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Monday, 27 October 2008 |
Earlier this year Vista’s first SP1 service pack arrived with a few
hiccups that were smoothed out in the end, dramatically improving
Vista. Now, SP2 is on the radar with the first beta due on the 29th of
October and a final release before Windows 7 goes gold.
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Monday, 27 October 2008 |
The latest Blu-ray players have arrived at AUD $499 and $495,
undercutting the PS3 in price but without all the PS3’s other features.
Do Blu-ray players need to drop below $200 before they really take off
with consumers?
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Monday, 27 October 2008 |
Finally, some positive news about the world’s largest online auction
house, eBay: a way to generate the “best offer” on products for sale,
which has resulted in an “average 10% increase” in conversion rates at
eBay’s US website. Will it do the same down under?
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Monday, 27 October 2008 |
Why? Because you’ll need to so you can install the brand new Gmail for mobile 2.0 instead!
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Sunday, 26 October 2008 |
The world’s largest hard disk manufacturer, Seagate, has introduced its
second-generation of portable and desktop “FreeAgent” drives, bringing
style and convenience to the humble hard drive, while introducing a
1.5TB option. Is space no longer the final frontier?
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Friday, 24 October 2008 |
Forget about sticking your laptop on the passenger side front seat if
you want an in-car computer, you can now have a real Windows XP or
Vista computer installed where your car radio would normally go for the
complete computer-on-wheels experience. Is it any good, and what’s an
alternative that works with higher-end mobile phones?
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Thursday, 23 October 2008 |
Although Telstra’s Next G network has operated at speeds of “up to”
14.4Mbps, only 7.2Mbps class devices have been available. But now that
Telstra’s network will run at 21Mbps speeds by the end of the year,
when will 21Mbps-class modems follow?
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Thursday, 23 October 2008 |
No, it’s not Wi-Fries that McDonalds will soon be offering its
customers, but free Wi-Fi instead, something I thought would never
happen in Australia, but will from March 2009.
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Wednesday, 22 October 2008 |
Despite having less than 10% share of the worldwide PC market, Apple
has still sold millions of Macs, iPhones, iPods and says it has sold
more phones than RIM has sold BlackBerries.
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008 |
Flipping into action with a well known but previously unavailable form
factor on the BlackBerry platform is the “BlackBerry Pearl Flip”, which
essentially is the popular Pearl model, complete with the now standard
trackball, in a flip phone format. BlackBerry lovers will flip out!
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008 |
Ahoy there me timbers, if ye be piratin’ Microsoft software, then ye
better start shiverin’ and be warned: Microsoft is comin’ out to make
software pirates walk the plank, in a co-ordinated global effort across
49 countries in six continents to “combat the sophisticated, illegal
trade of pirated and counterfeit software”.
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008 |
Although the death of FireWire was long ago telegraphed when Apple stopped supporting it on the iPod, the untimely death of FireWire on the new MacBook has really fired up users who have lots of FireWire based equipment and want a MacBook – not a MacBook Pro.
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008 |
Can an Android save Motorola from the mobile phone doldrums, caught
between having the highest selling phone in the US with the RAZR, but
also only making profits thanks to cost cutting while trying to offload
its handset business?
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008 |
If you’re a guy that uses a mobile phone, the latest research suggests
that using a mobile phone could be bad for sperm health, although the
study in question used a machine that created the same sort of
radiation for 16 hours straight on sperm for damage to appear.
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008 |
Oops... Britney Spears has done it again, thrusting herself into the
limelight with a new website that has garnered over a million hits in
24 hours, taking on the social networking world with an all out
“friend” assault and tweeting like a song bird on the messaging website
Twitter.
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008 |
Although iPrimus and Virgin offer shaped broadband on their mobile
broadband plans, with Telstra only now offering the same feature on its
5GB and 10GB plans, how soon will it be before shaped wireless plans
are the norm for all users?
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Monday, 20 October 2008 |
MacRumors is suggesting the new NVIDIA powered MacBook and MacBook Pro
models have received hardware decoding of H.264 video, not available on
the previous versions even though their respective cards had hardware
decoding capabilities, but Apple isn’t confirming.
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Monday, 20 October 2008 |
Thin is in, with prototype LCD TV screens already thinner than the
2nd-generation iPod Touch, and Samsung has just done 0.1mm better than
LG Philips’ previous record of 8mm. No word yet on when it will go
commercial, but we do know the trick they’ve used to go go gadget
thin...
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