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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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Monday, 03 November 2008 |
The buzz over Windows 7 is everything Microsoft clearly wished for
Vista, with illegal downloads racing across the Internet as curious
computer users want to see if all the Windows 7 reports match up to
reality.
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Monday, 03 November 2008 |
Gmail’s new SMS feature that lets you send free SMS messages to US only
phone numbers launched via Gmail Labs, but due to a glitch, it has been
pulled and delayed for at least two weeks.
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Monday, 03 November 2008 |
If you have a PDC or “otherwise sourced” copy of Windows 7 pre-beta and want to see the new “superbar” that was demo’d for the beta version of Windows 7 due in either December or January, news has filtered across the Internet on how to do exactly that.
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Sunday, 02 November 2008 |
On October 25, 2008, the Linux Hater's Blog reached the "eof", or end
of file. But if you've been hassled endlessly by Linux lovers and are
sick to death of Linux this and Linux that, fear not - the Linux
Hater's Redux is born, with plenty of eye-opening news on problems with
Linux. Read on.
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Sunday, 02 November 2008 |
Thousands of curious PC users unfazed about breaking the law are
downloading the latest pre-beta 6801 build of Windows 7 released at
Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference, in both 32-bit and
64-bit versions.
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Saturday, 01 November 2008 |
Mobile phone sales dropped by 0.4% over Q2 08, and despite shipping
299m handsets in Q3 08, analyst firm IDC says this result is thanks to
a “dismal economy” when Q3 sales are traditionally much, much higher.
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Friday, 31 October 2008 |
Remember the movie Swordfish? It was all about misdirection, indicating
one position and then taking on another. Will 2009 see Macs with
Blu-ray and a Mac Netbook despite Jobs saying it was all a bag of hurt
and netbooks are crap?
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Friday, 31 October 2008 |
The quest to make cameras with interchangeable lenses lighter, smaller
and easier to use is one that camera manufacturers have been working on
for years, with Panasonic’s DMG-C1 the latest to emerge.
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Wednesday, 29 October 2008 |
Doing his best to bring cheap Chinese prices to Australia, the founder
of Kogan Technologies, Ruslan Kogan, is bringing a 1080P HD camcorder
to Australia at $399, seriously undercutting brand name models which
generally cost well over $1000. Question is, is it any good?
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008 |
It’s called “Windows Azure” and fulfils Microsoft’s promise to make
software-plus-services a reality, but while it was launched during a
keynote at Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC 2008),
it’s still only a “community technology preview” with much work still
to be done.
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Monday, 27 October 2008 |
Although high powered notebooks have been available for some time from
the likes of Toshiba, Alienware, Dell and others, Asus says its quad
core G Series gaming notebook is a "world first".
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