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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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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
Anticipation over an iPhone 3GS launch is still not over for 3 Mobile
customers who have to wait just over two weeks before they can buy one,
with exact pricing still to come!
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
Now that Microsoft’s Windows 7 pricing has been unveiled, changing very
little from Vista pricing (aside from a cut in price for Windows 7 Home
Premium), it’s clear that Microsoft’s policy of charging full price to
Linux and Mac users has changed very little, too.
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 |
Although Nokia seems to let phone retailers sell its phones sometimes
weeks before any company launch, the long-awaited N97 has finally
launched on an official basis, along with the official Australian
unveiling of the Ovi “app” store, now with a claimed 20,000 apps!
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009 |
Sygic’s turn-by-turn “Mobile Maps” GPS iPhone app is the first publicly
available app of its kind for the iPhone 3G and 3G S, has launched in
Australia through Sensis and Telstra, but what do users think, and is
criticism of the $79 price justified?
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Friday, 12 June 2009 |
The launch of Sony’s new Z5500 series 52 inch LCD TV and its
“2nd-generation 200Hz” technology is competing with LG’s new 200Hz
models, while Samsung and Panasonic are upping the plasma ante with
“600Hz”screens they naturally say deliver better picture quality than
200Hz LCDs – but your eyes will have to be the judge!
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Thursday, 11 June 2009 |
Although Microsoft itself is lowering expectations of large new
hardware sales thanks to Windows 7, and could yet set its Win 7 upgrade
and retail prices lower in response to the $29 OS X 10.6 challenge, one
of Windows 7’s very touching benefits is something you’ll want to put
one, two or even more fingers on!
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