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by Stan Beer
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UK Government officials have begun using the video file sharing website YouTube to see how they can take advantage of its technology to get their messages to target audiences.
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by Stan Beer
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Amazon is a great place to buy books online. It was once also a great place to buy music and videos online. Unfortunately, a failure to recognize the new paradigm of music downloads lost Amazon its prize position in that space. If the information published on a web developer's blog is correct, Amazon is doing its best not to miss out on the video downloads wave.
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by Stan Beer
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Having a GPS in a car is growing to be an indispensable accessory. A mobile phone already is indispensable for many of us. Putting the two together in one package is a match made in heaven and this is exactly what Palm has attempted to do by pairing its new Bluetooth enabled SiRFstarIII GPS receiver with Palm Treo 650, Treo 700w and Treo 700p smartphones.
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by Stan Beer
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New firmware released by Apple Computer has reportedly gone a long way to solving noise and heat problems of the company's new notebook range, the MacBook.
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by Stan Beer
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Leading PC maker Dell has capped off the most forgettable quarter in its history with yet another couple of items of bad news, including a massive profit decline and a regulatory investigation into its accounting practices.
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by Stan Beer
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The company employing two security specialists who caused a sensation in early August at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas when they demonstrated how to hack an Apple MacBook wirelessly has been forced to eat humble pie. It turns out that the two hackers did not use the native MacBook wireless driver in their hacking demonstration.
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by Stan Beer
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Microsoft has signed an agreement with global music giant EMI to put music videos on the software company's soon to be launched portable music player Zune. According to a report from Reuters, EMI may well offer similar video deals elsewhere.
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by Stan Beer
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Apple Computer's iTunes music download site has been credited with doing much to eliminate the free file sharing music piracy trade. However, social networking site YouTube threatens to undermine everything that Apple has worked for by introducing a new free advertising funded business model.
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by Stan Beer
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Windows users who had hoped that the Vista operating system will consign Patch Tuesday to the annals of history can think again. Microsoft has confirmed through one of its blogs that two of the seven critical Windows patches released last week also apply to Vista.
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by Stan Beer
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Number two chip maker AMD is expected to announce a deal with Dell today, which will see its chips included in Dell's desktop and notebook computers. The deal will provide a boost to AMD in a market where it lags behind the rest of its business.
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by Stan Beer
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IBM and the Australian Bureau of Statistics today announced that more than
720,000 households across Australia (including Australian bases in Antarctica)
had submitted their Census forms via the web-based eCensus program.
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by Stan Beer
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Two good news items have sprung out of the Sony camp in the past day. A leading research group has predicted the games leader will win the consoles war and Sony has officially launched the long awaited 50GB Blu-ray dual-layer media, giving it a clear capacity advantage over the rival HD DVD format.
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by Stan Beer
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Apple Computer has issued an upgrade to its beta dual boot program which enables the new Macintosh range to run Microsoft Windows XP. According to Apple, the 202 MB download of Boot Camp 1.1 beta is a significant improvement on its predecessor with a number of additional features.
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by Stan Beer
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The .au Australian domain administrator, auDA, has issued a Consumer Alert today stating that it has become aware that a company called Domains Australia Pty Ltd is sending letters to some domain name registrants offering to arrange registration of the net.au equivalent of the registrants’ com.au domain name for $225.
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by Stan Beer
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It's no secret that Microsoft loses money on its games consoles and makes much of it back on the games software and license fees it sells. Now in the best tradition of new media organizations, which derive their content from contributors who also happen to be clients, Microsoft wants to get gamers to develop their own games for Xbox 360 and share them with their friends and the wider community.
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by Stan Beer
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Trolltech, a Norwegian based Linux supplier for mobile phones, has announced a new mobile phone that the company believes will serve as a platform for Linux developers to design the cell phones of the future, including customised models.
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