it true?
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Office 2007 is Microsoft’s big push to once again own the office application suite market. With features 10 years ahead of the competitors, there’s no sign that Microsoft are lowering prices to compete as they don’t feel they need to. So how much does Office 2007 cost?
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by Mike Bantick
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Out of the Ashes of E3, Gaming expos are on the rise. Later this Month Melbourne will host the inaugural eGames & Entertainment Expo. Will it be the vanguard of a spectacular showcasing of Games and Gadgets?
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by Stan Beer
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Gamers in Australia who may have thought that they could walk out of a store with a new Nintendo Wii under their arms for a mere A$399.95, may need to think again.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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The Windows Vista journey is about to reach the end of the beginning, with the official launch date of November 30 announced for the simultaneous launch of Office 2007 and the business version of Windows Vista.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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While older SD televisions with built-in hard drives already exist, LG has upped the ante by offering HD recording straight to a 250Gb hard drive built-into a new 50-inch plasma and a 42-inch LCD HDTV.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Sony urges consumers to be wary of PS3 scams, the Halo movie is officially postponed, and the Nintendo Wii to launch with 62 games by year’s end.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Promised for an October time frame, Apple just manages to meet this deadline by annoucning on October 31 (US time) that the Shuffle will be available worldwide on Friday 3 November.
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