World of Warcraft reaches level 5 The global online addiction that is World of Warcraft has reached a milestone and levelled up. To celebrate, all players get their own pet dragon.
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Or should that be Microsoft beware: some of your users are about to jump ship to a free Office alternative, whether the next version of Office is 10 years ahead of the competition, or not.
Ever wondered what a mobile phone from Bang and Olufsen would look like? Armed with Samsung’s technical expertise, they’ve applied their design brilliance to creating one of the most unique mobile phones ever seen. The name? Serene. The price? US $1275.
When Windows Vista is lauched, it will be internally known as Windows 6.0. With build number 6.0.5920.16384 just released, the magic RTM build is nearly here. Also updates on other Windows Vista news.
Think you’ll be able to run Windows Vista on your existing hardware? If all the visual bells and whistles are turned off, it’ll probably run just fine, and should even make your hardware run better. But Dell’s CEO thinks you’ll need more memory, with 2Gb the sweet spot. Is he right?
Want to listen to music underwater, or while surfing? It’s all possible with a totally waterproof iPod case. Fully compatible with the latest 5th generation video iPods, you could even watch Finding Nemo underwater, while looking for him amongst the coral!
Despite leading the race against Intel with the Opteron and the Athlon 64 over the past couple of years, AMD needed a partner with vast chip manufacturing experience of its own to strike back at Intel’s recent resurgence. What does the future hold for the newly merged company?
Motorola’s RAZR phone redefined cool like no other phone so far this century. Sleek, slim and sharp, it spawned an avalanche of clones that delivered everything but the design sophistication the RAZR still has to this day. Can HelloMoto do it again?
In the seven months since the Xbox 360 launched on Australian shores, over 100,000 consoles have sold along with 400,000 games titles, setting new records in the Aussie market. Can Xbox 360 maintain the pace with Wii and PS3 hot on the trail?
With so many delays to Windows Vista over the last few years, what’s two or three more weeks between friends? With the RTM scheduled to be finished in the US today (the 25th), two reports say it's now coming early November. Read on to find out why.
Microsoft is the last company in the world to finally deliver a working, reliable and free anti-spyware solution for their own OS, Windows XP. Better late than never, it works remarkably well, and for most home and small business users, is a must-download new program.
Security software firm eEye Digital Security have launched Blink Personal Edition free of charge, a sophisticated firewall with intrusion prevention and more, yet forgot to include an inbuilt anti-virus package. Do Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro, ZoneLabs or Microsoft have anything to worry about?
As I and others have predicted, Apple have finally launched Core 2 Duo based MacBook Pros onto the world market. Already for sale from all major Apple websites including Australia, Apple’s greatest chance at gaining new Mac converts has arrived.
Core 2 Duo chips are everywhere these days. Not only have they won the speed crown from AMD, they're in desktop PCs, new iMacs, PC based notebooks and perhaps by next week, in Apple’s ever versatile MacBooks and MacBookPros.
A new printing technology has taken on colour inkjets and laser printers in Japan over the past 18 months, with over 200,000 units sold. Called a GelSprinter, it is available in the UK and has launched in Australia today, and is an interesting alternative with cool features all its own.
There is something old and something new in the latest Battlefield opus from EA. Battlefield 2142 hits Australian shelves this week, let's take a quick look at what virtual Commanders can expect from this 4th instalment of the popular Multiplayer blast-fest franchise.
Flash drives keep on getting bigger and bigger. It's a far cry from the early days, where a 64Mb card could set you back $500. Today, 1Gb of flash memory sells for well under $100 while 2Gb flash sizes are now becoming common and don't cost that much more. So, now that a 32Gb model is on sale, just how much will that cost!?
There’s no question that, today, Macs are much more secure than Windows based PCs. This is thanks to a more secure operating system, but it has also been because of a smaller user base that presented a smaller target for malware and virus writers. However the smaller user base argument is not necessarily the case today, thanks to the rise and rise of the iPod and the iMac.
While the small batch of Apple iPods infected with a Windows virus pose no threats to iMacs or the iPods themselves, the fact they were infected at all is a big worry. Now, the potential for virus and malware writers to start targeting Mac OS X in a bigger way cannot be ignored, and should be a massive wake-up call to Apple and its users: owning a Mac does not mean you’re invulnerable.
5 Best Practices for Smartphone Support
Worldwide shipments of smartphones reached a high of nearly 40 million units in the third quarter of 2008, helping to grow the category by 28% from the same quarter last year.
