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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 |
iPhone 3G and 3GS users who have purchased the TomTom GPS navigation
app can finally buy TomTom’s official iPhone car kit in retail stores,
while online purchasing through the online Apple Store is coming
“soon”.
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Friday, 13 November 2009 |
It’s all over the news – a Microsoft employee saying the graphics of
Windows 7 were inspired by the Mac, then quickly corrected by the
official Windows Team Blog saying it was nothing of the sort!
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Friday, 13 November 2009 |
As the ikee Rick Astley and the iPhone/Privacy.A iPhone malware attacks
take the world by storm, will iPhones and smartphones now start
becoming subject to the onslaught of virus attacks common in the
Windows world of PCs?
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Thursday, 12 November 2009 |
Now that the 802.11n standard has been ratified, the Xbox 360 is
finally getting a Wireless N adapter to better cope with the heavy
demands of today’s digital content devouring public, but it’s double
the price of a USB Wireless N adapter for your PC!
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Thursday, 12 November 2009 |
Today’s the day that Australian Wii fans can finally race into retail
stores to pick up the 2009 multiplayer version of the venerable
Nintendo title, Mario Bros, now called “Super Mario Bros. Wii”!
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Friday, 25 September 2009 |
Thinking of buying a really fast new laptop computer? Some retailers in
the US (and soon around the world) are now offering notebooks that
finally sport the mobile version of Intel’s fastest and smartest
processor, the Core i7, while the latest developments at Intel’s
twice-yearly developer conference are also proving very newsworthy!
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Wednesday, 16 September 2009 |
Australia’s federal government has come out with an offer that
Australia’s dominant and supposedly independent telco, Telstra,
seemingly cannot refuse: structurally separate the company or the
government will do it for you.
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Tuesday, 15 September 2009 |
Sony has ushered in its new “Spring Summer Collection 2009” of high
quality consumer electronics, along with a new group-wide philosophy of
“make.believe”, where the spirit of creativity and imagination can make
anything possible, replacing the previous “like.no.other” slogan. It’s
easy to believe this new strategy will be quite a success!
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Monday, 14 September 2009 |
Although the new iPod Touch was touted to come with a camera, Apple
surprised us all by including a video-only camera (and a host of other
cool features) in its new iPod nano instead, pointing towards yet
another very iPod-y Christmas and holiday shopping season for Apple and
millions of existing and new customers.
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Friday, 11 September 2009 |
It’s been an interesting few days at Microsoft’s annual Tech.Ed event,
with this year naturally focusing on all of Microsoft’s big guns –
Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, virtualisation, software
development, Office 2010 – and just how nicely Win 7 RTM runs on
netbooks!
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Wednesday, 22 July 2009 |
256GB, or a quarter of a terabyte, is now available from Flash
manufacturer Kingston Technology, which it says “allows users to store
and carry an entire digital library in a small mobile device”, but
early adopters will need well over $1000 to pay for the privilege!
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Wednesday, 22 July 2009 |
Microsoft’s “Windows Team Blog” and one of its bloggers, Brandon
LeBlanc have previously announced that Win 7 RTM will come in “late
July”, but now there’s additional detail on exactly when different
groups of people can officially get their hands on RTM code. Read on!
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Monday, 20 July 2009 |
Blending the “S-Class User Interface” seen on the LG Arena with an 8
megapixel camera, LG has launched the successor to the original Viewty,
but is the Viewty Smart a beauty?
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Monday, 20 July 2009 |
Stung by criticism that LG’s iPhone-clones didn’t offer an app store,
something most notable on the recent new “Arena” handset, LG promised
to deliver its own “app store” – and has just come through with the
goods in beta form.
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Monday, 13 July 2009 |
After the curious “chk chk boom” Kings Cross shooting commentary video
that a Channel Nine Australia cameraman captured, which first
enthralled online video viewers because of its content and then because
the commentary turned out to wholly imaginary, “ninemsn” has decided to
re-launch its video site – presumably to ensure video viewers continue
their “chk chk boom” trajectory growth!
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Wednesday, 08 July 2009 |
Another new “Blue Tick” handset designed for better reception in rural
and regional areas has been unveiled by Telstra, and it’s the musically
capable Sony Ericsson W508 sporting Telstra’s custom designed
“TelstraOne Experience”.
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Tuesday, 07 July 2009 |
Presumably still months before any Apple “MacBook iTablet” will appear,
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington’s “CrunchPad” will go on sale,
booting through Linux into a Webkit based browser for what could be the
best low-cost cloud computing touch-tablet experience thus far – and
it’s sure to be very quickly hacked!
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Monday, 06 July 2009 |
The current half price upgrade deal in the US runs out on July 11, but
Microsoft has promised more deals to come, while licensing terms
indicate a 3 user license “family pack” for Win 7 is coming at last –
but as always, is it enough?!
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