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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 03 June 2008 |
For the third time in the past year I have been the unhappy recipient of a catastrophic hardware failure. For the first time, I don't really care all that much because this time I'm living in the cloud and loving it!
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 27 May 2008 |
In a scene reminiscent of a Star Wars Jedi Council meeting, Australia's dominant carrier Telstra has projected a life-size 3-D hologram of its chief technology officer to give a business presentation in real time hundreds of kilometres away. The presentation held in Adelaide saw a not perfect but passable 3-D colour image of Dr Hugh Bradlow on stage which was beamed from Melbourne, more than 700 km distant.
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 26 May 2008 |
For those of you waiting to get your hands on Hewlett-Packard's new budget priced sub-notebook, the HP 2133 Mini-Note, it is one hell of a little computer. However, laden as it is with Vista, the tune it wants to play is a little off key.
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 22 May 2008 |
This may come as a shock to Australia's dominant telco Telstra or any other carrier that tries to sell a laptop the same way they sell mobile phones. It can't be done and there's any number of reasons why.
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 22 May 2008 |
Desperate to somehow claw back some of its dwindling marketshare from search juggernaut Google, Microsoft has embarked on a bold new strategy - pay consumers to use its Live Search service. Somewhat bemused market watchers are wondering whether the cash back for search purchases is a master stroke or merely another Microsoft mis-step.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 21 May 2008 |
One would think that the troubled One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization would have pulled back from making outlandish claims after failing by a long shot to deliver the fabled $100 laptop to the underprivileged children of the third world. Obviously, the rule at OLPC is when at first you don't succeed set an even more outlandish target - $75 for a dual screen laptop.
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
First through the Eee PC and now through its PC motherboards, Asus is rapidly carving a global reputation for itself as the company which knows how to take Linux mainstream. The question is will including the minimalist cut-down version of Linux called Splashtop on a million motherboards a month finally bring on the Linux desktop age or has it made the desktop redundant?
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
You know how those stories start: I started writing this review on my loaner Eee PC 900 but...well this is not going to be one of those. The Asus Eee PC 900 is, as the Scots might say, a wee ripper. But is it worth the money?
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008 |
The public outcry over eBay Australia's intentions to introduce mandatory use of its PayPal online payment system has forced the US office of eBay onto the back foot. eBay, through a spokesperson on the company's official blog has stated publicly that the world's dominant online auction site will not try to introduce PayPal-only transactions on the site in the US.
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by Stan Beer
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Sunday, 11 May 2008 |
I've been a Neil Young fan since "After The Goldrush" (yes I'm that old) so seeing the fuss being made about him at Sun's JavaOne conference where he publicly threw his support behind Java and Blu-ray technologies naturally perked my interest. The question is can the likes of Young help the developers of Java and Blu-ray change the way music is packaged and sold?
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by Stan Beer
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
And there we were believing that we could trust a vendor like Asus. The line they’ve spun to journalists in Australia about the Linux Asus Eee PC 900 being $50 more than the Windows version because it has more storage is a load of bull. Overseas, both models are the same price!
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by Stan Beer
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
It has been known for months that the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative, originally conceived by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte, is opening an independent endorsed office in Australia. Now that the news has gone mainstream, questions arise as to why? In an interview with iTWire, OLPC Australia board director Jeff Waugh provides some answers and says why Microsoft Windows has no role.
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
OK, the affordable sub-notebook charge has begun in Australia. Last month, the HP Mininote, sporting a 8.9 inch screen, a usable keyboard and a sturdy aluminium case hit our shores for $899. At the end of this month, Asustek will start selling the big brother to its Eee PC, the Eee PC 900 and priced at just $599 with some interesting new features, it could take off like a rocket.
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