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Tuesday, 11 November 2008 |
After the Nintendo Wii and PS3 launched in 2006, preceded by the Xbox
360’s 2005 debut, all three consoles now have excellent software
libraries and plenty of users. While the Nintendo Wii still leads in
total consoles sold, Microsoft has more than 300 games and great
popularity all its own, a nice price cut pre-Christmas looks a very
timely move.
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Monday, 10 November 2008 |
There’s no official word on YouTube’s official blog yet, but the news
has come through that MGM will show full-length movies and TV shows in
partnership with YouTube and in competition with TV network owned by
News Corp and NBC Universal. MGM will display ads “alongside” the video
to monetise its content.
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Monday, 10 November 2008 |
Adam Smith, a British reporter volunteering to help the Obama campaign
and file at story for his newspaper was caught on camera seemingly
admitting to plagiarism, abruptly resigning and dissing the
publications and people he worked for – all while drunk. He’s now the
latest newly unemployed YouTube sensation!
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Monday, 10 November 2008 |
With today’s modern TVs comes on big problem – onscreen motion that
isn’t smooth. Sony’s new “world first, super smooth” 200Hz Motionflow
technology doubles the previous 100Hz models, promising to add three
new and unique frames for each original in what could revolutionise
large screen LCD TVs – at least for Sony and its Bravia range.
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Monday, 10 November 2008 |
Although Microsoft is promising Windows 7 is a “major update” to Vista,
which in many ways it is, the next version of Windows Server 2008 won’t
be called Windows Server 7 but instead “Windows Server 2008 R2” in what
is a case of slight mixed messages from Microsoft.
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Monday, 10 November 2008 |
As reported last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was in town, but
statements he made on Webkit and App Store-like software stores for
distribution and profits have made waves in the media and developer
worlds, while Ballmer has confirmed WM 6.5 is coming before 7.
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Friday, 07 November 2008 |
At a business lunch in Sydney Australia, Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer
firmly ruled out any Yahoo acquisition, suggested a search partnership
might still be possible and heaped scorn on search competitors,
suggesting Microsoft might “reinvent the whole darn thing”. Really?
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Friday, 07 November 2008 |
Want to
make sure your local storage has an online backup? Sure, there are
plenty of options, but LaCie is joining forces with online backup
company Carbonite to offer 1 year of unlimited online back up with
every LaCie disk.
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Friday, 07 November 2008 |
As Microsoft prepares to release Windows 7 sometime in 2009, the door
has closed on Windows 3.x, an operating system released 18 years ago
and still used in some planes, cash registers and ticketing systems.
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Thursday, 06 November 2008 |
With only 200 programs available so far for the G1 Android gPhone,
Google says apps are nevertheless proving popular. Meanwhile, a gPhone
jailbreak gets patched and shock, horror: Steve Ballmer says he’s not a
fan.
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Thursday, 06 November 2008 |
Developers, developers, developers – Steve Ballmer came to Sydney today
to speak at Microsoft’s Power To Developers conference, followed by two
of his top lieutenants. What did he say, and where can you watch the
entire webcast?
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 |
Optus says that its EBITDA earnings were down by $44m thanks to costs
associated with the getting a 55% share of the iPhone market. Was it
worth it?
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 |
With High School Musical 3 at the top of US movie box office, Disney is
hoping the same will happen in Australia upon the movie’s release come
December 4, and has created a promotional site with BigPond full of
content to get fans all excited.
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 |
Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference brought forth the
unsurprising news that Microsoft wants to take the netbook market back
from Linux and XP, and to dominate it instead with Windows 7.
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 |
Those with cash to burn and wanting the fastest computing experience on
offer will get the chance to play with Intel’s latest and greatest Core
i7 processors 6 days before their “official” release.
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 |
Despite an economic downturn and lower Q3 results for mobile phone
sales, HTC’s Peter Chou says he’ll sell more than 600,000 T-Mobile
Android G1 gPhones this year alone, outdoing initial expectations.
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 |
Looks like it's now going to be OK to upload video clips to your
favourite video sharing sites despite billion dollar lawsuits to stop
it from happening, with a new video fingerprint system from Auditude
that identifies clips even with only a few seconds of video, bringing
the possibility of monetization from public video uploads – at last!
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 |
Want to see what the new Windows 7 taskbar and Aero peek features look
like, along with the Windows 7 boot screen and some touch screen
goodness?
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