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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 11 May 2006 |
Toshiba has released its new HD DVD equipped Qosmio notebook in US, a few weeks after it was brought to market in Japan. However, apart from the lure of watching HD DVD videos on a 17 inch notebook widescreen, it will take some convincing to get users to justify paying the hefty $3000 price tag.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 10 May 2006 |
IceTV, a provider of interactive TV listings for free-to-air TV in Australia, has launched new technology which allows users to program a video recorder from anywhere, using a mobile phone.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 10 May 2006 |
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has put the wind up Sony, claiming 10 million Xbox 360 units will be sold, with more than 160 games available, by the time PlayStation 3 hits the market. Realising that his company has a six month window of opportunity to steal the march on its rivals, Gates and company have turned up the volume on the games hype machine to full blast.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 10 May 2006 |
A poll of internet users indicates the prevailing view is that the Mozilla Firefox browser will continue to take market share off Microsoft, despite the impending release of its vastly improved Internet Explorer 7 browser.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 10 May 2006 |
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Microsoft has made its new Windows Live Messenger beta available to the public for download at the Windows Live Ideas Web site. The beta includes customer- driven feature enhancements including PC-to-phone calling in six additional EU countries.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 10 May 2006 |
The unveiling of Nintendo's new games console, with the much discussed title that everyone now remembers, hammered home a point that seems to have been forgotten by its two bigger rivals. The Nintendo Wii will not be a full-blown home entertainment unit with high definition video and other fancy accoutrements; but it will be a damned good games console with a damned good control unit.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 10 May 2006 |
 PC market leader Dell has had its lead whittled away by second placed rival HP and it now expects to miss its revenue and profit targets in its fourth quarter. All in all, not a good result for the company that was once the darling of wall Street, and the market made Dell pay, wiping 6% of the value of the company.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 10 May 2006 |
Apple Computer may have to recork its champagne bottles and put them on ice once again because Apple Corps, owned by surviving members of the The Beatles and their families, has reportedly not given up the fight and intends to appeal the High Court decision which handed victory to the computer company.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 10 May 2006 |
The Apple Computer iTune online music store is fast turning into a digital entertainment mart with the announcement that it has started to sell TV shows from Fox TV networks at a cost of $1.99 a show, adding it to a stable of TV network suppliers that includes all the majors, including ABC, CBS and NBC.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 10 May 2006 |
 Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group and peer-to-peer file sharer BitTorrent have announced a deal in which Warner will become the first major studio to provide legal video content via the BitTorrent publishing platform.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 10 May 2006 |
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For months the world has moaned that the Sony PlayStation 3 would not be released to the world until November at a price of around $500. Now when the official announcement is made everybody is acting surprised. Yet the machine will probably be the best value for money on the planet.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 10 May 2006 |
The Asia Pacific vice president of patch management software vendor, Patchlink, believes that is a growing incidence of hackers targeting non-Microsoft platforms.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 10 May 2006 |
Yahoo! Search Marketing Australia and New Zealand, has reported its strongest quarterly performance since launching in 2004. The company says it has signed up a significant number of new advertisers and extended its network of distribution partners in Australia and New Zealand.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 10 May 2006 |
Microsoft has let the cat out of the bag on its new embedded device operating system Windows CE 6, announcing the availability of a beta version at its annual developers and partner conference, Mobile & Embedded DevCon, promising easier development and more powerful applications.
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