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by Stan Beer
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Sunday, 27 August 2006 |
For decades the developed world has been looking to the global scientific community for ways to break its dangerous addiction to fossil fuels, particularly oil. Thus, it comes as a surprise that one of the few solutions that shows real promise has come not from physicists and chemists, but from a team of Silicon Valley engineers.
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by Stan Beer
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Friday, 25 August 2006 |
 After a Microsoft senior manager let slip at a Sydney developer's conference that only 64-bit versions of Windows Vista will be able to play high-definition videos on Blu-ray or HD DVD, Microsoft rushed to clarify his statements. However, the clarification, which states that the senior manager was wrong, leaves unanswered questions.
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by Stan Beer
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Friday, 25 August 2006 |
For the past month or so, a debate has been raging througout scientific circles as to whether the world called Pluto in the outer reaches of our solar system is a planet. Why this debate has been necessary is not exactly clear but it appears that Pluto has been kicked out of the planets club - the P9 has become the P8.
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by Stan Beer
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Friday, 25 August 2006 |
A new mouse design from peripherals maker Logitech, called the MX Revolution, enables users to use new controls that enable them to scroll through documents quickly and zoom in and out of images and documents with a click.
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by Stan Beer
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Friday, 25 August 2006 |
You know Microsoft is getting serious about making the games and hardware business a key part of its business growth strategy going forward when you start seeing things like web cams and Xbox 360 branded steering wheels on the Microsoft stand at games expos around the world.
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 24 August 2006 |
Like many of the media around the world, I was treated to a comprehensive demo by the local Apple Mac marketing team, who showed off the Mac Pro, the last of the company's computer hardware to move to the Intel platform.
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 24 August 2006 |
Last year, it was supposed to be the music player that was going to knock the iPod Shuffle out of the ball park, but now the DJ Ditty from Dell is no more.
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 24 August 2006 |
Hi and welcome to my first BeerFiles blog installment. Since is my very first offical attempt at rambing on, I'm going to address a very important issue for me.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 23 August 2006 |
It seems that the media has gone bananas over a new portable music player, the Sansa e280 a new portable music player from Flash RAM maker SanDisk. The SanDisk player has 8GB of flash for US$249, around the same price of the 4GB iPod Nano so iPod is in trouble. Baloney.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 23 August 2006 |
Microsoft is not a company renowned for helping serious competitors. However, the head of the software company's open source software lab, Sam Ramji, has said publicly in an online blog that he will help the open source Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client teams to get their products running on Windows Vista.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 22 August 2006 |
Two things are clear about the impending release of Windows Vista. One is that come hell or high water Microsoft intends to get the new operating system out the door in January 2007. The second is that Microsoft will be pulling out all stops to get Vista on desktops in January by offering free or at least heavily discounted upgrades to 2006 holiday season buyers.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 22 August 2006 |
Two weeks after the potential dangers of RFID chips embedded in passports were demonstrated at a security conference, German chip manufacturer Infineon has been given the nod by the US Government to supply millions of chips for US passports.
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 21 August 2006 |
Last month everyone was talking about MySpace. This month, no one can say enough of the online phenomenon that is known as YouTube. And from a brief perusal of the site which is basically a vast repository of video clips, it's easy to see why.
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